The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1869, Page 6

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Our immense and constantly increasing editions compel us, notwithstanding our presses are capable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than usual, and to facilitate the work we are forced to stop the classifications of advertisements at nine o’clock P. M. THE NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated October 28. The specie in the Dank of France decreased dur. ing the week. Politica ation remains unaitered in Ireland, Premier Giadstone writes to the munici- pal corporation of Dublin indicating his intention Of completing bis work of reform with respect to the Irish Church and Land questions, and assigning his reasons for opposing an amnesty for recent revo- lutionary and political offences. A London journal comments on the alleged implication of President Grant in the recent operations in gold in New York, Gefending his character and governmental policy. Commodore Worden, United States Navy, was in Paris. Cuba. The Spanish gunboats Pizarro and Asturia have gone to Nassau to watch for the Lillian. Heavy frauds are reported in the government bonded ware- Douses in Havana and the Captain General and two other oificiais are engaged in an investigation. The insurgent General Cavada is reported to have ordered his forces to burn the cane fields as s00n as the sugar cane is dry. Hayti. President Sainave ts reported to have asked fora vessel of the Emglish Commodore at Jamaica to carry him over to the latter island, and the Commo- dore was about sending the Philomel to receive him, Miscellaneous. A terribie steamboat disaster on the Mississippi river is reported. The Stonewall, plying between St. Louis and New Orleans, caught fire about 126 miles below St. Louis, while southward bound, on Wednesday evening, and over 200 persons are sup- posed to have perished. The boat was set on fire by the carelessness of some deck hands, and, being loaded with hay, burned !ike tinder. The pilot ran her on a bar, but the water was too deep on all sifles for the passengsrs to wade ashore, and thus many were drowned, while others were burned to death. Strong efforts were made by the people on shore to help the sufferers. It is reported that there was only one boat on board the steamer. President Grant visited the Commercial Exchange in Philadelphia yesterday, and was not compelied to make a speech. He attended a Methodist Sunday School jubilee in the evening. General Belknap, the new Secretary of War, arrived in Washington yesterday. General McMahon was in conversation with Sec- retary Fish yesterday on Paraguayan matters. reported that Minister McMahon’s course in Para- guay is approved by the State Department, and 1t 1s even intimated that he may be returned to his position. His recall was ordered by Mr. Washbu it is said, while Secretary of State, in retaliation for his belug appointed to succeed ©, A. Washburne, the late Secretary's brother. Mr. Low, the new Minister to China, is In Wash ington, and had an interview with Secretary Fish yesterday. A serious schism 18 threatening the Mormon Church. Mr. Stenhouse, the editor of the Mormon paper, heads the opposition to Brigham Young, and has been suspended from the editorship of the Church organ. At Brigham’s death it is thought a revolution will be inaugurated that will sweep away polygamy. Governor Holden, of North Carolina, is enrolling colored militia to assist the local authorities in Orange and Chatham counties to preserve the peace. George H. Pendieton has been appointed president of the Kentucky Central Railroad. A brilliant meteor passed over Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday morning with a rumbling sound, and about the fsame time one passed over Forest river, which was accompanied by @ booming roar that Shook the houses and broke the windows. Secretary Boutwell will shortly authorize the re- demption of nickel five-cent pieces, in sums of $100 OF more, at the various sub-treasuries. The Agricuiwral Department reports that the cotton crop will exceed the conditional estimate of 2,750,000 bales, . The crew of the privateer Hornet, at Wilmington, Gre to be forwarded to New York. Professor Hall, the State Geologist, faye that the Cardiff giant is @ statue cut from gypsum, and is of ahigh order of sculpture. It has apparently been inhumed @ jong time, ana its source or origin 1s beyond conjecture, A little child tn Harrison, N. J., was poisoned Nearly to death on Wednesday by eating the glazed cover of an advertising pamphiet, we glaze of which was made chiefly of Paris green The City. {he forryboats Mcrristown and Delaware collided, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1869.-TRIPLE SHERT. aan aan on the North river yesterday and smashed one an- other considerably. Five or six persons were dan- gerously injured, and it is believed that some were knocked overboard and drowned. Justice Lynch, in Brooklyn, yesterday held several street car drivers to answer for an assault of Mr. MoNamee, an agent of Mr. Bergh’s society, because he remonstrated against the driving of a horse with sores on its shoulder. The street railroad company hold that McNamee was obstructing public travel, and propose to contest the case on those grounds, One Robert O'Connor, a boy of twenty, was charged before Justice Dodge yesterday morning with biganiy, his two wives being the complainants. Jt seems both marriages oceurred within six months and the same clergyman performed the ceremony on both occasions. Robert states that he left his first wife because their first child was born within two months after they were married. The swike of the operators in the Franklin Tele- graph Company ended yesterday with the complete success of the strikers. The superintendent of the line agreed to increase all wages about sixteen per cent and take back the discharged strikers in Boston. The new steamship City of Brussels, Captain Jas. Kennedy, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Liver- pool via Queenstown, Tne mails for Europe will close at the Post OMce at twelve M. on the 30th inst. ‘The National Line steamship Denmark, Captain Forbes, will sat! from pier 47 North river, at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. ‘The steamship Europa, Captain McDonald, of the Anchor line, will leave pier 20 North river, at twelve M. on Saturday, 30th inst., for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry, to land passengers. The Generat Transatlantic Company’s steamsbip Pereire, Captain Duchesne, will sail at one P. M. to- morrow* from pier 50 North river, for Brest and Havre, The mails for France will close at the Post Office at half-past eleven o'clock in the morning. ‘The Merchants’ Line steamship Shermgn, Captain Quick, will be despatched at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday), from pier 12 North river, for New Orleans direct. The stock market yesterday was dull and heavy and underwent a decline, rallying fractionally late in the day. Gold declined to 128%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge J. M. Francis, of Troy; Judge J. vu. Faucet, of California; Colonel N. A. Knight, of Montana; Colonel J, N. Crocker, of Providence, and Colonel M. Hawley, of Baltimore, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel Lay, of Havana, and R. C. Brinkley, of Memphis, are at the New York Hotel. M. d’Antas, Minister, and A. de Cunna, Consul General of Portugal, are at the Brevoort House. Count R, Raphaele, of France, and Judge R. S. McCormick, of Pennsylvania, are at the St. Julien Hotel. C. H. Hutchins, of Milwaukee; J. Giles, of Boston, and T, W, Parmell, of New Haven, are at the Grand Hotel. E, B. Farnsworth, of Providence, R. I., and Colo- nel J. S. Mosby, of Virginia, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General E. Y. Warner, of the United States Army; A. M. Flint, of Toronto, and A. C. Washburne, of Boston, are at the Albemarle Hotel, Captain Watson, of the steamer Palmyra; Judge G. P. Pelton, of Poughkeepsie, and J. A. Butler, of Oregon, are at the Hoffman House. Generai C. C. Washburne, of Wisconsin; General Leavenworth, of Syracuse; Dr. J. C. Ayer, of Bos- ton; iovernor William Dennison, of Ohio; A. T. Washburn, of Maine, and General T. L, Clingman, of North Carolina, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures. General H. L. Robinson, for Binghamton; General F. A. Waiker, for Washington; General D. De Cor- dova, for Chile; James Mace, for Albany, and J. M. Francis, of the Troy Times, in the steamship Allema- nia, for Europe, New York and the Democratic Party—What it Has Lost and What it Wants. In the proceedings of the late Tammany rati- fication pow-wow we look in vain for any lights or landmarks as to the present position or future programme of the democratic party on the living questions of the day, The two prin- cipal speakers of the evening were the Hon. Sunset Cox and the Hon. Fernando Wood, both members of Congress from this city, and each fresh from a European tour of observa- tion. And what was the argument of Mr. Cox? A general overhauling of the party in power, including denunciations of Congress, of the Ex- ecutive Department, of General Grant and his brothers-in-law, of Judge Pierrepont, compared with whom the orator pronounced Corbin a saint and Butterfield a beauty; denunciations of negro suffrage and the fifteenth amendment; of the national financial policy now in force, including debt, currency, taxes, internal reve- nue and tariff laws, and a general repudiation of radicalism. What else? ‘Only this and nothing more.” And what was the speech of Mr. Wood? ‘Nothing more.” What does all this signify? Only the old story of 1868, 1866, 1864, 1860 and 1856—the old story of the ‘constitution as it was,” “‘the Union as it was,” and democratic principles as they were before the deluge. We can make nothing better than this of these Tammany speeches. If they indicate any definite policy or purpose on the part of the democracy it is the parpose of setting aside all that has been done in changing the status of the Southern States, and the constitution, and all that has been done in the provisions for the redemption of the public debt since the party was broken up and thrown out of power in 1860. With the heavy democratic majorities rolled up in this city and Brooklyn the State of New York will doubtless be carried this year upon the platform of a general repudiation of the doings of the republican party, as it was carried last year, But what will this amount to if there is no democratic progress here or elsewhere? It will result in the election of another republican Congress in 1870, and in another Congress and administration of the same party in 1872, and so on to the end of the chapter of the democratic party as it is. Tammany Hall controls the great nuclens upon which this party may be reconstructed as a national organization, There are men among her sachems competent to take the lead in this work, and without loss of time, after this elec- tion, they should set about it. They can see by what the party has lost in all the great campaigns since 1856 exactly what is wanted. They have fought against the nigger until they have fought him into civil and political equality, and here he is going to stick. They have fought for the ‘constitution as it was” until they have made it ‘the constitution as it is,” which is no more like the ‘‘sacred charter of our fathers” than the sacred old stage coach is like « modern railway train, They have fought for State sovereignty and the old demo- cratic State rights resolutions of 1798 and 1799 until railways and telegraphs have knocked them all in the head. They were knocked in the head with the rebellion, which was founded upon the theory of the horse and mule com- munications of 1800, Railways and telegraphs have changed and are still changing all the old notions and dogmas and principles of parties, sects, States and peoples all over the world. It is strange that these things escaped the in their European travels. If they had looked about them when abroad, divested of their democratic green goggles, they would have seen or learned that from the Thames, the Seine and the Guadalquiver to the Danube, the Golden Horn, the Jordan and the Nile, rulers and people are inspired and moving under the mighty momentum given to the cause of popular institutions and universal liberty and equality by the grand exam- ples of the United States in the aboli- tion of slavery by the sword and in the establishment of liberty and equality by law. And we can tell these purblind travel- lers aforesaid that even the Japanese are waking up toa sense of the moral power of railways and telegraphs, and that the Chinese have abandoned the folly of patching up or guarding any longer their great wall for the exclusion of ‘‘outside barbarians.” In this view of the moral power of our great revolution, commenced in 1861 and consum- mated, we may say, in 1869, the democratic party of our Northern Statés stands behind Gladstone, Napoleon, Bismarck, Beust, the Sultan of Turkey, the Pacha of Egypt and the Emperor of China, and fur behind the late aristocratic democracy of the South, The Holy Father of Rome, in adhering to the musty crotchets of the Council of Trent, is somewhat behind the spirit of the age, but our Northern democracy are not very far from him in their devotion to the dead things of the past. They must get out of these old ruts or they will never get back to the White House. As Caleb Cushing, begging pardon, is said to have ex- pressed it, ‘‘it is damned nonsense to be fight- ing any longer against fixed facts.” The nigger is in the political ring, and he is a fixed fact. The Southern democracy have adopted him and the Northern democracy will have to recognize him, and the sooner the Tammany sachems take this step and some other steps forward, with an eye upon the Chief Justice, the sooner they will be able to lead the demo- cratic party of the Union on the path of a restoration to power. Oo Another Steamboat Horror: Our despatches from St. Louis and Chicago, published this morning, tell a frightful tale of death, The Mississippi river steamboat Stone- wall left St. Louis on Tuesday last bound for New Qrleans, having on board, in addition to a crew of sixty persons, some one hundred and ninety passengers of all classes, together with a large cargo, of which hay seems to have been a chief part. On Wednesday evening following the deck passengers were engaged in playing cards, darkness intervened, and a candle was brought to enable the gamblers to continue their game. The hay was ignited by this candle, and in ten minutes the ill-fated steamboat was wrapped in flames. We shall not go over the whole horrid story. Over two hundred lives were lost. But three women out of eleven were saved. Why this terrible destruction of life we cannot imagine. , The steamer, we are told, was run to within one hundred yards of the shore and those on board jumped into the water, which was six feet deep, making frantic exertions to save them- selves, Were any life preservers on board the Stonewall? Surely there must have been some- thing wrong when so many persons, with ten minutes of time for preparation, were unable to take any measures to save themselves. This wholesale slaughtering is not only frightful, it is criminal. The fact that the officers and crew of the unfortunate steamboat behaved heroically cannot militate against the one hun- dred and fifty passengers who were burned to death or were buried beneath the turgid waters of the Mississippi. This catastrophe is worse than the recent one on the Ohio river. There was gross carelessness somewhere, and the matter should be rigidly investigated. Serine Soms Oxp Scorgs.—Mr. Fish deserves praise for overhauling the accounts of all those ministers, consuls, consular agents and the like who, representing the United States in foreign countries when the war broke out, abandoned their posts to ‘join their States” in rebellion. The people always like to hear of those gentlemen. It will not sur- prise any one to learn that a large majority of them were defaulters. Some there were, no doubt, who were sincere victims of the Southern delusion, but a large number were very likely not straight in their accounts, and looked upon the rebellion asa godsend that enabled them to escape with a certain éclat from difficulties that threatened disgrace. Few of those who left were above larceny, for they carried away government property, in the large majority of cases, softening the theft to themselves with the thought that it was be turned over to the confederacy. We hope the Secretary will follow up the bondsmen of these fellows as closely as the changes made by the war will admit witholt actual inhumanity, REVENUE FROM ViRGINIA.—It is reported that the revenue from the tobacco crop of Vir- ginia will be greater this year than last by the sum of three million dollars. This difference on one product of one State seems incredibly large, and leads to the supposition that there must be some error in the statement. Doubt- less every year, ina time like the present, as it sees labor better organized, sees larger crops made ; but no such increase in the quan- tity of the staple grown can account for this three million dollars. If there be such a differ- ence we must conclude that it is owing to defective collection of the revenue last year and the magnificent cupidity of Andy John- son's precious officials. If the new adminis- tration makes this difference on one crop we may cease conjecture as to the future of the taxes and the debt. A revenue system that gorged such thieves and paid our interest, too, will do anything when honestly enforced, Whar Corns Ovenr to Do.—Corbin has heen so hunted by friends and foes that he is like @ cornered rat among them. The best thing he can do now is to come ont openly and tell the whole story of the gold ring con- spiracy. This would be a sweet morsel of revenge for poor Corbin, The exposure can- not hurt him, because, under any circum- stances, he could not stand worse in public estimation than he does now. But it would make the other conspirators squirm, and it would bea most delightful revelation for the public. Every one wants to know the myste- rious secret of that gold conspiracy, Let Corbin, therefore, make a last dying speech and confession, as truthfully as if he were on attention of Sunset Cox and Fernando Wood } the eve of execution at the foot of the scaffold. i Z8 Our Foreign Correspondence—Electricity and Steam—The Cables and ghe Mails. By a free and costly use of the Atlantic cables we are enabled to present to the read- ers of the Heraxp daily what may be termed an electrical synopsis of foreign news reporting the points of the chief events which may have transpired in Europe, Asia and Africa to a late hour of the previous evening. Our tele- grams from the Old World have just announced all the facts connected with the rise and present termination of the radical ‘‘Reds’” anti-Bona- partist agitation in Paris; the surging towards an almost instant upheaving of the democratic and intra-constitutional revolutionary principle in England and Ireland; the financial difficulties and heavy tax imposts of the government of the North German Confederation, with the approaches which are being made by the King of Prussia towards a more complete reconcilia- tion with Austria; the progress of the Empress of France in her jowgney to the East, and her reception by the Sultan of Turkey; the pro- vincial difficulties of Austria; the govern- mental, political and military disorganizations of Spain; the neutral, silent and almost grim personal solitude of the Russian Executive ; the preparations for the Ecumenical Council in Rome; the Social Science Congress in Swit- zerland; the movements of hardy and adven- turous explorers in Southern India and away off in Western China; the work and naval movements connected with the Suez Canal and its coming inauguration; the renewal of the Maori war in New Zealand, with a variety of other matter of a general, universalist, world- wide interest, such as the intelligence of the death of Earl Derby, of the death of M. Sainte Beuve, of the death of Professor Con- ington, of the University of Oxford, England, and, yesterday, of the serious illness, approach- ing, it is said, almost to death, of the philan- thropist, George Peabody, in Londoa. The price rates prevailing in the foreign markets for cotton, corn, provisions and American pro- duce generally, with the quotations ruling on the money ‘changes and bourses of Great Britain and the Continent of Europe at six o'clock each evening, are placed before the readers of the HERALp in every street in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark and the other great suburban city centres within the space of twelve hours subsequently, or about six o'clock the next morning. Such are the results of our journalistic mis- sion, as aided by electricity in making the “‘wide world one,” and introducing its inhabi- tants to each other for the purposes of friendly communion, the extension and interlacing of commercial interests, anda condition of cos- mopolitan enlightenment. In the general advance forward we must not, however, forget or overlook our special pen-and-ink corres- pondents who are stationed at every point of the world indicated above, and who, after despatching the news essential in all its elec- tric vitality to the Heratp Building, sit down immediately to illustrate its contents and elab- orate its substance, its local bearings and gen- eral tendency in exhaustive letters, such as those which appeared in our columns yester- day from Rome, Vienna and Berlin, ahd of which we print some almost daily, the rapid trips which are now being made by the fast steamships of the many different lines trading to this city from Great Britain, France and Germany, leaving the date of the written de- tails only some gight days behind that of the original submarine message. Such are the main features, conduct, cowrse, uses and ad- vantages of our system of foreign correspon- dence—not the gossipping crudities and Bohemian scrapings of the decks of steamers— a still more extended amplification of which in our columns each morning is impeded only by the immense pressure of our advertising patronage, which is not relaxed even when the HERALp appears in a quadruple sheet form and extent. Father Hyacinthe. The eloquent ex-Carmelite has at length been allowed to enjoy the quiet which he de- sires, now that the storm of curiosity occa- sioned by his arrival has abated. He has already been here long enough to disappoint the expectations of Protestants that they might find in him either a proselyte or an instrument for advertising their peculiar modes of belief, and long enough, we may add, to be disabused of any illusion which he may himself have had that he might find allies among the Catholic clergy in the United States, on account of the separation between Church and State in this country. In no other country, perhaps, is what is called in France ‘“‘ultramontanism” so universal. Our Catholic clergy out-pope the Pope himself. There are no Romanists at Rome who are more devoted than they are to Papal supremacy. In France the storm with which the famous letter of Father Hyacinthe threatened the Roman Church was very quickly dispelled. M. Gaillardet writes to the Courrier des Etats Unis that not only have the bishops who had been credited with an intention of defending the ex-Carmelite be- fore the Council protested against such ‘‘com- plicity yith apostacy,” but his programme has been repudiated by the Bishop of Sura himself, whose last book in favor of the Gallican Church has been as harshly treated by the Ultramontanist bishops as the ‘“‘subversive ideas” of Father Hyacinthe, Meanwhile, in his isolated sat Father Hyacinthe will have ample oppoftunities, during his American tour, for impartially examining the practical results of some of his theories. Tine Mormon SonismM.—An extract taken from a letter addressed by a gentleman resident in Salt Lake City to one of the editors of the Chicago Tribune, pub- lished in that paper and telegraphed here, informs us that a serious schism prevails among the Mormon elders in Salt Lake City. It has not sprung into existeace now, but appears to have been growing and extending for some time past. The extract referred to says: “The schism of which you may have heard while here is working. Stdéhhouse and all the editors and proprietors of the Utah Magazine have been suspended, and if they stand firm (and they will) they will be cut off.” THis looks ominous for the con- tinuance of the Brigham Young dynasty and the reign of the Saints, Schisms, like revolutions, never go backward, ond the schism now fermenting may work a revolution in Utah that will save a great deal of trouble to the nation and bring the Territory. into the Union as a State much sooner than has here. tofore been anticipated. Further inteitigence of the new movement, the exact nature of which is not stated, will be anxiously looked for. - Sigel and Greeley—-Water and Lager Beer. The most severely contested battle fields, in which the victors and the conquered have both suffered, and when the ground of conflict is ghastly with the dying and the dead, will often present a spectacle so startling in con- trast with the horrible surroundings, and so grotesque in its hideous exaggeration, as for the moment to completely obliterate the more prominent and real picture—the terrible results of the fight—when Momus extorts a smile from pain, Writers of fiction, knowing the effect of these startling contrasts upon the minds of their readers, and basing in some instances their own portraiture of such scenes from actual occurrences, have given them a color- ing that at once fascinates and repels the mind, that excites horror or impels to laughter. The antics of the clown in the pantomime, and his practical jokes upon his attendant Panta- loon, are of the most inimitable serio-comic character, and the laugh which always follows the dénouement is the heartier because of the serious dilemma which threatened Pantaloon, and which was but a phantasy conjured up by the clown to be as speedily turned into a laugh against his dupe. The serious part of the political campaign now upon us, and which will be brought to a final issue on Tuesday next, as between the recognized two great parties of the State— the Tammany Regency, under the leadership of Peter Bismarck Sweeny, and the repub- licans, accepting as their nominal head the philosopher of Printing House square, Horace Greeley—lies in the struggle for politi- cal supremacy in the State. But the comical feature of it is presented in the attitude occu- pied by Greeley, contrasted with that of his associate on the ticket, General Sigel. The latter is the nominee for Secretary of State, the former the nominee for State Comptroller— one the advocate of high tariff upon lager, the other the representative of the whole German anti-prohibitory element within the republican ranks. It was thought to be a happy device of the Republican State Committee after the temperance rumpus that was kicked up in the Convention, and which was squelched by the New York delegation, and after Curtis and Hillhouse had both declined to accept the nominations tendered them, to combine in the party the cold water and lager beer elements— outwardly if not inwardly—in the persons of the teetotal and vegetating Horace and the fighting and drinking Franz. The party finds itself, however, in a strange dilemma in conse- quence. On the one hand, if the temperance men vote for Sigel they vote for the removal of all restrictions on the “rosy ;” on the other, if the anti-prohibitionists of the party vote for Greeley they vote for high tariff upon their favorite beverages and a stringent Sunday excise law. Thus Greeley, like Panta- loon on the stage, presents himself to the electors in a most serio-comic position. He is a regular Janus, having despair depicted on one side of his phiz and a leer provocative of uncontrollable laughter, broad seamed, on the other; and it is just from the particular standpoint he is viewed that the ludicrousness or the seriousness of his position comes into bold relief and strikes the beholder. As a political Pantaloon he is, therefore, inimitable in the new véle of candidate for Comptroller, when contrasted with the lager beer, bretzel and sauerkraut candidate for Secretary of State—Sigel. Lager and water are not much of a stimulant taken in equal quantities as a beverage, and Sigel and Greeley, on the one ticket, a very weak admixture, will hardly go down with either branch of the party, being too strong for one and considerably too weak for the other. ‘‘’Twas ever thus” with the venerable Horace since he gave up quaffing from his emphoras in the days when he and the then youthful A. Oakey Hall went whig- ging together ‘‘a long time ago.” Had he stuck to his cakes and his ale, for which our veracious Mayor says he once had a penchant, he would not be the political Marplot—the Pantaloon, led about by the nose by every cunning clown that struts upon the political stage—that he is at the present time; and the whole German population of the city might have to-day adopted as their rallying cry, “We drinks and votes mit Greeley and Sigel.” The lager-beer-water fusion ticket will, there- fore, secure no combined support in the coming contest, when two great powers in the State are arrayed against each other on a social ques- tion of vast importance to the community: The temperance party, disgusted with the contempt with which their platform of prin- ciples submitted to the Republican Convention at Syracuse was received and voted down, have yo love for the German lager beer and anti-excise element that preponderated in the Convention at the time, and to whose influence they owed the defeat of their measure, and they will not vote for Sigel. Consequently, instead of combining the party, the ticket will rather tend to weaken it and divide its strength at the polls, On the other hand, the position and policy of Tammany being clear and well defined in its opposition to the Excise law and its free trade principles with regard to the “rosy” of every shade and quality, from Jersey lightning to lager beer, there is no hitch between the leaders and no diversion of the rank and file on side issues, The whole liquor interest of the city, Dutch and Irish, is with the party. Even such men as Brick Pomeroy, who, though himself a specimen temperance brick, is still in favor of the largest license to those who think differently from him on the subject and goes it “hot” in support of the Tammany ticket. As for the two chief republican can- didates, they are between two fires—that of the temperance party banging away at Sigel and the anti-temperance men firing into poor Greeley, with an effect that threatens to leave them nowhere on the evening of election day. Tur Avonpate Fuxp.—Where is the money collected to alleviate the miseries of those made dependent upon charity by the Avondale disaster? Only thirty-five thousand dollars has been sent to the treasurer in Pennsylvania, though it fe tolerably certain that not less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was subscribed, We hope, for the sake of humanity, that there has been no pecilation in a fund of this uature, il ET American Journalism—Our Two Quaricrlieg The great fire which has happened in Fultop , street, and which has been destrnctive largel} of the property of the Leonard Scott Publishiny , Company, commends attention to our qua terly and monthly literature. Not one of ow) readers who has made himself at all acquaint with the reprints of Leonard Scott & Co. b will feel sorry if the enterprising publishet have sustained loss by the fire to which w have referred. The barrenness of our qu terly and monthly journals has justified t! i company in their laborious and painstak' efforts to give us reprints of the best Engl § | journals of that order. To them we indebted for our monthly Blackwood, oy quarterly Westminster and Edinburg ay” London and North British Reviews ; and th) beautiful literature which these journals hav’ |) placed in the hands of our thoughtful fello\ citizens has worked a world of good. If b this fire the company have sustained serious loss we feel satisfied they will not be without sympathy and, what is better, encouragement and support. It is lamentable to think that, in the matter of monthly and quarterly literature of the solid and thoughtful sort, we should be so dependent on foreign sources. But facts are facts, and we must bow to them. In home production we have nothing which at all | approaches the English quarterlies or even the , English monthly magazines. We have, it fact, but two quarterlies—the North Americat and the National Quarterly. The Nort American is a Boston journal. The Nationa belongs to New York. Neither of these jour nals at all approaches in excellence it British contemporaries ; but it is as little t be denied that, in spite of the parade an show of Cambridge professors and New Eng land philosophers, the New York journal is the better of the two. No one can take up the two American quarterlies without feeling that while the one is the organ of a clique and bound down and restrained by the narrow- " est Puritan sentiment, the other is broad, gens i erous and catholic in tone, and world-wide ii | its sympathy. The North American and it little sister, the Atlantic Monthly, think of the | world from what Lord Bacon would have | called the Cave, and treat the world as if Bos- ton were really the hub of the universe. The National Quarterly takes a nobler standpoint, and from its grander elevation makes juster observations and arrives at more correct con~ clusions. It has always been the object of the North American Review to fill the place of a truly national journal. We cannot say that it has ever accomplished its self-appointed task. Time was when it was the best thing of the kind we had. But times have changed, and what might once have been arrived at is now | impossible. We have outgrown Boston, an of course, the great Boston journal. We nee something higher, more scholarly, less peda: tic, more catholic, less Puritanic; and the National Quarterly gives us reason to van that it will soon supply our want. New Yoi must become the literary as well as the come | mercial centre. We do not say that the National Quarterly ia yet all that we coul wish it to be; but, enterprise not failing, diy” promise is good. City Newspaper Returns. There is evidently some mistake in * recent internal revenue returns of the sale city newspapers. For example, the figures furnished by the assessor show that the ci: _ lation of the World for the past year exce that of the Times and 7'ribune—the former over two hundred and forty thousand and ~ latter by over a hundred and seventy- — thousand, There must be some hocus-p arrangement here. We cannot believe the circulation of the Times and Tribit , behind that of the World; on the contra are inclined to think that the World 1 behind both of the other papers mentioned, by a very large figure. There seems to some mystery in the method of making t’ returns which it would be well to clear If there is any fraud practised the asses’ would not be performing his duty if it was) detected, provided that the odds were agai_ the Revenue Department. But in this co: they are in its favor. It may be an innoo, fraud as far as the government is concerned for if the duty is paid upon a reported sale of papers, although it .may be fictitious, the Revenue Department loses nothing ; indeed, i€ » gains by this surplus return, while at the | same time the newspaper gets the advantage ; | of an advertisement for which it is probably quite willing to pay in the shape of anincreased | revenue tax. But this makes the proceeding none the le “by and disreputable. Grant aNp [1s Brormer-tn-Law, Dent President Grant is reported to have said, ine conversation with Senator Thayer, of Nebrasitfty on Wednesday, that ‘‘while he was on g | personal relations with Judge Dent, he neve: theless felt bound by public duty to opp his election and desire the success of Alcorn, In August last he had addressed Judge Dent b letter advising him not to connect himself wit the conservative movement against the par now supporting Alcorn, the former being, said, the enemies of the administration a government. Moreover, he had seen a pul lished telegram representing Dent aq havi said that the President sustained him as candidate for Governor of Mississippi. ‘Thi statement he had enclosed to the Judge, askin) if the latter had been correctly reported. No reply had as yet been received ; but it is manfe fest that the President is getting tired of brothers-in-law. He cannot let them take hi name in vain, either in financial or in politcal speculations. He feels “hound by publig duty,” not by private relationship. Coxtempr or tHe Boarp or Heartn.— Mr. A. Sander endgavored to influence the action of the Board of Health by a bribe. He offered ten dollars. If the popular fancy is right he would, if approaching the Board of Aldermen, have offered a thousand dollars gt / least. The Board of Health has just reason to be indignant at this contemptuous view of its value. It is commonly supposed that tho bribery so much heard of in our government is generally a matter of large sums of money; but we are inclined to doubt this, for we fre. quently hear of incorruptible officers thu: exposing attempts at bribery, and we cannoj call to mind one of these cases in which tia ¥ amount offered was greater than ten dollars,