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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

cision OF Villeneuve and his disregard OF
orders Napoleon would have crossed the
Channel, thrown his army into Kent and
taken London.
Great as was Napoleon-and even greater
as was his army-Europe has to-day a
greater military power in the German En-
pire. Let us suppose such an alliance be-
tween Germany and Russia as existed
against Napoleon, and where is the power of
Great Britain !? She welcomed the destruc-
ton of the military power of the French
Empire and now she has no one to take Ter
subsidy and fight her battles. Is it Aus:
tria If Austria went into the field against
Germany she would lose every German
province in a campaign and become Sec
ond class Power. England has no allies to
do her work on the Continent. If, in obe-
dience to the blind public opinion which
now and then finds expression in Parlia-
ment, she resolved to assail, could she pro-
tect her own island +? England is not
a sacred land. Berlin, Vienna and
Paris have felt the invaders heel
within this century; and why not London?
Where is the power to save London? Is it
the navy2 We question if all the navies Of
the world could protect the Channel and the
seas around England from an invading force,
simply because no navy is omnipotent and
omnipresent Is it the army? England has
no army compared to that Of Germany or
even France. She has myriad of tender
footed volunteers, who parade over the downs
and through the parks in Easter week.
But they arc not soldiers and have never
had the training. England with her wealth,
with her endless resources, with her patriotic
spirit with as gallant and chivalrous people
as exists on tho globe, has been governed by
a false policy SO far as the maintenance
of her Empire is concerned. She can
no longer defend her Empire by array
ing France against Germany and Rus
STA against the Austrian. Nor are large
armies to be raised by subsidies, rs was the
case when Pitt massed the Hessians and
Swiss against France. England has built
up her Empire, and she must hold it by the
conditions which power imposes upon other
nations, as the Germans hold Germany, rs
the Americans hold America She must
hold it-by the sword. She now stands alone
in Europe, without an ally but the Turk,
without an army, with no lines of defence
Suppose the tides of war should set toward
her; what is her defence? Is it in the valor
of her people? Undisciplined valor, as the
French showed, is as unavailing as the
winds: Looking at the whole situation in
Europe there is no illusion SO absurd
as the dream about the ''infuenco"
Of England. She has money, news
papers and ships, and with these
she can make tremendous noise But
God help England if the mighty Powers of
the Continent should feel the temptation to
invade her soil. A successful invasion Of
England by any Continental Power would
be an unspeakable calamity, one which
America would look upon with grief But
the more we study the situation the moro we
feel that England now owes her immunity
from invasion not to her own wisdom, but to
the forbearance of the Russian and German
Powers
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

Kate Claxton Is In Chicago.
maryland Is already having picnics.
Hon. s. s. Cox and wife are IN Cincinnati
Morton will stump around tho Senate for Hayes.
London seldom has great store Of food within its
limits
Mrs Senator Spoford, OF louisiana, is handsome
and rich.
jefferson Davis is writing his memoirs and Is looking
rugged at Mobile
that "Jack Is high"
Read up Marco Bozzaris and tell as what tho
Turk was dreaming OF the hour
Next to being asked for your autograph tho incest
thing is 10 have your sentence of death commutcd.
Hon G. v. Donyngc, President OF tho San Francisco
Stock Exchange IL at the Fih Avenue Hotel,
to Europe. Hc reports blue business In mining affairs.
.The face OF man who came out Of fight ycster-
day greatly resemblcd HERALD war map. "-Rochcs-
ter Democrat. wo hopc the Rochester policemen will
give the old Bucharest.
Jefferson DAVIS says to tho Leo Association that
their cause has crushed destroyed and that
though the silver lining OF tho cloud Is not quite dis
tinct the Leo fellows need not be dismayod. Tho
TRUTH he says. was only postponed and will como at
last
d. Victor Hugo, like well known English poet, has
strong aversion the practice Of publishing sclcc-
suggested the poet to bring out collection OF his
finest compositions. NJ Hugo replied, "Docs the tray
eIlcr VINO nsccnds Mont Blanc bring back single
stone and say. Here Is tho mountain p" The reply
was, 1--WE wcrc not talking Of mountains, but OF two
or three stones from heap OF stones or debris"
a Partisan matrimonial advertisement says:-"A
grandmother, who Is innrm, wishes to marry her
granddaughter, eighteen years OF age pretty, honor
able stylish, aud with 12,o00,000l, TO a young man
who is serious and has a title and some fortune -
Another advertisement runs:--"A gentleman OF ma.
turc age and literary man will marry lady OF his
own country and political party (anti. BonaparsD II
she be forty years OF age and have than forty
thousand francs the funds. II not, no."
Savage animals not yet extinct In Vermont as
Thomas Pcggngton, OF East Richord, found TO his
cost few mornings ago. Ito was on his way TO his
sugar orchard IN company with his dog, when he sud-
denly came face to face with huge panther. The dog
was 10 pieces In n twinkng, ana the beast then
turned his attention to Mr. Pcggngton, who, though
unarmed. kept his presence Of mind, and avoided the
creatures first spring by falling on his lace Tho
second time he was caught by tho shoulder, and "A
desperate struggle followed both rolling and
on tho ground and finally falling over prcci.
picc twenty feet high, which crfdcd tho combat. Mr.
Peggingto lay unconscious for several hours until
found by his friends, and severely injured that
seen since the Tray, but is thought he was badly
hurt BY the FALL and party Of hunters arc locking for
him.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08
The Extra Session and American
Com IN cree.

A senseless clamor against President
Hayes is raised in several quarters, rs if he
had disregarded the interests of American
commerce by postponing the extra session
from June to October. The people who
raise this outcry are political lunatics If
they had sufficient clearness of perception
to contine the discussion to the single point
of the army appropriation they might, per-
haps, have tolerable case. On that point we
have nothing to say, and if we had it would
not be an Endorsement of IN attempt to
support the army for three or four months
by makeshifts and strained interpretations
of statute low. But on oil other grounds
the objections made to the postponement
reflect no credit on the political intelligence
of their authors. If tho Army Appropria-
ton bill had been passed by the last Con-
gress no public journal would be quite alb
surd enough to maintain that the President
ought to call an extra session in
June with reference to the events now
taking place in Europe. The real
reason and only reason for session in
June rests on the fact that. no legal provi-
sion has been made for the support of the
army beyond the 30th of that month. Had
this fact been otherwise there would have
been no talk nor even suggestion Of
summer session in the unhealthy climate of
Washington. Had an extra session in June
been deemed by the President imperative
undoubtedly other subjects than the Army
bill should receive the attention of Con-
gress; but the President could not wisely
have called summer session with reference
to those other subjects.
1t would be inconsistent with the national
dignity and with tho friendly decorum we
owe to Powers with which we are mt peace
for the Executive to assemble Congress for
the purpose OF legislating with reference to
their expected misfortunes. An act author
izing free trade in ships would be univer-
sally interpreted, both at home and abroad.
as an attempt to make the most of our neu-
trail position for recovering the shipping
which we lost to England during our civil
war. 1t would be breach ut least Of
decorum, and the English government
would be likely to regard it rs q breach of
friendship for the President TO call an ex-
traordinary session of Congress to prepare
for administering on her estate. England
would resent it as we resented her prema-
ture action in 1861 in assuming position
of neutrality before she had any. official
evidence that the United States was a
belligerent. AS yet Great Britain is not
party to the Eastern war, and, according
to her official declarations, she does not
wish or intend to be. or course all
the governments of the world see in
what direction she is drifting but
until she becomes an actual bclligcrent
our government need be in no haste to
profit by the calamities which will befall her
commerce. Until she takes the side of Tur-
key and becomes party to the war the Rus
sian cruisers cannot pouncc upon her mer-
chant ships, and even then some time will
elapse before their owners will be disposed to
sell them ut u sacrifice to foreign nations.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The bull mark ct
Of Saturday was again in force yesterday, but
just before closing there was general weakness
and several stocks, especially the coal issues,
suffered severely. The strong effort made to bull
Lake Shore seems to be now exhausted and that
stock closed weak Gold was steady at 1O714.
Government and railroad bonds were higher.
Money on call lent easily at.2 3 per cent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

The CHURCH AND TIE WORLD are getting into
accord upon material things. A reverend gentle
iuan who has lately travelled largely through
religious circles said, at the Baptist Ministers
Conference yesterday, that he did not find u
church where money matters could be NEIL
toned without making the members tremble.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

For a while they will either keep them in
port or pay the high rates of marine insur-
arce, hoping for an early termination OF the
war. There will probably be no necessity
for action on this subject by Congress before
the middle of October; but if England should
be drawn into the war within the ensuing
two months the President can call an extra
session in August or at any time when he
deems it expedient.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

How LITTLE ACCOUNT seems to be taken. of
true loyalty in civil offices under the government
b implied by the question addressed to the Sec
rotary of the Treasury as to whether persons
exposing Custom House abuses will be allowed
to retain their positions. As all Custom House
employees are sworn to loyalty and faithful ser
vice it would seem the unquestionablc duty of
every one to expose abuses and to receive special
reward for such special service. But of what
consequence is loyalty in political machinei
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

THE PENNSYLVANIA BACKBONE still preserves
ifs normal degree of stiffness. Some of the
Molly Maguires under sentence of death for muir
ders of the most inc xcusablc and brutal sort have
had the effrontcry to bring their before the
Supreme Court of the State with the hope of o
reversal of Judgment; but the decisions of the
lower courts have been reaflirmcd. The last
hope of the murderers is in the Governor, but it
il impossible that the chief magistrate of great
State can pay such premium upon crime MS -
communication OF the sentences of these villains
would be.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

SECRETARY SHERMANs OPPORTUNITY
that the extra session is definitely put off
until the middle of October the Secretary Of
the Treasury has an unhoped for opportu-
nifty to use all his efforts to bring rs SO near
to specie payment that Congress, when it
meets, will have no excuse for blocking the
way. We hope Mr.. Sherman has prepared
his plans to take advantage of this period and
to use every measure for which he can find
authority in law to contract the currency.
He ought to examine the Resumption act
very carefully, as well as all the other laws
regulating the currency. There is an i'm
preston in some quarters that n fair con-
struction of the laws allows the Secretary to
at least permit and favor contraction to a
considerable extent, and that the Supreme
Court might even decide, if case were
brought before it, that he has no authority
to issue new legal tenders in place of those
worn out and defaced.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

THE AMOUNT OF CONSCIENCE MONEY" re-
ccived at the Comptroller's Office since the first
of last year had only slightly exceeded thou
sand dollars-a sign either that the march of
science has put conscience to flight or that
theft has found some new and respectable name.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

Mr. OAKsHoTT's TESTIMONY in the Post Office
accident investigation suggests the question why
. building as costly as Post Office should
have been faulty designed to require ut
an early day such important notifications as led
to the erection of the truss
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08
Mormon Theory and Mormon
Facts.

The Mormon theory of the Mountain
murdered the emigrants and that the Nor
mons were unable to protect them, but
managed to save some Of the children.
But in the long and interesting CONVERSE
ton of several of the Mormon leaders with
a HERALD correspondent, which we printed
on Sunday, Daniel H. Wells made an extraor-
binary statement about the circumstances
surrounding the massacre. He asserted, of
course. that the Mormons, Lee excepted,
were guiltless, but he said -"All the settle
ments in the Territory had been informed
that the United States army was again adj
vancing to drive them out of it into some
other place, perhaps to destroy them alto
gether. Many Eastern gentlemen well rec
ollect the fury that famed when that
news entered Utah. Our folks were desper-
ate. 1t seemed they had nowhere to turn
every one prepared to resist; there was
not a man, woman or child who was
not for resistance. Now, when it was whis-
pered-and it soon began not only to be
whispered, but asserted-that these Arlxan-
diers, and that some of them had been en-
gagged in the murder of Joseph and Hiram
Smith, at Nauvoo, the air might have seemed
almost as heavy over Lower as it certainly
was over Northern Utah"
Now, we cannot see how the fury of the
Mormons, their hatred and desperation,
which the Prophet Wells SO wildly de-
scribes, could affect the Indians. The In
dams could not read they were not in
furiated by what alarmed the Mormons
they could not hear, except from the Nor
mon authorities, that the Arkansas people
were in league with General Harvey, and
they would not have cared if they had
heard it. The Indians did not care whether
or not these emigrants had murdered Jo-
seph Smith years ago. In all we have
quoted from Wells there is abundant reason
for suspecting the Mormons not an iota
for suspecting the Indians. Nor do
these suspicious diminish when Wells
goes on to describe how obedently
the Mormons burned the forage, set
fire to the grass and carried off the ami
mals-in fact, destroyed their own farms to
impede the advance of the federal troops.
He only shows that Brigham's authority was
absolute over his people, as everybody
knows it was. But it was hardly less so
over the Indians within the Territorial linn
it's, who were for years in Brigham's pay
and his allies against all outsiders. The
latest revised Mormon theory of the Noun
tain Meadows massacre, therefore, is that,
because the Mormons bitterly hated the en-
igrants, and were furious with fears Of an
invasion, therefore the Indians murdered
them. That hardly holds water.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

THE RESULTS OF GENERAL MILES lively cam
paigning in Montana show themselves in the
surrender of more than two hundred warriors
and the admission that about as many were
killed in Miles great December fight on Tongue
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

MAYOR ELY need only cross the East River to
obtain sympathy on the subject of appointments,
Tor the Brooklyn Aldermen tabled yesterday all
of Mayor Schroeder's nominations to Commits
siOuerahiDs
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

PRESIDENT DrAz OF MEXICO is practical
joker. He proposes, with sixteen thousand sol-
diers, to keep his country free from robbers
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

PrNNEY Is PLAYING TWEED Mt San Francisco
with great success as far rs exciting the com
munity goes, and, as in the Tweed case, every
man charged with doing anything wrong says, II
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08
TRIPLE SH e e T
NEW YORK. TUESDAY, MAY s, 1877.


Tho Adams Express Company q special newspaper
the Pennsylvania Railroad aud it's connections
leaving Jersey City ~ quarter past four w. daily and
Sunday carrying the regular edition o the HERALD far
West Harrisburg and South Washington reaching
Philadelphia quarter past six a. NJ and Washington
oue
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

ANOTHER ONO MAN Is IN LUCK at Washing
ton, with plenty of men to envy him; but not
one of them can blame the President, for such
appointments are not in the line Of duty. For
particulars read logan Porter"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

SPAIN AGAIN OFFERS AMNESTY in Cuba. 1t is
cheaper than war and fully as likely to succeed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

REX, OF THE CARNIVAL, casts his interesting
shadow upon some Of our columns today.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

From oar reports This morning The probabilities
are that the heather in Nep York to-day mW be
partly cloudy or cloatdy and rnrn,er, nih rain.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08

CARELESS OWNERS OF LIFE INSURANCE Pol
IcIEs will find a needed warning in our Court re-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-08
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

PARK THEATRE--coLoSELs SELLERS.
GERMANIA THEATRE.-DREI MoSAT MACH DAro.
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uELLER'S THEATRE PRgsrIpicirArIoS
GRAND OPERA HoUsE.-TnE PRINCESS ROYAL
BROADWAY TnEATRE.-Tnr WONDER CHILLI
BowERy THEATRE-DAsniSG CHARLEY.
NEW YORK AQUARIUM.-QuEER FISHES
EGYPTIAN HALL-yARiETY
COLUMBIA OPERA HousE-vARrSrY.
THEATRE coMIQUE.-vAREry.
TONY PASTORS THEATRE.-vARiErr.
rIvoLI NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY. MAY 8 ns77--rR1PLE SHEET

likely to enhance than to depreciate the
value of property bordering on its lines.
The Gilbert road has been built in front OF
the premises in question since last June.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-13
Model Phrenology.

A good old colored man, named Uncle
Jim Hill, Get himself up the other day as
phrenologist, and barber was bis first cub
ject. He placed the barber on chair, felt
Of his head for long time, and then re-
marked "Wi.liam, you is too sanguine.
When you lend money you expect it back.
You are bilious. You want to be honest,
but you hasn't the necessary character, you
isn't hopeful you is bowed down
with grief most of de time; you has an car
for music you has de worst feet on Ken
lucky street you is &c right sort of man
to wheel coal down hill for big wages. |"
William rose up, pitched Uncle Jim over
the cook stove and under the bed, and split
panel of the door as he went out. The
aged phrenoloRist was at the city hall the
next evening to get advice from the police,
and when advised to go out of the trade,
replied: "Sesms like shall have to, for
Use getting too aged to be bumped over
stoves. ."-LouisuiLle Commercial.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-13
A Centennial Celebration.

The citizens of Fort Edward, N. Y, are
talking of celebrating the centennial Of the
murder of Miss Jane McCrea. AS her mas
sacre was, in certain sense, the pivotal
point of the revolution in arousing the
lethargic colonsts in Northern New York
to sense of personal danger, and sent
them as soldiers to the standard of Gates,
aiding in, if not effectlDg, the final victory
at Saratoga, it deserves a fitting tribute.
The house in which Miss, ,McCrea was visit
ing when she set out on her fatal attempt
TO join her royalst lover in Burgoyne's
camp, July 23, 1777, is yet standing in the
centre of Fort Edward, being part Of the
residence of Walter Rogers. The stumps
of the old pine trees which shaded the
spring near which che was slain by her In
dian escort, are yet visible, though fast
yielding to time and the hatchets OF visitors
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-13
DIR. sCHENCK,s STANDARD REM
ED1ES.

The standard remedies fer all diseases OF the
lungs arc Schencks Pulmouic Syrup, schenck's
Sea Weed Tonic, and schencks Mandrake Pills,
and u taken before the lungs are destroyed,
speedy cure is Effected
TO these three medicines Or. j. H. Schenck
OF Philadelphia, owes his unrivaled success in
the treatment OF pulmonary diseases.
The Pulmonic syrup ripens the morbid mat
ter In the lungs; nature throws it on by an
easy eXpectOration, for when the phlegIn or
matter is ripe, q slight cough will throw it on.
the patient has rest and the lungs begin TO
heal.
To enable the pulmonlc Syrup to do this,
schenck'5 Mandrake Pills and Schenk's Sea
Weed Tonic must be freely used TO cleanse the
stomach and liver. Sckenck's Mandrake Pills
act on the liver, removing all distractions. re-
lax the gall bladder, the bile starts freely, and
the liver is soon relieved.
Schenck's hea Weed onlc is q gentle stimu-
liant and Alternative; tho alkali OF which II is
composed mixes with the food and prevents
suurlng. 1t assists the digestion by toning up
the stomach TO healthy condition, so that the
food ana PulmOnic ~ rup Will make good blood;
then tho lungs heal ana the patient Will surely
get well II care is taken to prevent fresh cold.
All who wish to consult DR.. SchencK, either
personally or by letter. can do 50 at his princi-
pal of1ice, corner OF Sixth ard Arcn sts., Phila-
delphia, every Monday.
schenck's me icines are sold by all druggists
throughout the country. mar1d2m