The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 st, between Sth and 6th avs, — Pur oF ws PerricoaTs—FAaMILyY JABS. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 90th st. Perform. ‘ances afternoon and evening—EAST LYNNE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—A Tair To RicaMOND— BnIN Fane. {BLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sis-ur. Duawa ov Fultz GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8th av. ana 33d st.— Nanorese. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 720 B: KEL 4 Leon's MinerRELa, Lid roadway.—KELLY FIFTA AVENUS THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strect.— Tuk New Duawa oF Divorce. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and ltt street.— ‘Tus PRinckss oF TRENIZONDE, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tig BALLET PAN- rome or Humpry Duwrry. GLOBE THEATRE, 72 Broadway.--NrGro KconnTsr- OITIks, BURLESQUES, LO. UNION SQUARE THEATRE ‘and Broadway.—Nkono A corner of Fourteenth street BUKLESQUK, BALLET, &0. SAN FRANCISCO MINST! HALL, 585 Broadway.— Tae Ban FRANCISCO MINSTI NEW OPERA HOUSE, 231 st, betweon 6th BRYANI'S MINSTRELS, BRYANT’ and 7th avi TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NE@RO EcoeNtRicitiks, BURLESQUES, &C. Matince. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteouth atrect.--VocAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONC! CENTRAL PARK RDEN.—THRODORR THoMas’ SUMMER Nicuys' Concenrs. TWENTY-EIGUTA STREET OPERA HOUSK, corner Broadway.—NuWooun & ARLINGTON’ MINSTRELS, TERRACE GARDEN, 58th street, between Lexington and Sdave.—JULIEN's CONCERTS, AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXIIBITION, Third avenue aod Sixty-third atréet.—Opea day aud evening. TRIPLE SUEET. New York, Tuesday, September 12, 1871. eeeeeee a = =" CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Paar, es Se 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—The International Regatta at Saratoga: Splen- dia Victory of the Ward Brothers; ‘The Four Miles - Made im 24:40: Sadler Wins the Scull Race—American Jockey Club Subscription Room—The Lexington Races—Yacuting Notes—New Jersey Volitics— Catacazy_ and b—The Latest suiclde—The Youn, Democracy Again on Deek—Tho Shandley Demonstration—epublican Central Counmittee—Fioating the Caisson for the East River Bridge—A Kentucky Tragedy—Burned to Death, 4~-The Great Injunction Case: Another Grand Field Day Belore Judge Barnard; AMdavits of the Mayor and Heads of D: Whole arcanum of Munic’ Libited to the Public View of City and County Fina! Counsel, S—The Great Injunction Case (Continued from Fourth Page)—The McCauley Murder—Tae Latest Deed of Blood in the City—The Union Jim Murder—The Gourd M Solved— Vantsied Vouchers: An Alleged Burglary in the Comptroiler’s Of}ce—Financiat and Com- mercial keports—American Bonds in a London t Mete EXDIbIt Argumeat of a uri 6—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The City Govern- meut in the Courts—Mayor Hali’s Answer”— Amusement Announcements. ‘Y—Bismarck’s Kussian Coup: Germany Fooling Russia by the Versailles ‘treaty—The Inierna- tional Doomed—News from France, England, Germany, Spam, Hungary and Brazil—The Maine Election—Miscellaneous Telegrams— Boiler Explosion in Newouryport, Mass. — News from Washington—Amusencuts—Busi- ness Notices. 8—The East Side Tragedy: Inquest op the Cause of the Death of Mary Russell; Evidence of Her Female Friends aud Her Alleged Seducer; ¥ of the Jury: Ball for the Prisoner Marriages and Deaths—advertise- 9—Advel 4¥—General Buller on the Stump : Another Speech BANQUET TO THE ITALIAN AMBASSADOR, at Westticld—The Courts—Shipping [ntelli- gence—Adveriisements, 11—Auvertisements, V2—Adverusements, Tor RerusircaN Primary Exreorions for delegates were held yesterday. The young democracy, who were so completely thrashed out by Tammany last year, are secretly organ- izing again. They held a preliminary meeting last night at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Tar Democratio NoMINatING CONVENTION or New Jersky meets to-morrow and will proceed to nominate a candidate for Governor, The only names likely to be presented are Judge Bedle, Leon Abbett and Nebemiah Perry. Joel Parker would undoubtedly re- ceive the nomination, but he has earuestly deolined. Toe Brornzr anp Sister of old John Harper, the owner of Longfellow, were mur- dered recently in their home, near Midway, Ky., by some persons unknown. The negroes on the place are susp2cted, and at last accounts a body of citizens were searching for them—a proceeding that geverally means lynching. Tox Weeatp at Berun.—The Nord- Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung mentions, as a sign of the growing importance of Berlin asa political centre, that the New York Heratp ig represented there by a special correspon- dent. The Nord-Deutsche is sadly behind the times, or it would know that the Heratp has been thus represented in the capital of Prussia for many years. Mare has gone republican by a majority of atleast 4,000. No other result was ex- pected even by the democrats, and they have made some handsome gains, whica was about all that they could hope for. But the result shows, taken in connection with the election in California, that the fair and honest admin- istration of General Grant has won him hearty and zealous adherents both East and West, from Maine to California, notwithstand- ing the open repudiation of him which Philosopher Greeley seems anxious to organ- ize in order to secare his own nomination, on his present lecture tour in the Northwestern States. Tnx Question SETTLED IN Onto.--Gene- ral McCook, disabled by sickness from active participation in the present Ohio State canvass, it was supposed would withdraw or be with- drawn as the democratic candidate for Gover- ‘oer, and that General Ewing would take his place. It appears, however, that this proposi- tion to “swap horses” was under consideration the other day by tue Democratic State Com- mittee, when the question was settled by a note from General Ewing, in which he posi- tively and emphatically declined to take the place of McCook. From the present indica- tions in Ohio, McCook or Ewing, the result would be substastially the same—a democratic defeat; for Ewing would come too late to rec- tify the damages resulting from the blunders of McCook on the ‘new departure.” Ewing, therefore, may be excused iu leaving the bat- Ue to McCook, NEW YUKK HKKALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 187L—TRIPLE SHmtt, LD, TURSDAY, SEPTEMBES 12, 2 The City Goeveramest in the Courts— Mayor Hall’s Auswer. The affidavit of Mayor Hall, in reply to the charges made against him in the complaint in the city injunction case, was presented before Judge Baroard yesterday, and will be gene- rally read with attention and interest. It will be found a satisfactory document to those who in truth desire an honest and economical ad- ministration of the city government. It is not the province of a good citizen to damage the elty’s credit by misrepresenting its financial condition, by exaggerating its amount of in- debtedness, or by inciting the belief that its laws leave it helplessly at the mercy of dis- honest officials ; and the people will always be glad to flud that the indiscriminate charges of place-bunters and partisan journals against those in power can be successfully met and refuted. Mayor Hall specifically and posl- tively denies every allegation that he has been in any manner interested in any of the jobs by which the city has been plundered in past years, and he shows that great misapprehension exists in regard. to the public indebteduess by reproducing tho figures of the financial report made to him by the Comptroller on the 1st of August lasi, While he does not attempt to justify the expendilures of 1869 and 1870, he recalls the fact that during the whole of the former and throughout the greater part of the latter year there was really no proper municipal govern- ment, but that the city was ruled by boards and metropolitan commissions, without any responsible head; and he asserts that since the new Board of Apportionment convened they have steadily pursued a system of reduc- tion in the public expenditures, with the object ot bringing the expenses of the various de- partments for the current year within the limits contemplated by what is called the Two Per Cent law. Mayor Hall further avers that from the time he exercised the power of ap- pointing the heads of departments up to the present moment no suspicious, unjust or extor- tionate claim has been paid from the city treasury, and no debt has been liquidated without being first duly vouched for by appro- priate departments or ordered by due process of law. So far as the Mayor is concerned this is all satisfactory. His personal character and his public record are such as to entitle him to credence, and there is nothing to w rrant the suspicion that he has been in !vagne with those who appear to have used their oficial positions to enrich themselves at the cost of the taxpayers. Under the old muddle, in which the government was left, by the efforts of republicans and democrats to obtain a share in the plucking of the municipal goose, the chief officer of the city was comparatively powerless to prevent the plunder of the trea- sury. The new law was designed to put a stop to this deplorable condition of affairs, and Mayor Hall was endorsed and chosen by a large majority of citizens of all political opinions as the proper officer to carry this law into effect. He is as yet but at the commence- ment of the work, and the assaults now made upon him, under the clamor for reform, do not emanate from an honest desire to benefit the city. The State Legislature is not a body that bas won the confidence of the people, and to undo the work of last session and send a new crowd of adventurers and corruptionists to the capital, with the government of New York as the stake to be gambled for, would bo to provoke a return to the confusion and rascality from which we have just been rescued. No good citiz:n would desire to bring about such a calamiiy, and the outery for a repeal of the charter now being raised by a certain class of journals is significant of the sort of reform for which they are anxious. When the law has been properly tried and when the Mayor, who is now in reality the head of the government, has been tried with it, the people will be in a condition to judze of the efficiency of the one and of the capacity and faithfulness of the other. But while the people will be careful not to lend themselves to the designs of seedy poli- ticians and needy journalists, they will demand a reckoning with the men by whom they have been plundered under the former mixed and irresponsible government. For years the Heratp bas exposed and denounced the in- famous Court House job and other schemes for the spoliation of the city, while the political organs on both sides have been silenced by city patronage or have boen engaged in in- triguing for the continuance of the municipal muddle and the re-election of dishonest officials, We have again and again demanded a concentrated responsibility and a real head for the city government, and it is only since the needed reform has been secured that the extent of the rascality prevailing under the old system has become known. The taxpayers, startled at the revelations, find that some men who have rolled up immense wealth under the old’city government are still at the bead of important departments, and they insist that these suspicious officials shall stand aside, and that, if possible, they shall be held to account- ability for their former acts. It may be that the wealth of Messrs. Connolly and Tweed has been legitimately accumulated, and that their lands and stocks and diamonds have not been purchased with money which ought now to ba in the city treasury; but the impression is abroad that abuses have prevailed in their departments, that enormous sums have been expended by them for which the city has received no equivalent, and they owe it to themselves and to their party, as well as tothe citizens of New York, to resign their trusts into the hands of the Mayor. The reported robbery of vouchers covering one of the years of alleged extravagance will not tend to allay the general suspicion of maladministration in the Comptroller's office. If, as we are given to understand, the vouchers are made in dupli- cate, the loss will not be of importance, yet the intense feeling this incident excited yesterday Should convince both Connolly and Tweed of the wisdom of a prompt retirement from their departments. They have accumu- lated enormous fortunes, legitimately or ille- gitimately; they have provided liberally for their long lines of relatives and family connec- tions; they have generously rewarded the army of political adherents with which they have worked, and now, by @ voluntary resig- nation of their well-paid positions, they have an opportunity to prove their fidelity to tho true democratic principle of rotation in office. Let them, (heo, file their adidavitg in reply to the injunction complaint, as Mayor Hall has done, and then retire to private life and the enjoyment of their comfortable fortunes. Should Messra, Connolly and Tweed refuse to resign Mayor Hall should at once exercise the power of removal. He has made a full and satisfactory response to the complaint brought against him as one of the defendants before Judge Barnard, and has directed public attention to the fact that he has only com- menced on the first year of his office under the new condition of the city government. But he can scarcely hope to carry out the new law with satisfac- tion to himself and to the citizens with Con- nolly at the head of the city finances and Tweed in command of the Department of Public Works. To give the Chartera fair trial the heads of all the departments ought to enjoy the same public confidence accorded to the Mayor and to the Department of Public Parks, The people feel that they can trust the city government in the hands of Hall and Sweeny and Hilton, Can the Mayor kelieve that they entertain the same opinion as to Connolly and Tweed? The public feeling in this matter is intense, and should be respected. The clamor of the political partisans who denounce the whole city government simply because they dosire to secure for themselves a chance at the city treasury is not deserving of notice. The people, who are earnest in their demand for justice and reform, will take care that they are not made the instruments of undoing the good that has been accom- plished by the remodelling of the city govern- ment; but their demand that suspected men shall not be continued in office should re- celve attention and respect. Let Mayor Hall carry out faithfully the present law and prove its value at the close of the year by decreased taxation for the year’s government; let Peter B. Sweeny and Judge Hilton continue the work of beautifying and improving the city ; but let Connolly and Tweed retire on their ample fortunes, and the hungry politicians and needy Bohemians will be disappointed in their hopes of turning a just public indignation into a means of fastening a new set of cormorants on to the City Treasury. General Butler aud the Women’s Rights Women—A Lively Time in Massachu- setts, General Butler is not a handsome man, except upon the good old rule that ‘handsome is as handsome does;” nor is he any longer a young man, except in the exuberant and irre- pressible spirit of youth; but he has become, and now shines before the world, as par ezcel- lence the ladies’ man, and ‘‘the pet of the petticoats” of the Old’ Bay State. Out and out General Butler goes for women’s rights, including the right to vote and the right to fight at our political elections, and the right to “‘sit in the place of customs,” and to reign in the White House; and out and out for Governor the women’s rights women of the Old Bay State, the mighty Wendell Phillips at the head of the column, go for General But- ler. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe; our antique colored friend, Sojourner Truth ; Mrs. Lucy Stone-Blackwell, Mrs. Mary A, Livermore, Miss Margaret Campbell, Miss Ada C. Bowler and Miss Mary Eastman, all brilliant lights among ithe strong-minded, have, it appears, announced their determination to stump the State for General Butler. He goes for them and they go for him, and that’s enough, And all the shoemakers are going for bim, and all the trade unions on labor retorm are his men, because he is their man, and conse- quently, regular nomination or no regular nomination, such a man running for Governor attbis revolutionary epoch in Massachusetts will make a terrible rattling among the dry bones of the republican party. General Butler in this Bay State campaign evidently means business. We don’t suppose that he expects to cut out Mr. Loring as the regular republican candidate and Mr. John Quincy Adams as the regular democratic can- didute in the election; but General Butler sees along way ahead. He sees that these questions of labor reform and women’s rights, though now secondary political questions, and likely to be so in the Presidential contest of 1872, will, nevertheless, be apt to become the great overshadowing and controlling political questions in this country in 1876. He is, therefore, taking time by the forelock upon these questions, with an eye to the Presidency itself in 1876. It is in this light that we regard this present extraordinary experi- mental canvass of General Butler in Massa- chusetts as a grand Napoleonic idea, a con- ception in its comprehensive designs hardly surpassed by the grand Mexican idea of Napo- leon the Third, We say that grand Mexican idea, for it was a grand idea, and would have been proved so but for the unexpected collapse of Jeff Davia. And right here it may as well be said as anywhere else, that General Butler is a man of grand ideas and quick to seiza upon them, too. Look, for instance, at his grand ideas of our late war for the Union—his idea of “the contrabands,” his idea of colored soldiers from the enemy's lines, his ideas of reconstructing and cleaning up New Orleans, his idea of shaking down Fort Fisher by the explosion of a ship load of gunpowder half a mile off, and his grand idea of the Dutch Gap Canal. There, in that warlike excavation, we havea monument for General Butler which will survive the Pyramids, and may last till the Day of Judgment. But the grand ideas upon which he is work- ing this Massachusetts campaign eclipse his ideas even of Fort Fisher and the Duich Gap Canal. Yea, they eclipse the Suez Canal; for they are adapted to meet the greatest political revolution inthe history of the world—the sweeping revolution on labor reform and women’s rights, which will be the next revolu- tion of our political affairs, They waut to say that General Butler is engineering and pipe- laying only for the republican nomination for Governor, and that in failing to get it he will back out, subside and leave tbe labor reformers and the women’s rights women in the lurch. But we don’t, and we can’t believe this, We suspect that General Butler will not get the republican nomination, and, failing to get it, we expect him to run as an independeut can- didate on his ‘‘new departure,” and we look for such a sensation in the Old Bay State as will develop a new departure and a new party for 1876, not only in Massachusetts, but all over the United States, Germany and Kassia—More European Cour & transition state, and every hotr reveals new plications. The meaning of the conference between the Emperors of Germany and Austria at Gastein and Salzburg, and of the purposed meeting of M. Thiers and Prince Gortcha- koff in Switzerland is plain from the despatch of the Herarp’s special correspondent at Paris, This despatch is only another proof of the traditional faithlessness of Prussia. Aso matter of course the Germans are only waiting for an opportunity to swallow up the German provinces of Austria, and will attempt it on the slightest pretext, but the very weakness of the Austrian empire has hitherto prevented such a consummation. The war with France not having afforded the coveted opportunity, Prussia would be slow to strengthen Russia by fresh conquests in Cen- tral Asia or by upholding the attitude of the Czar on the Treaty of Paris. There is, con- sequently, a coldoess between the two great European Powers, and each of them is seek- ing alliances with weaker States, though, perhaps, only to lull Austria and Turkey into the repose which sometimes precedes dissolu- tion. If France had not agreed to leave Austria to her fate in 1866, allured to that course by impossible promises, Sedan might not have followed in the wake of Sadowa. If Russia had been warned by this want of faith on the patt of Prussia she would not need now to com- plain that she fell into the same trap which lost Napoleon his throne and brought terrible humiliation upon France. The one Power sought the rectification of the Rhine provinces; the other was anxious to obtain the annul- ment of the Treaty of Paris. Both were promised what they desired, and both were deceived and disappointed. It is idle for papers like the Golos to be recounting the history of Prussian duplicity or to cry out against the traditional policy of Germany, There were many little episodes in German diplomacy which it might have been well for the Czar to remember before he allowed himself to be overreached by Bis- marck, as Napoleon had been overreached he- fore him, but now he must be thankful that ho still retains his five seaports on the Baltic and look upon the conferences of the two Ger- man Emperors with whatever comfort he can find in them. In itself neither the Conference at Gastein nor the one which has just taken place at Salz- burg is of much significance. The Roumanian difficulty is the only question likely to be set- tled by the recent meeting, and this only be- cause Beust finds it convenient to yield every point to Bismarck. A treaty may have been agreed upon at Salzburg by the terms of which the three Powers who were at deadly war in 1866 are made the closest of allies, but we would be sur- prised if Austria had exceptionally good for- tune in an alliance with Germany, or if this should prove more fortunate than her pre- vious Prussian alliances, In 1862, when the Schleswig-Holstein war was imminent, these Powers agreed upon a treaty of eternal friend- ship, but after Denmark was beaten Austria became Prussia’s next victim. The cases of France an&'Russia, the one in 1866, the other in 1870, we have just recited, and next it will be Austria’s turn again. But Russia must be humbled before the great work of German unity can be successfully accomplished, and these conferences are the hint of Germany's purpose. No sooner had the Germans suc- ceeded in their designs against France than they proceeded to inforni Russia of this neces- sity, not by words, it is true, but by a most os- tentatious couriing of Austria. Bismarck may have been anxious for the settlemont of the Roumanian difficully, but he was more anxious to show Gortchakoff that the secret understanding between the two Powers at Versailles would be observed no longer by his imperial master; and this is the meaning of the Salzburg conference. Under all these circumsiances Russia would naturally look to France for an alliance which shall be a set-off to the alliance of the German empires. But any conference which may take place at Lausanne between M. Thiers and Prince Gortchakoff will be significant only as Russia’s notification to Germany that she takes the hint of the Salzburg conference. The complications which are almost sure to arise will spring from another quarter, and the conflict, if any conflict occurs, will not be on the Rhine, but in the Slavic parts of Austria, Bismarck and the leaders who shall succeed him will never be content till German unity encompasses every German-speaking pro- vince in Europe. This idea of cen- tralization in one empire, according to language, has taken complete possession of the German mind, and Russia is imitating Germany in seeking Panslavic leadership. That Russia is ready for any emergency which this leadership may entail is evident from the warning cries of the Golos, the inspired organ of General Milutyn, the Minister of War. That journal points out the difficulties Germany will have in dealing with the Slavic question, and the dangers of her present hostile attitude toward Russia. This, taken in connection with General Milutyn’s demand for a league against German machinations and Gortchakof’s negotiations with France, give our special news from Paris a peculiar value, and make our correspondent’s revelations particularly timely, And now this question naturally recurs—is Europe on the eve of another devastating war? Is German ambition determined to hu- miliate Russia as it humiliated France, pre- paratory (o another onslaught upon Austria? The Eastern question {s not yet settled, nor will it be till Russia is humbled or ia triumph- ant over all her enemies, German unity is not yet complete, and its completion involves the division of Austria, the cession of the Rus- sian ports on the Baltic, the subjugation of Luxembourg, and perhaps the destruction of Switzerland and the Netherlands, France will for a long timo look with discontent upon the lost provinces on the Rhine, and even Eng- land may be shaken by the loss of the barren rock of Heligoland. The spirit of conquest is so determined, the spirit of Slavic and Gallic discontent so inappeasable, and the want of a faithful observance of treaties so universal that from ove end to the other Europe must continue to be a seething caldron of intrigue and hatred and ambition. It is vain to look for peace where there are so many elements of war und whero the settled questions of yesterday aro the unsettled quegtigns of to-day, Europe ia in complications and every day threatens s new war. One year ago the Emperor of Germany agreed to set aside the Treaty of Paris; now he disregards the Treaty of Versailles, by which he solemaly agreed to violate a solemn compact. If atreaty with Austria were agreed upon at Salzburg next year it may also be annulled. And so the conferences of Em- Perors come tobe no better or nobler than the dickerings of two petty tradesmen, each trying to outwit and cheat the other; but Emperor William makes whatever bargains he pleases with Emperor Alexander or Emperor Francis Joseph, and he keeps his contracts while it pleases His Majesty, The Boat Race at Snratogn. Whether there is anything in the air of Sara- toga unfavorable to English effort we do not know, but sure it is that the thrill that went forth from there throughout thirteen little struggling colonies nigh a hundred years ago was hardly less grateful than were the tidings that swiftly travelled thence far and wide at noon of yesterday. If past years have estab- lished that American rowers, in striving to de- feat the English on their own waters undertook too much, we are delighted to put on record the converse of that proposition. For a long half century England has looked proudly down—and justly too—upon all who dared to meet her in her favorite athletics, and for any claim to physical strength and endurance from our own countrymen in particular she has had but patronizing airs, if we may not say simple contempt. Hence we may well be jubilant over the good news of the 11th of Sep- tember, 1871, Years ago James Hamill, of Pittsburg, the best man we had then to offer, met with easy defeat: on the Tyne at the hands of Harry Kelly, the English champion. In 1867, at the races connected with the Paris Exposition, a St. John crew defeated all comers, including several English amateur crews (thus earning the title of the Parls crew); but as all the others carried a coxswain, while the former had none, this was little totell of. Agaio, in 1869, Harvard University found that she had yet something to learn in matters aquatic of her sister across the ocean, Then last fall a picked British crew came over and fairly ran away from the best men of the New Do- minion, Less than a month ago, at the earnest solicitation of the vanquished, they had it over, and then the tables turned, though the sudden crippling of the strangers by the fainting of their best man early in the race made this triumph, too, not much to boast of. Liberal prizes for an open contest at Hali- fax soon after drew together, besides the crack rowers of the provinces, the very flower of the English oarsmen, for certainly before these races no Englishman could name more than, if even one, whom he would substitute for any of the eight who rowed so gallantly and lost on that beautiful lake yesterday. The Biglins, too, with so good a man as Coulter for company, helped to fill the brilliant list. The Tyne men, after a splendid race over a course of nearly seven miles—one of the longest in aquatic annals—won with apparent ease, while their countrymen, who have just beaten them, were then fourth, Their confidence in them rose to an unlimited extent, and wild odds were given that they would again sweep the field, seven toone even being reported to have been offered and taken, while a match between them and the doughty Paris crew for the 4th of Oo- tober at Springfield, Mass., was swiftly ar- ranged, But meanwhile four men—all sons of one map, and he is reported to have six more on hand, if more are needed—had quietly gone up to Saratoga Lake and were carefully study- ing every inch of the course (who ever found the Wards not knowing the course?) where the picked men of two continents were to struggle for the mastery. Though these brothers had individual renown the four had never before, that we are aware of, rowed together, Ellis, the youngest, taking in the famed quartet tie place of Charlie, who had been put on the retired list. All along through the last thirteen years all young Americans and many older ones knew some of these four by reputation, for they seldom kept out of any race they could get into. But much as all wished them to win few had the hardihood to. hope so. And yet when now the trial comes they not only dash away clear of everything with their wonderfully rapid start, but they win easily from the very word go. No foul or blunder is lafd at their door, but they lead all the way ina fushion perfectly honorable and at once most satisfactory. If it be claimed that the two lengths between them and the Englishmen would not have been there had Renforth set the latter's stroke, they may pertinently reply, as Oxford did, that their supply was not exhausted. And even if they could not do this, who doubts that stalwart Walter Brown, the fastest oarsman America ever produced—could have filled young Eilis Ward's place far better than he, for he is scarce more than a stripling? Two of Eogland’s cham- pion scullers, Chambers and Kelly, men of world-wide reputation, were in the boat that suffered defeat at the hands of these modest brothers; and not the least singular part of it all, to say nothing of Hank Ward’s (the stroke) age—for he is going on fifty—is that the latter were 80 badly beaten at Springfleld by the Paris crew in the fall of 1869 that they had disbanded, as all had supposed, forever. Here, then, we have a country which of all the world plumes itself on its prowess at rowing; which takes in this art an interest so great that its “‘Aquatic Almanac” shows, year after year, a record of over one race for every day; where all that tradition and skill and time and money could combine to bring the art to perfection—and which complacently supposed it had long ago reached such perfec- tion—sending to our shores the very best tried men it had; men who are professional water- men, who have lived on the water almost since they'were born and rowed a number of races that to an American would scem fabulous— one English gentleman, an ex-President of the Cambridge University Boat Club, told us that he himself, only an amateur, had rowed one hundred andeighty races—and yet these men are beaten with ease by four men who havo only rowed in such indifferent contests as most of those that have heretofore taken place in this country, and for auch paltry sums as fifty and seventy-five dollars, and sometimes hardly ao much! America may well he proud of these four brothers and of the text they have put ia her mouth for all time against what has been far too long famillar—the boasting of English ‘om Sayers’ stout heart and strong gave him a name among all’ who peared English tongue; but we join most heartily im the congratulations the nation tenders to-day to the gallant sons of the Hudson who so nobly redeemed their country’s reputation and * acquired one far preferable to his, because won in a contest at once peaceable, becoming and manly. The International and the Workingmes of Europe. From a cable dispatch, which we print this morning, we learn that the London Z'imes has strongly expressed itself against the importa- tion of foreign workmen into England for the purpose of putting down the strikers, Tho Times bases 1ts opposition on grounds at once moral and sanitary. Although we do not asa rule care for the moral and sanitary grounds of the Times, we cannot refuse to admit that in this case the Times is right. What the Times said wecan only gueasat. The London Times, 8o far as we can lay hold of the argument, is down on the great fact that the workingmen are their own worst friends, The International Sooiety, which is to revolutionize Europe and to rejuvenate the world, counts on the support of the workingmen. And yet we find that whenever the workingmen of one district or of one country make a bold stand, the workingmen of another district or of another country are quite willing tobe bought ata reasonable price to defeat their fellows. In the North of England to-day the work- ingmen have struck for a shorter day, and the employers of labor in England have brought in, not the Heathen Chinee, but Belgians and the Germans and others to fill the vacant places, When we here, in addition to our large European im- port of skilled labor, can bring in the Heathea Chinece, what does this grand reformer called the International amount to? The first Chris- tians had all things in common; but the first Christians, through their wives and their widows and their fre tables, made a mess of it. Inthe first decade of Christianity Com- munism damned itself, The experiments made since then have not much affected the generat argument. Fourier has passed. away, and so has Robert Owen, What has the one or the other left behind him? Not much. The Inter< national must be much weaker than we had been taught to believe it was when so soon after the Paris Commune the places of the English strikers can be so easily filled. We are a long way off from universal and absolute culture, and it is our opinion that the International until then must remain onlya name. Alas alas! for the perfection of human nature. We are sorry for Matthew Arnold. Our Imports and Exports. It appears from a comparative table publishe ed in the Heratp yesterday that our imports have inoreased greatly this summer. Tha greatest amount ever received from customa in one month was during August. It was over seventeen millions of dollars, This is gratify- ing as showing an active and increasing trade. Still we must learn if our exports, apart from bonds or other securities, correspond with the imports in order to know whether the trade ig healthy or not, Then, again, who receives the greatest benefit of this trade? Do Ameri- can merchants and the American people, or foreigners? We fear we are too extravagant and are getting deeper in debt all the time, The products of the soil and the manufactures we export, together with every ounce of the precious metals we extract yearly, do not pay for the importations and the shipping profits to foreigners. The balance is made up by securities, national, State, or other kinds, whioh bring us more and more in debt, and increase continually the interest that has to be sent abroad. But the balance of trade against as with the vast profits of trade which go into the pockets of foreigners are to be attributed in a great measure to our crude financial sys- tem, revenue laws, restrictions on commerce and other things for which the government is responsible. With unlimited resources, sur- prising productive industry, a population of nearly forty millions and other advantages, our commerce is only about a third of that of Great Britain, and even a large portion of that is carried in foreign bottoms. Relatively we are going far behind all the time, Evidently there is something radically wrong in the lawa governing the finances and commerce of the’ country. Let us hope Congress will probe this subject and find a remedy for the evil. No other country possesses the advantages. this has, and it only remains to use them in order to rival England in commercial great- ness. The Evacuation of the Paris Forts, A cable despatch which we print this mori» ing informs us that the German troops of the four departments contiguous to Paris will have evacuated their positions by the 13th of the present month. Considering how Paris was: humbled—how France was humbled, how much Paris, how much France has paid down, we feel rejoiced at the announcement. In a. great struggle, in which France differently managed might have won, France was beaten. Germany won a glorious victory, but Germany was in the hour of her triumph hard on France. France has bowed-the knee, and bowed. the knee most nobly. Tn making peace proud France submitied to a German occupation, France has submitted, has bowed the knee, and done so so well and so gracefully that, now we know that the Germans are about to evacuate the forts around Paris, we must praise the French people and bid them be of good hope. Piuck does not die, it lives even, in misfortune, and ia spite of adverse circum. stances recovers. itself, In a military sense France is now low, very low; but a proud. people who, with a grand national history, can behave so well, must yet apring to the sine, face and reveal their power. Tae Grorata Demoogats claim that Gave. ernor Bullock has been absent from that Spite for three months, aad that his title to the office of Governor is vitiated. As thera is no Lieutenant Goveraor they propose to nam the Speaker of the House as Governor arg leave their action to be approved by the Legis. latare, This is a rather high-handed Praposi- tion, and it would be well for Bullock, ¢o hurry bagk to his charge