The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1871, Page 6

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New York, Weduesday, September 13, 1871. —- arenes CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace. 1—Advertisementa, 2—Advertisements. 3=—The Great Injunction Case: A Short, Uninter- esting Session and an Adjournment Until To- Day—The Committe of Seventy: An Extraor- Ginary Secret Meeting of the Reform Commit- tee—The Joint Committee Investigation by the Supervisors, Aldermen and Citizens—The Mayor and the Comptrolier: Important Of- cial Ocrreapond anes, Ga fae Question of the Hour; Mayor Hall's Opinioh—Connolly's Com- Plications: The ‘rials and Tribulations of the Comptroller—Jhe Ins and the Outs: Democ- racy and Its Oracles 1 the City. @—Macgregor: Alleged Dlackmatiing in the De- artment of Buildings—The National Guard— he Courts—The Late Fire at Hunter's Pojut— Music and the Drama—The Newburg Suicide— Good News for Inventors : Important Decision Reversing the Practice of the Patent OMice— ‘the Indians—Improved Order of Red Men—A New Catholic Cemetery. S—Maryiana Republican State Convention—Local Joluiies—The Batile for the Goveraorship in dersey—Political and General Notes—Louisi- ana Radicalism—Murder in New Jersey— The Sound Mystery--The Westchesier Murder = Mystery—Another Planet—Camden and Amboy Railroad—Tne Mutuais Mashed— Colombia; The Case of the Steamer Moniijo—Mecting of the Park Commission- ers—Prospect Park—A Page from the Ses- stons—New Jersey Knights Tempiars—Legis- lative Division in lilinols. @—Euitoria's: Leading Articie, “The Mayor and ter—Connolly'’s Refusal to Retire —Personal Inteiligence—Weather -Unmion Home and School—Railroad iston in Massachusetts—Amusement An- nouncemeuts, ‘Y—News trom England, France, Belgium, Sweden, ‘Turkey, Italy and Cuba—The Mont Cents Tun- nel— The Cholera in Europe —Interesting from China and Japan—Misceilaneous Tele- grams—Tie Massachusetts Governorship: ech of Ben Butier at Marlboro—Railroad atters—Aquatics—Local Intelligence—Busi- ness Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial Reports—Brookiyn Adairs—The Brookiyn Bridge—South Carolina Cotton Crop—Army and Navy Intelligence— Secretary Robeson—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisemenis, 9—Advertisements. 10—German Unity: The Attitudo of Germany Towards Austria and Russia—News from Washington—A Chinese Cali on the Mayor—Mr. Bonner and His Offer—The Lexington Races— Hoboken Guerilias. Vanquished—A Russian Major General 11 Newburg—shipping Lnteill- gence—Adverttsements, 11—Aadvertisements. 12—Advertise Tne “Bears” wy Waxt Sreeer were de- lighted yesterday with the impending conflict in the city financial bureans, and knocked How Are THE Mienty Fatven!—A acion of the once imperial house of Bonaparte mar- ries an accomplished American lady, a grand- daughter of the great Daniel Webster, and the event scarcely inspires an editorial line in the columns of the whole American press ! Tue Grist Tax IN ITALY is the present sub- ject of arfiety to the Finance Minister of Victor Emmanuel’s Cabinet, Signor Sella has for a considerable period been undecided as to the course he should pursue in relation to this matter; but he now concludes that he will farm it out, and send his ‘‘grist” to mill on the same plan that he has ground out the tobacco tax. Tne Fresca Tax Levy will not go down with the National Assembly. Our cable despatch, which we publish in another column, says that the Budget Committee, which was ordered to ‘consider the bill in detail, has reported adversely on the subject, and will not agree to the bill authorizing a levy on the nation to meet the present demands of the administration, subject to the subsequent approval of the Assembly. The Assembly will not sanction it either. Naporgon’s Pensioners have received a terrific blow. The Assembly yesterday brought in a bill abolishing the late imperial pension list, and suppressing all further payments from the treasury under this head, excepting fin cases of extreme poverty or where the grant has been made for disiinguished services, A sorry day for many who are not fortunate enough to be either poor or distinguished. The latter will be few. Tue Department or Brinpixas seems to have caught the element of corruption, Its Superintendent, Mr. Macgregor, was charged in Judge Barnard’s court yesterday with black- mailing and with maliciously throwing ob- stacles, such as injunctions and warrants, in the way of the building of certain houses by Judge Tappan, because the latter refused to be blackmailed, If it can be shown that this official has permitted unsafe houses to be erected, for money received as a bribe, thus endangering the lives and property of citizens for a miserable pittance, he deserves the most povere penalty of the law, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY. ‘SEPTEMBER 13, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET, the Comptroller=Connol- HERALD 8 caine Retire from Onice. In calling upon Comptroller Connolly to retire from the head of the Finance Depart- ment of the city government Mayor Hall has jastified the popular faith in bis firmness, independence and integrity. Tho devclop- ments which have recently been made, and especially the singular loss of vouchers from the Comptroller's office, through an alleged burglary, have aroused a popu- lar feeling which cannot be allayed except by the retirement of all suspected Officials, and Mayor Hall, in commencing the gapd work of striving to cleanse the departments, has proved that no personal or political consideration will deter him from carrying out the wishes of the people and giving to the city the full advantages of a reformed government. The Comptrol- ler's refusal to comply with the request of the Mayor sets public sentiment at defiance, and will confirm the general belief in his unfitness for the trast he obstinately insists on retain- Ing. In the letter in which he declines to re- tire from his office Mr. Connolly declares that he fails to see any diminution of public con- fidence in his administration of the city ¥nances. If go he must be blind to all that is going on around him and deaf to voices which sound distinctly enough in other ears, The indignation which has re- cently been so apparent to all except him- self has been directed mainly against bis offi- cial acts; and, apart from partisan attacks which have been made upon the whole city government, the Comptroller must be aware that a jast public anger has been aroused by the evidences of greed and corruption which are only too apparent in the management of the city finances. It is easy to be understood that the Mayor labors under certain difficulties in his official position which embarrass his action in regard to the heads of the cily departments, In common with the Comptroller he is now filling a new term of office, and can take no official action upon events which have occurred in former terms. Hence he bases his request for Connolly’s re- tirement upon the fact of the al- leged burglary at the Comptroller's office, There is, indeed, just cause of complaint against the Comptroller on this ground alone, The Financial Department is one in which the ia nd securities, varied and valuable as , should’ be guarded with the most efficient vigilance. One of the reasons for removing the office from the old building to the new City Hall was the additional security which the latter promised for its contents. The loss of documents of especial importance at this par- ticular time, accompanied by a singular dis- inclination to afford such information as might lead to the clearing up of the mystery, was alone sufficient to shake public confidence in the administration of the department. But Mayor Hall knows, and Comptroller Connolly knows, that suspicions of malpractices in former years are rife against the Financial De- partment, and that the circumstances sur- rounding this most remarkable loss are of such a character as to excile the gravest apprehen- sions in the public mind. When, therefore, the Comptroller pretends to sneer at the complaint of the Mayor, and __ treats it as a light and trivial matter, he seriously and dangerously mistakes public feeling, There may be more reason than he appears to imagine to fear that the community may suspect his com- plicity with the loss of the vouchers relating to accounts now under investigation, His assurance that the alleged robbery has inflicted no injury upon public interests will scarcely satisfy the people, It may be, as he says, that ‘“‘the archives of the depart- ment contain ample abstracts of the stolen papers ;” but abstracts are not orlginal or full documents; abstracts will not expose forgeries, or alterations, or fictitious signatures, should such exist on original vouchers, and abstract» are not in this instance the sort of evidence desired by courts and investigating commit- tees, Itis mot therefore satisfactory to find the Comptroller anxious to set aside the Mayor's complaint of the alleged robbery of the Financial Department with a scoff and a sueer. Equally unbappy is the Comptroller in the argument he advances against his resignation on the ground that such a course on his part would betray weakness of position or fear of rigid investigation. Let us see how the matter stands. Charges are openly made that dishonest, unjust and exorbitant accounts have been passed through the Compiroller’s office. Whispers are afloat of still graver malpractices; of bonds improperly issued; of books and vouchers altered and tampered with; of city securities misapplied. In the midst of these unquieting ramors and reports a quantity of papers which would have thrown light, at least on some of them, disappear from the Comptroller’s custody. A burglary is re- ported to have been committed, but a@ burglary which bears upon its face a very fishy appearance. A _ glass ig broken, a bolt withdrawn, and the thieves make their way directly toa closet in which area heap of vouchers relating to accounts under investigation, and succeed in carrying them away, Under these circumstances the Mayor desires the head of the department to retire in order that he ‘may place there ‘‘another gentleman who will be en- abled to thoroughly investigate its affairs, and restore public confidence.” Itis idle for the Comptroller to pretend that he would betray “fear of rigid investigation” by vacat- ing his office and allowing his successor full and free access to all its books and documents. The people will rather interpret a determina- tion to hold possession of the office, so as to shut out unrestricted search and examination, into ‘fear of rigid investigation.” No man of honor and offi- cial integrity should desire to retain a posi- tion of trust when a general suspicion of dis- honesty or incompetency prevails against him. Certainly, 80 far as the present proceedings in the courts are concerned, they can offer no obstacle to Mr. Connolly’s retirement, Ue would have the more leisure time and betier opportunity to attend to the legal business in which he is involved and to clear up the grave charges made against him, if relieved of the onerous duties of the Comptroller's ofge, But Connolly is not slippery enough to slip out of office, and the people will be anxious to leara what is to be. the next step in the municipal drama, We ‘fear that Mayor Hall has exhausted his resources, and will at present be powerless to rid his admtnistration of the objectionable heads of departments, We have insisted upon his removal of certain officials in case of their refusal to resign; but he can only remove them through the instrumentality of the Court of Common Pleas, and as one of the Judges is, we believe, at present io Europe a full bonch could not be secured, even if the Court were in session. The new charter does not give the chief executive, as it ought to give him, the abso- lute power of removal, and hence the city is compelled to endure the rule of any dishongst or incompetent head of a department who may. be disposed to defy public sentiment and cling to office, ‘This objectionable feature of the law was forced into it by the republicans who helped to pass it, for the security of their friends who were to retain office under the terms of the bargain. Fear- ful that after the charter was passed the Mayor would displace the republican officials and fill their offices with his own _politi- eal friends, they tied his hands with the new fashioned tenure of office cords first manufactured at Washington. The effect of this sort of legislative bargaining is’ now apparent. The chief magistrate of the city, eager to rid the government of men whose displacement is demanded by the public, and who are unfit for office, finds his requests for.their resignation scoffed at and is powerless toremove them, This, then, is the direction in which a reform of the municipal law is really needed. No desire to retain any set of men in office, no dickering and bargaining on the part of democratic and republican legislators and their friends should be allowed any lon- ger to cripple the city goverament and to tie up the hands of its Chief Magistrate. The people should, with one voice, demand that the charter shall be so amended as to give the absolute power over subordinates to the Mayor, who is directly responsible to the electors. Instead of throwing the municipal government again into confusion, in order that a now set of cor- morants may obtain access to the treasury, as the partisan journals and hungry politicians so earnestly desire, the hands of the chief officcr should be strengthened and more direct responsibility exacted and secured, This should be the work of the future, At present the question of interest is how to rid the city of objectionable officials who refuse to resign. If the Mayor is power- less, and rendered so through the corrupt bar- gains made at Albany, probably proceedings before a criminal court may yet be open to the people, and judges may be found firm enough to require such heavy bonds from suspected public officers as to effectually debar them, for a time at least, from discharging trusts which the citizens are eager to snatch from their hands, Turkey Setting Her House In Order. A cable despatch, dated Constantinople, September 12, informs us that the Porte is already taking alarm at the prospect of war, Mastapha Assim has been appointed Governor of Albania, and it is expected that the appointment will have the effe¢ of putting an end to the disorders which atill prevail in that province, Albania is one of the most difficult to menage of all the provinces of European Turkey. The population is not large, Only slightly exceeding one and a half millions, But the Albanians are mountaineers, and, like the Swiss and the Scotch Highland- ers, and mountain men everywhere, they love liberty and are not without a liking for war. The Albanians on more than one occasion have done good service to the Turkish em- pire, but they have also sometimes given it trouble, It was from this province that went out the famous Mohammed Ali, who made himself master of Egypt in the early years of this century, and who threatened at one time to make himself master of the whole Turkish empire. His descendants, by adoption, and the heirs of his fame and fortune, are still masters of the land of the Pharaohs. It is well for the Porte to provide against the evil day; for, unless we greatly mistake the signs of the times, the evil day is not far off, Aus- tria aad Germany promise to deliver her from the terror of Russia, but whether Austria and Germany will prove more agreeable neighbors is a question which the future alone can an- swer. Evidently the ‘‘sick man” is again in danger of dissolution. Tue Cnotera Continues To Race IN Evnorsg, notwithstanding the reports that have reached us to the contrary. A cable despatch from London last night states that it has not abated, and that the cases in Russia alone number one hundred and fifty a day. Another despatch is singularly corroborative of this statement and gives an account of its ravages on board an American vessel. The ship Lovell had arrived at Cardiff from Hamburg, and when the despatch boat boarded her it was found that four of her crew had died from cholera since the time of her leaving Ham- burg. If such a havoc could be made ina few days it is reasonable to suppose that had she been out to sea for two weeks the vessel would have been cleared of her entire crew. Ham- burg has considerable business with New York, through the North German steamers, and per- haps this information will be of service to the Health Officer at Quarantine, Minister Detona, at Yokohama, seems to be upholding the honor of the American name with refreshing energy. He _ recently compelled the British Chargé d’Af- faires at Yokohama to apologize to him for insulting remarks about Americans, and made the British editor of the Japan Mail publish an abject apology for a similar offence, Excellent for Minister Delong! We ought to have more Ministers like him, Tnx Mormons have again defied the au- thority of the United States by hiding and pro- tecting criminals indicted for the murder of Gentile citizens, The Mormon organ is very fierce in its denunciation of the outrage of sending United States troops to arrest these rascals; but asthe United States authorities stand firm and insist upon enforcing the law it is probable that poage and order will be en- borced. Tue Maine ElectionThe Prospect in Penn sylvania and Ohioy but What ef Now York? oo » The general results of the Maine election, fo their bearings upon the impending Presi- dential contest, correspond with returns from California, They embrace a popular endorse- ment of General Grant’s administration which cannot be misinterpreted in reference to the Presidential succession, They show that on the Atlantic coast as on the Pacific seaboard the administration is a tower of strength to the republican party, which the democracy ia their present demoralized and disorganized condition cannot shake, while the figures of the August elections in North Carolina aod Kentucky indicate that the prevailing public sentiment of the interior of the country is in accord with that of our Western and Eastern extremities, Indeed, we have seldom, during the last forty years, had a better showing than this for the party in power in the local elec- tions of the year next preceding that of the Presidential contest, In 1867, our political readers will remember, the republicans in these local elections were so frequently beaten, and the democrats were so remarkably successful, that they were confident of carrying the White House, Congress and everything else before them in 1868, Mr. Kimball, the late democratic candidate for Governor in Maine, clearly understood the “general apathy” which, as_the rale, prevails in the ranks of the dominant national party in these purely local contests between the two gteat parties of the country. Hence, antici- pating-a short vote on the republican side, he issued a circular to the democrats in every hole and corner of the State, calling upon them quietly to bring out their whole strength to the polls on election day, for that in so doing they would catch the republicans nap- ping and electrify the democracy of the nation with a glorious victory, Unfortunately, how- ever, tho “general apathy” this year appears to have fallen most heavily upon the demo- cratic party, and so the appeal of Mr. Kim- ball met with no encouraging response, and the expected demédératic gains in Maine are not forthcoming.* But why this unusual apatby among the hitherto never tired and always ‘‘unterrified democracy?” Many causes have operated and are operating to dishearten them. They are without leaders on national questions and without any fixed or common plaiform. Tho “new departure,” instead of harmonizing, has operated to demoralize them, and the general hue and cry raised against Tammany Hall has turned the tables against them in reference to administrative frauds, extravagances, corrup- tions and spoliations upon the public treas- ury. The republicans, on the other hand, on the principles and measures of General Graat’s administration as their platform, and under the standard of General Grant himself as their candidate for the succession, have possessed and do possess all the advantages of a com- mon cause well defined and a common pur- pose, North, South, East and West. Against this common cause of the republicans—the maintenance of the domestic and foreign . pol- icy of their national administration—we see, from thege recent elections, h ow impotent are the efforts of all such disappointed soreheads as Sumner, Fonton, Greeley, Trumbull, Gratz Brown and Carl Scuurz, to divert the party from its fixed purpose, the re-clection of Gene- ral Grant in 1872. In the New Hampshire election of last spring Mr. Sumner gained a short-lived vic- tory over General Grant in consequence of that apple of discord, the General’s St. Do- mingo annexation scheme. That hint, how- ever, was sufficient for Grant, and, with his abandonment of that. acheme, Connecticut was wrested from the democrats, and the uniform pressure of all the State elections since bas been in favor of his administration, and in favor of its continuance through another four years’ term. We suspect that the October elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa, will tell the same story as these of September in California and Maine, In 1867 the demo- crats carried Pennsylvania, by nine hundred majority, by default, and the republicans on the same day, losing the Legislature in Ohio and with it a United States Senator, narrowly escaped with their Governor, “General apathy” among them did the busi- ness. They were getting demoralized at last by Johnson’s administration, and were all adrift in regard to their Presidential candidate, But it was Johnson, after all, who saved them in his stupid quarrel with Stanton, whereby General Grant, from his decisive course in that controversy, made himself at once the repub- lican champion against Chief Justice Chase, “Old Ben Wade” and all other republican aspi- rants of that day. But the demoralization and the prevailing indifference of the republicans in the State elections of 1867 do not exist in 1871, The boot is on the other leg, and the only doubts and misgivings in regard to the elections of this fall of any consequence are in regard to the November result in New York, On the 10th of July last it appeared to be a reasonable supposition that Tammany wou'd carry the State by at least fifty thousand majority; but on the 11th and the 12th, from the new issue raised in that Orange procession, the whole face of things, in the city and the State, was changed, and there was a4 visible opening for the republicans, Then, immediately following, came this war upon Tammany, with its sweep- ing charges of corruptions and robberies of the public funds, At length these allegations, pushed toa legal prosecution, have assumed a form which threatens not only the defeat of Tammany in November in the State, but possi- bly the overthrow of the Wigwam as the con- trolling political organization of the city. There would be liitle room for doubt upon the subject were there nd intractable malcon- tents and no clashing cliques or factions in the republican camp. But, while the democracy are at last terrified by this terrible war upon Tammany, tho New York republicans have nothing to boast of better than the harmony of a Donnybrook fair, Messrs, Conkling and Murphy have their party of followers and Messrs. Fenton and Greeley have their party. According to the evidence furnished by each of these partics against the other the Conkling-Murphy men are the Custom House republicans and the Fenton-Greeley men are the Tammany repub- licans, The evidence on the subject, too, shows that while a considerable number of the Conkling-Murphy organjsation are enjoys ing the spoils of the Custom House a large number of the Greeley-Fenton coalition are enjoying the gpolla gf Tammany. Each organization has appoiuted its delegates to the party State Convention, which is to mect at Saratoga Springs on the 27th of thts month, and that Convention is to determine which are the genuine and which the spurious represen- tatives of the republican party. General Grant supports the Conkling- Murphy organization, and this fact ought to settle the question, and it probably will; but we have our doubts about it, The great trouble is Mr, Greeley. We understand that with any show for the Vice Presidency next year with General Grant Mr. Fenton is dis- posed to a reconciliation; but Mr. Greeley, a3 “Honest Old Abe” expressed it in reference to another man, ‘thas got the buzzing’ bee of the White House in his ear, and it will be the death of him.” He will go to this Saratoga Convention to cut out General Grant. We have the promise, to be sure, from Mr. Gree- ley that he will abide by the decision of the Convention ; but the promises of politicians are like pie crast—they are made to be broken. Hence we think it likely that the republican party of this State will be divided into two parties in our coming November contest should the party State Convention at Saratoga blackball the Fenton-Greeley organization, and we suspect that this blackballing will come, But why should Mr. Greeley bolt in being blackballed? Because he appears to be resolved, sink or swim, survive or perish, that General Grant shall be reduced to one term, and that Mr. Greeley shall be his suc- cesasor. A very absurd notion this, but it is Mr. Greeley’s ultimatum. Here, then, is hope still for Tammany and the New York democracy; for it cannot be forgotten that on a pitiful Custom House quar- rel under President Pierce the New York democracy throughout the State were divided into two hostile camps, a Bronson party and a Redfield party, and that between theso two parties the opposition walked over the course. Thug, although it may be a wonderful thing, Mr, Greeley, the friend in need of Jeff Davis, may in their sorest afflictions be the salvation of the New York democracy. In the Hands of Bis Friends, Whenever any modest man thinks bimself capable of the Presidency he takes measures at once to put himself ‘in the hands of his friends,” The ways of doing this are various. Fenton did it by getting upa serenade for himself at Niagara and making a speech; but Greeley, who is new and unique in everything but clothes, undertook to do it by a Western lecture tour and having himself invited to a private little supper at the Tremont House, Chicago, by thosa universally celebrated patriots, Long John Wentworth, who boasted ‘that people might call him dishonest, but damned if they should call him a fool,” and by Grinnell, of Iowa, whose main claims to patriotic fame lies in the fact that a patriotic soldier caned him once in the Capitol Grounds at Washington, These two gentlemen, at Mr. Greeley's suggestion, we suppose (that is the usual way among gentlemen in such matters), invited the agricultural editor to a private supper, and there nominated him for President. Grinnell, who cherishes the most ardent love for Greeley because he said that Rousseau ought not to have caned the chivalrous Iowan, began during the wine by congratulating the tiller of Chappaqua soil on his probable nomi- nation, At this, it is to be supposed, although the accéunt does not say as much, Greeley expressed the utmost surprise and tried coquet- tishly to turn the subject to subsoil ploughing and hedge fencing. But it was nogo. His friends persisted, and Long John said that Grant’s renomination was a thing not to bo thought of. Finally the friends drew the soft- headed philosopher ont altogether, and with the vision of a Presidential diadem directly ahead of him, and doubtless already regret- ting his thoughtlees screed on the one-term principle which was even then going through the presses of the Galuxy magazine, the deep- plougbing Cincinnatus of Chappaqua delivered himself as follows :— “lf we nominate Grant we shall certainly be defeatel. The public will stand no more horse. jockey and present-taking Presidents, We have bad enough of them. 1 tell you, geatlemen, we must take a new departure, and | cau assure you \hat we of the East are determined that it shall be done. I have been rather quiet avout tt 80 far, but 1 want everybody now to understand what [ think, When we take hoid of Graut tt will not be with silk gioves on our hands, It has got to bedone. We Taust throw Grant overboard or we silall be defeated.” “But,” sald the sly Grinnell, “what would you have us do, Mr, Greeley’ Suppose we throw Grant over, what can we do’ You know our people don’t want to jump out of the frying pan into the fire. Now, if you will give us the siightest nope that you intend to put your own name forward we would willingly throw out Grant." Here the credulous and child-like plough- man blushed as red as one of bis own ex- pensive beets and further delivered himself of the following modest and self-deprecatory prattle:— “Ali I want is to nave a good man nominated, who, if elected, will consent to gtve up the office at the end of is term, Besides, | want to nominate & man Who, tf elected, will elevate the oflice to where 46 Was 10 former days; a inan Who Will not take pres- ents or use the military or his officesholders to ad- vance ls Own aspirations for a second term, and in the Meantime neglect the interests of those whose ruler he is. Besides, 1 want aman who is above mere pieasure-hunting; @ man who will not dawule away one-fourth of his term amid the follies and frivolities of a watering place, and one who, when called upon for an expression of his views on politi- cal and other subjects of national interest, can give ‘them in clear and compreheusive language. That's the kind of @ man the peopie want, and”’ (bringing hia fist down on the tabie) “that’s the kind of a man we haven’t now. I want you, gentlemen, to tell your people here in the West that we are going to fight against Grant to the extent of our ability. We ‘Will not remain passive or Indifierent, but, to use his mine we are goilpgto ‘ight it out on this e. Without going into the subject of General Grant's fitness for a second term—for all our readers know our firm conviction on that sub- ject—it is interesting to see how completely and neatly Mr. Greeley fills the bill that he himself lays out for the next President to foot. He wants a man that would consent to give up his office at the end of histerm, That Greeley would do that there can be no doubt, for his consent would really not be any essential requirement in the matter. He wants a man who will elevate the office to where it was in former days—meaning, doubtless, some one who would rehabilitate the dignity and cour- teous demeanor and stately presence of Wash- ington and the Adamses. That Greeley would do this, who that has ever seen him ‘‘toying” with his axe in the forests of Chappaqua or mean- dering about the streets of New York with the seat of his breeches pinned up can doubt? He wants, also, one who can give expression, in clear and comprehensive language, to his political views and other subjects of national interest; and who that may have been com- polled to read the arent philosopher's easaya on political economy, or may have been startled by his diplomatic epithets, can deny that he fills the programmo™ in. this particular admir- ably? If this great man, thus modestly suut> med up by himself, is not considered far prof erable to the one who now professes to fill the rdte of President by “‘dawdling away one-fourth of bia time at watering places,” who reduces the public debt a hundred millions a year, who confesses to a love for horses rather than for fat hogs and pumpkins, who secures the negotiation of tho great treaty with Great Britain and who preserves loyal men from the Ku Klux in the South iastead of hobnob- bing round the country with Jeff Davis, we should like to know witat has become of the judgment of the country. Republicanism in Europe—ihe French Eas periment, In a recent number of the Pall Mal! Gazette there is an able and suggestive article on French and American constitutional experi- ments. The coneluding sentence deserves to be reproduced. Speaking of the French ex- periment, the writer says:—‘We in this country have the styongest reasons for inter- esting ourselves in the experiment of a freely revocable Chief of the Executive, since that is a form of government to which we seem to be drifting.” This. from the Pall Mak Gazelle, a journal of most unmistakabla aristocratic leanings! If anything were wanted lo show that even England is rapidly diifiing toward republicanism wo should point to this sentence. The truth is, the Crown in England is but a name. It doca nothing. It fs responsible for nothing. Tha House of Lords, which bas long kept upa show of authority, has ceased to command any respect, All power has centred in the House of Commons, An unpopular occupant of the British throne and a stupid resistance on the part.of the Lords, it would be the sim- plest thing in the world for the Commons House of Parliament to usurp all authority, to dispense with the Crown and with the Upper House and to make the Premier the Chivf of the Executive, Oar experiment has been so suce cessful that we bave convinced Erepe hat crowns and thrones are more ornamental thaa usefi}, France, in imitation of our exampls, we 1g &ain experimenting; and if France can only hold on a little longer the result cannot but be a republican gain all over Europe. The republic is the ‘form of government” to which not England alone but every nation im Europe is rapidly “drifting.” Cupan Ixsurcents Givina THEMSELVES Ur.—According to our advices from Puerto Principe, Lieutenant Colonel Lopez-Recio- Borrero and twenty-five others have given themselves up as prisoners to the Spanish authorities. Among the twenty-five are a commander and several captains and lieu- tenants, all leaders of the rebels, ‘Lhe volun- tary submission of these chiefs at the present time, when it has been reported that supplies of all kinds are plentiful, seems to indicate that, whatever monéy or material they may have, the ‘‘cause” is not appreciated. If the Cuban sympathizers have supplied the means H. W. Durgin, Superintendent of the Southern Railroad of Tennessee, is staying at tho Grand it is evident they keep their encouragement in 4 i i | | | | Hotel, | the’background, or else why this sudden sub- ordination to the ‘‘powers that be?” Personal Intelligence. Seflor Lopez Roverts, the Spanish Minister, and Madame Roberts have gone on @ short visit to Sec- retary Fish and Mrs, Fish’s country seat at Garrisou. Mr. Hasakawa Jangero, Commissioner of Agri- culture from the imperial government of Japao, was among the visitors last eventag at the Fair of the American Institute, where he was hanasomety eatertained by the managers, Baron Lederer, the Austrian Minister, is domicited at the Brevoort House, Judge Logan Hunton, of St. Louis, is regisicred at the New York Hotel. Commodere R. B. Lowry, of the United States Navy, arrived yesterday at the Fifth Avenue twtel. Captain H. P, Conner, of the steamer Rising Star, is among the late arrivals at the Sturtevant House. Count de Turenne, of the French Legation, 19 again at the Albemarte, Bishop Steveus, of Philade!phia, ts at the Gtisoy | House. | Lieutenant Commander A. B, Robeson, Of the United States Navy, is at the Everett House, | General 5. 8, Marvin, of Albany, is among the late arrivals at the Brevoort House, General C. W. Tompkins, of Boston, has quarters at the New York Motel, General A. J. Myer, of the United States Army, ta) at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel B. C, Adams, of the United States Army, is staying at the New York Hotel, H, G. Fane, of Washington, is at the Fifth Avenug Hotel. Judge Noah Davis, of Alvion, 1s domiciled at nd \ St. Nicholas Hotel. 2 ei B, Busbee, of the United States Navy, 1s at tn Metropolitan Hotel. | WEATHER RUPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFVICE OF THE CHLEF SIGNAL OFvicgR, WasaHinaton, D.C., Sept, 13-1 A.M. Synopsis Jor the Past Twenty-fouw Hours, ‘The barometric pressure continues very unifor from the Guif States north and are east, being somewhat lower than on day night. The pressure has fallen - Texas, but probably risen again. The miduig! report is not received. Cloud and rain have pre- vailed very generally in Florida and Georgia west- ward, with northeasterly winds, except in Texas, | where the latter have been variable and brisk. | Cloudy weather, without rain, has continued in Virginta and Pennsylvan smoke and | haze from Lake Erie to Illinois, Cloud and rain have continued in Kansas and Nebraska, and. clear), weather, with light winds, on the uppor Lakes and) iu New England. Probabilities, } An area of low barometer, with rain, will proba, t bly develope on Wednesday tn Missourt aud Arkan; | sag and westward, Olear weather, with light winds will probably continue over the lakes, Maxidie ane Eastern States; cloudy and clearing weather on th =~ ; Guit and South Alabama coast, f THE UNION HOME AND SOHZOOL, ‘Wo have received the sum of 47 108. 1In bebalGd = * this institution from the purser of the steamshi| © Cuba, This sum 1s half the proceeds of an entertain ment given on board In mtd-ocean by the tilusiontst 1 | ’ } Fred Lubin, The other half was donate to, thy Liverpool Seaman's Orphan Asylum. Upow appt cation from the proper parties We shall be pi ‘4 to hand over the money. ' RAILROAD COLLISION IN MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON, Sept. 12, 1871, About oue P. M. to-day the pasreuger exprias tratn on the Boston and Maine Rav¢oad, when near North Andover, camo tn collision with a fretgnt train, which lad been caretesaly teft on tie main toward track, The enginser of the express train saw the danger ta time 1% shut od steam and reverse his engine, and thas prevent a serious accident. The engineer and conductor of the freight trfin Mem eo ichared vy Suverintondens