The New York Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1879, Page 6

i \ A 6 NEW YORK HERALD — BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. TNF DAILY HERALD, m1 nt every day in the yer. ). ‘Ten dollars sr | Hlars and Gftyes s lar per month month) dition iuclud: jay edition, eight dollars per year, free anyy Sithout postage. WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- FERS.—Remit in drafts on New / y orders, aud where neither of | In order to insure s changed must | Iles their new address. ine s letters or telegraphic despatches must Li addressed New York Henan. Letters and roperly sealed. ot be returned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH ON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— TREE, Subseripti Jorwarded o1 HAVERLY'S LYCEUM—. M. 5, Pinafore, UNION SQUARE—Honnon: < KOSTER & BIAL—Porctan Concerts. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN—Concert. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniery, AQUARIUM—Manvectot TRIPLE NEN SHEE =, i, TUESDAY, JULY 1 York and its vicinity to-day will be slightly warmer and fair. To-morrow the same condi- | tions will prevail. Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock market was fairly active and prices advanced, Govern- ment, State and railroad bonds were all buoy- ant. Money on call ruled at 3 a4 per cent, al- though there was a flurry which sent it for a time up to6 per cent. Foreign exchange was dnll and rates were a shade weaker. THERE was | some magnificent polo playing at Prospect Park yesterday. ANOTHER MAN has shot himself because a girl rejected his suit. Lucky girl! A Beavutirut and artistic case of usury is explained in our court column. Some of ex-Commissioner Van Nort’s sewer contracts were ventilated by Judge Barrett yes- terday. They needed it. safe to handle, blew up its own reputation yes- terday at North Adams. Tue Cuarcain of the House thanked the Lord yesterday that the closing labors of the session had been reached. So does everybody. Tue Principar Morat of the business fail- ures occurring since New Year's is that business j competition requires capital in order to be suc cessful, ‘Tur Stony Rrook Murver is still a mystery, but the Long Island officials seem to be honestly | lazy instead of industriously stupid like New | York detectives. | astcalir | Ane PouiceMEN in uniform really afraid of | their lives in emigrants’ boarding houses? | Officer Hall seemed to think so when he drew his revolver. Mrssrs. City Fatners, save that ordinance against fireworks. New York is a wicked city, | but pot so bad as to deserve what will befall it | if the ordinunce should be repealed. | Two Prope were shot Sunday night during | a quarrel about fifty cents, and the disagreement | is no nearer settled than before. Throw your | vevolver away when you begin to be angry. How CAREFULLY the police passed by all rich | and prominent offenders in their excise raid of | Sunduy! And yet there are croakers who | declare that “the finest” are devoid of discre- | tion. i Tne Aprrarance of much of the money paid at the Post Oftice for ten-dollar certificates shows. that at least a third of the purchasers | ~ had proved the virtues of old stockings and tea- | pots as savings banks. Tuat Enoweer at East Texas whose boiler exploded last weck is charged by a Coroner's | jury with putting extra weight on his safety valve lever, We hope Pennsylvania law takes | cognizance of such indefensible crime. | Wuar have sick men in hospitals done that Congressmen should try to kill them? A box | placéd in the House for the reception of reading | mutter for the sick was yesterday crammed | with speeches. To give stones where bread is | asked is angelic charity compared with this. Brookryy’s ALDERMEN have passed, over the Mayor's veto, their resolution of May 26 allow- ing the Kings County El d Railroad Com. pany to build over the route advised by the Rapid Transit Commission. Congratulations and sympathy may both be vantageously placed now in Brooklyn. | Postmaster James and it Hayes will receive the thanks of every veteran of the lat war, Whether employed or not, for ing ex soldiers and sailors from the restriction as to age that is imposed upon applicants for employ ment inthe New York Post Office. Men who ha’ pel their lives in the government service deserve all business opportunities that the nation ean give them. Tun Wearuen.—The pressure has very rapidly increased over the lower lake region, the central valleys and the Middle Atlantic States since yeste and the centre of high pressure now rests over Ohio and New York Slate, Au areazof relatively low barometer doming xe the wguther in Nova Scotia, ‘The dis- turbs co Wiel? as stated in yesterday's Iinnap, was noticed in British Columbia, hus travelled southward into Manitoba, and the barometer in the extreme Northwest has fallen as rapidly as it rose over the lake regions, and it is not unlikely that this disturbance will de- velop itself into a storm centre of considerable energy, The pressure west the Rocky Mountains is also diminishing, and slight depression exists in Lower California, ‘The temperature bas risen throughout all the sections north of the Ohio River, more espe cially, however, over the upper lake re; ot ons and the Northwest. In the Southern States it has remained stationary, The weather is un- usually clear all over the country exeept in the Northwest and in the immediate vicinity of the ecutre of low pressure, where cloudy weather nd rain predomi In these last named districts aud some portions of the West high winds prevail. Local showers have been ex- pericnced along the coast of the Middle Atlan: | tic St The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be slightly warmer and | fair. To-morrow the same condituns will pre- rail, j tion that Figaro set | doubts. | ment of France. | of the fallen dynasty. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, ‘JULY 1, 1879—TRIPLE SHEET. Decease of Imperialism—A Bitter Per- | decisive elections of 1877. The most power- sonal Quarrel Over Its Corpse. We direct attention to our long cable | despatch trom Paris consisting mainly of extracts from leading French journals. ‘These articles so pulsite with the French political lite of the moment and so vividly reflect interesting phases of political feeling and personal passions’ that the American public is entitled to e them while they are yet fresh, These iracts are from three journals—Le Figaro, 4a France and Le Pays. The article in Figaro ot Saturday is a grave and enlight- ened estimate of the consequences to the im- peria] party of the sudden death of Prince Louis Napoleon, conceived in a spirit of judicious moderation and supported by great force of argument. The judgment it expresses is that the active rdle of Bonapart- ism 44 suspended, and that the personnel of the party having no longer a common centre of union in devoted and loyal at- tachment to the young Prince, whom all acknowledged as the lineal heir of the dynasty, will be cleft into jealous fac- tions and disintegrate. This tendency is inevitable on the face of the situa- it forth on the evening of the day when the news of the Prince’s death was received. Reflection and observation had confirmed this view on Saturday, when the striking editorial was published, and it receives strong corrob- oration from what took place yesterday, so when M. Rouher, heretofore the ac- cepted and trusted leader of the im- perialists, announced his intention to withdraw from politics. And yet this inference may need to be taken with some reserve, in view of the article which ap- peared yesterday in L’Ordre, the organ of M. Rouher, recognizing the title of Prince Bonaparte as the chief of the Napoleonic dynasty. €. But it is probably of no real consequence who is regarded as the political heir of the deceased Prince, in whose grave are entombed all reasonable hopes of a revival of the Empire. Figaro reasons that only two principles of govern- ment are possible—either a legitimate hereditary monarchy, the product of the race, temperament and traditions of the nation where it exists, and so firmly established in the affections of the people that it ismo more subject to controversy than the necessity of raising a revenue or the maintenance of a military force; either a monarchy thus intrenched in national feeling or else universal suffrage applied to all national exigencies as a means of declaring the national will, In France the real and legal situation may be regarded as firmly established and as no longer subject to disturbing The elections of 1877 were incon- testably equivalent to a plébiscite. They were regarded by the people as establish- ing, and did in tact establish, the Republic as the permanent govern- There are the strongest reasons for supposing that the popular will has not changed, and even while the Prince Imperial was yet alive Bonapartism | was gaining no strength. His death isa staggering blow to the hopes of the party, tending to subvert its unity and split it into tactions, besides depriving it of that great bond of loyalty which existed in the chivalrous devotion of the party to a young Princé who was an _ object of interest to the whole world and re- ceived the generous homage of all adherents ‘The grace of youth, the prestige of a great name, the possi- bilities of political changes in a nation so impulsive and mercurial as the French and | the long life which might be expected for | so young a Prince, giving him the advan- tage of distant contingencies and possible revolutions, made him the centre and pivot of great hopes. All the romance and chivalry departed from the Bonapartist cause with the news of his untimely death. | It was a frequent saying of the illustrious founder of the dynasty that “Imagination rules the world;” there is now no longer an interesting object having power to excite | the imagination and stir the enthasiusm of the imperialist party. It is a body without ahead, and seems destined to dissolution, It would be interesting to compare the steady success of republicanism in the United States with its fitful changes and long eclipses in the nation which was our chief ally in our struggle for independence. It was by the geuerous aid of France that the American Republic was established, Louis XVI. doubtless cared nothing tor the form ot our government; he simply desired to see England stripped of the most valuable of her transatlantic possessions, But the French people sympathized strongly with Lafayette, and there can be no doubt that enthusiasm for the new Republic operated as a powerful incentive to the French Revo- lution and was one of the main reasons why that great upheaval resulted in a re- public, i hesplendor of the first Napoleon's military victories enabled him to found an empire on the ruins of the French Re- public, for there is nothing which appeals so seductively to national pride as the éclat of brilliant military success, Admiration of military heroes is the besetting danger of republics and the rock on which they are most commonly wrecked. The first Em- pire was followed by the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, und that, in its turn, by the Orleanist monarchy, and it was not until 1848 that the Republic was again declared, It was speedily overthrown by Napoleon ILL, who had sworn to support it, and imperialism was again in the as- cendant for nearly twenty years. It fell under the shame and mortification of Sedan, the borrowed prestige of the first Napoleon, founded on the memory of re- splendent yietories, availing nothing against’ so terribly crushing a military deteat. The inevitable consequence of Sedan was a third establishment of the Re- public, which then, to borrow an expression President Lincoln, ‘‘came stay,” Even Thiers, who fad been all his life a moderate monarchist, was constrained to admit that the Republic was theneeforward the only form of government under which France had any chance of stability. But interested dynastic tactions kept up their activity aud their intrigues, and the Repub- lic seemed in more or less danger until the ot to ful of the anti-republican factions, the Bonapartists, have never given up their intrigues, but the death of the Prinee Im- | perial takes away the chief prop of their hopes. In the United States there was never any real danger to the permanence of the Re- pubic until the sycophants and flatterers | of General Grant conceived the idea of electing him a third time. If, against all our precedents and traditions, he could be elected thrice he might be re-elected indefi- nitely by the aid of military glare and fame, and the American Republic seemed for the first time in real danger. Put this danger has been dispelled by the potency of an aroused public sentiment, Although France, our ancient and honored ally, is still disturbed by the aspirations of pretenders, we are exposed to no corre- sponding danger since the collapse of the great hippodrome performance which had been planned for escorting General Grant across the continent from Sau Francisco, The End of the Fight in Congress. The President's veto-of the Supple- mental Appropriation bill making provision for the payment of United States marshals and their general deputies for the fiscal year commencing to-day is in substance a repetition of the objections urged against the Judicial Appropriation bill as originally sent to him tor approval. The President regards the present bill as forcing upon him the alternative either to allow neces- sary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of the appropriations required to keep them in operation or to approve legislation in violation of his constitutional duty. He chooses the former position, although he sets forth the importance of the duties of the marshals and their deputies in a man- ner forcible enough to have been accepted asa sufficient justification for a different determination. The House failed to pass the bill over the veto, and the President subsequently transmitted a further message earnestly urging upon Congress the necessity of making appropriation for the py of marshals and their deputies before the adjournment. The republicans, both inthe Senate and the House, backed this appeal by propo- sitions to pass the bill that had just been vetoed without the objectionable sections, but in both houses their failure was de- cisive. In the Senate a motion to indefi- nitely postpone the subject prevailed by a significant majority. The position of the majofity is now so well defined that a postponement of the final adjournment to-day by filibustering tactics will beidle. Itis certain that the democrats will not make any appropriation for United States marshals that does not positively prohibit the use of a dollar of the money for the expenses of supervisors of election and special deputy marshals, or the incurring of any liability for such expenses. ‘The proceedings yesterday in both houses preclude the thought that any break will occur in the democratic ranks on this issue. The result must betheadjourn- ment without any appropriation for United States marshals and their general deputies. This will not seriously interfere with the public interests or justify the calling of an extra session. The President exagge- rates the gravity of the situation in his veto and in his sabsequent message urging that the appropriation be made. The marshals and their deputies can continue to perform their duties under the law without an appropriation biil, only they will be subjected to the temporary in- convenience of a postponément of their pay, which, however, they are certain finally to receive. They may be compelled to submit to the payment of interest if they desire to borrow money on their claims against the government, but we venture to pre- dict that not a single marshal or deputy marshal will on that account resign his position or refuse to perform its duties, They will only be in the position occupied by the officers nnd privates of the United States Army two yearsago, Then the republican Senate defeated the Army Appropriation bill because it contained pro- visions inserted by the democratic House similar to those which have been approved by the President in this year’s Dill, and the soldiers were left without their pay, and were obliged to get along as well as they could tor many months. ‘losummon Congress together again would be profitless in view of the positive ultimatum of the mujority, and President Hayes is too calm in judgment and too even in temper to be willing to put the members to annoyance and the country to expense unnecessarily. B-sides, it his desire is simply to protect the supervisors of elections and the special deputy marshals who act as their assist- ants, it is accomplished by the failure of the appropriation. ‘Those officers stand now in the same position as. United States marshals and their regular deputies, and can be appointed and perform their duties in the few cases in which they will be re quired in the next election, only that they will have to wait for their pay until a fature day. It is to be hoped, therefore, that Con- gress will finally adjourn without any profitless delay; that the President will abandon the idea of another extra session, which would be tarcical, and that the repub- licans will be satisfied to meet and fight out at the polls the issue forced on them by their democratic opponents. Indictment of Mrs. Huil’s Murderer. The murderer of Mrs. Hull, Chastine Cox, was placed at the bar of the Court of General Sessions yesterday to plead to the indictment found against him by the Grand Jury for murder in the first degree. The prisoner entered a plea of ‘not guilty” through his counsel, and Judge Gilder- sleeve set down the case for trial two weeks from yesterday, subject to the approval of Judge Cowing, who holds the July term of the Court. It is to be hoped that the murderer will be tried at the time appointed, Having al- realy confessed the crime he is not entitled to any doubt as to his guilt, and his escape | onany technical ground or through any sentimentality would be a public outrage and equivalent to the licensing of midnight burglaries and murders, The people have but little protection from the police, and | they are entitled to sueh as they may find | in the speedy trial and punishment of this | criminal. Theerime committed by Cox is | clearly defined by the law, its punishment | is death, and there is not a single extenuat- | ing circumstance in this brutal murder to | warrant any commutation of the extreme penalty. The Bonapartists im Search of An | Heir. The meeting of the French imperialists yesterday disclosed dissensions as to the proper political heir of the de- ceased Prince Imperial, ‘The position of M. Rouher on this subject is sug- gestive and significant. M. Ronuber has just returned from Chiselhurst, whither he had been to visit and condole with the Empress Eugénie in her great affliction. How tar his action may reflect her senti- ments is a matter of inference and con- jecture, but certain it is that he has lost his former zeal in the cause of imperialism. A deputation was appointed to wait on Prince Napoleon and communicate to him the will of the de- ceased Prince Imperial. M. Rouher de- clined to be a member of that deputation, and deciared his purpose’ to take no further part in polities. And yet the newspaper which is regarded as his organ, L'Ordre, had an article yesterday, said to have been inspired by him, admitting that Prince Napoleon stands next in the legitimate order of succession, M. Rouher's declared intention to with- draw from politics and his admission that Prince Napoleon is the head of the dynasty are ndt inconsistent but mutually confirma- tory. There is an evident conflict be- tween -his opinion as to the line of succession and his personal preferences and wishes. It is because he is constrained to recognize Prince Napoleon:as the legiti- mate heir of the deceased Prince Imperial’s expectations that he retires from the political arena. He kuows that the legitimate successor is too unpopular with the Bonapartists to excite any en- thusiasm or inspire any warm attach- ment, and that the cause is destined to crumble away under such a head. He quits a ship which is dgstined to sink. While the Pringe _lived there was an element of po; and affectionate loyalty which budyed’tp the sinking cause and insured the unity and enthusiasm of the party. But Prince Napoleon is so per- sonally distasteful and has so alienated the zealous supporters of the dynasty that M. Bouher perceives that it is a moral and political impossibility for them to rally. around so unpopular a representative.’ M. Rouher’s course is equivalent toa declara- tion that he despairs of the dynasty when this particular Bonaparte must be acknowl- edged as its legitimate head, ¥ But although he gives up the cause other Bonapartists will not, and there is no good reason why they may not exercise such a freedom of choice as ciroumstunces seemto demand. They are reduced to the alternative of seeing the cause sink under a reptilsive chief or of selecting from among the other Bonapartes some one who would be more cordially supported. The one selection which has chances of popularity is Colonel Jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who would be infinitely more acceptable to a majority of the imperinlists than the unpopular Plon-Plon. He would be more likely to conciliate the Church party as a good Catholic and as the really legitimate heir according to its tenet respecting religious marriages, He would be the least obnoxious of the Bonapartes to the French republicans owing to his Ameri- can education and ideas. Plon-Plon isa Jonah who should be thrown overboard as the last forlorn hope of saving the dynasty, and no man could so filly replace him as Colonel Bonaparte, of Baltimore. Death by Lightning. unusually large number of deaths by lightning have Leen already reported this er, and last summer, it may be re- , there were several remarkable of this kind. Notless than ten persons were killed, In nearly every notable case it turns out that the vic- tims perish in circumstances which exe hibit their thoughtlessness of the danger— in circumstances in which persons who are timid about lightning would not have been found at the time, It is worth a moment’s consideration for people whose lives are ot some valne to their families at least whether after all it is not better to purchase se- curity at the cheap rate of flight from an enemy against whom no courage can avail, It is not shameful to run to shelter in case of an impending thunder storm, and it will conduce much to one’s safety, tally if the run is made judicio' x men were killed last summer on # church steeple. Half an hour's time lost would have saved both their lives. Up at Preakness a man worked at a metal roof and was killed this summer. Had he judiciously chosen another time for the labor his life also would have been saved, But it is not safe to take shelter under trees, especially if the trees are tall or stand in isolated posi- tions. In the case of the little children killed under a tree on Sunday death came, of course, betore there was fairly occasion to take alarm, and we reter to the danger of trees, ‘therefore, without special reference to that case, Shelter in the woods is not generally dangerous, but it is better to be drenched in the open fields than to take shelter under a tall, isolated tree, RuManism on Excursions. A disgraceful scene was enacted on an excursion boat which left the city on a trip to Cold Spring Harbor last Sunday, A number of rowdies who were among the passengers made a raid on the bar as soon’ as the boat had got fairly under way, seized the liquors, drove off all who opposed them, and when inflamed by drink drew knives and pistols and threatened a free fight to the terror of the peaceable people on board, The captain put into Whitestone and tele- graphed to the police tor aid, when the ruffians made forthe railroad depot and escaped, Iv is alleged that the fellows rushed on board without. tickets when the boat stopped for passengers at the Eighth street (Hust River) dock. If this is the case it was the duty of the people in charge of the boat to see that they were removed be- fore leaving the dock. Many females and children are always found on these excursion boats, and they are entitled to protection. In the first place liquors ought pot to be sold on such | | parts of the peninsula is another step in boats, and in the next some means should be adopted by which riotous and disreputa- ble people can be prevented from forcing their way on board, The first is under the control of the people in charge of the boat, and unfortunately the bar is looked upon as one of their best sources of profit. But the sale of liquor on such occasions is dan- gerous to life, and if it is not forbidden by the License law it should be prohibited by special ordinance, If the present Excise law does forbid the opening of bars on ex- cursion boats the violation of its provisions in such cases ought to be punished. No ruffians could force their way on to excur- sion boats provided a sufficient police force was in attendance on the docks where such boats stop for passengers, We have a Steam- boat Squad which is not overworked and which ought to be used on Sundays for this purpose. Such a riot as that of last Sunday might cause great loss of life, and if drunk- enness and rowdyism are permitted or ren- dered possible on excursions people would do well to seek some other mode of recrea- tion. Official Four of the official wiseacres who con- cocted the ‘‘inside” theory in the Forty- second street murder case, and who were untiring in their efforts to bring candle ends, burnt matches, bandages and sus- penders home tothe harmless and amiable Dr. Hull, have joined in a letter to the Doctor assuring him that they ‘placed no faith” in the statement alleged to have been made to them by the ex-convict Purdy, and graciously adding ‘‘there is nothing what- ever in the history of this crime that sug- gests the slightest imputation against you.” Of course there is not and never was! But the official idiots who undertook to unravel what they chose to call the “mystery” thought otherwise, and instead of making an effort to trace the murderer spent their time in strainiog and twisting every clew to make it fit their ‘‘theory” and lead in the direction of the worthy old Doctor’s bedchamber, They held posses- sion of Dr, Hull’s house for many days and placed him under virtual arrest, while the actual murderer was enjoying himself in the city, having a good time with his friends, making trips between New York and Boston and brushing past the knowing detectives on the street corners. They spent daysin searching up the chimneys, under the flooring, in the cracks and crevices and down the cesspools of the Forty-second street house on their “theory” that the dead Indy’s jewels had not been stolen but secreted by the mur. derer to mislead the ‘‘finest force in the world,” and while they were thus employed the topaz necklace was blazing on a tan- colored beauty’s neck; the ring most easy of identification was being nightly sported by a negro at sparring exhibitions and dance houses, and the diamonds were pawned without any attempt at conceal- ment. The ex-convict’s statement was rolled as a sweet morsel under the official tongues, and was reserved as the clinching piece of evidence that was to be brought forward at the last moment as a stunning proof of the wonderful genius of the ‘‘inside theory” wiseacres, four of whom now unite in pre- senting Dr. Hull with a certificate, signed by themselves, confessing their own stu- pidity and official incapacity. - Wiseacres. Preachers A-Fishing. The Baptist preachers struck a popular and practical subject when they dropped , into a discussion upon fishing. Some of them fish through their summer vacation, and enjoy and profit by it; others hold up hands in holy horror, while still others are undecided. For the benefit of the last named class we would suggest that there is undoubted apostolic precedent for minis- terial angling, at least four of the original twelve preachers of the Church having been fishermen, and it has been shrewdly argued that they were selected because the experiences gained in pursuit of the finny tribe are particularly valuable to fishers of men. It stands to reason that if men’s wits are sharpened by fishing with nets, which was the method in vogue in Judea nineteen centuries ago, the modern plan of using hook, line, rod, reel and infinite variety of bait must be far more stimulating to the intellectual powers. Many of the angler’s acquirements which are applicable to pulpit and pastoral effort suggest themselves at once, No fisherman is foolish enough to coax all kinds of fish with a single kind of tackle and bait, nor in the same water. The trout, that favorite of all anglers, must be sought in cool, clear water, and the line must be ‘‘cast” by a hand in which delicacy and strength eom- bine, with a judicious brain tosupport them, and the better game which is sought by the pulpit can only be taken by a persistent use of the same qualities. The salmon, large, strong, rich and with a decided will of his own, is always in hurrying, rough water, like human game of similar charac- ter, and must not only be allured with sub- stantial bait, but needs a gaff as well as a hook to land him, and even then is likely tobe troublesome until he is dead. Any blunderer can catch eels, but to hold the slippery customers after they are in hand demands unceasing exercise ot the finest human abilities. Let all preachers devote themselves to eels, even if they hire a revivalist to do the catching. Bass are sometimes so coy that the fishermen declare there are none within a thousand miles, just as some preachers bemoan the spiritual apathy of their hearers; but let chopped bait be thrown over the side by the shovel- ful and bass are suddenly so numerous that a blind man may catch them with an empty hook; here is a point for preachers among the lower classes. Our best inter- viewers have never been able to get a lucid expression of opinion from a fish, but enough has been learned to justify us in suying that all watery denizens, from min- nows up to sharks, have unspeakable con- tempt for an angler who offers them stale bait or muddies the water; to this fact we invite the clergy’s most earnest and proe found consideration. What Is ltaly’s Future? The decision of the Italian Chamber of | Deputies to provide better means of rail- way communication between different the series that have recently marked tho progress of Italy toward a more promi- nent place among European nations. This revival of the old Roman energy began with the Mont Cenis Tunnel; for, however essential foreign capital may have been tothe completion of the work, it was Italian engineers who surveyed and demonstrated the feasibility of the great undertaking. ‘Then followed the one hun- dred-ton guns of Spezia, the wonderful iron-clads of the Dandolo pattern, and now @ more perfept railway system ig to sup- plement this progress, more closely uniting the kingdom and insuring a better utiliza. tion of her internal energies. Italy is pre paring for the future. When the final set. tlement of the Eastern question shall occur i intends that her interests shall not suffer. Shé will attend at the death of “the Sick Man.” On the Mediterranean, too, her rights are to be maintained. This is satis- factory. It is progress. Poor Italy has given up so many things since the days when all roads led to Rome that ambitious nations of the West have been wont to treat her as a worn-out monument of what was once great, but now deserving of kind. ness rather than respect. Step by step she has surrendered her place in art, literature and song. Even in her own studios the . painters and sculptors of other nations have taken firm root. But there seem to be evidences of a change. Italy is to reassert her importance to the world and, it is to be sincerely wished, may make her future all she hopes for it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. R. Le Maistre, German Minister to Brazil, is at the Brevoort House, Archbishop Purcell and his secretary are in Al bany, the guests of the Right Rev. Bishop Mc- Nierney. An Ohioan says that Cincinnati never swears any- thing harder than ‘gewhittzker.”” Thought it was gehography? The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks that the next man who is shadowed by the New York police will be popularly and promptly acquitted. Rhode Island clams are very fine this season. An old clam baker found one so big the other day that Connecticut and Massachusetts are claiming half of it, Major Benj: Perley Poore, the veteran Wash- ington correspondent of the Boston Journal, is to be made inspector of public buildings in New England when Congress adjourns. The London Saturday Review thinks that neither the republican nor the democratic party has a proper appreciation of the labor party in America as ite movement is condensed in the operations of the Kearney party in California. The Boston Herald says that one of its reporters secured the arrest and conviction of Pemberton, the murderer of Mrs. Bingham; that another discovered the felony of two detectives, and that two Journas reporters found the murderers of Ellis. Rey. Arthur J. Donnelly, pastor of St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, in Thirty-second street, near Ninth avenue, has obtained » short leave of ab- sence from His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, and will start to-day on trip to Europe. He will pro ceed first to Ireland and thence to England, making a short stay in each of these countries, after which he will go to Paris for the remainder of his vacation. He expects to be absent about two months. London World :—The conversation of the very poor among themselves is not often civil and never edifying. The surroundings of the poor are not lovely. To them a museum, garden or a picture gallery opens out vistas of an enchanted life, of a world of thought, that is neither drink, work nor quarrelling. This refreshing of the soul, this moral food, is a step toward true religion. It teaches men to acknowledge higher laws, purer motives, wider ambitions than an animal existence of inconscient sensual enjoyment,” Pall Mall Gazette:—Russian mammas are on the lookout, and know how to discern a ‘detrimental’ from a young Muscovite whose matrimonial inten- tions are sincere. A great many marriages seem made on the spur of the moment; for a Russian who thinks that the time has come for him to take a wife will put a turquoise ring into his pocket on Whitsua Day and go into the Summer Park determined to be- stow this trinket upon somebody before the day is over, but having no ides when he sets out as to who the fortunate recipient shall be. In Russia Easter engagements are said to bring money; those st As- cension health; those at Trinity uumerous pro- geny, and those at Whitsuntide peace in the domestic circle; wherefore cautious folka who hold by super+ stitions have an inclination for these last.” ARMY INTELLIGENOE, OF ENGINKERS—STATIONS OF TROOPS, Wasuinaton, June 30, 1879. ‘The President’s nomination to-day of Colonel Ho- ratio G, Wright to be chief of engineers, with the rank of brigadier general, vice General Humphreys, retired at his own request, was immediately con+ firmed by the Senate. CHANGES OF TROOPS, The following changes of stations of troops were reported to the Adjutant General's office during the week ending June 28;— Company D, ‘eA cavalry, to Senta Maria, Texas; companies B, L and M, Fifth artillery, to At- lanta, Ga.; uarters aud companies A, D, H aud I, Thirteenth infantry, to Atlanta, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. CHIEF THE VANDALIA AT HUNTINGTON, L. I, {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Howrixaton, L, 1, June 30, 1879. The United States ship Vandalia, Commander R, W. Meade commanding, arrived at this place this evening. She will remain here ten days. MOVEMENT OF VESSELS—-ORDERS—NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED, Wasninarox, Juno 30, 1879. The United States steamer Tuscarora arrived at the Mare Island Navy Yard this morning in twelve days from Pichelingue, All on board were well. ‘The Portsmouth to-day sailed from New London for Newport. ORDERA, Chief Engineer E, D. Robin is detached from spe- cial duty at the West Point foundry aud ordered to the Pensacola, and also as fleet engineer of the Pacific station. Engineer J. H. Sears to the Kearsarge, at New York, Cadet Engineers J, W. cose and T. F, Carter to the Marion at Portsmouth, N. H. OMINATIONS CONFUMED. The Senate in executi easion to-day confirmed the following nominations Assistant Paymasters Otis O, Tiffany, of Illinois, and John N, Speel, of Pennsylvania, to be assistant > car a Master Lewis C. Heilner, of Pennsylvania, to be Heutenant. Passed Assistant Engineer Alfred Adamson, of Wisconsin, to be a chief engineer. Passed Assistatit Surgeon Robert A. Marmion, of Colorado, to be a surgeon. Churles Wesley Rush, of New York, to be an assistant eon Acting As- sistant Surgeon Henry P, Percy, of Virginia, to be an assistant: Ly ag Lge Passed Assistant Sur- eons Francis N. Greene, of Pennsylvania, and Dan- el C. Burleigh, of New Hampshire, to be passed as- sistant surgeons on the retired list, Acting Aswist- ant Surgeons Isaiah D. Kwling, of New York, Joho D, Smith, of Massachusetts, and Jeremiah J. Pago, of Maine, to be assistant surgeons on the retired list. GERMAN NAVAL MOVEMENTS, Hatarax, N. 8., June 30, 1879. ‘The North-German corvette Nymphe arrived from Annapolis, Md., to-day, and will leave for Germany in about ten days,