The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1869, Page 6

6 °, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Tieratp. Rejected communicatibns will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EV.NING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Lean. 23dst., between Sth and 6th avs,— ATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- FRENCH THEA bue,—ENGLIsit OPRRA- street and Sixth ave- EMIAN GIRL, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broaaway.—Fo2mosa; 08, TUR Ratiuoan vo RoI, THEATRE, Broadway and 1h street. » FOR SOAND BOWERY Lost Suv. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, MIEATR! fur JnwEss—Tur rot Eighth aveaue and 25d mreet.—PATEIB, WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—A GRAND Vaniery ENTERTAINMEN OLYMPIC THEATRE, UNOLE Tom's Cauin, Broadway.—Tue DRAMA OF WOOD'S MUSEUM AND TH Broadway.—Afiernoon and ever TRE, Thictisth street and g Performance. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strect.—Tut QUEEN oF Hearts. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, I4th street.—HrRMANN, THE ParsriviG vaTeUB. 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BROOKLYN future receive their papers at the Branca Orrice Carriers aNd Newsmen will in or THe New York Heraxp, No, 145 Fulton strect, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svnscnirtions and all ketters for the New Seceived as above. York Henaip will be THE NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated September 18. The Spaniards remained intensely excited on the Subject of Cuba and the American notes presented by General Sickles. The English press canvassed the Cuban subject in acarerul analysis of the case from different points of view. The writers gene- rally regard tne situat!on.as critical; but express the opinion that Spain must eventually give up the island, The Master of the English Mint is dead, The last descendant of William Penn died in England. A Serious riot occurred in Londonderry, ireland, be- tween dock porters on a strike and green bands wanting to work. It was subdued only by a charge of military on the combatants. By mail from Europe we have our special corre- Bpondence and newspaper reports in very tnterest- ing detail of our cable telegrams to the 7th of Sep- tember. The Stowe-Byron controversy engaged the atten- tion of the London press, from which we publish an interesting letter by the late Lady Byron, with other matter, relative to the subject of the accusation ana defence of Lord Byron. Cuba. . Dyer, from New York for Texas, which put into Matanzas in distress and was detained asa fijbustering craft, has released at the de- awl of the American Consul. The alleged filibusters captured off New Bedford have ail beea tried by the United States Commis- Bioner and discharged. A large iron-clad, carrying eighteen steel guns and crowded with men, in com- pany with alarge schooner, has been lying to recent- ly about two miles from Gays Head, off the Massa- Chusetts coast. Both vessels are supposed to be Cuban thivusters. ‘The schooner S, Mexico, Dates from the City of Mexico have been received to the 12th inst. A new Cabinet is to be formed by Juarez. Three of the conspirators recently tried ‘were sentenced to be shot and six to ten years’ im- prisonment. The railroad from Mexico to Puokla has been completed. The country generally is more tranquil than usual, Miscellaneous. The President yesterday assisted the good citizens Of Washington, Pa., to lay the corner stone of the Town Hall and afterwards received them in the old court room. He will leave for Washington on Wednesday. In the trial of Shureman, in the Criminal Court at Washington yesterday, for abstracting unsigned bank notes from the Treasury Department, his coun- Bel moved for his discharge on the ground that the indictment was defective. The Judge said he woud render a decision on Monday. Judge Dent opened the political campaign in NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Gaughters, turned up alive yesterday, and pala her Promised visit to her daughters alive and well. Quite an imposing funeral was given by the miata- ken daughter to her supposed remains, and a bill of $200 for undertaker’s services is in dispute tn conse quence. “Seotch Kate,’ one of the lowest women of the Fighth precinct, was found dead in the basement of No. 20 Grand street yesterday afternoon, having been lying there for twenty hours before information was given to the police. Marks of violence, it ts said, were found on her wrists and ankles, and John —, the man in whose place she died, baving refused to give the police any information about her death, was arrested and committed. Johanna Collins and her daughter Mary, of Mar- shall street, Brooklyn, were both sentenced to the State Prison yesterday for two years each for an assault and battery. The stock market yesterday underwent an entire change, and became active and strong. Gold was quiet at 1563 a 136%. Prominent Arrivals tn the City. Sir Patrick Keith Murray, of Scotland, and E, T. Annory, of the United States Navy, are at the Bre- voort House. Ex-Congressman J, V. L. Prayn, of Albany; N. G. Ordway, orNew Hampshire; S. F. McCarthy, ©, A. Cheatham and W. H. Brimson, of South Carolina, are at the Astor House, Count J, M. Rodrigues, of Havana, is at the St. Charles Hotel. Captain E. R, Stewart, of tne United States Army, and, Professor Thorpe, of St. Louis, are at the St. Julien Hotel. G. Mormour, of Mississippi; W. A. Laylor, of Texas: J. W. Stevens, of San Francisco, and J. 3. Young, of Calcutta, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain V. Bouplakofsky, of the Russian Army; Colonel Hildt, and Major F. A. Mahan, of West Point, and L, A. Rucker, of New York, are at the Hoffman House, Governor Holden, Colonel Cadron, Captain Young and Dr, Grisam, of North Carolina; Nathan Page, of Washington, and Coionel W. P. Denckla, of Arkan- sas; Colonel S, L, Fremont, of Wilmington, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures. General Sheldon and J. W. Horne, for Washing- ton; John S. Eidridge, for Boston; N. S. Finney, for Georgia, and Charles Sherrill, for Washington. The Apprenching Grand Cathotic Council. Our letters from Rome and from other European centres touching the grand Council to be held in St. Peter's, in December, have for the last two or three weeks been more than usually interesting. A particular section of that grand Christian temple has been set apart for the meeting, and everything is being done to make the place worthy of the great occa- sion, The rumor in circulation some weeks ago to the effect that, in consequence of differ- ing sentiments between the Church dignitaries and the temporal chiefs of the various Catho- lic States, the idea of a Council had for the present been abandoned, has been proved to be without foundation. From all the ends of the earth Roman Catholic bishops have begun to wend their way to the shrine of St. Peter, the centre of Catholic Christendom. It is calculated that not fewer than one thousand titled representatives of the Church will be present to claim seats on the 8th of Deceinber, the day fixed for the opening of the Council. St. Peter's on the occasion will put on its best attire. The magnificent ceremonies be manipulated to suit their purposes. dead certainty the Council will be asked to condemn whatever is not in or of the Catholic ing the last twelve months this question has often been asked, and it has often been answered to but little purpose. It is evidently the intention of the promoters of the Council to keep the programme as much a secret a8 Wisely or unwisely, we say not possible. which, the Catholic Church makes it a special point at all times and everywhere to keep its own counsel. In spite, however, of all the caution which has been manitested in this mat- ter, facts have oozed out and have so accumu- lated that it cannot any longer be said that the world is ignorant of the programme of the approaching assembly. What with the able papers which have recently appeared in the Allgemeine Zeitung, from the pen of Dr. Dillinger, the counsellor of Prince Hohenlohe of Bavaria, and one of the very first Catholic divines in Germany, and from the replies which have been made to those papers in the Pope's acknowledged organ, the Civilta Cattolica, it ia no longer doubtful that the Syllabus which startled the world in 1864 by its medieval sentiment and its wholesale denunciations of modern progress is the real basis on which the Council has been convened, and accerding to which its proceedings will be regulated. The bishops, in fact, are already compromised by their acceptance of the Syllabus. - They are still further compromised by offering no objection to the letters convening the Council. The Jesuits are clearly masters of the situation. Pius the Ninth is their tool, and the proceedings of the solemn farce will Toa Church, and to pronounce a solemn anathema on all that which we call modern progress and the spirit of the age. We have no right to say that the members of the Council will refuse to do either the one or the other. no longer doubted that be asked bility posed to in Council is an attribute henceforward of the Pope himself. It is generally understood that this motion is to be made by Dr. Manning, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. not expected that any opposition will be offered, This point carried, no future Council of the Church will ba necessary. The best informed Catholics admit that the Bodily As- sumption, as well as the Immaculate Concep- tion of the Virgin, is to receive the sanction of the Council, and that both are to be pro- claimed doctrines of the Holy Catholic Church, this is done within the space of three weeks. Good care willbe taken that the Council of the Vatican will not, like the Council of Trent, sit for eighteen years and‘divide its glory or its shame between two successive Popes. these forecastings be justified by actual facts the Catholic Church will have lost an oppor- tunity the like of which may never again pre- sent itself, and many of its warmest friends It is the Council will to declare that the infalli- which hitherto has been sup- belong only to the Church It is It will not at all surprise us if all If General Grant—A Retura to Business. summer vacation. the Southern tobacco and cotton aristocracy in “the good old times” of the divinity of negro slavery; he has hada real good time among our fashionable moths and butterflies at Long Branch; he was the lion of Gilmore’s grand panjandrum of the Boston Tommy Dodd Peace Jubile®: ; he has pretty thoroughly done the drives, the Park and the institutions of New York; he has enjoyed the summer attrac- tions of West Point and of Saratoga and New- portand the White Mountains; he has been making a pretty extensive detour of Pennsyl- vania, from the Delaware to the Ohio river, and in all these excursions he has been wel- comed and féted and treated with manifesta- tions of the largest hospitality, respect, admi- ration and public confidence. He has also learned much of the prevailing opinions and wishes and the great interests of the people ; for he has freely mingled with men of all parties, creeds, classes and races, although he has made no political speeches and has avoided as far as possible anything like parade or display. Now we are informed, from the pretty little village of Washington, in Western Pennsyl- vania, that as the repairs which have been going on all this time in the White House are finished, and that as we are near the time of the ‘first frost,” which extinguishes the malaria of the sickly Potomac, the President expects to leave his present quarters on Wednesday next for Wheeling, W. Va., and will there take the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road over the Alleghanies direct for the national capital, where he expects to arrive on Thursday; that this will complete his round of summer recreations, and that thenceforward he calculates to be at his oficial post of duty till the reassembling of Congress in December, and thence till the adjournment again in the summer, Weare gratified with this intelligence, for while we fully believe in the expediency and wisdom of these summer reconnoissances in an important section of the Union comparatively new to General Grant, we also think that the time has at length come which demands his presence in Washington. inclined to the opinion, too, that it will not be long after his retura before we shall hear of some Cabinet council and decision on the Cuban question which will electrify the We are strongly country, because we think that General Grant has seen enough and heard enough of public opinion to be fully convinced that speedy action and decisive action is his policy in regard to Cuba. The Other Birds on the Wing. Following the President's example, the Vice President, the members of the Cabinet General Grant has been enjoying a good He has been to the Rip Raps, the favorite seaside resort of Old Hickory; he has dropped in at Old Point Comfort (Fortress Monroe), 9 great resort of and of both houses, by detachments and in- Mississippi yesterday by a stump speech at Corinth. The New Dominion is making overtures to the Froquois Indians to emigrate to the Ottawa river, @nd @ grand council of the trive is to be held on Fri- day to confer on the subject. Two officers of the branch of the Montreal Bank @t Quebec, it is said, have absconded with about $160,000 of the bank’s funds, A young man deliberately jumped over Niagara Palls from the Canada side yesterday morning and ‘gras killed, Ex-President Millard Fillmore is to preside at the pening of the National Commerciai Convention at Loutsville. A fight recently occurred on Snake Hill reserva- tion between some soldiers and Sioux Indians, in ‘ernien the former had two men killed and the latter two men wounded. The City. The Mrs, Ann McCaffrey, who was reported to ve been murdered in Cherry street, and whose body was, as it were. identifed by her two of the Church will captivate eye and ear and touch many hearts. It will bea great day in Rome—a true ‘Roman holiday;” such a holiday as has not been witnessed ia many centuries, and which to every historical stu- dent who takes part in it will call up scenes inseparably associated with the days of Rome's greatest splendor. There will be no Pompey, no Cesar, no Anthony seen marching to the Capitol in triumph; but the spectacle will be grander and more attractive than any Roman triumph in the ancient sense—suggestive of higher and nobler thoughts, and inspiring a sweeter and holier joy. It is our conviction, however, that the opea- ing will be the best of the Council. The spectacular demonstration will be confined to the first day. When the show is over and the ecclesiastical dignitaries sit down to the work prescribed for them the excitement will be over. The proceedings will be conducted with closed doors. The de- bates, if there be any debates, will be carried on in bad Latin, The stenographic reporters who are being specially trained for the work will report, not to the public, through the news- papers, but to the Council itself. It promises to be a stupid, old fashioned medieval kind of thing which will do the world no harm and which will certainly do it no good. It was customary on the occasion of former councils of the kind for the Catholic monarchs to be represented by certain great civil function- aries. At this approaching Council of the Vatican all such representatives will be con- spicnous by their absence, The princes of the Holy Roman empire will be nowhere. Aus- tria, France, Bavaria, Wiirtemberg, Baden, Italy have each refused to regard the Council in any other light than that of an ecclesiasti- cal assembly, and, of course, have re- fused to lend it any of that éclat which would result from the presence of great and most devoted adherents will blush for shame. If it is not yet too late let us hope for better things. On every Church, on every form of religion which hinders, not helps, human progress, which checks, not responds to, the high aspirations of the human soul, doom is written. With the wreck and ruin of such institutions the past is thickly strewn. It is well to be wise in time. . Workingmen in Politics. The Workingmen’s Union appears, by its proceedings at the last meeting, to be trenching on doubtful ground, when its leading members advocate the establishment of an exclusively political party. They ought to know that the rights of the workingmen would be placed in dangerous hands if they fell into the vortex of political rings, There can be no doubt that the working classes have rights and interests which they are bound to protect, and which. they have a right to protect by all wise and proper means. Yet we can hardly see that the exercise of their force in the creation of a distinct political party, with a view to control the elections for Congress, the Legislature and other public offices, as the resolutions and proceedings of the late convention indi- cate, would be attended with beneficial re- sults to the mass of the workingmen. The workingmen have as much voice as any other class of citizens in the election of representa- tive officials. Indeed, they form the mass of those who exercise the franchise at all our elections. And while no one will dispute their right to form a new political organization, based solely upon the interests of the working classes, if they so choose, one might question the prudence of such an undertaking, in view of the fact that the organization would be very likely to be used by a few of its leaders for personal objects, and, indeed, for the matter of that, would stand a fair chance of being State officials. What course Spain and gobbled up, bought over and absorbed by po- Portugal may follow we know not; tame f ot; | litical organizations which have already learned but with. these * we exceptions it by long and keen experience how, to use just is already certain that no Catholic such a machine as the workingmen propose to furnish. The history of workingmen’s unions has been a curious and instructive one. We find, upon studying it, that so long as the leading minds have kept themselves within the legiti- mate limits and scope of their purposes they have effected a good deal towards preserving, the integrity of labor and protecting it from the possible usurpations of capital. While it is more or less of a delusion to suppose that labor and capital are necessarily antagonistic, yet labor, nevertheless, is sensitive upon that question, and hedges itself round with trades’ unions and workingmen’s societies, These organizations, when wisely directed in the in- terest of the workingman, can do no harm. They create an individuality and an inde- pendence which make men feel better and stronger; but if they be drivelled out into mere political party machines it is very ques- tionable whether all their legitimate forces will not be vainly expended. The best thing for the workingmen to do, then, is to stick to the protection of their own interests and to shun politics and demagogism. State or Catholic ruler will be formally repre- sented, The Protestant Powers will, of course, take no part in it. Greece will follow the example of Russia, although the Greek govern- ment is not likely to go quite so far as to for- bid the Catholic bishops from attending the Council if they feel so disposed. In positively instructing the Catholic bishops not to attend the Council Russia has proved that she still adheres to her hereditary policy; but most men Will be of opinion that the policy is unne- cessarily severe and altogether unworthy of a great Power in this advanced and enlightened age. We have not heard that any prelate of the Greek Church intends to be present; nor, with the single exeeptiom of Dr. John Cum- ming, of London, of ‘‘Millennium” and ‘‘Tribu- lation” fame, are we aware that any prominent Protestant divine has expressed a desire to take part in the discussions of the Council. Dr. Cumming bas written to the Pope stating the conditions on which he is willing to accept his invitation. The Holy Father haa not yet replied, but some of the Pope's friends in London have written to the doctor rather discouragingly. We are sorry that the Covent Gardent divine has been left so much alone, Had he been joined by such men as Tae GoverNMENT Cartgontsm.—The lady clerks of the Treasury Department, it appears, butstill we dare say that with the reassembling of Congress, the two houses, President and boaster. Spurgeon and Henry Ward Beecher and Charles B, Smyth he might have had greater success. It must, however, be consoling to one and all of those gentlemen to reflect that the Vatican ecclesiastics, not they, will be the losers. What does the Council mean to do? Dur- are provoked at that question of ‘What is your age?” in the new government catechism. No wonder. The question is impertinent, and if a Secretary of the Treasury had a spark of gallantry or any consideration for women’s rights he would strike this outrageous ques- tion out of the catechism, dividuals, have been extensively on the wing since the last adjournment of Congress. The Vice President, with his charming bride, has been doing the ‘‘tour across the Continent,” from the valley of the Connecticut to Califor- tria’s matchless valley, domes, cliffs and water- falls of the Yosemite, and this “‘happy pair” have hardly yet turned their faces eastward. Various committees of Congress have been in- specting the government establishments on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and along the great lakes. run over to Europe, and others have been scouting about at the springs and seaside re- sorts of our Northern Atlantic States; others have been exploring the newly discovered wonders of the great West; but very few of our federal officials, except those on Southern duty, have devoted any portion of the past summer to explorations in the South. Some members of both houses have The idea, no doubt, has prevailed that the South has not yet sufficiently cooled down from the fiery deluge of the war to be attractive for summer pleasuring. This is to be regretted; Cabinet, from actual observations during the recess, will be better posted for business than any Cabinet or Congress since the terrific continental revulsion of 1 Sparn’s Answer.—Spain ig making great pother and parade of her purpose to continue the struggle in Cuba, and that in the bloodiest style; and as our government cannot suppose that it is all mere demonstration it must take her at her word. It must recognize Cuba or put the country before the world as an empty We told Spain she had better make fair terms with the Cubans. Europe has recognized that the alternative of that hint was, if you do not make such terms we will declare her a belligerent Power. What is Spain’s answer? That she means to continue the war, and she prepares troops and ships. Thus she defies us to do what we dare. What dare we do? This is the latest conundrum— respectfully referred to Mr. Fish. Retiognt Rattroap Compantgs.—All rail- road companies are reticent when any terrible disaster, involving serious loss of life or dangerous mutilation, occurs. In the late catas- trophe which happened on the Central road at Lyons, where a fearful collision occurred, dis- abling every passenger coach and injuring many of the employés and passengers, ‘‘it was impossible to procure the names of the in- jured parties,” says the report, ‘‘because the railroad authorities are reticent on the sub- ject.” There ought to be some way to make the railroad authorities open their months upon shocking occasions like this. It is the invariable rule with railroad companies to refuse any information when an accident hap- pens, and to hush the matter up—we fear, too, in many cases, with the connivance of coroners and juries. AN AMERIOAN CLERGYMAN IN THE GAMBLING Patace tN Bapex-Bapen.—We publish an interesting account of a recent visit to the gambling palace at Baden-Baden, the grand fashionable watering place—the Saratoga—of Germany, made by an American clergyman of Albany of good repute and careful observa- tion, He describes the allurements of this fascinating resort in a graphic manner, suffi- ciently so, we should judge, to induce all the gospel valetudinarians who are permitted by their congregations to visit Europe for the benefit of their health to look in at the marvels there te be witnessod—just ag many of our clergymen have been influenced to attend “Black Crook” performances for the purpose of seeing what deviltry Satan is getting up to demoralize the world. Why cannot our Al- bany divine visit other places in Europe of equal celebrity and morality with the gam- bling salon in Baden-Baden and give the pub- lic the results of his experience ? A Musical and Theatrical Reaction. The promise of a singer like Carlotta Patti has refreshment in it for the jaded hopes and often disappointed tastes of our amuse- ment-ridden people ; and with such a promise before us it may not be premature to indulge the thought that there is a turn of the tide— that the meretricious has had its little day among us, and that we are to be indulged with a revival of the genuine in art, especially in musical art. We are the more tempted to believe this because it is so evidently time for our turn, What years we have had of the torture of taste! “What wonderful inven- tions we have seen! Signs of true genius and of empty pockets.” Signs as well of an utter want of conscience on the part of those who cater to the public need of recreation—of an utter want and absence, indeed, of everything save a desperate deter- mination to make money. It is because the strictly commercial spirit has come to reign in the theatre that the true spirit of art has departed from it. No two things in the-earth or the waters under the earth are 80 absolutely irreconcilable as these. No great dramatic poet ever got fair pay for the paper on which his plays were written; but Mr. Boucicault will probably make ten thousand dollars by “Formosa.” Therefore, says the logic of the theatre, as the theatre is now managed, ‘‘For- mosa” is better than all the dramas of all the great poets put together. Plays are presented on this principle only, and even music does not inspire certain of its votaries with any higher thought. It seems well nigh forgotten that the theatre was ever a temple—that scholars, lettered men and gentlemen were proud of the honors they won there. Itis a shop at which entertainment is sold with no thought beyond the price. We had at one time a fair prospect that that noble amusement, the Italian Opera, would become domesticated here. It is one adapted to the character of our people, as it ministers to the love of the grand and the beautiful and stirs so profoundly every emotion of the soul. Although strictly devoted to commercial ideas while in the shop none can accept with such simple and generous enthusiasm the appeal of art in its grandest phases as the American ; and it would astonish those who have given the subject no attention~to learn how the instruction of the lyrical drama was spread among the masses during the years in which it flourished amongus, But it fell into unworthy hands, It was degraded to the poor office of stamping two hundred and ninety noodles as the world of fashion, and so was conducte 4 on the sausage-making principle, with some very little pieces of fat to flavor a world of lean, It lingered through several years of that sort of management and died, and its ghost has been heard of wandering in the Western cities. Its successor, the opéra bouffe, was taken as a sort of champagne cocktail, delicate and re- viving to the debauched fancy and very plea- sant to all other fancy, as a sort of stolen fruit, a little sip of interdicted delight. Opéra bouffe was wicked, but French, and the young ladies went, just as when they are in Paris they go to the Mabille, though they would not venture a visit to establishments of the same class at home. It was also part of the excite- ment of the whirl of improprieties that reduced the theatrical stage to two points—the naked female form as an appeal to the eye, and Mother Goose for literary furniture. But we have, as we say, the apparent promise that we have got through with all that. There are evidences that managers have to try other terms now, and the best of all is the promise to our public of Carlotta Patti, a singer of such capability and culture that the grandest names of musical history scarcely present her superior. With such a voice to tune the public ear mediocrity in music must ‘stand aside; and the public that has good music will not accept debasing spectacles. « Napo.zon’s EXPerigNox.—Napoleon utters a wise word of warning to Prim in his council to avoid collision with the United States. He, despite previous Spanish ownership, can see no essential difference between Cuba and Mexico, ard thus views the situation much more clearly than it is seen from Washington. If France, with all her power, hustled out so readily when our country had just come through a terrible war, how shall Spain stand before us when we are masters of our whole strength ? Anna Dickinson on the Mormons— The Wo- men’s Rights Wo Anna has been out among the Mormons, Only a little while ago this lady, in common with many others, was a mere everyday pedler of trash about the oppressions that women suffer here in this social paradise of women, where the sex is emancipated from every disa~ bility and fairly deified in fact as well as fancy. But Anna has become another sort of creature, for suddenly she has found a legitimate and proper object of agitation and denunciation in her favorite style. No doubt the object was easy to find so far as the knowledge went; but it was still not an easy journey to go and see it. Certainly not easy enough to tempt the languor-loving ladies who dawdle round from town to town holding conventions and agitat- ing the woman question, Anna has taken hold upon the great woman question of the age, the gigantic disgrace and evil of our time, and this entitles ber to rank as an earnest reformer of the first order. Anna travelled, it will be remembered, with Congressmen, and she gives an interesting ac- count of the views of these gentlemen. We trust it is known and noted in their several districts exactly who these gentlemen were that made their summer trip across the Conti- nent by way of Salt Lake, and we hope it is noted in their social circles as well as else- where that they all believe in and uphold polygamy. No doubt they would like to ex- tend its agreeable influences. Their wives, of course, are aware of this, and the wives of thelr constituents ought to be. Anne should especially direct her efforts to wake them up, and thus make the first demonstration of a grand agi-Mormon campaign, All other rights of women are pitiful beside the grand, vital, indefeasible right of every woman to have a husband; and Anna, in striking a blow for the Mormon women suffering a deprivation of this right—in enforcing the attention of the world to those poor creatures forced to divide a husband between forty of them—stands at once a head and shoulders above all the other agitators. Tammany and the Germans. There is very considerable flutter in the Tammany dovecot just now. We are on the eve of one of the most exciting local political campaigns ever held in this city. The ques- tions involved present serious difficulties to the leaders of the great democratic party, and naturally in these difficulties may be seen the opportunity for their political opponents to strike a blow against them, or to others dis- affected within its ranks to make demands for higher recognition for services rendered. The republican party of this city has scarcely a kick left in it, but the German body are up and doing and kicking in the traces, and are likely to bring things to smash if they are not paid immediate attention to. Tammany, who, through the disgust felt for the Excise law among the Teutons, has got almost complete possession of the political machine, wants to know yhat is the matter. The answer is, we want more offices. That Belmont-Tweed dodge by which you tried to get up an excitement is nothing to us. It was a weak invention of your friends, our Irish fellow citizens, to throw dust in our eyes. Belmont may go to Belgium, or worse, for all we gare. The dust we want must be of better stuff than that. This is about the lan- guage of the irate Teutons of the city. They are, in fact, on a pulitical strike for higher pay and better offices. The dissatisfaction ‘which has brought things to this crisis has been long felt, but heretofore the Germans were too evenly divided politically to be able to give any great preponderance to the office- controlling party in the city. The Excise law has altered this. The Germans of late have, to a great extent, changed front. Large num- bers have seceded from the republican and joined the democratic party, and from that party they now demand, in consideration of their politicel influence, a fair share of the spoils of the municipal government. Can Tammany afford to refuse? Willit say, “Not for Joe?” Hardly. The meetings hitherto got up on the school question were merely feelers to test the German pulse and to bring together assemblages for the discussion of a national ques- tion that at the time, on purely political grounds, could not be induced to meet in large numbers. The object was attained and the school question was dropped, and now Tam- many is assailed in its most vulnerable point— its pocket, or the same thing, its patronage. Having changed their base the Germans have come boldly to the attack on this new line. The meeting to discuss the question of their rights to official place and patronage in the city government held on Friday night was almost a mass meeting, though not designed for such. While they say they endorse Tam- many, which was said on Talleyrand’s idea, that ‘‘words are made to conceal thoughts,” they mean to say we endorse all the nomina- tions made in our favor in fair proportion to other political interests. This certainly puts Tammany in a tight place. How will it get rid of the men in the gap, of its Irish “thick and thin” supporters, who have so long sworn by St. Tammany, and imbibed their politics as they imbibed their grog at the old Pew- ter. Mug, in the good old days when it was “4reason to be anything but a Milesian,” if an office-holder in the municipal government? There must be a division of the spoils, that’s certain. The immense meetings held almost nightly in favor of that stout Israelite, Jacob Cohen, the candidate for the Supervisorship in opposition to the Tammany candidate, is proof of this. The action of the German demo- cratic gonvention is additional proof of it, and the fact must of course force itself upon the Tammany potentates that the days of close borough offices and exclusive patronage have passe away. Toe AvonpaLe Reviery Funp—HErmany, Tue Presqpieiratevr.—Among the subscrip- tions received yesterday at the HERALD office for the Avondale relief fund was one of five hundred dollars from the famous magician or prestidigitateur, Mr. Hermann, being the pro- ceeds of a performance given at the Academy of Music for this object. A hundred dollars of this sum was not included in the expenses, and therefore comes directly out of the pocket of the great conjurer. This fact is mentioned simply as a matter of justice to Hermann for his double generosity, so to say, in giving his first performance in New York for the Avon- dale widows and orphans and for the sum con- tributed out of his own pocket. Tue Rvuwine Passton.—It has been a funda- mental lifelong doctrine with the venerable Thurlow Weed never to lose a chance of wait- ing upon men in high places. For instance, he was prominent among the waiters upon Secretary Boutwell during his last visit here. But what for? Has Mr, Weed any more lobby axes to grind? We think not; but habit becomes second nature in a man, espe- cially with an old courtier. Even the old war horse turned out to grass will prick up his ears and begin to prance at the sound of the trumpet. ue Sriut Inexprican.y Mixep Ur—The re- publican factions and cliques of this city, It is the Schleswig-Holstein entanglement over again, and nothing will settle it, apparently, buta bloody war. Greeley gives it up, and, what is worse, he cannot understand it at all. The main trouble is they cannot all be cap- tains, and they who cannot will rebel. Tarpy Spars.—Spain is now willing to yleld to the Cubans the rights they clamored for ten years ago, This shows how far Europe is behind America, In the meantime the Cuban demand has changed altogether, ARRIVAL OF THE Matgor.—The yacht Me- teor arrived at Cowes on the 16th instant from the Azores. Sho experienced very severe gales during her passage. 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