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NEW YORK HERALD!
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
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VOLUME XL
SO. 159
AMUSEMKXTS TCKYIGHT.
BOWf.BV OMR*. HOCSB,
if*. 101 Bowery.?Vakil IV, at i KM.; cloie* at 10 O
P. 1.
ROBINSON HALL.
We*t Sixteenth -tree'-?hrgaati Opera?GIttOFLE
filhOFLA, at 8 P. S3.
WOOD'S MU3BUB.
Broad war, corner or rrnrueth <trect.??nERir>AS ?
HACK'S OKaNU VAKIEiY i O.MMl.NaTIGN, at 8 I*. M,;
closed at 10 :4J P. M. Matinee at 2 P. M.
niLMORE's KCMMI'R OARDKN.
late narnam's Hippodrome.? <}R v ND POPL f.AR CON
CERT, at 8 P M.; no-en at 11 P.M. Ladl'* and chil
dren** matinee at 2 P. M.
PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN.
TABIETY, at a p. .Y.;closeMU 10:16 P. M.
METROPOLITAN' MU-ICL'M OP ART,
We?t Fon. teen'.h itrc?-t.?''Den trotn 10 A. M. to S P. M.
park theatre.
Broadway.?EMERSON':* CALl*ORKIA MINSTRELS,
?t 8 P. H.
OI.YHPIC THEATRE.
No. ?;4 Broadway.?AllIf.TY. at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:44
T.X.
_ FIFTH AYPSUE THEaTRH.
Twentr-eiihtu street and B-oadwav.?THE BIO BO
NA.\ZA, at 8 P. M. ; clO.?e* ut 10 :t ? i\ M.
_ CENTRAL PARK OARDRN.
THEODORE lliOMA.v CONChRf, at 8 P. X.
_ _ METROPO IT\N THEATRE.
No. SSS Broadway.?VAlllhTy. at S P. M.
WaLLaC?'< T hATRK.
Broadwar.-THK IMJSOI'AX -'. nt 8 P. M.; close* at 10HO
T. M. Me urn. liarriKan ami ilnrt.
TBIPLE SHEET.
NEW TOM, TUESDAY, JUNK 8. 1875.
From our report* (hit morning the probabilities
art that the u tat her to-day will be cooler and
clearing.
Persons going out of town for the summer can
have the daily arid Sunday Herald mailed to
them, free qf postage, Jor $1 per month.
Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were
lower, and the tendency is apparently toward
farther depression. Gold was steady at 117 a
116J. Foreign exchange was firm.
The Bznoleaders of the crew of the Amer
ican schooner JefferiuH Borden, who mutinied ]
on the bigh sea*, will be sent to this country
for trial irom England.
Moody and Sankey are still fighting Satan
tooth and nail in the gr'-at city of London,
and hare enlisted thr- childrt n under their
revival banner*. The arch enemy is evi
dently losing ground under the persistent
?tucks of tLe two modern apostl %
A Duel of unusual ferocity wn fongbt near
Havana on Friday, between a citizen of New
York, Dr. Algernon Sydney Curtis, and a
Cuban merchant named Sa.T:ulor Cort roaL
W? give the full particulars of this allocking
enc mnfer, which was u<i d by tl>*s suicide of
Cortereal, who ap-orcutly believed he had
killed his adversary.
Amhertt at Wobk.?We publish to
day an interesting a'c >uiit of the prepara
tions b'.ug wade by tie new crew of Am
herst College i r the : r Looming Ktn^.io
between tue j-rriuate* of the oar <>n Saratoga
Lake. Tb? y will pr ve toroiidable aiitn^ou.
ists as far as pluck, will and muac.e arc- con
?erntd.
The Indians.?A tribe of tie Comanches,
who hav<j been raiding U r five ye irs in Texas,
have agree 1 to surrender, and it, is eipected
that the reman, ig t.o tile Apaches in that
Blat* will follow the i x-ampie. But the Indian
trouble is on-, which, when suppr ssed in one
place, always breaks out in another. New the
danger is at the Black If ills.
The Hiocx I. duks, who hare bad along but
apparently fruitless talk w.th the "Great
Father," are now in New York, and are hav
ing a good tun . seeing the sights snd receiv
ing invitations ev<ry.rhere frevious to their
departure for tho Plains, wh< ro tley may turn
Bp agsin at their old pranks of murder and
rapine. It is a disgrace to our civilization
that these cutthroats i.hrrold bo permitted to
appear at public aaseoibln^es <n thin c.ty,
wearing tho trophns that they tore from
their delencele*s v.< tims. i hey j^irade the
Bcalps they hive 'a..en with the utmost non
chalance Yet they are the "nation's ward-"
and aro prot" <?d by otir benigt rovernm' Lt.
The Jerome Pabb Eacbs.?Tho second day's
races of tho spring mevting of tho Am ncan
Jockey Club ccmm< nc? at thr>e o'clock this
afternoon at Jerome 1'ark. Tho principal
?vent will lie the race for tne W< t.chester Cap,
Bhich will bring out mome of tho principal
ttorses entered for tho ineeting. I: into be
eope<l thit the races will i t b< prol n(;r I on
account of starling d 111' ul > ? to th amc uu
VarrautaMe ?xtont as on Hatur v in :, at.d
that some effort tw yond tli ; gratt iions . ... r
tions of the clerk of the w-.ilin i ?v.i!i bo made
to avoid the di: a,;re tblc pr< ?'?nee ol clouds of
dust. 'The irniiienRo att< ndnncc on the first
day of the meeting is a f:< d oti ;ury of the
inter' ht taktn by the j ub ic tins sea >n in ono
of the noblcut racing acsociations trer organ
ized in America.
Tlte Mayor Over the Stu.
We are afraid t ;at Hts Honor the Mayor
was prem.iture in declining the invitation of
the L . rd Mayor of London to visit the an
cient capital of the English rac8 and become
the guest of the Corporation at GuildhalL
In thi? season of centennial celebrations and
international exchanges of amity the tendency
Of Mayors and Lord Mayors to come together
is a beautiful illustration of the advancement
of civililauon. It is not long since the chief
municipal < lficer of Paris and the ctyef mu
nicipal officer of London had a pleasant as
Bomblmg, with mor-i th in the ordinary mani
festations of friendship. The meeting of
Paris and London was u noted event in this,
that history has no incident more irequently
repeated than the contest between the ureat
French and the great English Power in
which London and Pins took so promi
nent a part. Therefore, when we see
tho two inghty oities of the world in
social converse, in the exchango of courtesies
and friendship, Frenchmen doing honor to
Englishmen and Englishmen forgetting the i
triumph of Waterloo in courtesies toward
Frenchman, nothing is more natural than that
this feeling of international affection should
take a wider 6copo, and that the Mayor of
New York should be asked to accept the
hospitality ot the Lord Mayor of London.
The mere circumstance of Mr. Wickham
becoming the guest of the Lord Mayor of
London would in itself be interesting.
Lord Mayors from time immemorial, and the
present Lord Muyor particularly, have been
iamous for their hospitality and their patriotic
desire to manliest on every occasion tho glory
of England. We have never had a chief
officer ot this municipality more competent
to represent the best phase of the American
character than Mr. Wickham. He sings a
good song and tells a charming story. He is
an American trom the top ot his hat to the
sole of his boots. No one who has seen him
review the processions on St. Patrick's Day
or the gutli-ring of Masons could lail to note
his military bearing, his Napoleonic prowess.
Mayor Wickham at a dinner party recalls
what we have road of those charming
ambrosial feasts which form so pleasant a part
of the literature of England and Scotland.
The difficulty between England and America,
po lar as social sentiment is concerned, is that
Englishmen too often form an ideal American,
impossible in every teature, based upon the
exaggerations of our humorous writers and
the follies of many ot our citizens who go
abroad. The best idea we have o." other
nations is the character of the people they send
to us. When we recall the character ot many of
those who visited the Old World in the last
few jears we can well understand why the
advent of a Mayor, a real Tammany Mayor,
irom New York wottld be looked upon at
Guil ih.ill with interest if not with alarm.
Mr. Wickham would contribute largely to a |
better understanding between tho two coun- |
tries by boldly making his appearance in
Guildhall and showing that as an officer
he is in every essential a Mayor as well as a
gentleman.
It would be a deprivation in some respect?
to lose Mr. Wickham, but when we tbink of
th&se who would attend his visit to London
we can reconcile ourselves to the surrender.
We have many men in our city, especially
those in authority, whose departure for Lon
don would be a comforting sight. lie might
take Mr. Green, in order to show the authori
ties of London how to manage financial affairs
in such a wny as to give the least amount of
satisfaction to the greatest number of people.
He might invite Di&becker .to instruct the
sanitary authorities of London that the com
fort of the people is more largely served by
the greatest amount of nuisance und decompo
sition. There are a body of police surgeons
who have arrived at the astounding discovery
that no place on this Continent?Saratoga,
Long Branch, the parks of the Rocky
Mountains or the table lands of the
far-rcacbitig Sierra Nevadas?can compare
for salubrity, health fulness and natural
beauty of sceucry to the llarlem flats.
We d j not know anything that would afford
us more pleasure than to see our Mayor slowly
st< aming down the Bay, with Di&becker and
Green and the police surgeons and about two
thirds of the present officers of Tammany
Hail accompanying him as his body guard.
If the Mayor should desire to make his visit
to London not only a matter of enjoyment to
himself but of comfort to the city he might
extend his courtesies and invite other gentle
men of distinction. There is thj lion. John
Merrissey, lor instance, who, if really
put upon his mettle, could make as
gre^t a sensation in London and
give a surer manifestation of his powerful
statesmanship tnan any of our leaders. There
is the Adonis of the New York democracy,
the Hon. Tho.uas J. Creamer, a man of large
wealth and influence, who rould teach the
rising generation ot London politicians many
things as yet unlearned in their lessons of
political management. There is our silent
chief of the Tammany Sachems, John Kelly,
who coaid keep the peaco as imperturbably
as Grant. It the Mayor were so
disywed he might take the whole
echsr trial?.Judge, counsel, contestants,
jurymen and all?and deposit tnem in London
under tbo ministrations of Messrs. Moody and
Hankey with much l,enefit to our people,
whatever the result might bo to true religion.
Mr. Tilton and Mr. Bcech?r lmvs both about
exhausted their influence in New York.
Th<*e is no knowing what they would be able
to accomplish in London. Beechor and Tilton
might succeed Moody and Sanitey. Tbe
achievements of Moody and Sankey show
that there is no better field for the develop
ment of true American talent than this
exhausted old metropolis. London has been
in many respects a field for the manifestation
of tin appreciated American genius. It was in
London that Barnum accomplished noble
results with the India rubb'^'nurse of Wash
ington," the woolly horso i.ad Tom Thumb.
It was in London that famous financiers suc
ceeded in inducing ingenuous investors to
buy barren Utah lands under the impression
tliat th-y possessed real silver mine:*. It
is in London that* clergymen whoso idea
of the practical working of Christianity
is based upon the instructions of Mr. Barnum
have succeeded in revolutionizing the religious
world from its cntrn to its circumference and
bringing dukes and princesses and Indus and
gentlemen ol high degree to the loot of the
altar in a condition ol hysterical devotion.
[ With txamoles liku these what could Boecher
and Tilton cot do, especially under the dis
creet instruction of the Major ?
On the whole, the more we think of it the
more we regret that our accomplished and
able Mayor has not concluded to visit Lon
don. Ho would have more than a royal wel
come. There would be abundant opportuni
ties of discussing our common language, our
common literature and bur common religion.
What fino thoughts be could have evolved
about Shakespeare and Cromwell and Lord
Bacon! With what magnanimity he could
refer to the fact that if the English
were whipped in the Revolution it was
not because they were weaker, but because
the Americans were a greater race I There
are dinners of whitebait at Greenwich which
ho could appreciate if he could not enjoy.
We should not advise him to follow the
example of our somewhat famous fellow
citizen, Sergeant Bates, and ride down Pall
Mall and tho Strand with tho American flag
looped up on tbe driver's seat. But there
would be no objection to his indulging in this
harmless entertainment if he found it neces
sary tor the glory of his land. The true
value of Mr. Wickham's visit to London
would be not so much in his going there as in
his leaving his friends behind him. We
should miss the Mayor, but there are
a few of those associated with him
who would be gladly spared. Nor
would they fail to learn a lesson
of the vanity of human wishes. London is
full of statesmen of tho old empire, the fol
lowers of Tweed, the men who displayed the
diamond pins and ruled over the Americus
Club, and disbursed appropriations with as
tonishing rapidity, and kuew how to extract
the largest number of vote9 from the smallest
given number of voters. The lesson of their
exile would not be lost upon a Disbecker or a
Green. i> or this reason, if for no other, we
still regret that Mr. Wickham has not ac
cepted the hospitalities of Guildhall and re
solved to be one of the great multitude of
Mayors so soon to assemble in the illustrious
hail of this venerable municipality and to sit
in honor and comfort and high enjoyment
with the Mayors of Paris and Vienna, and
Cork, and Peoria, and Tim{>uctoo.
General Sherman and General Buell.
We print this morning a letter from General
Buell in response to our suggestion that he
might find it convenient to discuss the parts
of GeDerul Sherman's book commenting upon
himself and his campaigns. General Buell is
a distinguished, and, as the country believes,
an untortunate soldier, whose career during
the war was interrupted by invidious circum
stances rather than by his own action. Although
the references to General Buell in the work of
General Sherman are, so far as we can rccall
them, of a conciliatory and altogether of a
courteous nature, the General is disposed to
take issue with the commander of the army as
to the estimate he places upon the battle of
Shiloh. General Buell believes that it is the
effort of the author to "conceal the faults and
misrepresent the facts of that battle." At the
6ame time General Buell concedes the impor
tant fact that it is proper that all who took
any part in the recent war should now place
upon record their remembrance of it He
agrees with the Herald in looking upon Geb
eral Sherman's example as calculated to stim
ulate that object. General Buell reserves his
final judgment of the work of General Sher
man until another timo. We need hardly
say that anything ho chooses to write upon
the subject will be read with deep interest by
the country. No one is more eompetent to
write upon the war than a scholar and soldier
and gentleman as accomplished as General
BuelL ___
Balclde and Insurance.
By the judgment of the highest Court of
the State of Maryland it appears that a man's
right to take his own life in certain circum
stances is still intact. In that State a gentle
man bad insured bis life on the ordinary form
of policy, by which the insurance is void "if
the assured shall dte by his own hand or act."
He subsequently hanged himself and the com
pany relused to pay, which there is reason
to believe is the common rule with insurance
cotnpsm s in all circumstances. The com
pany was sued and held liable; they ap
pealed, and again the inexorable judgment
was that the sum of the insurance was due to
the heirs, felo de se to the contrary notwith
stanciing. It was held by the Court that
ther>' aro circumstances in which a man may
take his own life that do not come within the
prohibition of the clause in the policy. They
bold that the policy only prohibits an act J
that is deliberately intended by a sound mind, j
Ifji man looking into the muzzle of a re- 1
volver fire it by accidcnt he dies by his own
band literally, but by an unintentional
act, and ior such a loss the com
pany must pay ; and inasmuch as
insanity interrupts healthy volition, an in
sane man cannot be presumed to intend his
own death any more than the man does who
kills himself by sueh an accident It is not
our duty to reconcile the view the Court takes
of suicido with the view taken by some phi
losopher*?especially in England?who argue
that the mere fact of suicide is evidence of
ins inity, ami that, therefore, there cannot be
any distinction as to suicides intended and
suicides not intended. In tho absence of !
such a duty we contemplate the decision with .
sat.sfaction. Insanity has been most ing?- t
niously nsed to defraud the gallows for many
years and if it can now be employed in the '
interest of a much defrauded publicto compel
slippery insurers lo come down with their i
dust we shall be glad to know it.
West Pourr.?The all important question i
as to whether the fair visitor* from Tassar
College were frightened or not during their
late raid on the cadets at West Point, when
the boys executed a brilliant charge, seems to I
bo as far from solution as ever. A cadet |
comes to their rescue to-day, and defends
them against the insinuations thrown out by
"One of Benny Havens' Boys.'*
Mn. Evarts yesterday resumed his speech
in the Brooklyn trial, and ridiculed the story
ol .Mr. B'jccher's allegai suicidal inclinations |
and tho controversy about tho paternity of
the hoy Ralph. He complimented Mrs.
Woodbnll l'<r her delicacy of trust and honor,
so tar as it was exhibited Kt the trial,
and proceeded to argue that. Mr. Tilton was
on intimate terms a? a visitor at hr-r resi?
donee. Mr. Evarts, it is expected, will con
clude bis exhaustive argument to-day.
Tb* Knliancet of lf?w York.
The foll.v of tryiug to conceal great nui
sances by officiul misrepresentation was never
shown more strikingly than in the late report
of the police Burgeons upon the Harlem flats.
The coercion of these officers by a Com
missioner resulted, first, in the exposure of
the true condition of the flats, and, secondly,
in the exposure of the moans that had been
used to hide it. If Mr. Disbecker had been
a wise man or an honost official he would have
either avoided tho blunder of attempting
to prove the pest beds to be whole
some or he would have addressed himself
to the difficult labor of making them
so. But the course he chose to adopt has con
vinced the publio that he is personally inter
ested in the garbage outrage on the public, or,
what is almost equally as bad, that he is to
tally unfit for his position.
The surgeons' rt port did not cover up this
infamy of the Harlem swamps, but, on the
contrary, led to retraction and investigation.
The cooked-up report not only foiled to ac
complish its own purpose, but has elicited
unanswerable testimony to the existence of
the nuisance. Commissioner Voorhis on Sun
day visited the scene, and bears witness to
the truth of the statements in tho
Herald. The Commou Council has taken up
the subject, and yesterday continued
an investigation, which the public ex
pects to be thorough. The Board of Health
has also considered the matter, and as the
remedy lies directly within the power of that
body'we hope it will not hesitate to apply it
firmly and without delay. The Board of
Health cau compel a citizen to remove a
nuisance and make him pay the expense, and j
it should deal with the contractors just as it
wouid with private persons. Wo do not say
that Messrs. McQuade, Ambrose, Jones, Mills j
and the other model contractors should now
be obliged to remove the filthy, pestilential
organic matter with which they have filled !
the fiats, for in the heat of the summer season
that step would bo dangerous to the health
of the city. But they should be compelled
to at least repair the injury they have done
the community by using powerful disinfect
ants in the garbage fields and covering the ;
mass of rotteuness already deposited by three
or four feet of pure, fresh earth. If it is, as j
we believe, in the power of the authorities to
make the contractors bear a portion of tho j
expense of this purification, the publio will bo
gratified to see the penalty imposed; but
under no circumstanoes should they be paid
the balance of the money due them from the 1
city until they have removed the intolerable '
nuisance which their own recklessness created.
The authorities should not limit their atten
tion to this nuisance only, though, of cour se, it
is the most dangerous of all that now threaten
the health of the metropolis. The Boards cf
Health of New York and Brooklyn held
recently a conference in respect to the petro
leum factories on the East lliver, which poison
tho air with their smells. As the shijis and
steamers lrom New Englnnd approach New
York by the entrance of the Sound their pas
sengers are regaled on the one side by the
odors of Harlem flats and on the other by the
stench of the petroleum refineries of Long
Island. They are between the Scylla and
the Charybdis of stinks, and unhappily can
eseape neither Then thero are the foul
streets, several of which are described in our
reports to-day. All of these nuisances should
be abated now, before the extreme heat con
verts them into sources of widespread disease,
and wo shall gladly assist in exposing all
cases of the kind to which our attention may
be called. The matter is one in which every
citizen has a direct interest, for the health of
the entire community is threatened by the
filthy portions of the city.
An Aspect of tbe Railroad War.
One of the letters of the Postmaster General
on tbe subject of the transportation of the
mails between Washington and this city bas
more interest for the public than is usually
found in communications of this nature, for
itdonls with n point that Postmasters General
will be compelled to keep in view in future
contracts. It appears that the department
makes its contract with one railway company
to carry tbe mails and then leaves it to that
company to mako its own contract with other
companies in cases where it does not own all
the lines over which the mails have to go. If,
then, these companies quarrel between them
selves the company that has the government
contract cannot fulfil its obligation*, aud de
lay necessarily ensues. It may be responsible
aud the government tniy be able to punish its
delinquency in that way, but that does not
secure the regular and prompt discharge of
the function that tho postal authorities are
chared with, and the indication is that no
future contract for carrying mails over a route
divided between several lines will be com
plete or secure as bey <nd possibility of mis
hap unless the government has a guarantee in
the contract by which tbe carriages of one
road are allowed to pass over other ro ids.
The Batttji o* Bus*eb Hill.?We publish
elsewhere a communication from Mr. George
S. Ellis in relerence to th.s great national
event, the centennial celebration of which is
close at hand. It gives a graphio description
of the bold stand made by a small portion of
the hastily organized Provincial Army ngainst
the veteran soldiers of England, and ascribes
to Colone Presrott the principal sharo of the
honor of that memorable day. Not even the
disastrous retreat of tho British column
from Concord and Lexington inspired the
redcoats with such wholesome fear of the
determination, courage and unconquerable
spirit of the newly awakened patriots of
America an did the short and bloody struggle
on Bunker Hill, when a low thousand farmers
beat back their host troops and were only
compelled to retire through lack of support
aud want of ammunition. Then the British
Cabinet understood what a <1 f:i r.lt task it
was to bring tlipse "rebellions colonists" to
terms. The topographical map of Bunker
Hill, as it appeared during the historic fight,
will allow a complete study of the action.
Th? Char-utejuptic Cbimk for which so
many negroes have suffered, and which seems
to be the besetting sin of the desperadoes of
the colored race, has been repeated in Mary
land. Tho victim was a farmer's daughter,
and tlie circumstances are revolting. Tne
I dastardly perpetrator has been arrested, and
I will, likely, danttle at a rope's end ere loua.
Tl*? Calvtriltf Crews ?t Pr?etle??
By the word coming in from New England
and all over the Middle States there la
promise of a very brilliant aquatic meeting at
Saratoga on the 13 th and 14th days of next
month. While the work of the next few week#
must reduce the weights of the rowers con
siderably there is already abundant proof
that most of the crews will come to the score
heavier than their respective colleges have
usually sent, and hence, as all seem to be
taking a good share of hard work, fitter for
the arduous strain of wind and back and limb
that is in store ior them on that Wednesday
morning. Occasionally a team, the Wusleyan,
for example, has even at this early day thinned
down to racing weight, and though thoy have
done so more than once bolore, and yet made
a capital second, the experiment is at best
hazardous. A little extra beef on a man,
especially in our hot summor months, will
geuei ally ronder him abler for long tiresome
work whether on land or water than he would
be without it
A very noticeable feature of the training at
most of the colleges is a decidedly greater at
tention to legwork than formerly and less to
enlarging the arms. Tho sliding seat has in
part led to this, the rower finding that the
more firmly he braces his feot against tho foot
board?technically, "kicks his stretoher''?
the more effective work results. Of course,
too, tho present style of rowing, introduced
by Captain Cook, of the Yale crew, and
learned byUiim in England, which has been
more generally adopted thiB year than ever
before, by cutting down the forty-three or
forty-four per minuto of former days to
thirty-six or thirty-seven strokes, renders each
stroke more deliberate and bo likely to be
more thorough and give the legs more to do.
Not only will there probably be more uni
formity also in the stylo of the first six or
eight crews this year than ever before, but
when the fast European amateur teams row
next summer on the Schuylkill and at Sara
toga and over other famous courses it will be
found that their stroke and ours have at last
grown much alike. And as two or three
favorite builders get about all tho
orders for the boats the races booome
more and more nearly a test of the actual
skill and strength and staying power of the
oarsmen. A very welcome incident of the con
tests this year is the marked increase of inter
est in the single ?cull race. Mr. Kennedy's
performance the other day near New Haven
shows him to be, what any careful observer
evn a year ago would have found him, a really
formidable man, and, close as the various races
promise to be, perhaps no safer prediction
could be advanced ?ow than that ho will be
able to make sure that the winning colors in
the single scull race go where some months
ago we thought it likoly, and still think it
likely, the colors of the University race of
1875 will go, and this notwithstanding the
loss of one valuable man?ndmely, to the in
stitution whose well appointed and costly new
boathouse to-morrow, lor the first time, floats
its flag over the waters of New Haven Bay.
The Office and the People.
The keynote of the discushion attending
the letter of the President in reference to the
proposition to nominate him for a third term
is involved in the idea th^t the office of the
Presidency is greater than the people. One
difficulty with President Grant's letter is that
he so regards it This applies in a large
degree to the political leaders of both
parties. It has been the tendency of modern
political discussion?at least since the close of
the war?to regard the President as in some
respects the father of the people. We address
the incumbent of the White House very muoh
as Spotted Tail and Bed Cloud and the Indian
chiefs do when they come to beg for blankets
and corn and rifle*. He is oar "Great
Father." This arises portly from the central
ization that has crept into our politics as a
necessary consequence of the war. It arises
also from that sentiment of adulation
with which time Bcrvern and office holders
and politicians generally surround the
Chief Magistrate of the country as
the dispenser of patronage. The truth in
that in no republican government, especially
in America, was it ever intended to make the
President anything more than the chief
ministerial officer of the people, and not in
any se nse their ruler.
The whole danger of Cmsansm in this
country does not arise from any attribute m
the character of General Grant or any special
incident of his administration, but from the
adoption of this political heresy, that the
office is greater than the people. Unless we
can eliminate this from our politics we shall
drift steadily on to imperialism. It will only
be a question of time, a generation or two,
before we aro directly conlronted with it
Imperialism will grow from this root as surely
as the oak tree from the acorn. In an ad
ministration based upon tins heresy the ten
dency U to regard the patronage of the
people as a military force, to drill it to witld
it lor party purposes. Place any man at
the bead of this vast power, and teach him
that he is the possessor of an authority above
and apart irom the people, and it is not in
human nature that he should not wield it for
hia ambition or his revenge or his pleasure,
even as Napoleon and Ccasnr. Therefore the
dangor of Cojsarisin is not a personal danger,
but a fruitago of the war. President Grant
in his letter shows that he has thoroughly em
braced this heresy.
We have yet to learn of any distinguished
republican leader who has taken cour
ageous ground on the third term. Mr.
Sumner tried to do so, and many dem
ocratic statesmen during the urgencies of
the canvass last year indorsed him. Mr.
Sumner's efforts died out, and when
tho democratic leaders succeeded in defoating
tho republican party upon the issue of
Cresarism they ignored the subject as soon
as they came into Congress. We do not |
end thiM controversy, therefore, by simply dis
counting Gcnernl Grant's prospects for a re
nomination. That is simply to chop off a
limb or hew a few branches from tho tree.
The root and trunk remain, with all their life
giving juiccs. We shall have the strile over
again in the next gen< ration. What we want,
therefore, is that this should be a distinct and
emphatic issue in our next election?that wo
should have en amendment imposing one term
and no re-election. What we desire is not a
President! who is necessary to the p?.d|>le, but
a people who are strong enough to govern
thomselvos in suite of the President
CmfllnU. Sllka.
We shall be yery much surprised If th6 ?<v
Hon of the District Attorney in causing tha
arrest of tha agent of one of tho richest mer
cantile houses in the country on tho charg?
of ha ring purchased silk goods knowing that
they had been smuggled will not be one of
the most important acts of his administration.
If properly sustained by the evidence and by
tho general government it will lead to th?
moat salutary results.
Without expressing an opinion as to the
guilt cr innocence of the party implicated
the position iB this:?A buyer of the house of
H. B. Claflin & Co. is accused of having pur
chased for the use of that houso a large quan
tity of silks nt a less price than they would
have been worth had the duty been paid. To
the argument that these silks might have been
a depreciated lot, which had fallen in value
on account of the exigencies of the trado, it i?
answered that tho purchase was made, not
from parties engaged in tho buying and sell
ing of silk, but from tho clerk of a liquor
store. This is a serious matter for a dis
tinguished and rich house. The District At
torney doscrves credit for making his point
upon a firm ttrong enough to defend their
representative and widely enough known to
receive lrom the public all the consideration
due to their high commercial character.
The lesson that we trust will be taught by
this action of Mr. Blisa is that our dealers,
our merchants and importers cannot exercist
too muoh scrutiny in dealing with the govern
ment. If a package of silk is offered to a
merchant at a less price than the duty would
justify tho inference is irresistible that il
was smuggled. If a merchant purchase!
goods upon which such a suspiciou can fairly
rest he is morully as muoh a criminal as tho
adventurer who evaded the customs laws. In
our rush to get rich wo are not always careful
about the means of making money. We are
afraid that our best merchants have not
always looked at their purchases with opon
and inquiring eyes. If a cheap assortment of
desirable goods can be found lroo from legal
imputation they aro too apt to take them as
gifta from the gods, and aro not always
anxious to know whether thoy paid the duty.
We trust that it will be found that Mr.
Claflin's agent in this matter is unjustly ao>
cused.
Tub South Pacitio Islands.?An earth
quake, succeeded by a tidal wave, has causcd
immense loss of lile and damage to property
in one of the South Pacific islands.
Thi Poist or IIonok.?Alexander, th?
man who was shot four times by a police
officer in Philadelphia, refused before hii
death to tell tho name of his murderer, and
in Brooklyn a similar case has occurred. A
rowdy was stabbed fatally three times in
the lungs on Saturday night, and when
asked to tell who was his assailant, re
plied, "I'd die with the name of th?
fellow in my throat before I'd give him away."
The point of honor thus Bhown is very
coarse, and in some respects criminal, yet it
is a point of honor. Bud as this concealment
is, it is better than the educated and deliberate
treachery which is so frequently found in
higher circlcs of society.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Rev. F. H. Wenintrer, of Cincinnati, la registered
at the St. Nicnoias ilocel.
Mr. Matt. H. carpenter, of Wisconsin, yesterday
arrived at tbe St. James Hotel.
Senator A. T. Caperton, of West Virginia, U re
siding at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Fay Inspector W. W. Williams, United State*
Navy, la quartered at the Hotel Brunswick.
Paymaster George L. Febiger, United Statti
Army, ib stopping at tbe St. N.c ho as Hotel.
Deputy Attorney OeneraiCnar.es 8. Faircbtld, at
Albany, is stopping at the Hoffman House.
Major Peter C. Halns, ol the Eaglueer corps,
United States Arrar, Is at tne Brevoort House.
1>. McDoa^all, Registrar or Waterloo, Canada,
has been appointed centennial commissioner.
Jenkins, ol (Jinx's Baby, twaddiea terribly about
the peace of Europe, wnich, indeed, is normal
wl<h mm.
Rear Admiral Henry K. Hoff and Captain Jobs
n. Upshur, Unitei States Navy, bave apartmanu
at tbe Everett House.
Mr. R. R. Bridget*, 01 North Carolina, President
of the Atlantic Coast Ksilway line, baa arrived ai
tbe St. Nicholas Hotel.
Another party or Cicada Pacific surveyors left
Ottawa for Manitoba yesterday, in charge or
Oljllvy, for a two years' trip.
Judge Tneodoric K. Westnrook, of the New York
.supreme Court f ir the Third Judicial district, l?
sojourning at tbe Sturtevant House.
Associate Justice Stephen J. Fietd, of the United
States supreme court, arrived at tbo Albemarls
Ho el last evening irom Washington.
The Emperor of Germany has conferred on
Baron Carl do Rothscnud, or Frankfort, the Cross
and star of Commander in tho order 01 Hohcmol
lern
General Adam Bsdeau, United states Consni
General at London, returned to ihn city yesier
day and took up bli residence at tbe Filth Avenn*
Hotel.
Major D. R. Cameron. R. A., Her Majesty's Com
mlssioncrfor the settlement or the bonndary lint
between Canada and tbe United Mates, bas ar
rived in Ottawa.
The cologne Gazette states that General de Rs
raecke, Prussian Minister of War. Intends to ra
sign, at-d that General de Yolgts-Rnets is deslg
nated as nls successor.
It la said that Mr. Gladstone win contribute ai
article on the Prince Consort and the Court o
Queen Victoria to an early number of tbe Cot*
temporary Review.
Punce Louis or Battenberg is In England, and la
thought to fancy Princess Beatrice.
Pour t'pouter urnt princeste
Le prince Paul e'en eel allt'.
Secretary Deiano s?ys tbe repor; that be wonid
resign "was started br parties who nave failed to
use the secretary in furtherance of their personal
intereata." Tbetefore it was not a tar ted by tbe
.laalan Ring.
M. safforgnan de Bra/.za, lieutenant in tho
French Nary, but an Italian, who goes to continue
inAfrlci the explorations of Livingstone, "baa
full power irom tne Minister of Marine" to supply
him-elf irom tne public arsenals.
Count Mareioicni, Envoy of His Holiness tho
Pope, will visit Jerome Park to-day ai the guest of
Colonel Duncan B. Cannon, of Baltimore, sad
Hod. Alfred H. Mure, tbe son of Her Britannia
Majesty's Consul r.t New Orleans.
General Grant is said to have replied, la answtt
to an inqniry ol the secretary 01 War, that he had
read Sherman's book, bat was disaappointed iu
It, as it, seemed to involve tne conclusion that hi
(Grant) was not in tne war at. all.
Mr. Carlyle is up for discussion in regard to what
ho ssid ;?n<t dirt when Bryan Hunt, tne grandson
01 Leiglt Hunt, shot himself in tho l,on<Un Library.
Mr. early le was in tne Horary wneu the ac>. wai
committed. Young Hunt fell near him, in front
01 some shelves irora wmcli Mr. Csriyie wanted 1
book. "'Was he rnadf' said tne saga of Chelsea t*
one of tho librarians. "No." -Was he starved P
"No. ' Something mors was muttered aouui
"inconveniences," and then Mr. Curlyio nald n,
was In a hurry and must have nis book, which had
to oe givsn aim auaost over the body of tn?
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