The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM Bre: ances every afternoon anc ays corner 8b st.—Perform- sive BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. FAMIAN THE SERF~ ‘Tae TERBOBLE TIAKER. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—-Man ann WIPER, BOOTH’S THEATRE, 28d at., between Sth and 6th ave, — Biv VAN WINKLY FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais) ELIZABETH. GLOBE THEATRE 9: YAINMENT—NYMPHS OF THE ( ‘ay.—Vaninty ENTER- DBRAN BRA. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana 1Sth street.— ‘Tue Semious FAMILY. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—GRAND GERMAN OFERA—NORMA. RIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—ENauisu Orena— Tux BOHEMIAN G11. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—ALADDIN—~ TUX BLIND BEGGARS—ROMNO JAFFIER JENKINS. GRAND OPERA HOUS®, corner of Eighth avenue and Bd oL—La GRanp DocuEser, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brondway.—Tuk PANTOMIME OF Wee Witum Winkie. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— Man any Wirr, vi TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery,—VA- MINTY BNTRRTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comre Vooat- wu, NEGHO ACIS, &0. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL MALL. 585 Breadway.— Nrane MiNSTRELBY, FAROKS, BURL ESQUES, &e. SELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No, 805 Broadway.— Taz ONLY Leon—La Kose pr St. FLOUR, &0. STEINWAY HALL, pth street.—Mr. De Cor OYA ON YOUNG AMERICA IN THE SUMMER VACATION, HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, @TRELSY, BURLESQUES, AC. Broeklyn.-Neuno MIN- BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE——Wrrom, Wucnrs & Warre’s Minsrenis—O Heaven's REVENGE, £0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—SoRNES IN sun Rrxo, Achonwats, & NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENOX AND ART. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— BCLENOE AND ABT. TRIPLE New York, Sundny, Novem! 6, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-BAY’S HERALD. Pack Advertisements, 2—Advortisements. 3—Paris: Herald Special Report of the Armistice Negotiations; Interview Between M. Thiers and Bismarck; Geueral Burnside’s Mission to Paria; The Question of Alsace and Lorraine; ae prauling. of Paris Denlea by the Prus- sians; Exolus of Americans from Paris; Scenes aud Incidents on the Journey 10 Versailles; Spirit of the French People Still Defiant; Bazine’s Defence of Himself; Mayor Arago, ‘of Paris, Re: i Situation in Tours: rils of the Deep: The Wreck of the Steamer Varuna; Forty-eight Lives Lost: Horrible Fate of the Passengers; ‘Thirt X persons Drowned in ‘their State- rooms; ‘Terrible Suflering of the Survivors; Sixty Hours in a Storm at Sea in an Open Boat; Thritiing Account of the Disaster. @—State and City Politics: Siate of Parnes on the Eve of Contest; the Political rama; the ; the Mayoralty © many’s Last Ratification; the » Con. gressional and mily Candidates; the Swearing In of De Marshais—-Almost a Murder—s < 5—The Pontifi di Reception of the Papal Canadian eers in New York— —Dress Fashion in Aus- —Prospect Park Fair Grounds: A Fine roiting Match Betweea American and the Union Course— The Nat d Gladiators— Smythe on the agedy at Highland Fails—The old £ ’ KRumpus—A Union at mn Trouble- Proceedings in the New ading Article, the Armistice, the ‘Terms, European Reconstrue- mnuncements. ‘om Sixth Page)—Tele- graphic News from All Parts of the World: General Prim on the Spanish Throne Question; Death of an African Potentate; The King and » Pope: Tite Situation in Rome. ‘a from hinglon—United States Supreme Court— Intelligence—Opituary—Playing a Subseription Li ts Yach ch Matinee. 238 Notices. i Report—Marriages aud Deaths—Ad- d ments. B—Acvertisements. 40—The Founding Asylum: The Charter and Magnitude of the Work—The Election: The Powers of Supervisors and Deputy Marshals—Comrouoication with Paris— New York City News—Anothe: jictde—Mar- derous Assault—. Car Marder— The Voorhees € y_ City Demo- cracy—Meteorol | Record—Sbipping In- telilgence—Ad verlisements. J1—Advertsements. 12—Advertisements. ALLEN AND GALLAGHER had their fight near St. Louis yesterday, and Allen whipped Galla- gher as easily as Mace whipped Allen last spring in New Orleans. These bruisers must bend to science after all. Wat Srrert.—The recent decline in gold has staried a general speculative movement in Wall street and the activity of the Stock Exchange is daily increasing. The winter months promise a lively campaign between the “‘bulls” and ‘‘bears.” Tie DevAtss OF THE WRECK OF THE VARUNA, aa they reach us, contaia some unusual elements of horror even in shipwreck. The passengers were drowned in their staterooms, being caged, as it were, by the waves bursting iu the eabin doors. The captain and # number of the crew, while escaping in their boat, were caught foul of the rigging and went down helplessly with the ship. The second mate and four men escaped after dreadful sufferings. i “THIOKER THAN THE LEAVES IN VALLOM- srosa”—The diamonds and other precieus gems reported to have been recently found on “*Afric’s burning sand.” We hope none of our enterprising Awerican adventurers will be found “burning their fingers” in efforts to en- rich themselves from this enchanting source. Tax Miuitary Movements.—The troops in France continue making strategic manceuvres, not yet baving been officially notified of the pending truce. It is even stated that desul- tory firing goes on around the fortifications of the city. At Orleans the Prussians are con- centrating and the French at Tours are pre- paring to attack them. The forces at Dijon sxe being heavily reinforced and continue their movements towards Lyons. These movements will ‘all doubtless cease as soon as a notification of the pending armistice has been received by the commanding generals; but in the meantime it is their duty to put their forces inte as comfortable and secure? quarters as possible. + The evidences of inter- \xal trouble among the French people multiply daily. Lyons ond Marseilles are said to be on ‘the eve of revolt; Paris, although now quiet, ts seething with revolutionary spirits, and the people throughout the previuces are sullen JAd party. ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Armistico—The Possible Peace Terme— Earopoan Recenstraction. brought about? Is Austria t6 be\ hum- bled still more? Is Russia to maroh to Con- In nothing is the demoralized condition of stantinople? Is the Turk to bp sent back to France so unmistakably revealed as in the uncertainty which seems to prevail regarding the armistice. While we write it is difficult to say how far France bas agreed to an armistice. We have no pesitive statement that the Tours ment inside the walls of the beleaguered capital; but we lack positive statement on the other side, It is undeniable that the govern- ment in Paris has accepted the proposal of Bismarck and signed the agreement. If the Tours government will not follow their breth- ren of Paris—if Lyons and Marseilles and the other more southern centres prove to be equally unreasonable, then we shall have a state of things almost, if not entirely, unparal- leled in the history of any people. We are not willing to believe that France will be so foolish and blind to her own inte- rests as many people think she is. It is surely more than possible that Tours will follow Paris, that Lyons and Marseilles will follow Tours, and that thus France will make possible a general election—the one thing which can save her from absolute apd unqualified dis- grace. If it should happen that France in this particular instance is not Paris, then General Trochu, backed up by the King of Prussia and his skilful henchman, Count Bismarck, must proclaim himself Dictater, and so ‘do for France what France seems utterly unable to do for herself. Many of the facta of the mo- ment point to this necessity; but we are most unwilling to believe that the armistice is not to be an accepted fact all over France. Taking it for granted that the armistice has been agreed to and that France In all her borders agrees to it and does her duty in the premises, the next question to be considered is the terms of peace. A generally accepted armistice, of course, means that the French people will, within twenty-five days, elect a Constituent Assembly and delegate to that Assembly the right and the power to act in their name. The Constituent A.sembly may elect a President and proclaim a republic, they may recall the Emperor, they may restore the House of Orleans; but their prin- cipal business will, after all, be to arrange with Prussia a treaty of peace. What terms will Prussia offer? Will she insist on the cession of Alsace and Lorraine? Will she only insist on the permanent occupation of Strasbourg and the destruction of Metz and every other fortified place in the two écoupied provinces? Will she Germanize Alsace and Lorraine and hand them over to baden? Is it possible that the French people, as one has hinted, will be induced to elect to the throne of St. Louis the present King of Belgium, France thus obtaining Belgium as compensa- tion for Alsace and Lorraine? All these are possibilities, Some .of them, however, are possibilities barely. Others of them reach almost to the region of the probable. We are willing to give up the Belgian possibility, for the simple reason that neither the Belgian King nor the Belgian people will fling away the certain for the uncertain—their independ- ent existence for absorption. We are willing to give up the Baden idea, for the reason that Prussia will. not do anything to aggrandize South Germany or encourage the Seuthern States to hinder national unity. Baden, so enlarged, would feel her semi- national importance, and with Wurtemburg and Bavaria and Hesse she might make Southern Germany dangerously strong. Bismarek is not the man to create troubles for himself or obstructions to his ewn policy. The presumption to-day is that Bismarck will draw his line with sufficient skill, and that he will speak with so much authority, that the best parts of Alsace and Lorraine will have no choice but exchange French for Prussian allegiance. It is not our opinion that, if France has the common sense to keep herself out of chaos, Prussia will interfere with her choice of a government. It is not to be for- gotten, however, that the elections, in any event, will take place under Prussian influ- ence, and that, therefore, they will be in favor of monarchy. It is as little to be forgotten that General Trochu, who is the man of the hour, the master of the situation, and who, in spite of a republican protestation which we print to-day, is an Orleanist at heart. General Ney once left Paris to bring back the First Napoleon in a cage of iron; but when the General met his former master he bowed the knee and gave him his sword. General Monk was the trusted soldier of the English Commonwealth; but General Monk used his mighty influence to bring back Charles Stuart to the throne of his ancestors, General Trochu is not a better man than was the good Lafayette; but even Lafayette re- stored @ monarchy in France, Everything depends on the French people themselves. If they act as one man in favor of a republic it is not our opinion that Trochu will betray them ; but if they do not reveal more magnanimity than they have shown since this war com- menced Trochu may save France by restoring the house of Orleans. In M. Thiers he will have a powerful helper. The settlement of this contest between France and Germany will raise questions of serious import—of so serious import as to make the reconstruction of Europe a neces- sity. A congress may be considered certain. It is not France alone that will feel dissatisfied. There is a big trouble in Italy. Wisely or unwisely, the Pope has refused to have any dealings with the Italian government. His protest is already before the world, and the Catholic populations of all lands, in the New World as well as in the Old, are in hearty sympathy with the Holy Father. In the triumph of Prussian arms and the unification of Germany Austria sees a danger from which she knews not how te escape, She knows well that if Prussia carries her point her ten or twelve millions of German subjects will be growing impatient of her yoke. It is not otherwiee—it is worse, if possible—with Russia. Russia has German provinces which will seek to be incorporated with Fatherland ; and Russia has, besides, her ambition, which she will seek to satisfy, and her wrongs,. which she will seek to avenge. The Sultan trembles already for his throne, and the last hours of Mohammedan authority in Europe, in the estimation of many thinking people, have arrived. The rectification of frontiers is now @ practical and imperious necessity. What is ta be the new arrangement, and how Ap it to ke government ts not in accord with the govern-. his native wilds? Is Great Britain to become mistress of Egypt? After her war with France is ended is Prussia to fight with Austria once more, or is she to fight with her mighty Northern neighbor? A congress may not settle all these questions, but the first Euro- pean congress will have to think of them and do its best to smooth them down. A general uprise of the peoples may surprise and baffle the plans and defeat the prospects of the mo- narchies. In any case w@ cannot say that peace concluded between France and Prussia will imply the permanent peace of Europe. Looking at all the possibilities and probabili- ties of the European situation, we feel that in this free, wide-spreading, rich American land our lines have fallen in pleasant places, Our Approaching Election—Law, and an Honest Vote. The republicans assure us that in this city we are going to have an honest election, and law and order, too, through the enforcement of the city registration law and the new elec- tion laws of Congress, The Republican State Order Committee, however, advise what they appa- | rently consider the necessity of s vigilant look-out for ‘frauds of every description” in all the other cities, towns and parts of the State where there is no registration law. This committee say that, ‘having been foiled in their attempts to repeat the gigantic frauds hitherto practised in the city of New York, the corruptionists of Tammany Hall have now turned their attention to places outside the city, and will make a bold and desperate attempt to carry the election by the corrupt use of money, the colonization of repeaters and the employment of fraudulent naturaliza- tion papers distributed broadcast throughout the State;” and the committee further say that they have facts which confirm this in- formation. This charge, however, like all the other partisan charges on both sides on the verge of a political election, must be taken with o liberal allowance of salt. From present indications the Tammany demo- cracy will hardly be shaken in the city and will hold their ground throughout the State. It requires a great national issue and 4 general revival among the republicans of the country districts fo bring them all out. They have raised a tremendous excitement in the city, and in the hope of some valuable assist- ance from ‘‘the Young Democracy” they aro working here like beavers; but the “Young Democracy” are very uiéertain and have been, day by day, growing Small by degrees and beautifully less, while the Tammany republicans are evidently going for Hoffman and Hall. Nor does it ap- pear that “‘the great commotion” in this city has caused any very hopeful revival among the republicans of the interier and distant bor- ders of the State. They have been so dis- heartened and demoralized for the last two or three years that it will probably take still an- other year or two to get them all into lino again. Fenton and his faction could not be expected to work with any great zeal just yet for Thomas Murphy; we are rather apprehen- sive that in his bebalf they are very lukewarm, though he is a good fellow and a generous boy from ‘‘the ould sod.” In short, looking at the results of the October elections, we look for a short State vete and a decided democratic victory, as usual on a short vote, in our November election; and whether Hoff- man is re-elected by filty, sixty or seventy-five thousand majority, it will make no material diffwence. We expect that he will substan- tially hold his own, and that his party will still held both branches of the Legislature and gain several members of Congress. We ex- pect these results, too, more from republican apathy in the State than frem democratic ac- tivity. Tammany has the inside track, and her supporters are encouraged and confident ; the republicans of the State are still disheart- ened by their defeats since 1867, and lack the spirit required for success. With another campaign or two under the active leadership of General Grant they may recover their lost ground; but the task is evidently too heavy fora single fight under General Woodford, though he fights like a veteran soldier of the Plains for the scalps of the ‘‘big Indians.” Ponirics IN THE Putrit.—If even an ap- proaching election supplies no excnse for the bad manners of the party press, none cam ever be found for the obtrusion of politics in the pulpit, Yet last Sunday and Sunday before last several preachers so far forgot the duties of their sacred office as to pollute the temples of worship by vielent partisan harangues. No such harangues should ever be made from the pulpit. Espe- cially now, when political placards cover the walls of our city and the sireets are filled with political processions, and nothing is talked about in clubs and public meetings or written about in the newspapers except politics dur- ing the entire week, it is relief on the Sab- bath to escape for one day from all this din and confusion. But the political parsons de- prive their hearers of this delightful relief. Why cant’t they let us have at least a single day of rest? Have religious themes lost all their interest and importance? Why should professed ministers of religion be so engrossed with the most trivial and evanescent excite- ments of time as to lose sight of eternity? If they deem it no longer worth while to preach the Gospel let them turn political stump speak- ers, but not in the pulpit. Tar Prox-Witson Divorck CasE now be- fore Judge Jones is a nice family story to come before the public. Peck wanted money, and his mother agreed to let him have $30,000 if he would get rid of his wife. Then his wife, in order that he might get the $30,000, agreed to make no plea against a divorce, provided that he would marry her again. So as it steod it was a nice conspiracy to cheat the elderly Mrs. Peck, who deserved to be cheated, But Peok being free did not feel like resuming his chains again, and hence the litigation, Unsitep States Distrior Atrorney Davis has issued very full and explicit directions to the supervisors under the new election law. It will be seen that the old plan of counting out legally elected candidates is effectually embargoed, as well as the more ordinary plan of repepting at the polla, Ren) The condition of France outside of Paris is uncertain and dangerous. . In such large cities as Marseilles and Lyons and the other seats of manufacture, where the people—the ouvriers—form a powerful element, there appears to be ao disposition to dispute the authority of the provisional government at Paris and to disregard the government at Tours, An independent spirit has grown up in the manufacturing cities, involving a strong opposition to centralization of power in tho existing government at Paris. At Grenoble, Nimes, Toulouse and ether places demonstra- tions hostile to the provisional government have been made. The announcement of an armistice does not seem to soothe the excited temper of the people in the outside cities. On the contrary, they are reported to be greatly inflamed by the news; from all which we con- clude that France {s in a very unhealthy con- dition just now; that, so far from there being any unity upon the question of a republic, there really exists throughout the whole country a tendency to disintegration, which looks about as like the establishment of a va- riety of republics, such as Italy witnessed after the Roman empire was demolished, as it does the consolidation of France under one republican government. It is evident that the people of the manufacturing cities must ap- proach the election of members to the Con- atituent Assembly in a better spirit than is now said to exist if the armistice just'pro- claimed and the peace which is almost certain to follow the cessation of hostilities is to result in the establishment of any permanent govern- ment for France, Affairs, even in this crisis. look chaotic—a crisis upon which hinges the future of the country, because whether peace or war be the decision of the new Parliament about te be elected by the peeple, and which is to assemble on the 15th of the present month, there is really no promise of unity in the selection of a new form of government which can guarantee'to France a permanency of prosperity or even a prospective restora- tion to her former prestige among the nations of Europe. Dress Fashions from the Antipedes. The social demoralization and domestic dis- turbances which have been prodyced on the Continent of Europe by the war, combjned with the “nothing tq wear” necessities which the pauperizatiens of the great struggle have forced om the people of Paris, have resulted in a temporary interruption of our special weekly dress fashions letter. We have had no despatch from our correspondent by the two latest Cunard steamships. The cause has been, most likely, a lack of material. Paris is completely confused and vests itself, so far as the inhabitants may have a good supply of clothing, very probably after the style of Bryan O'Lynn, with the wrong side of its coat turned ouf and ‘the skirt tails tied round the.neck. Distressed humanity is hardly ever permitted to languish for any great length of time. The “checks and balances” of the globe tend to make things square at any one particular point of difficulty. Inour present dress fashions news emergency Australasia, the antipodes, comes to the relief of New York. Paris, in its men- tal and physical decay, is likely to be super- seded by the active mind and inventive genius of the free settlers who cultivate the terriiory of the aboriginals. By the Australian mail, just to hand, we received the description of a grand costume which was worn by the May- oress ef Melbourne at a recent municipal en- tertainment in that city, It was an original, brilliant and most artistic combination of clothing material, trimmings and ornamenta- tion. Almost all the countries of the Old World had contributed something to the make-up. The lady appeared in the room a brilliant, yet homogeneous, graceful and patron- izing cesmopolitan—a friend to both foreign and home industry. The description of her costume, which we publish te-day, may well console the fair ladies of New York for the absence of our Paris letter, for in this Austra- lasian toilet were blended the germs and points of ideas fer the newest and grandest sort of combinations by eur modistes. Van Dieman was, as may be seen by his pertrait, a very graceful fellow, indeed. May the children of his land ef discovery contiaue to flourish in an earthly glory which is equalled only by the plumage of their own parrots and macaws! Bazaine’s Devenor.—It is stated that Mar- shal Bazaine has published a defence of ‘his conduct at Metz, justifying himself for having surrendered that fortress and his large army to the Prussians, - Perhaps all details of that military disaster are unnecessary in view of the fact which Bazaine states, that not only was he beset by the gaunt spectre of famine, daily towering over and sweeping into the shadow of death the army, the garrison and the citizens of the beleagured tewn, but that affairs had reached a point rendering it impos- sible to cut his way out, because he had no horses to move his artillery, and his cavalry were all dismounted and, therefore, for that service, worthless. Wherefore? Because the artillery and cavalry horses were already eaten up, in lieu of any other food, by the starving people. In such a strait what could the Mar- shal do? It has been said before that Bazaine capitulated to hunger and not to the Prassians. It is evident, if the facts urged in his defence are true as reported, and there is as yet no substantial reason to doubt them, that the charges of treachery officially made by Gam- betta, and scattered abroad by the French press, may prove to be but hasty and cruel slanders. van by the Camps to Versailled, — By special cable telegram from London we have an ample verbatim report of the circum- stances which attended the exodus of the American residents from. Paris, and of the | after-journey of the members of the liberated company to Versailles. It was an unusually exciting occasion; joyous, yet melancholy withal. Onr fellow citizens, ladies as well as gentlemen, were aroused from their slumbers before daybreak and duly mustered fur the march. Carriages were hired and a goodly caravan line organized. The weather was cold and gloomy. It was in suitable contrast with the mournful sur- roundings. Soldiers lined the sidewalks and crowded the streets. The butchers were serv- ing out thelr morning rations to a hungry popu- lace. Joy appeared to have been banished from Paris; want, bewilderment and dismay reigned supreme, The members of the exiled party were under the heavy guns of the defence and observed the grim stand to-arms attitude of the French gunners, Having “shaken the dust from their feet,” our countrymen hoisted a neutral flag om cach of the different carriages and proceeded; the struggling penant still “looking back” towards a city of former hopes; a place of many friendships and re- grets, Clearing the barriers, and having journeyed some few miles, the Americans ob- served the spiked helmets of the Prussians. Here they came up to a barrier thrown across the road. It was mounted with two guns. This fact assured them that the controlling power of the Prussians stood there; that the heart of France was ligatured; that a flery cincture was consuming her strength, A Prussian officer met the Americans. He was instructed by Bismarck. It is, consequently, useless to repeat that he was calm, methodi- cal, strict, accurate and gentlemanly. Pass- ports and papers were examined, names regis- tered and a written assurance thut no letters were being carried out exacted from each of the travellers. Assured at all points the German officer retired, The Ameri- cans proceeded. The journey to Ver- sailles was replete with incident. There were & runaway team and _ terrified ladies, carriage mending by the roadside, 8 breakfast of cheese and beer, the cutting of memorial sticks, a deluge of rain, thousands of soldiers, with Versailles in the distance be- fore the eyes of a hungry, wet and” fatigued and travel-soiled party., Versailles was reached by nightfall, Here there was kind reception, repairing of damages, dinner, light and chit-chat, with the delight of the remem- brance of dangers past. The members of this American party from Paris, of whom Many names are given in our special despatch, will have a “‘good deal to talk about” beneath their own ‘“‘vine and fig tree,” in home and happy land. Tor PERsxourion: or CurisTIANs IN Da- Masous has been revived, and fears are ‘enter- tained that it will culminate in another mas- sacre. Christianity has met with opposition in every age, from the birth of Christ down to this nineteenth century. But the Gospel and the other civilizing elements that go hand in hand with it have been gradually gaining ground throughout the world, and though ignorant barbarians and fanatics may add to the “roll of honor” of the Chris- tian martyrs of ancient and modern times, civilization and Christianity will be univer- sally triumphant in the end. These reports of persecution and impending massacre, while they awaken our sympathy for those who aro oppressed, should also make us thankful that here in the United States perfect religious liberty is enjeyed. Encouragina IMMiGRraTiION—A WestTERN MovemEnt.—The Governors of the North- western States have issued a call for a national cenvention to discuss the general subject of immigration and the propriety of transferring the interests of immigrants from the authority of the several States to that of the general government until they shall arrive in the States in which they desire te seitle. The idea is to pretect the immigrants against the frauds and abuses of certain sharpers. When foreigners are invited to our shores all possible protection should be given them, Mr. Grinnell organized an excellent system by which the necessary inspection by Custom House officlals was speedily attended to, ‘and Tmigrants arriving in New York were not subjected te delay as they had been in former years. A similar system at the other ’princi- pal seaports would increase the comfort of incoming foreigners. If the general govern- ment should accept the responsibility of send- ing them to the different States and Territories it would ne doubt be very agreeable to the immigrants. The Secretary of the Interior has promised to co-operate with the Governors who have called the convention. A Luoxy Escape ror THR DemMooracy— When Governor Hoffman saved his life on Fri- day by leaping from a wagon, the horses of which had come in contact with the fire tele- graph wire on the Tenth avenue, near 155th street, and were furiously running away. In view of the anspicious escape, it is very pro- bable that the Governor will reach Albany safely by steam after the next election. A A Drunken Fritow in Dawson, Ga., be- came involved in a controveray with the door- keeper of a circus yesterday and proposed to shoot him. Upon being remonstrated with he became insulted, and, determining to wipe out the insult with blood, opened fire on the gathered crowd. He was joined by two other desperadoes, and the sum total of their mo- ment’s work was the killing of one man, who was not even interested in the fracas and who was sitting inside the circus with his child in his arms, and the wounding of a Iady. All of which resulted from the insane custom too prevalent in the South of carrying concealed weapons and of resenting imaginary insults with murder. Mayor Harr’s Vixptoation.—Mayor Hall delivered an address at the Cooper Institute last evening, under the auspices of the Central Brennan Association, By facts, figures and sta, together with sketches of the: personal character of his appointees upon the different departments under the new Charter, ‘he pro- sented a triumphant vindication of the policy that bas actuated his administration of , the, ataica, of the city coveramemt, New Census or Puwapetrata.—The Pre- sident has directed that a census be taken of Philadelphia. The cause alleged is that in consequence of the absence throughout the summer of thousands of citizens the popula- tion of the city was not fairly ascertained. Western ‘‘Roap Acznts,” finding robbing mail coaches becoming monetonous and un~ profitable, cencluded to vary their occupation, and accordingly have turned their attention to nobler and more exciting game. Yesterday morning the eastward bound passenger train on the Central Pacific Railroad was stopped by a gang of eight masked men, near the town of Reno, the express car broken open and rifled of £1,000 in gold coin, with which the robbers escaped to the mountains, This isthe most successful exploit of the road agents pince the days of the noted bandit Jonquin, ia ‘eo Gua ayes of California, sawed Sood bad for Com As the real causes of General Cox's resignag! tion of his place fn the Cabinet are coming light the causes go industriously circulated his behalf, and, wo fear, through hig asslat< ance, begin to appeat as shallow Pretences,, His side of the story, however, was pre | lame from the first, and now that the side is presented General Cox is { demolished. His justification condemned’ the President. The Secretary wished to intro+ duce a great reform in his department in stop~ ping the usual party assessments for campalga purposes levied upon the party office-holders.. Failing to carry out this reform, as he would have it understood, he resigned his position. His friends and admirers applauded this act ag an act of heroism worthy the good old virtuous days of the republic, Unfortunately, how~ ever, for Cox, there was the other side of tha story, and, as suggested from Washington im yesterday's HeraLp, wo must repeat that ik demolishes Cox; The trouble resulting in his retirement was 1 not those party assessments upon the clerks of his department, but the famous McGarraham, land claim, This claim, involving lands im California to the alleged value of four or five millions of dollars, more or less, was, and in,’ in contest between two parties working for tha, possession of those lands, It is a long story; bud it appears that General Cox, as| Secretary of the Interior, was anxlous and apparently resolved to decide this claim favor of one of the parties, and would havé 80 decided but for the peremptory instruc< tions from the President to keep the casa open for the reconsideration of Congress. Here we have a sufficient cause for the vir- tuous indignation of General Cox and 2 satis« factory vindication of the President in accept< ing his resignation. Here, too, we might rest the case but for the intervention of the twa ladies of the Cabinet circle directly concerned in this official “onpleasantneas.” Mrs. General Cox, it appears, enclosed to Mrs. Generak Grant, anonymously, a newspaper articld bearing rather sharply upon the President touching Cox’s resignation ; but it seems tha€ the monogram on the envelope betrayed Mrs. Cox, and that accordingly she received the envelope aud enclosure back from the White House with the compliments of Mrs, General Grant. This is one of those little incidents which sa frequently in high official circles affect tha fortunes of Cabinets, parties and dynasties; but the advantage of Mrs. Grant in this case is as decisive as that of the General. Im conclusion, it is unfortunate for General Cox that he tried unfairly to turn his resignation ta the prejudice of the President, when the factal in the case, upon which the President’ waa : Bilent, were conclusive against his Seoretary.; 1 The Mormons. . Brigham Young is troubled in consequence of the gradual decline of his‘ absolute authority! in Utah. So is his Holiness the Pope at, the loss of his temporal power in the Peninsula. Both these heads of the Church have been pronounced infallible ; but now neither has any. longer that undisputed sway in his dominions which each respectively held so long, It ia only a few weeks since the regular semi-anoual Conference of the Saints met and adjourned as usual. But Brigham summoned all the faithful to assemble in the Tabernacle @ week ago in special council, The sainta were getting too worldly, he said, and they needed some more spiritual instruction, Perhaps Brigham Young had a new revela~ tion to communicate privately to the bishops. If so, was it to resist tha authority of the United States government in Utah, or to quietly and sensibly submit to it? The policy of the federal officials bothers. him. Therecent decisions of Chief Justice McKean have deprived the Mormon courts of much of the jurisdiction they have heretofore assumed. The Governor firmly refused to permit the annual muster of the Mormom militia under the Mormon cogmander. Some of the city authorities have been on trial before’ the federal court for destroying all the valual stock in a Gentile liquor store, and the eer have rendered a verdict of over fifty-nine thou- sand dollars—three times the velue of the stock: destroyed—in fayor of the proprietor. That reformers who have seceded from the Chureh are geriously undermining Brigham’s influence, among the aaints, The Methodist and Episco-' palian missiens have already accontplished, much In the way of dispelling superstitions. The mines are attracting crowds of Gentiles, and the railroad’ affords facilities for conve- nient communication with the outer world. All these things trouble Brigham Young, who feels gliding from his grasp the power he wielded once not so wisely as so well, Bap MANNERS OF THE Party Press.—The bad manners of the party press are always offensive enough, and about a week or so be- fore an election they usually become intoler- able. This year, however, we were so agree= ably surprised at the exceptional absence of the flood of billingsgate which the political almanac had taught ua to “look-out for about thia time” that we could not refrain from com- plimenting the party press on a decided im~ provementin its manners. But we had scarcely uttered a word of premature praise befove it was utterly forfeited by o sudden ontburst of all the fiercest and vilest expletives: that form’ the vocabulary of abuse. The vonductors off the party press began, as if by mutual conwert,! to fling their heaviest brickbats amd their rot~ tenest eggs at each others’ heails. ‘We must, therefore, take back the compliments ~yhich wa were ready to bestow on them, aad express our deep regret that, instead'af being a mntor and moralizer of the public, the party pross is its shameless demoralizer. Prers axp Doous AND; WASHINGTON, Make xet.—The Commissioners of Piers and Docks, at their late meeting, hisd a good deal of busi- ness before them—va'/ious suggestions ag to the removal of obstractions in the North tiver and the improvememt of various piers from West 155th street Caawn to Thirty-cighth street. But the most important suggestion of all wae the removal of that detestable nuisance knowa as West Washiagton Market. This wretched exorescence upon the water front of the North river has beea,litile better than a pest hole for many years. Washington Market itself is a to tho oity,and why tt should be 00 long ly 9 wondess “Buh Wook