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4 NEW YORK IIEItALD BROADWAY AND A.** STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches most be addressed Nzw Yobs p?HATT). Rejected communications will not be returned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD?NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms m in New York. Volume XXXIX Mo. *18 AJBliSEXEltTS THIS AFTERMOST A.1D EVOLfG NIBLO'3 GARDEN, Broadway, hfiwp.-n Pnni-o an;l Houston strre?*.? 1 KVaNUKLINs, rilk HULLli OK acadia at m p m ; clnn?* at 10:43 P. H. Mr. Joseph Wheelock and Miss loue i Burie. WOOD'S MUSECM, Broadwar, corner of Thirtieth street?LITTLE RED1 RlUlNu HOOD. atJP. M.; closes at 4 P. M. THE SLA i or [OK, at S P. M.: rloees at 10:30 P. M. Louis Aldnch ami Mum sophia Mi Lea. OLOHE THEATRE, No. 728 Broadway.?VARIETY, at ? P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 535 Broadway.?Pariilaa Cancan Dancers, at 8 P. M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bowery-VA RIKTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. CENTRAL PARK HARDEN, Fifty-ninth street and Seventh sveuue.? THOMAS' CONCERT, at a P. M.; close* at 10:90 P. M. COLOS9F.CM. Broadway, corner of Thlrcy-fltth street?LONDON BY DAY. Open tram 10 A. M. till dusk. WITH SUPPLEMENT". New York, Thnriday, August 6, 1874. THE HERALD FOH THE SCHHEE BESOBTS. To Newsdealers and the Public:? The Nkw York Hebald will ran a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sunday during the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A- M, for the purpose of supplying the 8uirday Hkrai.T) along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the HmtiT j) office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabUilits ' <h1 thai the uxaihcr to-day will be partly cloudy. | Waix Street Yesterday.?Gold opened at ^ 109$ and closed at 109i, the only figures of the day. Stocks opened firm, went off and closed steady. The bnookith Common Cockctl have voted two million dollars for the construction of the bridge. The question now is, "What is New York going to do about it? The Trouble in the Bureau of Obstructions grows out of the hatred cherished by Comptroller Green against the head of the Depart uieui oi ruuuc >?oriia. ine nuroau is unaer the latter department; so the Comptroller seeks a pretence for stopping its supplies. Meanwhile the streets are obstructed and the public suffer. When will the end of this miserable administration be reached ? Tub French Assembly voted the Treasury budget yesterday and President Buffet declared the session closed. The members of the Legislative Body will consequently enjoy a recess to the 10th of November. President MacMahon will be enabled to carry on the government with cash and in quiet, the poli- j ticians will rearrange their party platforms, ' and France will await, patiently it is to be hoped, for what may turn up. The Sotjth and the Third Teem.?V?'e publish in another column a letter from exGovernor Hubert, of Louisiana, on the third term question, in which that gentleman manifests great distrust of (he Northern democracy and intimates that the only salvation for the South lies in the re-election of General Grant While Mr. Hebert has been all his life identi fied with the interests of the section for which he presumes to speak, it would Beem extremely illogical in the South to anticipate relief from the evils under which they labor from the continuance in power of one who b&B been repeatedly blamed by Southern leaders aa the chief cause of all their recent difficulties. DiaBAET.I ON THE EuBOPEVN SlTTTATIOy.? Premier Disraeli announced to the British House of Comnlons yesterday his personal conviction that, however tranquil the gener. J state of Europe may be, there are "agencies at work preparing a period of great disturbance.'' The famous English statesman has on more than one occasion of lato excited and alarm* d the Old World peoples and governments by the utterances of sentences of similar import; bat, so far as we have seen, he has not condo acanded to indicate the point of dancer or the causes which are moro immediately exciting towards it If he possesses such knowledge, based upon facts, it is, we ahonld say, his plain duty to advise the Queen and Parliament of tt Or is the great novelist merely prejudiced ? Or has the sunset of life given unto him the power of mystical lore ? Tn Fib* ComossiotfEns have presented to Mayor Havemeyer their report for the summer months, showing that three hundred and eighteen fires have taken place sine* the 1st of May, of which only fifteen did any considerable damage and ten extended to other buildings. This is a very gratifying exhibit of the efficiency of our Fire Department, of which New York may be justly proud. The greater number of the fires originated from carelessness and foul chimneys, circumstances which it would be well to bear in mind. The experiments of the corps of sappen and miners in regard to cheeking any conflagration of too extensive a character to be resisted by ordinary means bare given entire satisfaction. In this era of corruption and job* It ie gratifying to be alio lo pojit to one municipal department that is NEW TORI ! Tk? Opening of tlie Political CimP?l|??OoMlp Among thi Politician*. The political campaign of 1874 opens with the call for the meeting of the Republican State Convention at Syracuse on the 23d of t September. The party tLus first in the field represents the sweets of office and is strictly of the administration faith. Oat of twentytwo members of the Central Committee present'at the issue of the call fourteen are serving the country, inoluding a United States Senator, a State Senator, a United 8tatos Ihstriot Attorney, a Surveyor of the Port, a County ! Treasurer, two Postmasters and one of Mayor Havemeyer's unfortunate Police Commis, sionezs, who may still be considered in public L office since he is understood to hold ill his ; possession, as a sort of reserve plum, the ap - - ?i #m_ _ pomtment of Commissioner 01 excise. - ina j Convention will, no doubt, be of the same . complexion, for party machinery works with precision, and it ia difficult to resist the will of those who hold its control in their Viitn fin. As, however, there is an important section of the republican party which, if not opposed to the administration, is, at least, indisposed to submit to the dictation of what is regarded as an office-holder's ring, it will be incumbent on the Convention to liberalize its action and to study the sentiments of the outside republicans in the nominations. All sorts of rumors are afloat in regard to the wishes of the leaders ; but many of them are probably nothing more than rumors. It is said tbat the temperance movement is to be handled as a weapon against the renomination of Governor Dix, and that those politicians who desire his defeat are anxious that the Governor should dismiss the chargos against Mayor Havemeyer for the purpose ol fastening upon the former some apparent indorsement of the latter's official conduct. But the people understand well enough that the so-called temperance movements are, in fact, the intrigues of political adventurers who take advantage of the temperance organization to promote their own ends, and we do not regard j it as likely that Governor Dix will in any ! manner countenance or approve the official i action of Mayor Havemeyer. Another item j of political gossip on the republican side is i an alleged intention of the lenders to renomi| nate Governor Dix, and then to trade off the Governor at the polls for members of Assembly, in order to secure a majority of the right stamp in the House in view of the election of a United 8tates Senator. Some imaginative persons affect to discover an inkling of such a policy in the remarks made by Senator Conkling at the meeting of the committee, when he urged that "nothing should be left undone to secure a republican majority in the Legislature, as upon that body would depend the choioe of a United States Sanator." | But Mr. Conkling no doubt called attention to the importance of the next Legislature in good faith and without any intention of sugeestine the election of members of Assembly at the expense of other republican candidates. Besides, such a plot, if contemplated, would be defeated by the personal popularity of Governor Dix, if he should be the candidate of the party for re-election. But while the office-holdere, strong in the possession of the control of the lccal organiI zations in most counties of the State, as well as of the Central Committee, are gathering up the threads of their intrigue and weaving a plot of their own, an important movement is in contemplation by those republicans who have not of late years enjoyed the sunshine of administration favor. The Hebald somo time ago revealed the fact that negotiations were pending looking to a reconc iliation between President Grant and Senator Fenton as a necessary preliminary to a complete change of programme on the part of the administration at Washington and a reunion of the republican party in New York and other States where disaffection exists. It is claimed that this treaty of peace is so nearly concluded as to render it probable that benator r enton may be a candidate before the Republican Convention for the nomination lor Governor oi the State, leaving | the prize of the United States Seuatorship to be won by Governor Dix or ex-Governor Mor; gan, an the case may be. The arguments used in favor of such an arrangement are not without force. It is claimed that the composition of the present State Senate renders it probable that damaging dissensions may arise among the republican Senators in the contest for a successor to Mr. Fenton in the United States Senate if the i breach in tho ranku ol the party be not heakd i before the next Legislature meets. In the api proaching elections, it is said, the iriends of j Mr. Fenton will concentrate their efforts on j the Assembly should no compromise with the j administration be effected, and will unite with ! the democrats in all contestable districts to so cure the success of a Fenton republican wherever possible, or as an alternative the defeat ot an administration republican by a democrat. The end of Bucb a combination may be the loss of a United States Senator and the virtual paralyzing of Now York's influence in the I United States Senate by splitting the repre! sentation between the two parties. The elec' tion of a friendly republican as Mr. Fenton's j successor is regarded as an important if not i an indispensable step toward the success of i the third term policy and the projected com1 promise looks to the acceptance of that policy 1 by Senator Fenton. At the same time he , would not be required to stultily himself by ] becoming a third term advocate. He muy even be permitted to enter mild protests against this departure irom the precedent established by the lathers of the Republic. Jiut as Governor of the State he will necessarily have but little necessity to take part in the preliminary movements, and when the nomination shall have been made by the Republican National Convention, what will he be able to do but to respect the will of his party? Thore ia a rumor that only one obstacle stands now in the way of this interesting political arrangement Mr. Fenton, it ia said, backed by Mr. Thurlow Weed, claims the Custom House as a security before abandoning his outside organization and trusting to the administration, first for his nomination, and next for his election as Governor of the State. He wishes a change to be at once made in that valuable placer of political power. The President hesitates to concede t1 point, as be well may, and here is reported to be tho present hitch in the proposed treaty. The Tammany democracy, although not in office, will" labor under a difficulty in their 'approaching party convention and in their C HERALD, THURSDAY, j selection of candidates somewhat similar to that experienced by the administration republicans. It has been decided by the lenders not to <v>ll the Democratic State Convention until after the republican nominees hail have been put into the field. But when the Convention meets, so far as the New York delegation is concerned, it will be found that the representation is confined to the Tammany politicians, while the outside democracy of the city will be without a voice in the nominations that will be made. If the democratic party desires success it will be necessary to study this outside element and to liberalize the ticket, for on the vote of New York city the result in the State will depend. Here, also, there are rumors of intrigues and r plots which may or may not have foundation. It is said that, the tactics of 18C2 are to be repeated, and that while one candidate or onotheV for Governor will be brought forward i and canvassed prior to the meeting of the I Convention, the name of Horatio Seymour is suddenly to be sprung upon the delegates and carried through by acclamation. Whether success would attend such a policy as in 1862, however, is open to grave doubt. The sense of the party outside the leaders seems to be to bury past issues aud to take a new departure, and it is this sentiment which points to Judge Church as the popular candidate on the democratic side for the office of Governor. The objection raised to Judge Church's candidacy by his political friends is based upon the tact that a vacancy would be created in the Supreme Court, which would bo filled by a republican Governor, since the resignation could not take place throe months before the next election. But the appointed Judge would only hold office until 1875, and the selection would be certain to be wisely rnado by Governor Dix. Besides, it would be' but a poor compliment to Judge Church to urge his retention on the bench of the Supreme Court on account of his nolitical oninions. It is ccrtain that cnTpful and conciliatory nominations wiil be as essential in the case of the democracy as they will be on the part of tho republicans. The people are held but lightly nowadays by the bonds of party, and success or failure in the next State election, as in the city of New York, will depend mainly on the popular acceptance or repudiation of the personnel of the political tickets. Another Steamboat Burned. The particulars of the burning of the steamboat Pat Rogers on the Ohio River, which we print this morning, are sufficiently heartrending, even in the absence of that criminal carelessness which is usually the cause of disasters like this. There seems to have been no weak boiler in this instance, nor wus the disaster due to any of the ordinary causes, and yet it was one which should not have occurred. A spark, it is believed, ignited some bales of cotton which were part of tho cargo, and thus the vessel was destroyed, in volving the loss of many lives. Such an accident should havo been impossible, and yet we cannot call that carelessness which is general usage. There is scarcely a steamboat on any of our lakes or rivers which is irea from dangers of this character. It i3 impossible to suppress the sparks. It is equally impossible to hide away the boat and the cargo from the smokestack. The cotton bales being more inflammable than the ordinary elements of a boat's cargo should have been placed so as to be least exposed to danger, and yet almost every boat that traverses our waters has equally inflammable material constantly exposed where the sparks may penetrate. It is not a case of individual carelessness, but it is an illustration of a universal fault. Something must be done to secure greater safety in storing the cargoes and placing the furnituro of steamboats, and we can see no reason why the models of our river craft should not be preserved at the same time that it shall be impossible for sparks to peuetrate places of danger. A Startling Exhibit. The charter requires the Corporation Counsel to report every six months the suits pending in his office, their nature nnd the amounts claimed, with other information. This report appeared yesterday in the sheet called the City liccord, which the people never see. It is a | startling exhibit. Fourteen or fifteen pages 1 are filled with closely printed matter which ' show that there were some four or five thou, sand suits pending on the 30th of June last I or settled during the preceding six months. Tho amount claimed against the city in pending suits appears to be between seven and eight million dollars, independent of costs and interest. There are, besides, a large number of suits for vacation of assessments, which, if successful, will throw an additional heavy burden on the city. It will be remembered that not a dollar of these contested claims ap ... n.oor.'c jm'UI.i in vuujj/iiuuvi 'jitou n niuvcuicuio, but are in addition to the amount of the public liabilities as represented to the people by the Finance Department This shows the necessity of a complete investigation of our financial condition, and explains the motives that have prompted the suppression of the report on the floating debt said to have been propared by the Commissioner* of Accounts. The New York Nautical School.?The Board of Education has proceeded so far with the organization of a nautical school as to make the appointment of a Superintendent and to ask the Secretary of the Navy for the use of a vessel The importance of such an institution in this city under the auspices of the Puldic School Board cannot be overestimated. Our commercial marine ought to have officers better fitted for the duties of ocean navigation than is possible when the forecastle is the only training school. Under the old system of sailing vessels this was well enough ; but the introduction of steamships has made a higher order of ability and a more thorough education necessary. The techni/>n liti/.u s\4' tromnnoVin Vin tm /> Vin taubico v/i nwimuuouip |^uu(] ulj uuu tuo group of the forecastle. Under these circumstances it is only by means of nautical schools that a growing demand tor well educated and well trained officers can ba supplied. Congress has done wisely in providing for the establishment of these schools, and we shall look forward with much interest to the success of the institution nbout to be fully organized by the Board of Education under the authority of that act; nnd we trust the Navy Department will-not be backward in placing a proper vesbd at th j disposition of the Board* AUGUST 6, 1874.?WITH S Out Mutual Friend. A deplorable feature of the deplorable Brooklyn scandal has been the apparent Impossibility of obtaining a plain and trnthfnl statement from any person connected with the unfortunate affair. There have been from the first concealment, prevarication and mystery on all sides. Mr. Tilton was I oensurable when he tattled, insinuated and threw out hints only partially revealing the truth, even granting the story to be as he now represents it If the great wrong was done him he should have made it public from the housetops, or, concealing and condoning it. once, it should have been forever buried out of sight, and, if possible, out of memory. Mr. Beecher was wrong in sealing up his lips when the charges were once publicly made against him; for, if guilty, proleasions of innocence though made by dumb show, could only add f/> fairt orV*iln if innnnunf frVift oanan r\f fA ligion and morality demanded an instant repudiation of the alonder. The committee was to blame for giving to the public incomplete and apparently not always impartial reports of the evidence taken by them. Finally, Mr. Moulton, "our mutual friend," has not been altogether blameless in absenting himself so long when he evidently holds the key to the truth in his possession and when the public interests demanded that this reproach should be removed fiom sight as speedily as possible. This apparent dread of the truth and not a desire to plunge deeper into the offensive mire has givon rise to the general desire for a legal investigation of the case. Prurient curiosity gloats on the exaggerated stories to which mystery and concealment invariably give rise. Tho demand for a trial before a legal tribunal has come from those who feel that the public have now a right to the truth, whatever it may be, and that it cannot too soon be brought to light, so that the painful story and all connected with it may pass out of sight and be forgotten. There appears now to be some promise of an end, even before the unsatisfactory committee. A strong and angry letter from Mr. Beecher has drawn out a reply from "our mutual friend," and Mr. Moulton has appeared before the committee, armed with tho license of both sides to speak. He has signi ned his willingness to make his statement and to produce tbe documentary evidence be holds, on the condition that he is to be allowed a few days to arrange bis thoughts, refresh his memory and prepare his papers, and on the further consideration that be shall be accompanied by a shorthand reporter of his own selection. To these terms the committee have assented. As the evidence of Mr. Moulton may thus be considered as secured it is unnecessary to comment on his last correspondence with Mr. Beecher, or to express an opinion as to which holds the juster estimate of the position occupied by the "mutual friend" and of the obligations he is under with regard to the letters confided to his cara. The dooumcnts ore to be made public, and that is all that concerns the people. We may say, however, that the tkreo letters published this morning orny seem to aim to tne singular complications. Mr. Beecher is angry, but his call for the production of the documents sounds like the confidence of innocence. Mr. Moulton is calm and friendly, but his letter contains at least one hint which is scarcely reconcilable with Mr. Beecher's apparent confidence, and certainly must cause a shudder in those who hope to see Mr. Beecher triumphantly acquitted. Mr. Tilton's brief and decisive assent to the production ot the evidence reads also like a ccrtainty in the truth of his published statemont. Surely somebody must be playing a desperate game. Shall we ever know who it is? Wanted?An Opinion. Mr. Columbus Ryan, or Cornelius Ryan? what's in a name??no doubt makes a ,lgood thing" out ot his eating and drinking establishments in Central Park. The refreshment and liquor business is very profitable, especially when it is carried on as a sort of monopoly and is not subject to close competition. It is calculated, we believe, that seventy per cent of tho money taken for wines and liquors at the current prices in such first class establishments as those owned by Columbus (or VViU(/UUOy AO gUlJUj UMVt UiUUHD, lUULUCHj suppers, ico cream, ginger ale, soda water, doughnuts, cakes and candies are all made to pay a good profit. No doubt the Casino, Mount St Vincent and the other establishments run by Mr. C. Ryan?wo can compromise on the initial of the doubtful name?are well conducted, and no doubt he supplies as good winos, liquors, cigars and food u$ he oaght to supply for the first class prices he charges. Bnt the question is, by what right have the Commissioners of the Central Park leased theso valuable buildings belouging to the Corporation to Columbus, Cornelius, or any other man, when the charter requires that they shall be leased by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, and then only to the highest bidder alter public advertisement for bids? By what right especially have they conferred this contract or lease or these perquisites upon a?? nfflnn* nf fhn r.nrnnmfinn w^uir* ! ?? UU ViUV>VJ* V* VMW X/V?|/V/I?WW4? n*4VU l/UO AC* W poBitivcly prohibits such au act and makes it a misdemeanor ? "We can see only one way out of this difficulty. The Park Commissioners have clearly violated the law. The Comptroller, who has paid C. ltyan's salary as an officer of the Corporation, while knowing him to be the ownor of this valuable contract, and who has settled with C. ltyan in the matter oi the contract, while knowing him to bo a salaried officer of the Corporation, h?s been guilty of an illegal act Nothing is left, therefore, but to obtain a legal opinion tliat the Park buildings are not "city property" and that the Park Commission is not bound by the charter powers and limitations. This opinion might cover the ground that the provision ot the charter fixing salaries, which says, "To the President of the Department of Parks, six thousand dollara ; to the Commissioners of Parks other than the President, nothing," is a mere technicality, and is meant to rend, "To the Commissioner of Parks, enjoying the honorary titlo of Treasurer, four thousand dollars." To be sure, some other questions may remain to be answered, as, for instance, whether the Park Department has furnished and fitted Mr. C. lean's hotels, restaurants and saloons at the i public expense, and whether the amount of UPPLEMENT. his gas bills has been taken from the people's pockets. Bat the legal opinion is needed any way. Where is the Corporation Bunsby ? The Lotm of the Angels. In the early halcyon daya of "reform," when the fancy of emotional people painted a rosy existence as the consummation and hope of years of agitation, we were told that the future generations would lire in harmony, peace and love. The beauty of all the "movements" that at different times have excited humanity was in contemplating the bliss that was to rest upon society when the "movement" was completed. There was the Fourier Phalanx at Brook Form, which was to be the germ of a new system of association and universal happiness. But as some of tho brethren felt that it was their mission to look out of the window while other brethren worked in the fields embarrassments arose and the dream vanished. We had an "elec tive affinity arrangement in New York under the benignant influence of Stephen Pearl Andrews; but the effort to attain perfect love had th? result of spontaneous combustion. Somehow the dreamers never passed beyond the land of dreams. Ideal life on paper, or in the journals, or under tho roses, is enohanting; but ideal life with work to do, and bills to pay, and quarrels to compose, and a hundred unavoidable duties of society to meet, is quite another affair. Worldly, doubting poople, who have a stubborn faith in the Commandments and tho Scriptures, never looked upon this dream life with enthusiasm. Current events, wo regret to say, only help to confirm the doubts. Certainly if any "movement" was over bathed, as it were, in love and harmonious concord of soul, it was woman's suffrage. Those of us who have been blessed with the sight of Elizabeth Cady Stanton moving up tho platform to take the chair at a woman's congresn, her fine, full, merry face frosted with fleecy locks and beaming with affection and courage, must have rejoiced in her as an apparition of amiability and charity. There were those public and eloquent love taps between Elizabeth and her Puritan Mrs. Harris, the stern-eyed Susan B. Anthony. Down the list of earnest, strong minded souls, the Woodhull, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Bloke, Lucy Stone and the nebulous crowd that made up the tail of Elizabeth's ccmetary "movement"?how beautiful their public appearance, their angelic sweetness of temper, cooinc like the cooinc dove. Even the moBt cynical of us said, "Wh?t angels these women are ! Did Damon ever love his Pythias, or Mrs. Harris her own Gamp, with the love poured upon Elizabeth by Susan ? What innocent, winning ways! What sweetness, and grace, and tact, and exquisite modulation of tone, and infinite soaring of soul! What wives, what mothers, what sisters?nay, more, what mothers-in-law they would make!'' In time some of us came to the reluctant conclusion that woman was never seen to perfection in the full blooming of her noblest qualities except in the "movement." And, we said also?"Suppose trouble came, sorrow, embarrassment, misrepresentation ; suppose that bluck scandal or ioui iacea reproacn snoum creep mio me movement,' how these sisters would love and cling to each other, how they would buoy up the weary and help the heavy laden, and bring rest and peace!" Is there not a fairy tale somewhere about a cat who was transformed into a beautiful princess, and who sat in majesty in the centre of a gracious, splendid throng until a mouse came from its hole and ran before her, and how her royal highness could not resist tho innermost instinct, but must needs pursue the mouse and kill it in full sight of the court, while the adoring circle flod in astonishment, seeing that she was only a cat after all, and that some fairy had played a prank upon them? We have had a similar transformation in the angels of the "movement" A sudden grief came upon no less a man than Henry Ward Beecher, and it Boemed as if he had iallen by the way, covered with a shame as of death. Well, we remembered that in his day Mr. Beecher had been a demigod among these angels; that even Elizabeth Cady Stanton sat at his feet while Susan B. Anthonv kissed the hem of his garment, and we said, "What a biassed Bight we Khali Drmr see 1 What lovo. what patience, what sustaining sympathy will be shown to this man in his sorrows by thoso angels with whom he has labored for so immy years!" But the temptation was too great. True enough, thero was a brother to be comforted in his sorrow; but thero was also a great human heart to be rent aud torn; slander was to be rolled like sweet morsels under the tongue; women were to be wounded in their honor and their good name; all the sacrod traditions which bind society in a holy relation were to be criticised; marriage was to bo demonstrated a lie, religion a comedy, maternity a burden and a crime, and home only the gilded den of slavery. In' an instant the angelijo nature was gone, and, instead of the angels in loving communion and sweet Bymrmfhv. Vfl liad a tiock of fierftriminfr. rrnnkin<? chattering, ravenous carrion birch, tearing to pieces the body of Ilenry Ward Beecher. Nor should the transformation surprise us, for among the compensations arising out ot this loathsome and atrocious affair is tho revelation of the true character of the woman's suffrage movement Wo now see, especially by the attitude of Mrs. Stanton and her strange, perverse course, that the movement is altogether unwholesome and base. Instead of freedom to woman it means the violation ol woman's most sacred prerogatives. It would pull down love in the marriage temple and erect in its stoad tho obscene image of free love. License would become another name for law. The family would fly asunder, and home, which is tho ripe fulfilment and union of human comforts and virtues, and which it is the tendency of civilization to hallow? home would be a desert of sorrow. It is not without grief that we see the angels we have admired so long only carrion birds eager for prey. But it is well that their true character should at laBt be known., Blasting Operations are conducted in this city without tho slightest reference to the safety of persons in the neighborhood of the contractors' work. A Coroner's jury censured one of those heartless individuals a short time since for his criminal carelessness, and now we have another case up town where a piece oi rock flow through the window of a room in a building and injured a woman so severelj that she may not be able to survive tht shock. Cannot the attention of the propel authorities be directed towards this evil ant ! 1 means be taken to a^pprets it? Tbc Kidnapping Mytterjr. Despair of the recovery of tlie lost boy, . Charley Rouh, wppma settling upon the minds of the good paopla of Philadelphia. Tha police of that city have apparently nevei thonght his rescue worthy an effort of theirs to accomplish. Oar correspondent now presents the case in a new light, which seems < to invest his new solution with much probability. The bitter abase of the mother which forms a large portion of the contents ol the unpublished letters seems to hint that the crime was inspired by some more deadly motive than that of avarice, and the question occurs to the romantic reader, "Is there love, disappointment and revenge behind it all ?" According to the theory now advanced the offer of a restoration of the child for a ransom was meant by the criminals to divert the attention of the father from their true object. , While he was endeavoring to meet their demand the child was taken farther and farther away from hij home, and the traces of his keeper.* wore growing fainter with the lapse of time. By the artifice of the letters and personals tha fond parents were deluded into hope, while the supposod revenge or other object wm rapidly being consummated. Every good citizen must still fervently cherish the hope that the kidnappers will not escape punishment* The imbecility or the criminality of the police, however, has rendered this desirable result highly improbable. Tub Postal-Cab Controversy.?It seems rather ridiculous that a short railroad, ninetysix miles only in length, should ferment and distract the brains of the Post Office Department in so fearful a manner as has been done recently. President Hinckley, repreneiiting the owners of this iron thoroughfare, has declined carrying the United States mails at the oom- ? pensation heretofore paid him. This rofosal was not absolute. It was, however, couched in plain English. It has been discussed and reiterated and modified during several days past, and still the relation! of the controversialists ara not very well defined. The postal cars will be allowed to move on until a bill for increased compensation Bhall have been dishonored. Without all this trouble the position ot the Railroad President might more easily havo been tested by offering the mail contract to another company and preventing the possibility of a serious interruption in the transmission of tha mails at the will or an irresponsiDie corporation. As the matter now stands the troubla may be renewed at any time, until Gongresi shall choose, next winter, to settle it after it* own fashion, by establishing new rates for th? carriage of the mails. International Cbicket.?If the profession cricketers who have just been beaten at crickel in England by the professional ball players were playing to win their defeat is a surprise all the more agreeable for the fact that the Americans could not have been expected to bd thorough experts at the English game, and must, therefore, presumably have been bettei men to prove superior with less knowledgi and trained skill. But if the Englishmen were not playing to win other fancies ol> viously present themselves; and it is just possible they were at the old game of playing a soft match to inveigle the strangers and theii friends into a match for a good round sum oi money. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Moltke Is at Ragratz?drinking water. Governor Dix left Albany yesterday (or Glmlra. IX it hasn't got any tail, Uow does bo know it'* * comet T Caynor Is not a gainer by It either In reputation or otherwise. , Mr. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, 13 at the Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary Briatow returned to Washington ye* terday morning. Bishop J. J. Oonroy, of Albany, Is residing at th? Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary Belknap will go to New London to morrow to visit his family. Judge William W. Crump, of Richmond, is stay ing at the New York Hotel. Now, then, If Llghtroot, of Kentucky, cnn onlj trip the light fantastic on nothing! Did the man who killed himself in the gunshof and "knew wnat he was about" intend suicide r Mr. Olal Stenersen, Swedish Minister at Washington, has ap.irtrneuti at the Hotel Brunswick. Russia l-t sendiujf men to Tashkent to teach iha people how to cultivate the grapo and make wine. Judge Alhert S. Bolles, of Norwich, Conn., la 1 among tuo recent arrivals at the Sturteranl I House. The forty-third anniversary of the accession ta I the throneoi the King oi Belgium w.is ceieoratej , ! at Brussels. Mr. Am6d6e Van den Nest, Secretary of the BeN ' gwn Legation at Washington, has arrived at tad I Brovoort House. | Assistant Quartermaster Gei.eral Langdon C. fcaston, CnltcU States Army. 13 quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Robert Campbell, of St. Louis, a member ol the Board of Trustee* of the Peabody Kdncallonal Fund, la sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. When Ave or six lellows become very ridiculous by getting themselves lialr frightened to death on a mad dog scare, the hydrophobia Irlght will ba > over. Cliautdavoine, who had been lildden awar la Paris ever sluce the Commune, went out with his family to pass a Sunday on the grass this hot weattior. He was seen by the Inevitable gendarmo. who carrlcd him away to "hard labor for lire," t? which ho was sentenced In his absence. It was a great mistake on the part of all those leliows not to live In Arkansas. War agalust portraits In France. At Macon th? police have compelled all the Bhopkoepers to take out of their windows tho portraits of Thiers ana Gambetta, and required even the grosers to sui? press tbe package* of alimentary substances on ' the wrappers of which were printed pictures of distinguished personages. Funny Frenchmen I who deem It Important to take off the heads of their enemies?from a ponnd of sugar. Trie Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham reproved a priest the other day for walking with a woman on his arm and her hand in his. The priest asked the Bishop to whom ne was talking. "J am the Utthop of Nottingham," said His Lordship. "But we have no such Bishop in the Hnglisii Church," roplied the prleat. "Oh!" exclaimed tl?o d Bishop, "then yon belong to tbe English Church. I am delighted to hear It, and I beg your pardon with all my llfo; but I do wish you would not walk about In our uniform." Grasshoppers have a disposition to eat np things 1 in Algeria also; but thero naturo has provided a 1 remedy against them in the form of a "natural i enemy." This is an Insect apparently lnnigonoua , there and never classified b/ the entomologist*. , it deposits its eggs in the same hole in which tha grasshoppers havo deposited theirs, thus taking ' advantage of their labor. The eggs of the "nat ural enemy" hatch first and nls young either hv? r on the grasshopper eggs or destroy the coming , grasshopper early In llro. This natural enemy ' r does no harm to the crops. Now, Hiod, Uuaa Sam, what's the use of your Agricultural Doparu 1 ment if it cannot import and uaturaU/.o mis fob low I