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NtiW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
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VOLUME XL NO. 172
AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT.
ROBINSON IIAIX.
Wi'.t sixteenth street.?English Opera? ilIMOM.l!
olUOH-A, tu a P. M.
WOOD'S MUSEUM.
BroAtlwav, corner ol ihirtietli street?THE BLA< (C
I>OCTOK, at a r*. M.; cli aes at 1U :ia P. M. Mutiles at
P. M.
CILMORE'S SUMMER O ARDEN.
? ite Barliuiii's Hippodrome.?OUAND POPULAR I'ON".
i ERT. at hi*. M . close* at 11 1*. Y1 LaOiea' aud > bti
tireu'a matinee a; 2 P. M.
CO.V WAV'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.
ARTICLE */, at 6 P. M. Mi?s t.ara Morris, Mr. Jame?
W uceiocA.
PACK THEATRE,
Rroad WAV -i MEKaoN a CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS,
at 3 P. M.
OLYMPIC THEATRE
No. 8?4 Broad way ? i ABIiiTY, at a P. M , c!o e< at P>:t5
v n.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twentv eighth street anil Broad ?i? 1' it i: BIO BO
SANAA, .it 8 P. M.; closes at 11-...U P. M
CENTRAL PARK OARDi N
THEODORE TiiuMAo' CONC RT, at 3 P.
METROPOLITAN THEATRE
Na 585 Broadway.?VARIETY, at s p. M.
BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE.
A ROUND Til h WOULD IN EJOHIY DAYS, art P M ;
? loses at 10:4o P. M.
TRIFLE SHEET.
SIW TOM, MONDAY. .1 USE i-M. DCJ.
THE 1EBALD FOR THE SUMMER Kf SORTS.
To News deal*** axd the Ft blio : ?
The New Yoke Herald will run a sp-ci.il
train ev< ry S mdar during the season. com
mencing July 4, between New York, Niagara
Falls, Surah >g i, Lake George, Sharon ami
Bicbfieli S: rings, leaving N w York at half
past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga
at aiM o'clock A. NI., and Niagara Full* at
a quart* r to two P. M., lor the purpose of
supplying the Sixdat Bebaid along the line.
Newsdealexs and others ore notified to send
in their orders to the Hebard ?fibre s early as
possible.
From MT r<7< rU Okie morni) ?? the prtthob "* m
or? that the xreather fo-O'iy uiU br ivir,. -v, u I
dear or partly Hourly.
Persons gorny out or h >m for tt?<? si r, ,r*rr r< n
lave the da y and Sund'y liiEiin mail' I to
them, fret < f postage, for $1 per mrtUf.
The Haiden Scbvit. ? The experi noes of
?he party on their jonrnev from t'olorado
? ' ty to Canyon C.ty ..r. pi i a.Uly des ribed
iu oor correspondence to-d.y.
IIow Ma. Tweed ^whet w.ui p<.-?il v
his last Sunday ta prison is told iu our reports
"laewlure. The near prospect of liberty
should L-.ve made him devout, but upon that
point we have ro particular inf? nu.ition.
Fathfr Toji Uteke, the great preacher, is
iu very poor health, snd our Dublin corre
spondent try* that Lis fr ends far 1< r the r> -
anil of his illness. While he was in this city
Lis eloquence and ruaniy character won hi-a
many admiral*, who will b ar this news with
sorrow.
Asor . * Bbcokltx 51 dec.Murder*
have of lnte unfortunately c ised to lie
novelti s in Brooklyn, ati i to-day we ntr
obliged to relate anoth r terrible story of
jealousy, fr nzy and crime. The mur I r was
deliberate, and was followed by the attempt
of the unhappy man to kill h in ?. It
Tom Aiux has retired ir m the priz^ rin
It would b tve been betfc r had he i. v. r # -
terei it His reasons for abandoning the dis
graceful btiMUe** arn sound, and tt ough lie
ban a good reputation f r sfr ngtb the b.-t
blow hn iver struck in h.s life wa- th.it be hus
just d. alt at the ring.
Rapid Tiuaarr has be n adv: need to son e
ext. nt by the completion of the Fourth av
enue imj rowmeet. The first train or r the
new road 1 ft the Grand < ? ntral Depot last
night, and reached Mott Haven in a quarter of
an hoii . N w let the El vated Railroad
connect with tho Grand C- nbr.tl D pot,
Poo* Mabi FoMnoT.- V niorrifUdBt to the
memory of this unhappy girl, mho* ; story hue
pained thousand* of heart , i-> to be <? r < t d in
Jersey Ci u 'J he ladies of that fi y are c 1
lcctir.g subscript ton# for that purpose, and tie
monument will be de l a*> d on the anniver
sary of the d"Mh < f Mary f meroy in August.
There is snothi r monument n Jersey City to !
h^r memor . which is not so appropr ate, and 1
that is the Church of the Scandal, where .Mr. I
Glendenning still continues to prea* h in de
dance of society and of the will of bia sect.
The Tnr.iE Foucsmz* of the Nineteenth
ward who yesterday attack 1 the height* of
?Hibastopol," win re a gang of r oghs ai <1
higbwaym n had the.r citadel, deserve 'he
thank* of t> whole community for th< r
courage and determination. Unit r nnatcly but
one of the rowdies w.is shot in the affray,
tot they all richiy deserved that f te. The
brae* officer who was wounded, McEre* y,
will h?vo the satisfaction of knowing tint all
good citizens applaud his uianly conduct and
that of his comrades. When we find a good
policeman it is a pleasure to render him ttie 1
tall credit he ha* earned.
The Hlanrter of ih? Ohio Democrat*
We Jo not sny that the greenback inflation
platform is a blunder with reference to thin
year's State election, for we are not quite sure
that it is. It is perhaps the best card the Ohio
democrats could have played for immediate
succe s in that State. It not only expresses
the real views of a large majority of the party
in Ohio, but the real views of quite a propor
tion of the Ohio republicans, as is proved by
the timid and halting language of the republi
can platform, which went just far enough to
commit the party to specie without freeing it
from ail air of indecision. The only reason
why the ltepublican Convention was so tender
looted on this question was its knowledge that
the average sentiment of the State leauod to
ward inflation. The democratic demagogues
saw this paltry advantage and have tried to
nuke the most of it. They exp.*ct to inveigle
the republican inflationists into their
ranks, and if the democratic party con
templated no future beyond carrying
Ohio this year this appeal to infla
tionist prejudices would deserve the pruiso
ol dexterity, or, rather, of low political cun
ning. But even iu this view it may prove a
mistake. Where is Senator Thurman to stand
in such a contest ? lie is not only the ablest
tnau but the most effective stump speaker ia
Ohio. What weight can ho have in a can
vass in which he cannot speak without bely
ing his convictions if he supports the platform
of his party ? Is a cauvass wisely planned
which condemns Thurman to silence or neu
tralizes his influence if he speaks ? This stu
pid platform also precludes a.-sistauce from
eminent Eastern democrats, who will not
stultify themselves and destroy their standing
at home by taking the stump in Ohio. Mr
Cox, lor example, who has great personal
popularity in his old State and is a very tak*
ing speaker, would Lave stumped the State
with abounding zeal iu support of a sound
platform; but he will be a distant spectator
of the contest; and the same is true of every
Eastern democrat w ho has any character cr
popularity at home. Neither Bayard, nor
K- rr, nor Keruun, nor Seymour, nor Eaton
can go to Ohio and lend a helping hand
ia a canvass which humiliates Thurman au I
conflicts with their own opinions. All the
best and soundest minds of the party will tie
anxious to wash their hands of the Ohio her
esy; while the conditions of this canvass are
such that Blaine and Wilson and Coukling,
and all the best republican speakers of the
East, can support their party in Ohio. The j
Ohio democrats will bo left to fight their bat
tle without assistance from the strong men of
their p irty m the Eastern States, or even from
their own Senator Thurman.
The political fossil whom they have renom
inated for Governor will, of course, ex?rt his
-tentorian lungs in defence of the platform
to which his acceptance binds hira. lie lias
been wheedled with flattery, and is said to
Lave grown jealous of Mr. Thurman, Lis
nephew, being vain enough to try for the
Presidential nomination himself. He likes
the platform because he thinks it extinguish! s
the chances of Thurman. It certainly will
F'Xtiuguish them, let the election go as it may. !
The Eastern democrats will not accept a can
didate who halted and kept silent when
his party was about to perpetrate so
stupendous a blunder, and if the Western
democrats should succeed in Ohio and con
trol the Presidential nomination they will
not take up a man who timidly repudiates
their views. As for Allen's candidacy, the
idea of it is ridiculous. Pendleton's friends
have made him their dupe and tool ana means
of killing off Ihurman. This preposterous 1
pistil rui threatens ruin to the fairest hopes >f
the democratic party, a rum which will be
:iil the more c< r'.ain to come if the inflationist*
irry the St ,t *. In that c ,se the Democratic
National Convention will trim next year to
the inflationists < f Ohio as it always trimmed
to the high t triff z alots of Pennsylvania,
w hile th.s State held an election in October,
just in advance of the Presidential contest
fhere is no State in the Uuion where the
triumph of inflation won! 1 be so mischievous
,:s in Ohio, now that Ohio has b'*oine th i
pivot ol our Presid >ntinl elections. As it used
to be said, that "as Pennsylvania goes so goes
the Union, ' hi it will be here ? Iter said, "As
Oho goes, so goes the Union." The
party th at carries this gr- at Slate
hi October in Presidential yt.vrs will
ie fi,l-l with ?su:'aut confidence, because
tiie pioneer victory will be thought to disclose
the set of t1 e political tide and to furnish a
are augury of Ilia coming r ?ult, which
"casts ita shadow before." Ohio is therefore
the State in which financial heresy is m?Mt
greatly to be deplored. If the inflationists
carry the Sta?e this year the Democratic
National Convention will not dare to incur,
the r.?k of lowing it n xt year in the prelimi
nary skirmish, which will go so far to decide
the U r uae of the general battle. Had it
liecn one of the S'ates which hold elections in
November that indorsed inflation the conse
quences would not be so portentous. As
Pennsylvania has always been the key
stone of protection so Ohio bida fair to be
the fulcrum of inflation, and to command th?
undue deference paid to a State which is in a
p si', >n to advertise in advance the rrsult of
our Pre idential cl-ctions. The Ohio demo
crats have made the colossal blander of
depriving their party at lar ;e of its most
efficient political issue.
This blander is plain enough now to intel
ligent democrats, but it will be made plainer
to the men who I woed the e ghth article into
the platform, when the canvass sctivilybe
gine in September. These "architects of
ruin" will then behold how rapidly the build
ing they have pUnnc 1 wul rise in its
deformiiy. They will lenro that twenty
political virtu s can be rosrrc 1 by
one pobt cal sin, find tint the un
compromising diclaration which the Con
vention made in favor of the one term prin
ciple for the Presidency is neutralize# by its
rp?n advocacy ol inflation. When the
canvass begins the aid the 'Jhio democrats
will need from other .Stales is cert ain to be in
great part withheld. They have eith< r
figged Thurman or compelled him to speak
wilh an uncertain sound. They have fright
ened cfl a 1 democrats who do not bein ve in
flation to be the basis of prosperity from taking
p< peons' part in a campaign which has for
rn end the triumph of that heresy. Su<h
leaders as these cannot expose themselves to
the suspicion of assisting in a victory r >r the
v> ry principle which at home they oppose as
the irrcalest dancer with who h the triune**
of the country is threatened. The Ohio demo
crats will lose iu the absence of such men, and
in their tueit cond. innution of the inflation
plans, more than they will gain by an appeal
to thci inflationists of the republican party.
Even Thurman, under this insult, may feel
that his duty to himself requires him
to remain a modern Achilles iu
his teut. The effect of this blunder upon the
canvass will be, therefore, to paralyze it It
does not insure transitory success even iu
Ohio for the democrats, while it threatens
with permanent defeat the national party
itself.
Tile Ituccslsuresle Mentions.
We print this morning the baccalaureate
s rruons of President Smith, of Dartmouth ;
President Campbell, of Rutgers ; President
McCaulay, of Dickinson, and President Ray
mond, of Vussar. These discourses thus
grouped make one of the most interesting
chapters presented in a newspaper in a long
time. The baccalaureate soriuon is one of
the few marks that are lett of the sectarian
character of our colleges, and yet it would be
difficult to doteriuine from any one of them
the particular Church to which its author be
long"". Though Dr. Smith preached on the
"Breadth of the Commandment of God," his
discourse was altogether free from broad
Church'ideas and was merely the conservative
nnd orthodox expression of the beliefs of all
Protestantism. The same thing is true of all
the others. President McCaulay was not
Methodist and President Campbell was not
Dutch Reformed. This liberal spirit is some
thing over which we ought to felicitate our
selves, since the oneness of the Christian
spirit of these annual addresses goes fur to
make our colleges free from mere narrow sec
tarianism. Mauy of our most eminent insti
tutions of learning were founded only as
exponents of some religious denomination aud
to teach some particular dogma. When the
sermons, which were the expression of this
purpose, become so much alike as to make it
impossible to discover the sect in the dis
course they are proof not only of a generous
Christian spirit but of a culture which will
not trammel itself by narrow bigotry. The
baccalaureate sermon is one of the quaint
inheritances of the early foundations of our
higher institutions of learning, but since they
are no longer expressive of more sectarianism
we hope they will grow in interest and im
portance from year to year. It is for this rea
son we give them the importance they deserve
by surrendering a large part of our space this
morning to such of them as were delivered at
the different colleges yesterday.
Consolidation o! U?e French Republic.
The latest news from Paris, as written by
oar correspondents, shows the difficulties
under which France now labors in the process
of consolidating the Republic. The merit of
this French Republic is that it has grown
slowly, steadily surely?wo might say almost
geologically. The mistakes of the old repub
licans0 have been avoided. Their crimes have
become lessons. The spirit ot Lafayette has
taken the place of that of Robespierre. It is
seen that a new republic shonld not begin with
the guillotine. The modern French politi
cians have learned that liberty cannot be born
in a day?that it must reach the perfection of
true democracy by natural processes. The
danger which republicanism in France must
avoid is the anarchy of the Commune and tho
despotism of the Empire. On one side is a
wild, unreasoning, socialist influence, with
mad notions about religion and property
and the rights of man, believing ttat
liberty is only a form of chaos. On the
oth.r side is a mighty military influence,
stimulated by the splendor of a great name,
organized, disciplined, with skilled leaders in
its councils. These aro the two enemies
which the Republic has to fear?the Com
mune, which is anarchy, the Empire which is
despotism. The legend of Napoleon is giving
place to the legend ol liberty?or as we should
say the faith of democracy. "Divine rights,
and the "grace of God," as the warrants fur
a throno have become as obsolete as the
feudal tenure or the or leal of fire. Ilenry \.
has about as much chance ol becoming the
firmly seated ruler of modem France as Joan
of Arc would have in leading the French
peasants against the veterans of Moltke. Tho
Republic grows every day?in wis
dom, moderaticn, strength. The Republic
means peace to France and to Europe. It is
the only solution of this grave problem which
now distresses civilization by keeping the
great civilized nations of the world under
arras, and ready at a pistol shot to d.luge
Europe with blood.
The l-ogle of Strikes.
Ti e want of success which has attended the
strike of the Pennsylvania miners does not
MKm to have taught them the folly of
suspending work wh-ra the issue involved is
ot no very great moment. Lnder certain con
ditions, no doubt, the workingman, by a
refusal to labor, may compel the capitalist to
accede to his terms. But this favorable con
dition ot the labor market seldom exists, and
nine times out of ten it would be wiser for
the working clause* to submit to some redac
tion than to engage in a struggle in which
even success would not repay them for the
sacrifices its attainment necessarily involves.
At a time when the fiuanwal condition of this
country was oertainly not very reassuring and
there existed a general stagnation of trade the
miners of the Pennsylvania coal regions de
cided on resisting a reduction of wages by a
general strike. At the same moment there
were hundreds of thousands of men in the
country who would willingly have gone to
work for twenty-five per cent of what the
miners refused to accept, and who would have
esteemed themselves lucky in procuring em
ployment at any rate that would have guaran
teed them and their families from starvation.
Yet under such conditions the workmen of a
large district voluntarily struck work because
the mine owners found they could not profit
ably employ them at the old rate. Tho
struggle inaugurated so rashly has now gone on
for many months, and in the end the work,
ingmen are obliged to submit. By their
want of common sense they have embittered
their relations with their employers and have
wasted the savings of many years of industry.
F.ven if success had crowned their efforts it
would take years to replace the loss incurred
in sustaining their strike during the past few
months. If, before entering upon these profit
less contests, the workingmen would calmly
count the cost to thA????lvea and their taini
lies, they would soon peroeive the folly of
the course which they are go frequently in
ducod to adopt by the lieodleas rhe'orio of
rash and unwise leaders. Labor strikes may
injure capitalists, but it is only the working
men that they ruin.
Tlia Herald's Hpeeiwt Sunday Train.
The announcement in the Herald oi yester
day that during the season beginning with
July 4 the New York Herald would
ran a special train every Sunday morning,
leaving at half-past two, reaching Sara
toga at nine o'clock in the morning and
Niagara Falls at a quarter to two in the after
noon, will be road with interest It is not
only an illustration ot the tendency of modern
journalism and the responsibility imposed
upon u newspaper which proposes to keep
pace with the progress of the time, but a
direct advantage to our travelling citizens.
The special purpose of this train is to
deliver tbe Herald at aa early an hour as
possible at all places within the range
of direct travel through New York
State. Wo have made arrangements
to make such connections with tho trains
goiug West irom Niagara Falls as will permit
us to servo the Herald in all the Western
cities twenty-tour hours earlier than at the
present time. Tho effect of this arrangement
will be that visitors aael residents at West
Point, the Catskills and all the towns and
villages between New York and Albany will
be supplieel with the Herald before break
fast. Saratoga, Richfield and Sharon Springs
and all towns and cities on the line of the
Now York Central w ill receive tho Herald in
the early forenoon. At the Suspension
Bridge at Niagara Falls, where the Herald's
special train arrives at a quarter to two
o'clock, arrangements have been made to
connect with the Great Western Railway, of
Canada, for St. Catherines, Hamilton,
Toronto and all points north.
The metropolitan, we may almost say cos
mopolitan, character of modern journalism
is illustrated in the highest degree by enter
prises of this character. They are imposed
upon all representative and independent
journals. It was the Herald that some years
ago started the special train to Philadelphia
which has resulted in the service to the people
of that city of the New York journals at
breakfast. This custom was continued on
other lines, and although looked upon as a
startling and novel experiment, scarce justi
fying the expense and of no vulue except as
an advertisement, it was very soon seen to
be a necessity of the gTOwth of journal
ism, just as it has becomo necessary for
us to introduce stereotyping and fast
presses, to extend our correspondent system,
to gradually transfer all news communications
from the mail to the telegraph, which covers
the whole world as it were with communicat
ing lines of inquiry and thought as minute
and widely spread as the nerves in the human
frainp. This example was followed by the
English press. Last year we had enthusiastic
accounts of the enterprise of the London
newspapers in sending speciul early trains
from Loudon to the great towns of tbe nor'h
and west. The London Times began the ex
periment. It was so snccessful that its rivals
were compelled to combine and run an
opposition train. Then came the Eng
lish system of special telegraph wires,
also an imitation of the Herald's system
which has for a long time been in use and
which unites our home office with all of its
outlying branches. Hut this new enterprise
on the part of the Herald is a widening of
the influence of journalism. It is a step
toward national supremacy, which has always
been the aim of this journal and which it has
been its good fortune to attain. Wo allude to
it now not in any spirit of self-congratulation,
but as marking another point in the growth
of American journalism, showing a steady
march toward that supreme power which is
possible to the independent press in a land of
liberty, and making it in time a cardinal ele
ment of freedom and constitutional govern
ment.
Are Americans Irreligious I
The charge that the American nation is not
essentially devout has been frequently made,
but has never been sustained. It was Sir
Thornbury Holt,' we believe, who remarked
in his entertaining volume of travels, en
titled "Buffalo Hunting in the Fur West,"
that the Americ in people were the most ir
religious he had ever met, not even excepting
the gypsies. This opinion of a man so dis
tinguished for bis keen perceptions and im
partiality no doubt has had mach weight,
particularly with his own countrymen. It
has strengthened the belief of many intelli
gent Englishmen that Messrs. Moody and
Sankev, however successful in England,
would be failures at home, and that for that
reason they stay away from it But
while we concede to Sir Thornbury
Holt perfect sincerity in making this
starring charge, and also admit that
as the grandnephew of the Dean of West
minster he had himself enjoyed religious
culture, and was therefore a qualified judge,
still it must be pleaded in defence of Ameri
can piety that he had not a thorough knowl
edge of the facts. When he arrived in this
country his earliest impressions were derived
from New York, and nearly all of the two
mouths he passed in this city were devoted to
the study ot Wall street and the railroad sys
tem which has its centre here. The Beecher
scandal had just begun then, and Mr. Tilton's
statement was the universal theme. The
revival which promised to sweep over Brook
lyn w th the irresistible force of a tempest
had been checked by thin publication, and
though Mr. Beecher's reply did much to
r-store that religious movement, still Sir
Thornbury had receive d a profound im
pression. During this period also vpira boufft
was the moat popular of metropolitan amuse
ments, and Mr. Boucicault had not yet begun
his wonderful success at Wallaok's. Thus all
things seemed to conspire to make an un
happy eff.ct upon Sir Thornbury. It must
aiso he remembered that, while he spent two
months here and in Brookljn, remained for
eonsid rable j" riods in Washington, Chicago
and St. Louis, and was obliged to stay u!l
aight in Albany, by an accident on the road,
he was in Boston hardly one week and did not
visit Philadelphia at alL Thus two of the
most religions cities in the United Ht ites were
almost wholly unknown to Sir Thornbury
Holt. As it to add to tins unfortunate
chapter of deprivations he w.is received by
llotu/resa in th? moat, hohoitails wav. freely
accepting the privilege of the floor of tba
House, and dining, during his stay in the na
tional capital, with nearly all of the republican
Senators and all of the Cabinet officers. Mayor
Wickhain he had never met, while Comp
troller Green showed him the most gratoiul
courtesy. It was upon experience such as
this that Sir Thornbury Holt founded his
memorable assertion that the Americans are
the most irreligious people in the world, and
it is plain that for the unconscious error he is
not bo much to blame as others. When he
lolt St. Louis for the Plains he fell in with
the buffaloes, and by them, of course, his
erroneous views were but slightly modified.
Had lie rcmaiuod a year among the buffaloes
be might have gradually come to hold better
opinions of the people; but this was, unfort u
nately, impossible, and, to crown the fatal mis
take, ho returned to England by the wuy of
San Francisco.
The sermons wa print to-day were, of
course, never read by this eminent traveller,
ai:d yet they are a complete answer to his fal
lacious theory. It may be considered almost
an axiom that the intellect and fervor of
religious teaching proves the appreciation and
sincerity of congregations. The pulpit of the
metropolis can only be sustained by a religious
feeling of corresponding greatness. Ttio ped
efitul must be strong to uphold the Htaiuo.
The admirable discourse of Dr. Robinson on
activity iu religion; the eloquent analysis
which Mr. Hepworth made of trne Christian
zeal; Mr. Frothiugham'a protest against the
various ways in which religious sentiment is
wasted on useless objects ; the moral drawn
by Mr. Davis from the beautiful story of
David ; the description of Paul's preaching
by Mr. Boecher?these and other sermons are
illustrative of the truth that with all their
faults tho Americans are a religious people, and
that it is a grave mistake to judge them from
superficial examination.
The Ravage* of the Potato Eeelle
and the Remedy
'lhat formidable scourge of agriculture, the
Colorado beetle, whose native habitat is the
region at the base of the Rooky Mountains,
has made its way eastward to the Atlantic
, coast and threatens the potato crop of ail
New Jersey and other extensive districts. It
is only ten years since this noxious insect first
crossed the Mississippi, and the rapid spread
and multiplication of its devouring progeny
make it a national calamity. It has been
found that these pests can be exterminated by
poison, and Furis green (a mixture of arsenite
and acetate of copper) is the cheapest and
most easily applied poison adapted to this
use. But fears have been raised that tho poi
son which kills the grubs of the beetle may
enter into tho composition of tho plant,
making the remedy worse than the eviL This
subject is so important and requires such im
mediate action if this year's potato crop is to
be saved that the Heeajld has taken pains to
procure each correct and authentic informa
tion as may be safely accepted for their guid
ance by the suffering agriculturists.
We print to-day a most timely and instruc
tive letter from Professor McMnrtrie, of the
National Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington. He is reputed to be the most thor
oughly an 1 minutely informed scientific man
in tho country on the subject which he dis
cusses in our columns with so much clearness
of statement and fulness of detail Not the
least important of the information which
Professor McMnrtrie communicates is the
account of his own original researches and
experiments. Since the eastward progress of
the Colorado beetle last year he has been en
gaged in constant experiments with a view to
ascertain the effect of mineral poisons, and
particularly those containing arsenic, on the
health of plants. He has also made himself
thoroughly acquainted with the results of the
most recent investigations in Great Britain,
France and Germany ; but his own dirersil
fled and decisive experiments are of more
value, as bearing on the immediate problem,
than those of all the other inquirers to
gether. In relation to Paris gTcen Professor
McMnrtrie has found that the intermixture
of this poison with the soil in largo quanti
ties destroys vegetable growth, but that in
the small quantities requisite for destroying
insects it docs not interfere with or impede
it at alL But there is a more important
question than the destruction of the plant. It
would only muLiply tho mischief to kill the
grubs and at the same time poison the food
of man. Upon this great point Professor
McMurtrie's decisive and manitold exper
iments should allay all fears. In the plants
that were killed, in the plants that were
stunted, and in the plants which grew to full
perfection, with the varying amounts of Paris
green mingled with the soil of his pots, the
most rigorous chemical analysis could detect
no trace of arsenic in the composition of the
plant itself. Whether litUe of this poison or
much of it exists in the soil none of it
enters into the structure of the veg
etable. The danger of its excessive
use is not danger to human life
bat to the growth or health of the plant, fcut
the quantity of Paris green necessary for
destroying tbe Colorado beetles is too small to
have any perceptible effect on the growth of
crops. It is possible that if potatoes vac
planted in tbe same field for a series of years
with a constant necessity for the application
of the poison the capacity of the soil lor
crops might be destroyed ; but the system of
rotation, so valuable in other respects, would
obviate this danger. It is a great satisfaction
to be assured on competent scientific authority
that there is no peril to human life in the
freest application of this poison to the soil,
and no detriment to vegetation itself from the
quantity needed to kill the beetles. We sug
gest to the agricultural journals that they
cannot render a more useful service than by
copying Professor McMurtrie's letter to the
Hjuuxjx The substance ot it will also appear
in the monthly report of the Department of
Agriculture, whose publication we anticipate.
Tni American Rm.nrsn attended St. Pat
rick's Cathedral yesterday by invitation of
the Lord Mayor, ani dined with him in tbe
evening. The censure of the bad taste dis
played ly Canon Keeper in delivering a
eulogy of monarchy and the Established
Church, is, we think, deserved. A simple
moral lesson inculcating the importance of
having only good aims in life might have
liecn more appropriate to the wants of his
gues's | but tne banquet iu the evening no
doubt comoensated tor the narnion.
Recover ???? UIok Plunder.
The energy manifested l>y the lawyers en
gaged in tho prosecution of the new 1 Ring"
suits, commenced uuder the laws passed in
the recent legislative session, holds out good
promise that the money stolen from the oily
may be recovered at last. But tho law has its
uncertainties. In the case of the attachments
against the properly of Tweed, the greatest
offender, we already find one valuable piece of
real es'ato relieved lrom tho effects ot tho
lit pendens by the Court, on the proof that it
was purchased by Fernando Wood of a third
party and that Tweed has no lien on tho
property. So far as the people, who are tho
plaintiffs in these eases, arc yet advised, tho
evidence to sustain the attachment on tha
Sweeny property comes only from a con
victed felon who has been released from
the State Prison on the pledge that bo
should become a witness for the State, and
who no doubt desires to make some substan
tial return for his pardon. There may bo
other proof of Sweeny's complicity in tu?
Tweed and Ingersoll robberies, or the con
tinued absence of the ex-Chamberlain may b*
accepted as corroborative evidence ot his
guilt. Still, as we have said, the law is uncer
tain, and much remains to be accomplished)
before wo can expect any return of money into
the city treasury from these suits, notwith
standing the vigor and ability with which they
are prosecuted.
Th? re can, however, be ho difficulty, ami
there need be no delay, in securing tho
share of tho plunder that lell to the lot of
Ingersoll and Garvey. Ingersoll confesses in
his recent affidavit that he voluntarily sought
to rob the city by courting interviews with
Tweed and the late James Watson for that pur
pose; that he conspired with those parties
and others to carry out his lelonious purpose;
that he signed fictitious names to fraudulent
bills; that he forged the firm name of Inger
soll. Watson A Co. to fraudulent warrants,
and that as a public officer, a Court llousa
Commissioner, he bad counselled and laid
down a syBtem of fraudulent action
to be pursued by the Commission.
Andrew J. Garvey confesses to have been
guilty ol like conspiracies, robberies and for
geries. Both these men have large amounts of
real estate in their possession, the proceeds of
these crimes, and they can offer no defence
against suits of recovery. Their property
should be at ones seized by the plundered
city. It is true they have turned informers
against their former accomplices, but that is
no reason why they should,be allowed to re
tain their share of the stolen money. If a
bank robber or a burglar should be accepted
as State's evidence against his accomplices be
would, of course, escape the penalty impose 1
upon his crime by the law, but ho would not
be suffered to retain his share of the plunder.
The owner of the property would still have a
right to get bock his own. So the people,
wto have been robbed by the Ring conspira
tors, have a right to get back tho money
stolen from their treasury, and neither Gov
ernor Tilden nor any other authority can de
prive them of that right or give the robber*
the privilege of retaining any portion of the
plnnder. They can take tho felon's stripes
off Ingersoll'6 back, as they have done, und
can forego the criminal punishment of Gar
vey; but they cannot say to them "you may
retain possession of the money that by con
spiracy, fraud and forgery yon have stolen
from tho taxpayers of New York.' The Swee
ny, Tweed, Connolly and other suits should be
pressed with all possible vigor ; but at the
same time it strikes us that tha speediest way
of recovering a portion of the money stolen
from the city would be to take it out of tha
pockets of the thioves who hnve acknowledged
their guilt and confessed to the possession of
their share of the plunder.
Reform at Niagara Falls.?In the slow
march of time it is said that the Niagara Falls
will be destroyed, and the changes which aro
even now noted confirm the theory. One of
the correspondents of tho Herald to-day gives
a very interesting account of these al
terations in the Horseshoe Fall, which
nra principally observed on the Ameri
can Hide. Bat there is another evil
which threatened to destroy Niagara as a place
of popular resort?namely, the extortion prac
tised by its hackmen and those who exhibit
its marvels. We are glad to learn that the
authorities on both sidos of the river have at
last combined to put a stop to tha notorious
abuses to which visitors have been subjected.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Trlnce of Wale* has abandoned billiards and
card*.
George Washington u Tenae-iot'iCommission' r
to the ConicuniaU
Secretary Betknsp to going to toe Yosemita the
latter part of July.
General Alfred H. Terry, U. s. A., wa* In flart
ford, Conn., yeiterdsy.
General Sherman left this city last evening for
hi* headquarters in St. L 'in.
General James A. QarOeld Is afraid the uhineso
will rain American cheap labor.
Talleyrand alep; two boars a day. Grant sleeps
nine and isn't much of a diplomat.
Commander George P. linn, dtltel States
Navy, is quartered at the Moffmaa Hot)**.
Chicago tnsiata that M,000 of her citizens *ro
out 01 work. A good way to appear Uaoa big city.
Mr. Robert M. Wallace, United State* Marital
for sooth Carolina, is at the Grand Central II >tcu
Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe, United
State* Army, i* res.ding at the fifth Avenue
II otol.
A paper of "the metropolis of ibe Pacific"
sp<ak* of "Cottar's bcauti il poem or ?Sainrdap
Night.'"
General Butler has started a stocking manufac
tory, and is i rouu because be belongs to a hoae
company.
A young lady of New Orleans ha* committed
saiclde because General Pail Sheridan married
another girl.
senator Fr?ilnghnr?cn is Senator Sargent*
prophesied candidate of tha republican party lor
sue Presidency.
captain Hade's Jetties at Pew Orleans will hold
aery, aosars prophecy, which delights in tho
idea of an American Venice.
Secretary Bristow arrived In this etfy yesterday
morning from Wa-niagton, and took up nis resi
dence at the Fifth Avenne Hotel.
Senator Sharon* ?f Nevada, owns real estate in
San Francisco to the amount or $7,000,000. Oj
this sum Mjtoo.ooo is invested in the Palace Hotel.
Senator 1 atneron's house i* loT years old, and
has an immense apricot tree by its aide: bat the
senator le uot often 'ound up that tree?uor any
other.
Mr. Swinburne's critical wrttln"s, :rom the Fort
rttqlfly Jtertnt, have been co lecte 1 unuer too
title of "Essays and Studies." They are marked
bv equal grace of style and baldness of opinion.
Tne memoirs of Chancellor Pa-gnier. w,19 died
In )86J at the age of nlncty-nre, promise to bo
highly interesting, tic held oSlce under eil tha
French go vim moots, gad was acquainted with ail
tne men 91 ale tita<.