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NEW YOruTwEUNjjj>AY, JUNE 87, 1877.
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From our reports this morning the probabilities
arc that (he weather in yew York- to-day trill be
cooler and cloudy or partly elotuiy, possibly with
light shoxrert. ?
Wall Street Yesterday.?Tbe stock mar
ket continued stagnant and without interest, ex
cept the weakness in railroads caused by the
dccline in Michigan Central. Gold opened at
lOa^g and closed at 105% Government and
railroad bonds were lower. Money on coll was
easy at 1 a 2 per cent.
Despatches Fuoii tue Coal Regions an
nounce another murder by the Molly Maguircs.
Tbe scaffold will have to be again erected if
Molly Maguirisin is to be crushed out.
The Aldermen have agreed to allow tbe
small boy full liberty to burn, blast and blow
himself and his friends into eternity on tbe :id
and 4th of July. Life and property have no
rights which the AMennen and tbe small boy
are bound to respect.
Startling Revelations are promised in tbe
ease of the dcfunct American Popular Life ln
suranoc Company. There is reason to believe
that the company was practically bankrupt four
years ago, but its officers were expert account
ants and managed to show balances which ex
isted only in imagination.
Secretary of the Navy Thompson has be
gun the work of reform in the navy yards.
In future no appointments or discharges shall
be made for purely political reasons, and no
political assessments will be allowed. Exist
ing laws and regulations, to be sure, commund
all these things to bo done, but tlioy have been
ignored for tbe purpose of helping the i>arty
and carrying close Congressional districts.
Democrats violated the law as well as repub
licans. The administration evidently means
that we shall have civil service reform in fact as
well as in name.
The Collector op the Pokt of Baltimore,
Colonel Wilkins, refuses to be removed by the
President and is supported in bin determination
by what is known an the Creswell wing of the
republican party in Maryland. lie wuh tin ex
treme republican during the war, going ho far oh
to offer a resolution in the Legislature prohibit
ing Marylandern who joined the Confedurney
from returning to the State. The wliolo thing is
?imply a quarrel between tho two State factions
in tho republican party, Thomas, who lias been
?elected as Willdns' successor, being a member
of what is known as the Fulton ring. It is purely
a tight for patronage.
Mormon Isigtrrrv.?Our correspondent, who
has been instructed to investigate and expose
the crime and iniquity of Mormonistn, sends a
graphic letter, printed this morning, descriptive
of a journey into the comparatively unknown,
and unexplored parts of Southern Utah.
The unfortunate victims of Hrigham Young's du
plicity who have been induced to settle there
are, it appears, held by him in the most galling
bondage?a bondage from which there is hardly
a means of ettcapc. They arc to nil intents and
pur)tones the sluves of Young?slaves in soul as
well as body. The horrors of Mormonism are in
some measure mitigated iu Salt Lake City, but
!u the country through which our correspondent
is making his perilous journey the twin relic of
barbarism is seen in all its deformity.
The WKATHeh. ?The disturbances that luivc
pasKed over so large an area of the West have
caused considerable damage to the crops. A
Very general rainfall has Mtturated the ground
and caused the overflow of the riverain some
section*. The tornado winds that have attended
the heavy ruins have prostrated growing grain
?nd destroyed a good deal of timber.
In the Illinois vine district.our despatches state,
a vast amount of damage bus been done, which
will materially affect this year's gru)M> crop. 'lite
depression which on Monday wus central be
tween the Mississippi and the Missouri has
already reached the Middle Atlantic coast
US a barometric trough. Its eastward move
ment developed several heavy storms, one of
which passed last evening over Pennsylvania and
y?w York States. We experienced its effect* iu
the city toward night in heavy rain und a de
coded fall of temperature alter midnight. The
low barometer which reached the Nova Scotia
Bout at the latter end of the week a as attended
1>.r violent winds iu that region, which caused
considerable damage to the tithing tient. '1 ho
twins yesterday extended northward from
Tcnurasee and from the Mississippi to the
lantic coast Quite a heavy local Jail occurred
tat But*?1" Texaa. The pressure is now highest
|u tiie Qolf and South Atlantic States, ami is
2owWt in the lower lake region and Middle
States. The pressure is rising on the 1'iuiilc
coast The differences of tcuq?eratun' a ere very
marked on the Atiaatic coast northward from
Bandy and favored the development of
suoh storms ss passed northeastward daring the
evening. The weather In Hew York to-day will
be cooler and cloudy or parti J cloudy, psssiMjr
tilth Ucht shearers.
The Herald ??d *?*??????
We learn Irom various authentic sources
that the political course of the Ukbaxj> dis
pleases most of the prominent anil influ
ential democratic and republican politicians.
Some of them do not hesitate to speak of
our journal as a detestable and disorganiz
ing sheet; they complain that its hand is
auainst everv man-meaning that it impar
tially exposes the schemes of the politician,
of both sides ; und they assert that it reck
lessly tried to break up parties, and leads
the people not only to distrust, but even to
despite their political leaders. They point
out. with bitterness, numerous instances in
which the Huuu> has brought to nauglit
their designs, and they complain that no
body can tell a weok or even a day before
hand which party it will next attack.
We admit, with pride, that this is all true.
Judged troui a partisan point of view the
Heiiauj no doubt is, ns it always has been,
and always means to be, a purely mis
chievous and mischief making journal. e
confess frankly that no party leader of cither
side ought to put his confidenco in it, for it
is prettv certain to trip up his heels the
first time he is in the wrong. As a party
organ it is, to use a piece of political slang,
an extremely "unsafe" journal, and de
serves the severest denunciations of the
"war horses.- It must always be alike
odious to democratic and republican
managers?and this because it is really the
organ of another and fur more importan.
class?the people, namely.
The IIkt.ald is the organ of the indepen
dent voters, and the independent voters are
the natural enemies of the war horses and
machine politicians. The Hkbauj's duty is
to defend the rights of the people against
the plots and schemes of the partisans;
henco it exposes the self-seeking of political
managers of both sides, and it is quite natu
ral that these should hate it and watch it
with constaut alarm. These gentlemen re
gard a newspapor as one of the tools of their
trade. W hen a man sets up in politics his
first object is to lay in a newspaper, just as
when another man sets up as a burglar be
begins by buying a kit of jimmies and
skeleton keys. With the help of an organ
he scatters abroad political misinformation,
and appeals to the fears, the resentments,
the prejudices of the people, in order to
turn theso to his own use. Hence poli
ticians regard a public journal as prop
erly an organ of the opinions of one
party or the other, and when they find one
which bears no such allegiance they resent
its existence as something out of tho nat
ural order of things ; as disorderly and dan
gerous. Faithfulness to party is their
highest ideal of public virtue, and thoy can
not see with patience a man or a journal
supporting or opposing now one and now
the other side, as either is right or wrong.
It seems to them inconsistent.
We need not tell our readers that the
Hekau> has no sympathy with these narrow
views of the functions of journalism or the
nature of public virtue. Tho newspaper,
incur view, is bound to give its readers tho
news, all tho news, impartially and cor
rectly. Thus it enables them to . fowm ?
judgment of their own on public afftdrs. In
its discussions its true aim should be to help
tho public to a correct opinion, and it is
bound always, and at all hazards, to defe nd
the public interest; the rights, the security
and welfare of the people. But if it does
this it must necessarily attack and expose
all who endeavor to subordinate public to
private interests; and it will be hated and
will be denounced as inconsistent by all
who find themselves thus opposed. To-day
it praises and supports a public man or
party for a sound and patriotic course; next
week or next month it attacks him for a
blunder or a selfish scheme. To him it is
certainly a demoralizing journal; by the
great public, whoso interests it defends, it
is seen to bo entirely consistent, and it is
because the public has learned to trust tho
IIwiald, because it knows it to bo fearless
and faithful to the country's interests, that
its support is so eagerly sought and its
opposition is so greatly feared and bitterly
resented by tho partisan politicians.
We have often expressed the belief that
American journalism would presently rise
above the "party organ" level, and that all
journals whose conductors hoped to exer
cise a real and lasting influence upon pub
lie affairs would liberate themselves from
party trammels. This reform goes on more
slowly than is desirable, but it is a fact uni
versally recognized that the journals of real
and wide influence in the country, whose
opinions are looked for and whose favor is
most anxiously desired by the politicians,
are precisely those which arc most con
spicuously independent of party allegiance.
It is even true that a party organ gams in
influence in tho degree in which it
shows itself possessed of courage to resist
on occasion tho dictation of its political
masters.
It is not tho office of an independent jour
nal to interfere in party nomination* or
policies. It cares not which party succeeds,
but it demands a sound policy, a patriotic
conrse, from both sides. It condemns bad
nominations and foolish policies, it praises
and supports wise, patriotic and sound con
duct, no matter on which side these are
found. A journal which faithfully does this
service presently secures a strong and last
ing hold on the public confidence; it has
not only a wide but an attentive audience;
it wields an influence on public opinion
which tho partisan politicians Tory rightly
fear, because it either compels them to right
conduct or loads the people to punish
them for wrongdoing. There was hardly
ever a period in our history when the intlu
once of the few really independent journals
in the country was so great or so important
as during the last eventful and exciting
your, and there never was a time when the
independent press had so powerful a hold
upon the public mind. It moderated the
extreme and dangerous partisan iury ; it
com polled both parties to abate something
of their unpatriotic designs and preposterous
pretensions ; and it is not extravagant to say
that the few independent journals really
saved tho country from tho calamity of a
civil war, to which the partisan sheets of
both sides vehemently egged it on.
Thus the Heiiai.d last year opposed and
donounced the gross and unconstitutional
federal interference in Southern elections,
and at once incurred the hatred of the re
publican politicians. It censured next the
silly threats of resistance by Northern dem
ocrats, and of course was denounced by
these imbeciles. It demanded the forma
tion of un electoral commission to decide
peaceably and in an orderly manner the
disputed election, and behold, once more
the republican politicians abused us.
But the commission being formed
against the opposition of the republi
i can demagogues, the Herald insisted
that its verdict should bo accepted
as final, and the democratio demagogues
took once more their turn to spitefully at
tack us. Both 6ides declared the Herald
inconsistent; but the great public, the peo
ple, the body of independent voters, who are
not seeking office, but who want peace, con
stitutional government, order and decency?
these knew that the Hekald was consistent
throughout; that its object was to pre
vent the demagogues of both Bides from
plunging us into a disgraceful civil strug
gle. And wo may as well say that the inde
pendent voters have been faithful to their
organ ; we are not dissatisflod with them.
Then came the new policy, denounced by
the leaders of both parties, heartily ap
proved at once by tho Hebald and other in
dependent journals, and by the mass of tho
people. Tho politicians, democratic and
republican alike, hate the President's
policy because they see that it gives the
country peace and brings forward now and
important questions. Tho party organs of
both sides tamely follow tho lend of their
masters. Once more tho independent
press speaks the voice of the people,
who do not care what becomes of
parties, but look to tho wellaro of
the whole country. Tho two parties
are dead. The President's wise and patri
otic policy knocked the life out of them.
There are still a parcel of political ghosts
materializing here and there about the
country, and as they glide out of their cup
boards they mako faces at -the Hebald. But
making faces will not save them.
Progress of the War.
The great featuro of tho war news to-day
is the bombardment of Rustchuk, the cover,
of course, to ulterior operations; for it is
not even necessary to give tho Russians
credit for humanity or any other quality
than economy in order to understand that
tliej' ore not wasting powder for the sake of
the destructive effect of their gunnery in
this wretched Turkish town. There can be
little doubt that this bombardment is a
cover to another passage of the Danube
which has been actually made by tho Russian
right at ltahova. Evidently, however, tho
Russians have poured bo hot a fire upon
Rustchuk that the people there may have
felt for some hours as uncomfortable as all
tho people of the wretched Bulgarian villages
folt last year under the operation of the
favors of the bashi-bazouks. If people
happen to remember the evonts of last year
it will be found difficult to got up any ex
tensive sympathy over the fact that the
Turks now havo reason to know how it is
themselves. In fact, it will be rather amus
ing to note their grimaces, and certainly the
appearance of the Turk in the r6le of on
injured innocent, holding up his hand and
calling upon tho world to come and witness
the inhumanity of the Russians is droll. In
Ardahan thoy say tho Russians committed
great outrages, and now they have gone so
far in the bombardment of a city that the
ten dor-hearted, pitying Turk has actuolly
let everybody out of the prisons rather
than keep them there exposed to
the Russian fire. It is rather bad
for the Ottoman record in the articlo of
mercy that it never yet benefited anybody
but a few rogues in jail; whilo all the world
knows that a bombardment, though it is a
noisy and unpleasant infliction, is a mild
misery compnred to what would bo endured
by the people of any Russian town that
should find itself at tho morcy of
any Ottoman commander. Our doopatches
show that the number of Russians now in
the Dobrudscha and pushing forward
against Tchernavoda is thirty thousand. If
that is a diversion for the operation of cross
ing the river above Rustchuk it must cer
tainly accomplish its purpose of attracting
to itself a considerable share of Turkish
attention. Tho feeling against Redif Pacha,
tho Minister of War, is certainly on the in
crease in Constantinople, and another revo
lution is the imminent result.
Th? Two Uorihtlmrr*.
New York is happy in tho possession of
two Dorsheimers. Uno publicly exalts poor
Mr. Tilden to the skies as the noblest and
wisest of mankind; tho other privately
describes him as no better than a blunderer
and even speaks of his "physical appear
ance," but allows him to bo "an interesting
person" with a bad habit of procrastination.
New York staggered under 0110 Dors
hoimcr; what will it do with two? It is
drendful to think of. Let us hope that
there are not two, aftor all. Let us hopo
that there are two singlo gentlemen rolled
into one. Let us hopo it is n cane like that
of Mr. Orator Puff, who had two tones to
his voice. But wo hereby glvo notice that
if Now York shall bo found to contain two
Dorsheimers we will immediately lend one
to tho New Jersey republicans to run for
Governor if Mr. liobeson should decline.
Did we hear somebody say that the demo
cratic party is not dead ?
Tornadoes and Uains,
All the region west of the Alleghany Moun
tains and northward of Tennessee, but
chiefly the Lower Ohio Valley and tho trans
Mississippi States, hits suffered during the
past two dayi? from violent tornadoes
and an extraordinary rainfall. These
disturbances are due to the remark
able differences of temperature that
have prevailed iu the districts affected,
and to enormouB evaporation which
has been in progress over extensive heated
surfaces. Such a succession of tornadoes
within so short a period has not been ex
perienced for many yearn. They have been
exceptionally violent and destructive, chiefly
to growing corn and timber. Our reports
from many points in the West give the local
effects, and it is to bo loured that agricul
tural interests will sutler seriously in oonao
quenoe*
The President In Bo* ton.
This thing is really going too far. The
Tammany Society, a defunct political or
ganization of thin city, materialized lone
enongh the other day to entreat the country
to' be on its guard against "the craft and
unscrupulous methods" of President Hayes,
and the republican "soreheads" have been
denouncing him for three months for his
Southern policy. There is a general howl
about the new civil service orders too. And
yet not only Boston, but apparently a con
siderable part of New England, turned out
yesterday to welcome the President It is
too bad. A great crowd, delighted to see
the President ; a procession marching
through streets decorated with flowers ; the
whole population in the streets with
enthusiastic shouts; a big hall full of peo
ple anxious to shako hands with the Presi
dent and his Cabinet; a cordial welcome
also everywhere to "that rebel fellow Key."
Is it not about time for the republican
"soreheads" to come in out of the cold?
What is the use of standing out there ?
Columbia'* liace with Harvard.
Instead of being behind at the start Co
lumbia yesterday dashed away with the
lead, held it all tho lirst half mile, relin
quished it most roluctantly in the next,
steered well, and hung doggedly to her ad
versary over all the rest of tho course.
True to her traditions, she rushed hor stroko
at onoo up to thirty-nine and did not drop
more than two a minute throughout the en
tiro worlc. This was probably tho best thing
she could have done. First, because she never
was so good at a long, slow stroke as at this
sharp, rattling one. Second, because if a
show of leading was to be mado at all
the place for it was in the first half mile.
Indeed, had she ever before pulled an eight
oared race it is doubtful if she would have
relied on her swift stroke yesterday. For
a four or six, rid of every ounce of super
fluous weight, it is excellent, and admirably
adapted to lithe, springy and rather lightly
built men, such as many of her best
oars have been?such as Captain Goodwin
is to-day. But for lugging a largo and
ponderous craft over a long distance, and
with nine men aboard?one of whom is al
ways u passenger throughout the hot, trying
work?tho careful, measured stroke, far for
ward and back, and slow in the recover,
is the one to win. Yesterday's work
hardly showed this, because the only crew
in fit condition to race had a mere walk
over and nothing to draw it out. But when,
on Friday, that crew meets one which will
drive or lead it over every inch of the first
three miles, it not of the whole four, then
the full force of this will be all the plainer.
The Herald on Monday said that Harvard
could win by a quarter of a mile; but that
if she knew what she was about she would
make it only half a length, or maybe by a
foot of clear water. The result makes the
justice of that estimate apparent to all. A
crew as plucky as one could wish to see,
but untrained, utterly unused to their boat,
to the distance and to each other, had to
meet larger, older and much heavier and
moro powerful men, who had seen months
of work togetlMri ukder a captain familiar
with eight-oared racing, and of exactly the
sort of work which would tell in yesterday's
struggle. The result could not be different
from what it was. Now all may see that
Columbia had no real belief that she could
win, thoroughly creditable aB was her effort,
considering all the circumstances. But if
she could prevail on her rival to row her at
all, then, if beaten, sho could be sure that
that rival would not decline her challenge
for next year. If, again, any possible thing
had brought her tho victory, she could
not remain unchallenged in 1878 by Har
vard. Either event would put her in the
company she sought, and so, not by better
rowing, but by better generulship, sho has
gained the point that Cornell might have
gained, that Cornell should have gained, but
that Cornell has not gained.
Red Tape and the Indians.
One of the principal reasons why red
tape in Washington is more dangerous to
settlers near the Indian frontiers is this,
that citizens who emigrate to those regions
know the nature of the Indians, and would,
if left alone, do as the pioneers of American
civilization did, and take ordinary risks of
property and life-only. But now the condition
of the West is wholly different from what it
was in tho time of Boone and his fellows,
who penetrated tho wildernesses of Ken
tucky and Ohio. Now the government
guarantees every citizen protection, just
as much in Idaho as in New
York. It sells tho emigrant lands, en
courages settlements and undertakes to gov
ern our Indian population and keep in sub
jection tho wandering savages. For this
purpose it builds und garrisons forts, keeps
a standing army in the West and expends
every year millions in providing for tho In
dians. It is natural that the emigrant
should trust tho honor of so great and pow
erful a government, and should fearlessly
depend upon its promises to protect him
self and his family from the savage.
But how is tho promise kept? Let the
recent massacres in Idaho mako answer.
Again the Bcttler3 lmvo been betrayed by
the government, which failed to give the
protection it promised. Worse than this, af
ter the country ha:; boon shocked by the mur
ders in Idaho, it haB refused to send troops
enough to defend tho women and children
who were spared, but who aro now in dan
ger of latcs worse than death. There is no
authority under the law, it is coolly said,
by which the government can send a part
of its army to their assistance. If another
dreadful calamity should happen it will
not bo to the Indian savages that the coun
try will turn with wrath, but to tho officials
in Washington, who have so tied up our
troop3 in red tape that the arm}' is almost
useless for the very purposes for which it is
created and maintained.
A Gloomy View.
Some of tho Philadelphia office-holders
declare plum ply that tho President's civil
sorvioe order will kill tho republican
party. It seems to us they take a needlessly
gloomy view of the situation. The party is
dead already. Tho poor thing is out of its
misery; its sufferings are over. But if
any one in Philadelphia is going to write
an obituary notice of it he should call
! attention to the fact that the republican
party was never so vigorous as in the days
when it had no office-holders. Perhaps it
will revive when it gets rid of them again.
Ttoe tirand Army of the Republic.
The vitality of the Grand Army of the Re
public is shown by the fact that, though
twelve years have passed since the war
ended, and nearly that time since the so
ciety was created, it now has an organiza
tion extending through nearly all the
Northern States, and including many
thousands of Union soldiers. No de
crease of enthusiasm was shown in the
meeting of the National Encampment at
Providence yesterday. The parades, din
ners and festivitios generally were in strong
contrast with the sufferings and hardships
these veterans had undergone in the tented
field, und they are to bo heartily congratulated
on the succoss of the reunion. The speeches
of Commander-in-Chief Hartranft and of
General Burnside were appropriate and
eloquent, and a peculiar illustration of the
changed relations of this country with Eng
land was furnished by the telegram sent by
Governor Hartranft to ex-President Grant,
"care of Queen Victoria." We trust
Her Majesty saw that it was delivered
promptly, for such courtesy would
strengthen the friendship existing be
tween the two nations. It is well
that tho heroic deeds of the war should
bo recalled, and that the men who shouldered
the musket in the dark days of the Republic
should meet to celebrate its prosperity, and
in ull these respects the proceedings of the
National Encampment have the approval of
the public. Tho fear that it would become
merely a party organization has been
dissipated by experience, for its influence
upon politics has been slight, especially of
late years, and tunny Union veterans are
not members of the Order. Danger from
such a society is chimerical, for the Ameri
can soldier could never betray the principle
for which he fought. Yet the most harmless
of organizations may be diverted from its
proper ends, and this was tho case when
the resolution was adopted yesterday, de
claring that Decoration Day was intended
to perpetuate tho memories of Union
soldiers only. It is too late, twelve years
after the war to indulge in this spirit, and
we are glad to believe that the mistake of
a moment will not be indorsed by the
majority of the members of the Grand Army,
certainly not by the majority of the Union
soldiers, nor by the American people.
New Jersey Politic*.
Some republicans in New Jersey propose,
it seems, to nominate ex-Secretary Robeson
for Governor. These geniuses ought to
have u leather medal given them, with a
suitable device engraved on it. One won
ders where they have lived for the last
year and a half, or even for the Inst
three months. There is a general belief
that New Jersey will go democratic this fall;
these republicans evidently want to make it
sure. We do not hear that the Iowa repub
licans mean to nominate ex-Secretary Bel
knap; but why not?
The Hibau> remarked the other day that
tho republican party is dead. Certainly
no livo party would "trot out" Mr. Robeson
for Governor, even if it were sure he would
be beaten.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
American arrivals registered yesterday at the Paris
Bureau of tbe N'iw York Rbbald:?
Mr. Brind.
Mr. Raymond.
Mr. Mayer.
Mr. Hardle.
Mr. Bird and family.
Mlsj Caroline Rice, Lynn, Xuss.
Miss Mahon, St. Joseph, Mo.
Rev. C. C. Sweeny.
Mr. H. F. Hussey.
Slavs like bright ribbons.
Mr. Frou Law Olmsted is la Washington.
War rations rise, 'i'hoy coraeth up as lour.
Ex-Govei nor Brown has returned to Georgia.
Ex-Governor Swann, of Maryland, is at Xewport.
Mr. Z. L. White, of the Tribune, is at Pawtncket,
R. 1.
Boston J"ost (334th):?"Tho Oka Indians are not
O. K."
Wo havo received a verse on harvest apples. It is
pooraological.
Dr. alado will soon return to America to materializo
that old lino whig.
A man with a green patch has frequently an eye
witness of bis own folly.
Uon. Thomas F. Bayard will bo the guest of Hon.
George Lunt, at Scltoate, Mass.
Wo are in iavor or having tho sliver dollar restored.
It has boon numerously borrowed.
A young woman in Indiana carried her baby around
in nor pocket. Sho must havo been a sort of kan
garoo.
M. Outrcy, French Minister at Washington, arrived
at the Clarendon yesterday from Newport.
Mr. John Brlsbiu Walker, recently editor of the
Washington .Vatwm, is to publish a now one-cent paper
in New York undor tho name ot Th? Jirj/uhUc.
Mr. Engeno F. Bcechor has issued the first number
of tho Brooklyn Muntkly, which, as a local Journal, h.<*
a ;*ood doal ot morlt and enterprise, not to say or au
cestral dash.
Worcester Prett:?"It Is understood that a young
murriod couple ot this city are thinking of naming
their first born 'Nlcsics,' because Uio little chap wants
revlctiiaiiing so oiten.?*
Mr. J. Vau Buren, of Habersham county, Georgia,
claims to bo the oldest locomotlvo engineer In tbo
I'nticd Statee, lie having, as lar back as 181)2, run an
English engine, made by tho colobratod (Joorgo
Stephenson, over the Schenectady and Saratoga Rail
way lu Xow York.
Ki5naii says:?"As generally happens, Hebrew lltcr
nturo, in assuming the character of a sacred book, had
becomo the subject of a conventional exegosls, much
less Intent npon oxplatutug tho old text* according to
tho meaning In tlioir authors' minds than on flndiug In
them aliment for tho moral and religious wants of tbo
day."
In London cvomng parties, especially dances, are
later th:ui ever, ami dancing rarely begins till cloven.
Invitation cards arc sometimes a curiosity. Tbo
Uuclicss of Westminster sent out ouo tho other day, in
which tbo invltos wore asked not to tell, and woro In
formed that there might bo a daora on such an even
lug, and that "an R.S.V.P. will oblige."
Carlylo, sitting down with Emerson on the hills near
his old Scottish home, thirty years ago, said, "I'ho
building of the Duuscoro kirk yonder brought you and
me together;" and Emerson replied, ''It was, perhaps,
ordained by i'rovidouce to hinder uj from tyrannizing
over ono another, that no individual shonld be of such
Importance as to causo by bU retirement or death any
chasm in lbs world." Alter this tnoy got up and
walked.
Sir John Arnott, proprietor of the truh Tinut, has
dctcrmiucd to erect, in a healthy portion ol Dublin,
for the use of tho printers connociod with nis Journal,
cottages which be will provide lor them at a merely
nominal rout. As soon as practicable, from lorty to
(lily suitable houses will bo completed, so that tho
steady and Industrious among the employes will
shortly bocotne occupiers of well-built, well-drained
and moderately runted cottages, Instead of residing :n
crowded and unhealthy teuoinent hsusos, where
ncithor comfort nor ?ieaniiness exists.
From All Farts of the
World.
FATAL EXPLOSION IN ENGLAND.
Thirty-Eight Persons Killed
and Wounded.
ESTABLISHING A MONOPOLY.
The Cable Companies Vote for
Consolidation.
SMALLPOX 1^ LONDON.
General Grant Visits Queen,
Victoria.
CONSULTING BISMARCK.
[UX CABLE TO THE HE BALD. 1
London, June 27, 1877.
The crowning social event of General Grant's
visit to England was bis reception by Queen .
Victoria, yesterday, at Windsor. The etiquette
of the court lorblds any information of what
passed at the royal dinner table to be made
public, anil so tho world must wait for the de
tails of what must have been an interesting
interview until the event itselt will have
faded from the public mind aud lost itssignllicance.
This courtly etiquette is a relic of the barbarous
ages when kings and queens were religiously be
lieved to be made or a different class of clay from
the other Inhabitants of the globe and like other
monuments of superstitious belief It has survived
the faith which called It Into existence.
Gil ANT AT WINDSOlk
General Grant and wife left London yesterday by
tho Ave P. M. train from I'addlngton and arrived
at Windsor at thirty-live minutes past
live The Mayor, several members or the
Corporation anu a number of spec
tators were assembled on the plat
form to witness the arrival. The General
and Mrs. Grant, who were accompanied by
Minister Plerrepont, were conveyed In ona
ol ller Majesty's carriages to the Castle,
where they were received by the Queen at the bot
tom of the staircase at the Queen's entrance, and
eouducted tbrongh the State corridor to the White
Drawing Room.
INTKItTTEW WITH QCEEN VICTORIA.
After a short interview General Grant and
wife were conducted to apartments over
the Waterloo Gallery overlooking the Home
Parte. In the evening a grand dinner party
was given in General Grant's hOriftr, during whld
the band of the Grenadier Guards played In thfl
quadrangle.
RETURN TO I/O* dok.
General Grant will return to London to-day by
the 10:10 A. M. train from WlndBor.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
The boiler of the Ravensdale Iron Works at Tnn
stall, Staffordshire, exploded yesterday. Eight pep
eons were killed and thirty wounded.
CONSOLI DATING TIIE CABLE COMPANIES.
An extraordinary meeting of the Direct United
States Cable Company was held yesterday, Mr,
Pender presiding. In submitting a special reporl
to the meeting the Chairman said It had oeen found
impossible, with the restrictions which existed In
the memorandum of association, to conclodt
definitely any terms with tho Anglo-American Com
pany, and it was therefore neceBsary to propose to
the shareholders a reconstruction of the company.
This, if earned out, would enable the new company
to adopt the terms arranged with the Anglo-Amen
can Company.
COMMITS HAKI-KAKI.
It was proposed to carry ont reconstruction by
voluntarily winding up the company with a view to
a reorganization and anion with the Anglo-Ameri
can Company. The Board of Directors were ol
opinion that the plan proponed would be more
profitable than a policy of isolation, and wonkl be
advantageous to both companies. Mr. Pender con
cluded by moving the adoption of the report, whicb
?>
was carricd utter a long discussion.
AN OVKRWITEI.MlNO PEIT.AT.
At the meeting of the Direct United States Cable
Company yesterday the party which Is opposed to
Mr. render's policy demanded a poll, but were de
feated by 3,725 votes against 419.
A PPKOVED.
The Anglo-American Cablo Company also met
yesterday and upproved tne Joint purse agreement.
TUG CITY OV HRIILTN.
Tlie Admiralty division of tbe High Court of Jtw?
tico bns awarded tho National Line Steamship Com*
puny $10,000 for towm? In the Inman itcainor City of
Berlin, which beenmo disabled on her last voyage fron
Now York lor Liverpool. Tha Inmanj bad tendered
jr.,ooo, denying that thrro wm any tflfllcalty expei
rlcneed, as alleged oy tho salvors.
A KCOOROK AOATrXO.
Tliero wcro forty-four deaths from smallpox in Lon
don Inst wook, whloh is the smallost number reported
tor any week smco November last.
WARTS COMXIlRCtAI. VKKIDOX.
In tho Congress yesttrday tbe Spanish Minister of
Foreign Aflairs nnnoiuio<Ml that he had takeu steps lor
concluding a commercial treaty with the United States
in order to obtain rebate on Imported articles.
ni.iVAiick ik rovscik
A special despatch Itom llorllu annouacci that Prints
Bismarck will probably procoed to Kins before return
ine to Uorltn, in order to confer personally with tha
Eniporor.
ss.mt to nrs rosr.
I.ord Odo Russell, tho Ornish Ambassador v? Bor
liu, who mioudad to stay suras tirao in Knjilarid, will
bo obliged to return almost immediately to Berlin.
ILLICIT DISTILLEBB.
SUCCESSFUL RAtn IN TENNESSEE?CATTURK 09
THE KINOr.KADKRS.
Wasbixotox, D. C., Jans20. 1877.
Tho Commissioner ol Internal Buvcnuo has received
the following tclo/rnu from Knoxvill*. Tcnn.:?
Hnvo Just returned from a raid with Collector Cooper
In ltuncock county. Wo captured "Dol Kay" and
"Hud llalncs," the rlnk'loudois, in ths act ol violating
tho law. We destroyed two stills, fourteen Mill houses,
oighty-rour tubs of beer, about eight thousand gallons
i ol beer and soventy-tlvo gallons ol whiskey. Besides
| tho rlugleatlerrt we also captured half a tlocsn btnall
1 uil'cndvrj. The raid was a comolete success.
1 JO UN a UKOWNLOW, lievouue Agent.