The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1870, Page 6

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PaGr. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. favorable French News from the Capi- Another Sortie and Delest of the Bavar- ‘erritic Fire from the, Forts; The Pras. sians Advancing on Blois and Tours; Bour- baki to Co-operate with Bazaine. ve Ru- mors of an Armistice and Peace. inigue: The Negro tmsurrection in the § rn Part of the Island—The Grow] from W ell Phil- lips—Personal Intelligence—Janauschek as Lacy Macbeth. 4—The Yellow Fever Controversy—Quorantine Commission—The Yacht Tidat Wave—Opening of the Ball Season—The People’s Ice Com- pany—Quick Transit Up Town—Review of the Second Division National Guard by Governer Hoffman—Naval Inteiligence—Remorse and Suicide—Procecdings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Sale of Valuable Statuary— New York City News—Hyangelical Episco- palian’—Suspticions Death—A Ghastly Drs- covery—Another Ghastly Walf. 5—Another Revenue Raid on Whiskey Distillers in Brooklyn—Manhattan Club—A Drunken Tra- gedian—A Voice from the Conniy Jait—Tue National Game—Obituary—Business at the Custom House—Financiat and Commercial Re- ports—Marrlages and Deaths. 6—Editorials: ding Article on the European War, Ho) of an Armistice and the Proba- pity of a Europesn Congress—Amusement, Announcements, ‘ae Bw 'Y—Editorial—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World—News from Washington—The Lec- tare Season—Suicide at Matteawan—Business Notices, sail 9 S—Hudson Suspension Bridge » Avenue+-Advertisements, 9—Advertisements, . 30—The Registry: Proclamation by the Mayor: Ap- pointment of United states Election Officers; A Heavy Day’s Registration; Arrest of Repeat- era—City and Other Politieat News—Shipping Intelligence—Advertiscments, <tension of Fifth 1A—Advertisements, 12—Acvertisements. Toe PROCLAMATION or tae Mayor.— Mayor Hall has issued a proclamation set- ting forth that whereas a question of the legal- ity of the registration to-day has been raised by the federal officers he would recommend a closing of the registration rolls to-day and ma 40 NW ‘The Kurepean War—Hepes ef an Artis: tice and tho Probubility ef a Burepean Congress, We print this morning one moat Important item of news: Russia, it is said, tenders her offices for mediation, and Austria and Great Britain are moat anxious for peace, In this connection it is to be noted that stocks advanced yesterd ay in London and gold fell in New York, At the same time we learn that the demand for « Enropean congress is gen- eral and somewhat imperious. Russia and Austria seem determiued to prevent, if pos- sible, Praseia from making too much capital out of this war, ‘ The gpirit of the latest news encourages the belief that among all the Powers the feeling prevails that the war has lasted suflictently Jong; that France has been sufficiently humili- ated, and that Prussia is already become dangerously poworfal. ‘he moral sense of mankind is loud against the continuance of the war. It is notorious that all over Great Bri- tain the workingmen have begun to believe that the war, ia its present shape, is a war against their order, Tho feeling has become so strong in Loudon that the power of the police and the army alone prevents violent popular demonstrations. We know how it is here. Not unwilling to see French vanity effectually snubbed, we have no desire to see France reduced to the rank of a second or third rate Power. The German democrats reveal similar feelings; so powerfully, in fact, that King William-is threatened with an upris- ing in his rear. This, however, is not all. Austria sees, and sees clearly, that if the war is aot soon ended her twelve millions of Germans will kick at Austrian rule and exchange the caution of Beust for the dash and vigor of Bismarck. ‘The Fatherland, an ancient watchword, powerful in the days of Goethe and Schiller, dangerously powerful ia the days of the Tngendbund, is now the mightiest name in Europe. The Fatherland, through Prussia, has found its strength, and all Europe feels that a new era, will: or nil, has been entered upon. The North, through Prussia mainly, has been cultivated, taught to feel and know its strength; and the German legions, strong in brain, and strong also in limb, are no longer to be held in check by any neighboring Power, or by any combination of Powers. The German people to-day care little about kings or kaisera, but they care much for Fatherland, and they are resolved that Fatherland shall never again be divided. The Austrian government feels this and trembles. Rassia sees it and scarcely knows what to do, Russia only knows that a united Germany will leave her but few chances in Europe. Belgium, Holland, Denmari, and even Sweden, know that they must at no dis- tant day, to save themselves from’ sorrow, become tributaries tothe great German nation- ality. Great Britain even is convinced that the day is past when she could rule Europe by enunning combinations. Taking into account the peculiarly painful situation of france and the development of this new and wonderful force in central Europe, we canaot woader that the desire for peace has becoine 30 general and so strong. {t is our belief that an armistice has become almost a necessity. frauce has no longer a good reason to prolong the contest, and Prussia, or, rather, Germany, has good reason to wish the cumpaign ended before the rough winter season fully sets ia. On all hands the pressure is in favor of a cessation of hostilities. A cessation of hostilities is desirable for France, desirable for Germany, desirable for Europe, ‘desirable, in fact, for the world; for commerce, which lives and thrives by liberty, has grown impatient of what it thinks uncalled- for restraint. In spite of all that we have heard of French pluck and spirit and persever- ance; inspite of Gambetta and Jules Favre and M. Thiers, not one of whom has faith in the others, it has to be admitted that the pro- longation of this contest is only the prolonga- tion of misery, of ‘destruction, of the reiga of sorrow and death, An armistice, we again say, has become a necessity. History will blame Jules Favre because an armistice was not agregd upon some weeks ago. But better late than pever. An armistice, which some weeks ago would have Teft Prussia fo deal with France at her own sweet will, now makes a general Huropean congress indispensable, Where the congress may meet we know not This, howéver, we do kuow—{he great Powers cannot afford to allow France and Prussia alone to setile this great question of the future peace of the world. Russia demaads guaran- ees ag well as Prussia. Austria demands, or desires to demand, guarantees just as much as the one or the other. Italy has something to say, 80 has Spain, so have the Scandinavian nations. Great Britain has many things to say, and what she has to say must be said. If an armistice can be agreed to a European an adjournment until the days when the lists are to be revised. We can hardly see that the federal authorities have any such serious argument to offer against the legality of regis- tration to-day that Mayor Hall need to have issued any proclamation in reference to the matter; but its issuance cer- tainly evinces a highly commendable desire to conform to the spirit of a law which is sup- posed to be so very obnoxious to the party of which the Mayor is a leading light. The registration yesterday ‘in this city aggregated 58,469 votes—an excess by twenty thousand over the number registered on the first day of registration last year. There are, however, a larger number still unregistered, and the post- ponement of registration over to-day will un- doubtedly seriously affect the result, Tar Latest News From Soura AMERIOA, via Lisbon, says that Montevideo was besieged by the insurgents, and that the great- est alarm prevailed among the citizens. This is but the realization of the fears entertained by the Montevideans for some time past. Taz Harvest Season to our party drum- mers, primary captains, camp followers and bushwhackers has come, and party managers and candidates must shell out. Roughs are already blooming in new outfits and political loafers are again luxuriating on whiskey and oysters. Toe TAMMANY-RepuBLicans are getting on well as new beginners in the Tammany creed. ‘They are ready to fight for their faction eccording to the good old style of the Wigwam ; gad great is the consternation of Greeley, . coagress must follow. The congress will have much to do. It will be difficult to reconcile France to a sacrifice of territory. It will be impossible to induce Prussia to make peace unless there be some such sacrifice. That France must give ia we regard as a foregone conclusion. The question is not whether France will yield, but what the congress will do with the ceded provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, {t is not our opinion that they will be annexed to Prussia directly. It is not im- possible that they will be annexed to Belgium. It is much more probabie, however, that Al- sace, Lorraine and Luxembourg will be formed into a new principality, a principality which will be compelled to enter into the new German confederation, The gain in that case will be German, not Prussian. If it is true that Russia is dis- posed to insist upon compensation for German gaing, we have to confess that we do not well see that the congress will do much good, It rather seems as if the congress would open up new questions and lead to new difficulties. Would it be wonderful if an armistice, followed by a congress, would lead to a war which would make an end of all past treaties, unhinge the European equilibriam and make necessary a general contest destructive beyond allthe wars of the First Napoleon, all the seven years’ struggle and all the thirty years’ confusioa and fighting ? We are not without hopes of peace. But the combustible elements of European society are so numerous that we cannot say that aay armistice or any congress will lead to a per- mopeat poxgo settlement. Lf thig ateumata ie YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, not ended until the United States of Europe has become a fact and until the way has been paved for ‘‘the parliament of man, the federa- tion of the world,” who will be sorry? Our age is peculiar; it is the age of popular power—the ago of progress; and progress insists on dash, daring and success, The War Situation—The Threatened Bom- bardment of Paris and the Move on Tours. Paris remains as it was. No bombardment has commenced yet, and French accounts state that the fire from the French forts is so sweeping gud incessant that the sloge guns cannot bropght near enough to reach the city. The heighis of Meudon and St. Cloud, however, are undoubtedly in possession of the Prussians, and they look down, as lt were, upon the city itself. Bellevue is said to be mounted with a battery of slege guns, and several shots have already been thrown into the streets of the capital. The conclusion seems to be inevitable that Paris can be bombarded, and it may be that the well-founded apprehensions of Bis- marck a3 to the verdict of history are alone siaying the vandal blow, A persistent and steady rain of iron on the devoted city, how- ever, cannot be kept up so long as the guns of the French forts are effectively worked. A concentrated fire on the siege batteries from the guns of Fort Mont Valécien, if it does not demolish the batteries, will at least disconcert the Prussian artillerymen to such a degree that tho fire must be very irregular. The best. move to prevent the bombard- ment, however, is a sortie in force. With the large number of men that General Trochu has inside the walls his failure to make a desperate attack en masse on the besiegers is‘ verging almost on crimi- nality. We have had despatches again and again announcing such a sortie, and we have another to-day, but they have been so readily denied, and have evidently been so barren of results, that we cannot give them full credit. ‘A grand sortie, not all arbund the line, but in force at some one point, would tell its own story beyond the power of faise bulletias to discredit. Therein lies the most promising hope of Paris, The movement southward continues. Large forces of both armies are concentrating near Orleans, and another great battle seems to be imminent, So far the French have contested this southward movement with great courage and endurance. It is questionable, however, whether good generalship on their part, instead of presenting a strong front to their enemy as he moves forward, would not rather take him in the rear, when he had moved some distance from his base at Paris, and attempt to crush him between two armies. The move is evi- dently upoa Tours. The particulars of the battle of Bagueux record the same intrepid daring on the part of the French, the same desperate heroism displayed at Soissons—a heroism and desperation that sug- gest the probable renewal of the ‘deeds of the national wars on the peninsula—deeds that make the blood sometimes run cold with horror and again thrill with enthusiasm, but deeds that were consecrated by the purest love of country and ennobled by the most un- selfish sacrifices, The Negro Rising in Martinique. he negroes of the French colony of Mar- tinique, on learning of the war in France, and thinking, possibly, that the opportune time had arrived for them to make astrike for liberty, undertook a rising oa the 22d ult., and commenced the establishment of their freedom on a foundation of fifty burning plan- tations and the murder of possibly as. many people. This, for a commencement, shows the fierce and bloody spirit which animates these misguided people. Led on by. leaders who have mere than once before been engaged in movements calculated to disturb the peace of the island, the negroes have again been incited by the same ill advisers to desperate acts of murder and the destruction of pro- perty. On such a basis they are going to raise the republic, With Hayti as a model, taking it for granted that they may be sne- cessful in their present attempt, the colored inhabitants of Martinique will have all the occupation ‘they rea risings, revolutions, changes of President, ousting of ministers, making of generals and all the usual disturb- ances which characterize peoples wlio have not the most remote or intelligént ideas of the true meaning of republicanism, and who are wont to associate the freedom of crime with their ideas of liberty. Tax Triat or Tuomas JaoKxson for the shooting of Archibald Douglas is to take place on Monday. This case had almost escaped the public memory. It occurred as long ago as last October, and was in every sense of the word a cold-blooded political murder. A democratic coroner and a democratic coroner's jury discharged Jackson on the ground that the. murder was committed partly in gel{- defence, when the facts as set forth in evi- dence showed that the deceased was shot in the back while running away from his mur- derer. We recall these facts now because they offer food for suggestions, Is it not time that our political killers and slayers, who depend on their ward influence for immunity, were given a warning, as well as our political burglars and housebreakers, who have been sent up lately for long terms, without regard to che number of votes they could poll? Sxceztary Bourwett has expressed bis intention of retaining experienced lightkeepers in the lighthouses in future instead of remoy- ing them on frivolous pretences at the instance of collectors of customs, as seems to have been a habit heretofore in order to make room for favorites. The idea that such positions of trust and experience, by no means lucrative, and requiring the endurance of great hard- ships, usually, should be made political foot- balls, is especially repugnant to all notions of a sound system of government. Aw Tumunse SMuaorina Arran has been added to Boston’s other numerous sins. The amount involves over a quarier of a million of dollars, and some of her Custom House officials and prominent merchants are implicated. This iseven worse than the clerical error in the way of lager beer that ker famous divine is charged weihie OCTOBER. 19, 1870, . Thorefor, A Washington correspondent of the Boston Traveller furnishes the particulars of the causes and the reasons which actuated Preal- dent Grant in removing Mr. Motley from his position as Ambassador of the United States at the Court of St, James. The reasons are thus analyzed by the Boston Advertiser, the organ of the administration, as well as of Senator Sumacr, who was and is the fast friend aud backer of Minister Moiley:-- * First-—Soon after his sppoinvment. Mr. Motley drew up a paper containing his views on the ques- Uons now in controversy between this country and Great Britain and submitted it to Seoretary Fish, ‘YVhe latter, alter examining the paper, pronounced 1b inconsistent with the President’s own views on the subject, and it was therefore rejected, and Mr. Mouey was furnished with instructions of an oppo- site character. Notwithstanding this Mr. Mo’ v presumed to enforce his own views upon the British government, representing them to be the views of the President, second—The President asked Senator Samner to support the St. Domingo treaty, and the Jatter re- plied that he was a supporter of the administration, yei afterwards opposed the it Hamilion THUMM, Money, Telnsed. 10. Fish, Jr., asaistaat secretary of legatt Fourti—Mr. Motley “disgusts English politiclans.’’ The Sumner organ comes to the relief of its favorite and argues upon the points named briefly as follows:—1. That the last three add nothing to the case, 2. That it confirms o popular impression that Sumner’s opposition to the St. Domingo treaty was one reason which led to the removal of Motley; and, 3. That if the authorities at Washingion had studied English opinion as expressed through English papers, concerning the estimation in which Motley is held in the country to which he is accredited the fourth reason for dismissal would not have been given, The Boston Post—demoeratic organ, and consequently anti-administration and anti- Sumner, as well as anti-Motley—gives the case, in its own characteristic way, thus:-——That, in the first place, Motley refused to follow his instructions and committed his government to certain views by submitting his despatohes pre- maturely to the revision of Lord Clarendon ; that Motley was appointed upon the promise of Senator Sumner to support the administra- tion; that Sumner failed to do so whea he opposed President Grant's policy in regard to the annexation of St. Domingo, and hence Sumner’s influence, as affecting Motley’s am- bassadorship, fell to the bottom of the Carib- bean Sea. These are the main features in the Motley case, as discussed by the leading Boston papers oa both sides of politics. It is in that latitude the subject invokes more interest and challenges more comment than, possibly, in any other section of the country. Now, all these statements of a Washington correspondent of a Boston paper may be true or they may not. Bunt suppose they all prove to be true, what do they amount to? Simply this: —That General Grant sent Motley as Min- ister to England with certain private intruc- tions; that Motley betrayed the President and his policy about the Alabama claims and other matters affecting our relations with England by an untimely disclosure of the same to the British Minister ; that Senator Snmner betrayed the President by an ignominious forfeiture of his pledged word to support his administra- tion: that the little matter of the appointment” of a Secretary of Legation, in the person of Fish, Jr., son of the Secretary of State, ac- celerated the discomfiture of Motley’s mis- sion; that the voice of the English people is better heard through the motthpieces of the English journals thon through the speeches and diplomatic despatches of the English gov- ernment, y Under all the circumstances, therefore, we hold that President Grant was not only jasti- tied in recalling Minister Motley, but, further- more, if we had been in a state of war with Great Britain at the time, he would have been sustained by the American people in hanging him for divulging the secrets of his foreign policy, as he would have been in con- demning to death a rebel spy caught in the act of ‘‘plying. his vocation’ during the perilous hours of our nation’s existence. Discorp Is THE RepusiicAN Ranks.—If the republican party expect to make any head- way in the coming election the members of the General Committee apd the active leaders must take some lessons from Chesterfield, rather than adopt the style of the leading radicgl organ. At their recent meetings it would scem that decency was altogether banished. Offensive language was bandied about as freely as compliments at Christmas time, and in many instances some arguments stronger than words were severely threatened. This conduct was hardly to be expected from a party claiming to have risen upon what they deem the ruins of democratic vulgarity. Nothing, in the olden days of the ‘‘hard- fisted,” when ancient Tammany Hall—no more the abiding place of the tribe—was so often the scene, at one and the same time, of Ciceronian eloquence on the platform and gladiatorial agility on the floor, excelled the discordant scenes at the laig republican meet- ings. This will not do. ‘‘Let as have peace” is the motto of the republican chief. Why do not his followers put the precept into practice ? Disuoness Erection Rerurns.—The Phila- delphia Velegraph, republican, speaks thus disparagingly of the reported democratic net gains in Congressmen at the late elections: — The reported democratic net Congressional gains have dwindied down vo two in. Indiana and proba- biy not more than one in Pennsylvania. Uf Schenck and Morreil successtully contest thelr seats the nec democratic gains in Pennsyivania, Ohio, Indiana, fowaand Nebraska will probably not be more than one member. When will partisan papers learn to tell the truth? But in regard to closely contested election districts, one party is as bad as the other, and the result depends altogether upon which party has the fastest counters or upon the honesty of the investigation of the Con- gressional Committee on Contested Flections, ‘Tus Srreet CLEANERS, as we are glad to see, are again at work in large numbers. In view of clean streets why can’t we have'a city election every month? Lucius Robinson accepts the democratic nomi- nation for Congress from ihe New York Twenty- fourth district, John E. Seeley is the republi- can nominee. ‘The republican candidate in 1868 received four thousand four hundred and ninety-one majority. There is not much hope, therefore, for the democracy in this district. Mr. Robinson, however, is highly commended by many republicans, particularly those of the free wade, metallic currency stamp. TRIPLE $8 ha 7 iv vi , Thera ls more.than the usual amount of ex- nominations on the Cngrtheoal ieioe | be elected in this city in November next. This | does not so much arise from the attitude taken by two adverse political parties as from the hesitation of the Tammany Regency to select candidates, The policy of that party ostensi- bly is te leave the nominations ef candidates to the nominating conventions appointed in the several wards and districta, the leaders reserving a merely revisionary power, with the privilege of making such changes in the names of parties as the ever varying temper and policy of the powers that be deem advisa- ble. If this policy were rigidly observed it would throw upon the several candidates the herculean task of manufacturing political eapi- tal with the members of county, district and ward nomfnating conventions, accordifg to the office sought for by the candidate. One de- sirable object, however, attained by this new plan is, that it to a very considerable extent relieves the Tammany leaders of agreat deal of the political pressure and personal impor- tunity to which they were heretofore subjected under the old plan, while it at the same timo protects them from inuch of the odium which is naturally felt for the man in power by the disappointed place hunter, ‘The struggle for the Congressional nomina- tions in this city partakes very much of tho nature of ‘this new phase of — dealing with candidates. In the Fourth Congres- sional district Tammany appears to hold aloof from evincing partichlar favor for any one candidate over _ another—leay- ing to each to develop his individual strength and popularity and thereby prove his claims to be considered worthy ef a Tammany endorsement. The candidates In the field are allstrong men, and each, for his specialty, very popular. First in the field, as he is undoubt- edly first so far in the race, is Robert B. Roosevelt, who has one strong recommenda- tion, that he is to the manner bora—being a native of the district, Independent of this it is peculiarly a commercial district, most of its interests being connected with the business and commerce of the port, and Mr. Roosevelt, as the descendant of a very old commercial family, may very naturally -be considered as identified with those interests and as having the support of all those persons most intimately connected with them. The district is almost thoroughly Irish, how- ever, and this, to some extent, ia in favor of his opponents. One of these is General McMahon, late Miuister to Paraguay, and whose record during the war would entitle him to the suffrages of his fellow citizens for almost any office within their gift. Algernon 8. Sul- livan is another candidate claiming the Irish support as his just and well earned meed for his devotion to the cause on all national ques- tions. Mr. Roosevelt, however, will assuredly re- ceive all the support that the Democratic Union party can give him, backed by the slight republican vote in the district, and as, not- withstanding this opposing influenee, he stands well with Tammany, it may be safely con- cluded, from the policy of the regency referred to above, that he will get the nomination of the convention and the endorsement of Tammany. Ayovare Fatt in Gorp.—Dospite . the speculative opposition to the downward movement in gold the price of the pre- cious metal underwent a further decline yes- terday, touching at its lowest 1124. This movement was all the more unexpected for the reason that the cause which produced it—viz., the prospect of peace in Europe—had begun to be regarded as a cause for an advance on the hypothesis that a cessation of hostilities would produce such an activity ia the foreign money market as would call home the capital which found its way here during the war. The in- ference of course is now that peace or war cannot change the natural drift of the pre- mium, which is but one way with the steady reduction of the national debt and the in- creased prosperity of the country. Busy Times Amona tHE PorttrciaNs.— What with registering for election day and the Tammany and republican primaries, and the appointment of United States election inspectors, and the mysterious movements of the Young Democracy, and the rows and squabbles among the republican factions, our city politicians of all parties and cliques and creeds and colors have been over head and eara in business for the last two or three days, and have been warmed up for the work of a lively campaign. From these beginnings we look for hot shot and bombshells and a great fuss in the interval to the all-important day of November, when the issue at the polls is to be decided between all the parties and: factions and cliques concerned. Wenpewt Patius is conducting his politi- cal campaigu in Massachusetts with great vigor. Ina speech at Music’ Hall last even- ing he arraigned both the democratic and republican parties for having no living idea to propose. Therein he strikes both parties, with their continual harping upon dead {ssues, a square blow. They must act in the living pre- sent; let the dead past bury its dead. Massa- chusetts has never before had such a stirring campaign as Wendell Phillips proposes io inaugurate; for, having no fear of the elec- tion before his eyes, as he evidently does not care whether he is etected Governor or not, he does not hesitate to tell political truths. | New York Ciry 1s Aneap or Dusit, they say, according to the census, in the number of its Irish born cilizens, No man can doubt the fact after reading the names of the delegates elected at the Tammany primaries to the local democratié conventions for the nomina- tion of county, Congressional and school ticket candidates, And New York and ireland may both be proud of the record. Inrerton RercBricans Rasvine Tiere MerrropourtaNn Friexps.—The Albany Jowr- nal, republican organ, says the*proceedings of ihe Republican General Committee of the city of New York’ last Saturday night “revealed a state of facts anything but com- plimentary to the integrity of a majority of that body.” Can't the interior repyblicans speak one good, kind word for their. me- tropolitan republican friends? At present they all seem split up like so much yellow pine kindling wood, Tho Brookiys low=Deflance of the poe . aw . As far as’ ternal Revenue Department is concerned’ @ certain section of Brooklyn @ppears to perpetual battle field, The whiskey question {s the casus belli, The Fifth ward of Brooklyn is notorious, not only for the prevalence of illicit distilleries, but for, the brutal violence with which its inhabitants have repeatedly resisted all attempts of the revenue authorities to enforce the law. or the past two or three years the officers of the Internal Revenue have endeavored by employment of force—even to calling: ont the United States marines from the Navy Yard—to suppress the illicit stills in operation in that locality. The officers of the depart- ment made but a poor show when they attempted to confront the mob—male and female, The police were not more successful. They got pretty’well beaten and battered, and that is about all they got for their pains. Now, it appears by the statement of Super- visor Dutcher, that the distilling business is going on as lively as ever in this rebellions district. Indeed, it is known very well to the authorities that a dozen or more stills are run- ning off whiskey, and of course not paying a cent of revenue, Thus it seems the law is held in open defiance, Can it bo that no power exists anywhere to put a stop to this business ? Supervisor Datcher, knowing these facts and finding that he can do nothing with the force at his command, has appealed to the Police Commissioners to aid him with a force of men to protect his officers from assault in the raid upon the stills which he is now about to make. Mr, Dutcher says that his men are ready for the service—indeed eager for the fray—and, being unwilling to call upon the United States troops for protection, he asks for the assistance of the police. The President of the Board of Police Commissioners iu his answer reminds the federal officer that the police force is a local institution, deriving its powers solely from the State of New York, and is not authorized to carry out any federal law; but that if any riot is threatened the police will be on hand to perform their duty in keeping the peace of the city, or if any riot should take place it will be- come the duty of the Police Department to euppress it, ‘‘and to arrest aud hold to a strict accountability as well those whom we find actually engaged in it as those who, if there be such, have needlessly incited it.” Clearly this is the sole duty ot the police, and they must deal fairly with both parties, -The United States authorities have power enough in their hands, we should think, to carry out the laws of the United Siates in a small district of Brooklyn, even where a spirit of outlawry has been rife for a long time. But in connection with this affair it suggests itself that the pro- jected raid of Supervisor Datcher is announced at an inopportune time, He has permitted the laws to be openly defied in this district 80 long that he might wait just until after the election is over before he commences hostile operations. The stills, we suppose, can be seized just as well after election as before, and the present very active proceedings of Supervisor Dutcher would thus be less likely to misinterpretation, The Philade!phia Miection Riot. At the late election in Philadelphia a riot occurred, produced by what is supposed to have been the enraged sensibilities of Billy McMullen and John Nolea at the presence of. federal bayonets at the polls of free and enlightened voters. McMullen and Nolen are of that tribe of free electors who always inhabit the scum districts of great cities, and in order to show their love of the great fran- chise that has been vouchsafed them in this country they vote as often ag possible on each election day, and teach their neighbors and their ‘‘pals” to do the same. The pre- sence of grim federal soldiers at the polling places has cut short these pleasant and lucrative occupations of Messrs, Nolen and McMullen, and with their occupation gone life is gone. A determined resistance was made to the encroachments of federal bayonets, an open opposition was presented to the enforcement of the laws, and in the. méive which followed John Nolen fell dead, killed by a pistol shot, Some excitement ensued, but the presence of the soldiers kept it within bounds. Mr. W. B. Mann, ex-District Attor- ney and a republican, was arrested, charged \ with having abetted the murder, but on the evidence yesterday was unconditionally dis- \charged. Mr. Alexander Crawford, one of the return Judges, was also arrested, but he Was discharged on the ground that the hot was fired in self-defence, Our owa ughs at home, it is to be hoped, will le\rn from this Incident that the laws of Con- griss are to be enforced, They must avoid rejpating at the election next month, They wil\ not be held any more sacred here than the3were in Philadelphia, and notwiihstand- ing \he holy horror with which they may obsetve the sacrilegious presence of the soldiéry at free polling places, they have the satisfaction of knowing that they brought them there, tnd that it is to curtail the power for evil of\just such fellows as themselves that they ate there, Champagne Bubbles in the Political Came paign. The political campaign in this State is aa~ suming anew and rather a sparkling phase. The democratic journals are putting such questions as these to several of Woodford’s friends :—“Is he a pledged teetotaler?” “Did he ever pledge himself to advocate local pro- hibition?” ‘‘Was he ever a partner in the firm of Bininger & Co., or in any other wholesale orimporting liquor house?” ‘‘Ilas he, since his-nomination, participated in a champagne supper and partaken of that exhilarating beve- rage?” Thus much for the champagae bub- bles against the republican candidate, Per contra. We suppose we shall now have aseries of questions like the following pro- pounded to the backers of Hoffman, the demo- cratic candidate:—‘‘Does he board at the aris- tocrati¢ Clarendon Hotel?” ‘Did he ever drink champagne in the parlors of that hotel?” “Did he ever eatertain a party of political magnates there?” ‘Has he ever had anything todo with the weil-knowa liquor and importing house of Acker & Merrall?” ‘Did he ever trample upon the rights of a free American citizen by ordering an honest and incorruptible driver of a Fourth avenue horse railroad car to ‘hold his horses’ whila ho was adivessing a multitude