The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-05
Disraeli ON Coming Events.

During his long enforced retirement the en-
inent leader of the British conservatives has
evidently been casting the horoscope OF Eu-
rope. He comes back to the more practical
world armed with the mysterious knowledge
of the future, and. prophet like, he sounds at
once note Of alarm. According to Mr..
Disraeli europe is nearer the great crisis
than any one imagines. What is the meaning
of these mystic words spoken by the British
Premier? Has the child of Zion been reading
writing on a wall? The race from which the
Premier springs has been ever noted for pow
ers OF prophecy and this circumstance natu-
rally adds to our desire to be taken more fully
into MIR. Dsraelis confidence. Where does
the danger menace, and what is its
ing anything on walls save bill posters,
and they seldom repay the trouble. We are,
therefore, anxious that the far-seeing gentle
man now at the head of the British govern
ment may come to our rescue. Is war threat
ening in the East? Has the sign of the Great
the Southern Cross standing up against the
North German star? Perhaps it is Belgium
that is in danger though so long as Earl
Russell lives to shield that plucky little king
dom we do not fear for its safety. Or the
French Republic may totter towards its grave.
But we are lost in speculation and must wait
until the British Premier enlightens u.s. Let
that great man speak at once; a whole legion
of HERALD correspondents wait upon his
breath ready to scatter to the four points of
the earth to note the advances of the coming
storms. There now is a grand opportunity to
make the newspaper world his debtor for life.
ANOTHER CALAMITY. has been thus
far year of sorrows. In the East inundations
and storms on the angry coast, in New York
poverty that menaced us with starvation, in
the Southwest freshets and floods. Now we
hear from the extreme Northwest of what is
called the grasshopper plague. The Chicago
Tribune says that the grasshoppers have laid
waste o section Of country sixty miles wide
and extending indefinitely from the southern
border in the direction of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. At the present rate of progress the
destroyers will run over the border some time
before the close of the season. Dispatches re-
ceived in ST. Paul represent that there are four
thousand people in the devastated region with
out food and in danger of starvation. Legis-
lative aid is asked, and we shall probably have
an appeal to the charity of our citizens, an ap-
peal which will be gladly considered. The
news of this grevous calamity merely con-
firms the predictions that were made last year
in these columns as to the probable reappear-
ance of the grasshopper in Iowa and Mime
sofa and the great suffering likely to ensue.
DROPPING OUT.-Pending the canvass for
Congress that will soon be upon us we note
an unusual number of old members withdraw
ing from the field. In Massachusetts, Mr..
Dawes retres, after many years Of efficient
service, stained only by his connection with
the Credit Mobilier. Mr.. G. T. Hoar will
also seek private life as well as Z. r. Hoar.
We shall miss the latter gentleman from the
| floor, as he is man of unusual merit and
character Mr. G. L. Hoar's unfortunate
despatch about the Boston weigher showed
that he was simply pinchbeck statesman
after ALA politician thinly silvered Will
| cant--and the soOner he resumes the 0v0ca