Year: 1874

the rewards Of Office. The anxiety Of General
Grant to promote General Ingalls,, resulting In
O variety of tempting offers to Quartermaster-
General Meigs including finally the position
of Minister to Russia, is described In our dis
patches. Perhaps in his struggles with army
| contractors the Quartermaster-G General has
acquired that skill in diplomacy which will
render him q fitting representative OF the
United States at the Court of st. Petersburg


The kindly sympathy of all tho world goes
out to every bridal pair it ever comes to know
anything about; and there will be no Lack OF
earnest wishes for the happiness of the Presi-
dents eldest son, and of the fair Chicago girl
| to whom he was yesterday wed. Ii other steps
of the young mans rapid promotion nave not
always been kindly regarded, this one Will De-;
and half the men and all the women Will
dwell with a sort of personal interest on every
detail of the wedding which other columns
present.


During the continued secret session, the
Episcopal Convention brings few matters of
interest before the public. In yesterdays
proceedings that which will probably attract
most attention is a recommendation to alter
canon so as to provide for deposing
bishop who wthdraws from communion.
Six months are to be given him to traverse
the alleged facts of such withdrawal. Failing
to take advantage of this respite, he is to be
deposed forthwith. The proposed measure is
supposed to have reference to the action OF
Bishop Cummins.


Arrests and threats of arrests in the interest
of the Kellogg party are arousing bitter
sentiment in Louisiana. These are not fair
return for the surrender in good faith of the
opposition. No greater misfortune could occur
| to the State than new insurrectiOn, which
would justify military rule. Perhaps to harry
| Louisiana into rebellion might save the
Republican party; but such a method of saw
ing is rather too costly. Our dispatches in
dicate that the situation is becoming grave
On our third page an interesting letter from
our correspondent at New-Orleans shows how
all influences of Church, State. and society,"
combine to hold the cOlored citizens under
the control of the Kellogg Ring.


Mr.. Elliot c. COwdin is q gentleman OF
large business experience and of great good
sense in public affairs. He would have made
an excellent Congressman from Westchester,
if he had consented to run, and had been able
to secure majority. His letter, therefore,
declining to make the canvass will be
sincerely regretted by wide circle both
in and beyond the immediate limits
of his district. Mr.. Cowdln gives as a reason
for declining, his unwillingness to divide the
Republican strength of the district, fearing
that if thereby Democrat should be elected
- - 10 <ha ctr Moth Of nhrfv yvhi oh
in Ohio, at least has pronounced against the
resumption of specie payments.


There is no question of the truth of Judge
Humphreys statement yesterday. in the trial
of the safe burglary suit at Washington,
that "this case had been before the public
"too long already" Another of the results
of its delay is announced Nettleship is not
sick himself, but his wife is said to be, and
therefore he too has forfeited his bail. Ben
ton was also, of course, absent. and Cunz too,
who was released in this city upon bonds for
$1,000. Notwithstanding the urgent desire of
the defendants for delay, Judge Humphreys,
we are glad to notice, compelled the trial to
go on. If we could have little of the
promptness at Washington which distin-
guishes Judge WestbrOOks court at Albany.
where the defaulter Phelps has just been SEN
fenced to fifteen years imprisonment. we
might have the safe burglars and their ac-
completes disposed of before election day.


Perhaps we are too apt when we read of
the exploits of brigands in Greece or ban
ditti in Sicily, to shrug our shoulders with
complacent reflection that we live in land
where such Outrages are impossible. The
recent case of child-stealing in Philadelphia,
and the robbery of the Souhegan Bank at
Milford, n H., reported in our columns to-
day, may be fairly set down as equal in
atrocity to anything which comes to us from
abroad. The picture of the trembling cashier,
gagged while his wife, children, and servant
were locked in a closet then dragged out of
the house with rope around his neck, COM
pelled by the threat Of numbering his babe to
lead the thieves to the post-Ofice, point out
the place for keeping the bank-vault keys,
and stand by while the window-pane was cut,
and they were abstracted he finally being
brought back to his house and left tied to the
bed POSTAL this would do very well in
romance or on the stage, but for an actual
occurrence, at the present day, in New
England town, seems scarcely credible.
Nothing less than the prompt pursuit, cap
ture and conviction of these robbers can re-
lieve us of positive disgrace.


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