The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD % BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEHING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston sta. —’ ‘Tux Deana oy Fritz. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8th ay. ang 23d st.— Nagorssr. LINA EDWIN’s THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—KELuy & Leon's Minereeis, FIFTA AVENUE TIIFATRE, Twenty-fourth astroot.— ‘Tue New Drama oF Divoxce. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th mreet.— ‘Tue PRINCESS OF TRELIZONDE. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tut Balter Pan- roxIue OF Humpty Douprs. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 24 st, between Sth and 6th avs.— Per oF THE PRITIVOATS—FAMILY Jans. AGADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth “street.— THE SEW1NG Macnine Grew. in a einen WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 20th st,—Porform- ances afternoon and evening—E AST LYNNE, BOWERY THEATRE, — <D— Pen hed inn Bowery.—A Tutr To RicuMoND. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 B: 2 " cisten, Seacmguen ba ea0 -Bocures UNION SQUARE THEATR: corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway.—Nkexo Ac BURLESQUE, BALLET, 4c. SAN FRANCISCO MINS L HAuL, 585 Broadway.— ‘THE SAN FRANCISCO MLN oie BRYANT'S NEW OPERA U1 Mi bg E, 234 st., betwooo 6th aba Tih ave. —Brranr’ 's RL! wo “TONY PASTOR'S OPERA NzGRo Locenrnicrtins, Bi STEINWAY MALL, Fourteenth street.—VocaL AND E, No. 201 Bowery.— ES, &0. InersusEnrat Concent. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—TozopoR2 Tomas’ Sumxxu Nigurs’ Concerts, GUTH STREET OPERA HOUSE, corner EWOOMB & ARLINGTON'S MINSTRELS. RIPLE SHEET. New York, mae, maples 15, ie. re — eae CONTENTS OF To-DAWs GERALD. "-aa Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. chusetts Democratic State Convention: John Quincy Adams Noninatea for Governor; the Woman Sutirage Question Iguorea—Ke- Publican County Convention—A ‘Taxpayers’ Candidate for Asseinbly—The New Jerse; Governorship—The Great Jersey Railroad Lease question—The Delaulting Paymaster: Confession of Major Hodge; Half a Million Dollars Lost in Stock Specnlations—The Post OMice Detatcation—The Jewisle New Year— The New York Literary Club—Driven to Sul- cide—Naval Inteligence—A Case of Alleged Pocket Picking—An Oid Woman Outraged—A Duel in Louistana—News from Venezuela— ‘The Ku Klux in Alabama—Pharmaceutical Convention. @=—A Torpedo Terror: Explosion of a Box of Torpe- does in Beckman street; Three Men Killed and Five Badly Injured; Damage to Bulldings—The Greaser Pirates : Particulars of tne Conficts in the Gulf; The Cause of the Mexican Attack on the American Vessels—The Perry Street Fire—Thatcher Taken: Tne Weather-Wise Warrior of Broadway Ordered to “‘Move On" — ‘The Medico-Legal Soctety—A Bond Broker in Trouble—National Ascociation of Spiritualists. S—The Great Injunction Case: Conclusion of the Argnment of Mr. O'Gorman; Address of Mr. Beach in Hehait of the Comptroller—Dick's Documents: The Joint Commitee Looking After the Comptrolicr’s Accounts—The Ring Row: The Laborers Kecetving Their Pay—The Union Hill Murder. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Municipal Muddie—Where Are the People to Look for ke- form 7"’—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Editortals (Continued ‘from sixth }— France: Alsatian Customs Conference; An Army of Commuuista to be Tried—News from England, Austria and Portugal—The Cholera in Europe—interesting EKeports from Mexico — News irom Wasuingto he Montreal Re- gatta—Great Fire im Saratoza—A Grand Italian Pageant—Miscelianeons Tclegrams—Sad Acci- dent to Luborers in Jersey City—Local News— Business Nouces, $—The Harper Murder in Kentucky—Wife Potson- ing at Fort Ann, N. Y.—The Courts—Trotting at Prospect Park—| tion, Pedigrees an: for the Various !" Ss ing—Meeting of the vock Commuissioners— Superintendent Macgregor’s Report—Fair of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Me- . ghantcal Association—State Hospital at Pough- eepsie. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—Daring Thelt of a Plapo—Attempted Suicide of a Deserted Fair Que—The National Rife Associ- ation—Robbing His Room Mate—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 30—Westchester County Fair: Characteristic Speech of Governor Hodmen— Amusements—Shipping Inteliigence—Adverusements, 41— Advertisements, 1Q-Advertisements, twood Park : Tne Conression oF Masox Honag, the de- faulting paymaster, is about as manly a state- thent as he could make under the circum- stances. It is, moreover, a touching state- ment. He says his life has been ‘‘hell on earth” for years, burdened as he was with the consciousness of his crime, and that it is a relief to be arrested. Tne Corzra 1n Evrope is still raging. ~~ Advices by cable from St. Petersburg state that the reports arriving continually at that sity from the southern and central provinces show the Asiatic demon to be committing fearful havoc among the population. Con- to former reports, it appears to be increasing in virulence and causing greater terror to the Russians. A case of cholera— of what type is not specified—has been dis- covered in Newcastle; and the fact of our agents considering it worthy of transmission through the cable proves it is considered a matter of considerable significance in England. Tug Enos Rowsgrs seem to have un- - usually hard luck on this side the Atlantic. Some strange fellows in Montreal playfully @emolished their shells on Wednesday night, and they were busy all yesterday morning patching them np for the race in the afternoon. They led their Nova Scotia opponents in the race, but mistook their turning buoy and went three hundred yards beyond it before they were aware of their error, the Bartons in the meantime making their turn correctly and coming in at the end a hundred and fifty yards ahead. The death of Renfortb, the defeat at Saratoga Lake, and the present un- fortunate blunder, certainly comprise a series of misfortunes that is apt to disgust the muscular Englishmen with this “blarsted _ Tarery Tnovsanp Communist Prisoners Aying in the various forts and prisons of have yet to be tried. General de went into the Assembly at Versailles Y, and stated that in a short time additional courts martial would be ap- to try the immense army of “‘reds’’ mnder the patronage of the republican They have now in France one hun- and fifty-two judges, and out of that the present state of the country will only sufficient to be engaged in this to sentence one hundred prisoner a How long they will be disposing of thirty thousand cases is a matter for con- pe, but our correspondent thinks they eAve to liberate upwards of twelve thou- of them, because they will have suffered long imprisoament before they can be reached the ordivary course of business, People te Look for Reform? Very little change occurred yesterday in the main features of the municipal muddle now agitating the city. The injunction case before Judge Barnard contioues to drag its slow length along; the investigating commit- tees persevere in their endeavors to unearth such documents and accounts as have not be- come the prey of the plate-glass burglars about the Comptroller's office ; the Aldermanic accountants are still supposed to be basily em- ployed in adding up long rows of figures; the Bohemians persist in their efforts to sell their worthless wares through the aid of sensation Capitals; the politicians who are out of office still hang about the City Hall Park discussing the situation between drinks, and the reform the people desire to secure in the city govern- ment appears to be as far off asever. The truth is that the fuss of the past few weeks, which has been mainly made by political adventurers, is doing more harm than good by diverting attention from the real points at issue between the citizens and certain of their officials, and the sooner it is ended the better. What is needed now is a calm review of the situation, with a view of ascertaining, first, the best and earliest means of ridding the city departments of certain men who have forfeited the public confidence, and next the most effective method of securing such a reform in the law as will strengthen the hands of faithful officers and give us a strong and responsible government in the future. The revelations receatly made with regard to the extravagant expenditures under the old charter; the conviction of the people that the sudden and enormons wevlth of some of the heads of important de- partments has not been honestly made; the general feeling that the people’s money has been spent on corrupt and flagrant jobs; the singularly unfortunate episode of the stolen vouchers, and the discovery that the new charter actually leaves the city powerless in the hands of incompetent or dishonest officials, have all combined to determine the citizens to secare a change in the law and in the person- nel of the city government. They must not suffer themselves to be diverted from these practical points by the efforts of hungry politl- cians and needy journalists to turn a just and righteous popular movement to their own selfish purposes. They must make up their minds what means are open to them to secure the objects they have in view, and thoy must calmly and resolutely carry out their plans, without reference to the ravings and promp!- ings of interested parties. It has been a remarkable feature of the New York city government for many years prior to the passage of the present Charter, that all political parties, factions and cliques have been equally responsible for its rascalities and joint sharers in its plunder. Tammany democrats and Mozart democrats, old democracy and young democracy, Greeley republicans and Weed republicans, conserva- tives and radicals, Murphyites and Fentonites, Citizens’ Associations, black and tan clubs, reformed convicts and guerilla combinations of all sorts, grades and conditions, have in turn fought, combined, bargained, bought and sold together to secure a share of the munici- pal pickings and stealings. At one time it has been an alliance of Greeley and Mozart; at another of Weed and Tam- many; now it has been a combination of Merphyites and Connollyites, and now of Fentonites aud O’Brienites; but whoever the contracting parties, the object has been the same—the spoils of a rich and generous city. Year after year these alliances, if not actually carried out in the charter elections, have been consummated at Albany, and the money of our taxpayers has been used to buy up the marketable votes of republican lezislators under the manipulation of one or another of the well-known traders in legislative cattle. Time and again when the legal voters of the city of New York would have repudiated the leaders whose greed, selfishness and cor- ruption had become notorious, the republican managers have rushed to their rescue, and by trading off their own city or Legislative candi- dates for State votes, have saved Tammany from overthrow. The present city charter is a proof of the evil conseqaences of this cor- rupt bargaining, No regard was paid in its passage to the real interests of our citizens. It was at first well and carefully framed, upon the princi- ple of concentrated and undivided power in the Chief Magistrate, without which no mu- nicipal government can be effective. But the democrats having squabbled over the division of the spoils, republican votes were needed to secure its passage. These were secured in consideration of the retention of cer- tain members of former metropolitan com- missions upon the new city boards. Then came the question ‘whether these republican officials could trust the democratic Mayor not to remove them after the charter had been secured; and, in order to render their tenure of office safe, their Legislative friends insisted on depriving the Mayor of the power of re- moval. Now, what the people of New York desire, and what they need to-day, is to be relieved from any further corrupt and selfish bargains by which their interests are sacrificed to the schemes of greedy political adventurers, They do not begrudge the money they con- tribute to their government, provided it is honestly and intelligently spent in the beautify- ing and improvement of the city, They do not complain of being too highly taxed; but they do complain that the money raised by taxation is squandered on corrupt jobs to enrich bad men or is used to buy up Legisla- tures and to pass laws injurious to the public interests, The citizens of New York would not grumble if the new Cily Hall had swallowed up double the enormous amount expended on it, provided the building had really cost and was worth the money, They are not niggardly on the subject of a few chairs and tables and a few yards of carpet, if they are really purchased and used for the comfort or luxury of their officials, Witness the liberal expenditares on the Central Park, the down town parks and other great improve- ments, The people are delighted to spend their money on such works, and, even in this hour of general denunciation Swee and Hilton are receiving praises ym all sorts of men for the spirit, efficiency and enterprise they display in beautifying the city. To-day our cltizens would gladly pay increased taxation for increased embel- lishments and improvements, They want good roads, good docks and beautiful parks at any necessary cost. In no city in the world are taxes paid more cheerfully and Next Horror? The latest explosion horror has the bold merit of conducing somewhat to break the monotony of that kind of calamity. We have had explosiors of late in great number, but promptly than in New York, and those poli- wey hare been | exglusiyely tg oiler gx- ticlans whd appeal to soe ‘supposed ‘par- | plosions, It was naturally becoming Midnoto- simony of our taxpayers commit s great blunder, On the contrary, our taxpayers approve of broad liberality and in- telligent enterprise on all public works, and are not disposed to stint the money so long as they are assured it is honestly expended. But they do not desire to be robbed; and it is pre- cisely because they believe that these official millionnaires of a moment's growth—these men who have suddenly become sporters of large diamonds and dashing carriages, and owners of lands and stocks—have robbed them, that they desire their retirement from the city gov- ernment, In laboring to secure reform, then, the peo- ple should bear in mind the history and expe- rience of the past, and should carefully guard against corrupt political bargains and affilia- tions, There is great danger that the present agitation may be manipulated by men worse nous, and so to make the best of this latest affair it weuld be a Christian duty to feel thankful that it was a torpedo demonstration, just as Mark Twain was thankful that the tele- graph poles at which his borse shied were placed on both sides of the road, so that he didn’t fall off on the same side every time. The new addition to the series of disasters which have become so wofully frequent that we Gan even venture upon a ghastly sarcasm respecting them, just as the people of London during the great plague used to burlesque its ravages, took place on Beekman atreet early yesterday afternoon, by the careless handling of @ case of Union torpedoes, the loudest and most dangerous explosive with which boys _usually dare to celebrate the Fourth of July. One of them, about the size of an ordinary toy marble, has been known to injure a full- grown boy by the violence of its explosion, than some of the present objectionable | and the effect may be conceived when a case office-holders for their own ends, and | of thom, containing at the least several thou- that on the eve of election we/ sand of these vicious playthings, is ex- may find unworthy candidates put forward for positions of importance, through the same description of dickering that has heretofore brought so many evils upon the city, The best method of preventing such a perversion of a popular movement is to initiate at once in New York a new political organiza- tion in connection with the democracy ploded in a mass, in a thoroughfare so narrow and so crowded as Beekman street. Three persons were killed outright, another has since died, several others were dreadfully injured, two horses were blown almost to pieces and the front of the store where they were being deposited was demolished. The moral of this disaster.is something more and the independent republicans of | than the moral, repeated over and over again, the rural districts. Tammany Hall is | of the boiler explosions. We seemed to know not in good odor in the State at that steam boilers on our excursion boats were the present moment. The leaders of that or- ganization, since they have been free from opposition in State conventions, have lorded it over the country delegates and forced Tam- many slates down their throats. Honest members of the State Legislature have for years found themselves overridden at Albany by means of the corrupt combinations made by the Tammany magnates with republican legislators, To-day the best democratic papers in the State are denouncing the action of the municipal plunderers in New York, and hinting at a repudiation of Tammany in the next Convention, The republican party made with the expectation that they would ex- plode at some time, and every one venturing upon our steamers took the risk. All the Westfield verdicts and Revere Railroad ver- dicts in the world will not prevent passen- gers taking their chances knowingly against steam explosions, even where it is well under- stood that the special volcanoes over which they trust themselves have already given signs of an eruption, or the special railroad upon which they dare to travel is now without apy safeguards whatever against collision, But this explosion of a cargo which is sup- posed by everybody, except the three or four is’ also broken to pieces and foul | in the secret, to contain only harmless articles with corruption and dishonesty. | The | of commerce, puts a new and more terrifying mission of republicanism is ended, and | face upon the matter of explosions. It opens many of the members of that party who were formerly democrats should have no hesi- tation in returning to a renovated and purified democracy. Such a grand movement in New York wou'd sweep the State and city this fall and form the nucleas of a new party in the Southern States in time for the Presidential election, But to insure suc- cess the old hacks, corruptionists and leaders on both sides should be discarded and driven from the ranks. Then, with a Legisla- ture elected under the new movement, the people of New York could insure a thorough reform in their municipal charter and honest men to carry the law into effect. upa dozen mines under our feet when we thought we were venturing on a fair and plea- sant field, It suggests the question how many wagons lumbering and jolting along our stony streets contain concrete death in this shape, how much nitro-glycerine is carted about us or cémplacently towed along our rivers, how many steam engines are running at too high a pressure under our sidewalks, and above all, in what unthought of way will the next explosive horror open upon us? In regard to the transportation or storage of such combustible and explosive materials as anion torpedoes, fire crackers, nitro-glyce- rine and gunpowder, there is an explicit law which appears to cover this case. It states that these articles shall not be manufactured, stored or kept for sale in the city, except upon a permit granted by the Fire Commis- sioners, under penalty of a fine, and it appears further that this firm had no such permit. Indeed, since the 12th of June last this firm hae persisted in the sale and storage of these materials, not only without the “permit” of the Fire Commissioners, but even in face of the fact that such ‘“‘permit” had been frequent- ly refused them, and that suits had been in- stituted against them for persisting in the business. They are now certainly amenable to the law, and as the law subjects them in case of death or injury of persons by reason of the explosion of one of these articles sold or held by them to a fine of from one to five thousand dollars, or imprisonment of from one to five years; it is to be hoped that the severest penalty will be meted out to them, although it is by far a great deal too insignificant for their crime, President Thiers and France. The message which President Thiers has just sent to the National Assembly of France has startled many; but it has justified the opinions of not a few. There is no mistaking what he means by “‘reconstructian based on the glorious traditions of a thousand years.” It is as little difficult to understand what he means by “‘the abandonment of the ship of State to a torrent leading to an unknown future.” The President asks the Deputies, on the eve of a dissolution, to go home and con- sult their constituents and ascertain on which of the two platforms it is their will reconstruc- tion should proceed. What the Deputies thought while the message was being read we know not. What the constituents may say when the Deputies do consult them we must wait to know. But no sensible person is in doubt as to what President Thiers means or as to what be wishes. The “glorious tradi- tions of a thousand years” means the restora- tion of the monarchy; the ‘torrent leading to an unknown future” means the establishment of arepublic; and President Thiers prefers the former to the latter. The President’s hint may be taken and the monarchy may be re- stored; but if it should be so it will only prove that while Thiers was for the time the only available man in France for the Execu- tive chair he was not the man to establish the republic. In spite of the President's tortuons ways this we have always clearly seen and this we have always fairly stated. Now that Thiers has pronounced himself it remains to be seen bow Gambetta and his friends will act, The recess may reveal the true senti- ment of France, Arras rN Mexico have taken a turn in favor of Juarez. According to a special de- spatch to the HeRaxp the political horizon in the city of Mexico is becoming clearer; the darkened clouds of threatened revolutions which have so long hung over the republic appear to be passing away and the sun of prosperity once more beams forth for the Presi- dent. The preliminary Junta was installed yesterday, one hundred and forty-seven mem- bers out of two hundred and twenty-seven— the entire namber of delegates—being present, Juarez was elected President of the temporary organization and Chief of the Committee of Credentials, Out of the members assembled Juarez had a majority of eleven, and this so alarmed the members of the opposition that they left the hall and destroyed the necessary quorum for the transaction of business, The latest mail despatches state that General Por- firio Diaz has assembled twelve hundred men and started for the State of Oajaca for the pur- pose of suppressing some disturbances which are reported at Itlan and Tehuantepec. the Prospect for Tae Mexican Pirates—Necessity of Their Punishment. The attack on the American bark Brothers by the greasers of Santa Anna Bay, a detailed account of which we print to-day, is one of those flagrant and inexcusable out- rages which cannot be permitted to go unpunished. The consignee of the vessel seems to have been the leader in the wrong, and his clerk, Rippoll, led the attack upon Captain Thurston and his crew. So far as we can see there was no reason for their course toward the American seamen, and under any circumstances they would not be justified in resorting to such high-handed and violent measures. The case is one requiring the closest examination and the most com- plete reparation. It is in the nature of the Spanish American population to offer the most wanton insults to the United States. Tho Cuban authorities do this habitually, and the Mexicans are little behind the Spaniards in Cuba, If they were only lacking in fair dealing in business matters we might excuse them, but they interpret impunity from punishment for every insult offered to Americans as an invitation to com- mit fresh outrages, and their arrogance is beginning to be without bounds, Here at last is « case which cannot be over- looked, and which must be followed by the swiftest punishment unless the wrong is made good, The story which we print is full of interest, It is in every way a fair specimen of Mexican valor, The attacking party, in the first in- stance, were completely vanquished, and the hostile boats met with little better fortune, Had the ship been suppiied with arms it could have been defended against all the odds which came against it. This not being the case the men were compelled to take to their boat, and their sufferings till they were picked ap by the Harvest Home were fearful. The cap- tain’s account of the affair appears to be cor- roborated throughout, and taken as a whole it resembles the stories of Spanish piracy in the West Indies, which we thought could not be supplemented by like outrages at this day. But it isin every way characteristic of the people by whom it was committed, and calls for the gternest rebuke, BovtwELt AND THE Gop GamBiErs.—The Secretary of the Treasury loosened bis purse- strings again yesterday, and gave the ‘‘ bulls” in the gold market a plentiful shower of the yellow boys, The amount sold was four millions of dollars, This, by the way, was the amount which smashed the gold pool on the memorable Black Friday. Tue Empress Evognt& has arrived at Lis- bon, where she received a visit from the King and Queen of Portugal prior to her departure for Madsid, The Torpedo Explosion—What Is to Be the Tho State Campaign in Now Jersey. The New Jersey democracy, in Joel Parker—who has accepted the nomination— have secured their strongest eligible man in the State as thefr candidate for Governor, for in several contests his strength among the people has been established. He was elected -Goveraor in 1869 by fourteen thousand five hundred majority, andhe lost nothing of popu- larity by his hearty support of the war for the Union, By the year 1868 he had achieved a national reputation as a leading man in his party, for he was not the least or the last of the distinguished mea voted for in the National Democratic Convention of that year for the Presidency. The republican candidate, Mr. Walsh, is a popular and well known man, but he is comparatively new in the political field and has a hard fight before him, considering the close division of the State between the two parties on a fair trial and a full vote. Upon the full Presidential vote of 1868 of one hundred and sixty-three thousand, in round numbers, Seymour's majority over Grant was three thousand, but Randolph, the democratic candidate for Governor (present Governor), over Blair, republican, had nearly thirty-five hundred majority. If Goveraor Randolph had not been ineligible under the State censtitution for another term he would, doubtless, have been nominated for a re-elec- tion, for his administration has been good, and in nothing more popular than in his prompt, decisive and popular course upon the great question of equal rights in the matter of Orange processions. The claims of Randolph’s ad- ministration will operate to the disadvantage of Parker. The republican majority in 1870 on the Congressional vote was 3,400, mainly due to the acquisition of the new element of the colored vote under the fifteenth amendment, but partially due to democratic splits and de- fections in several districts. In the present contest the republicans are encouraged by their recent successes and gains in North Carolina, Kentucky, Wyowing, California, Maine, Colorado and New Mexico, and by the general and local unity of their party on the plat- form of General Grant’s administration, On the other hand, while we do not sup- pose that the ‘“‘new departure” will be any drawback to the harmony of the Jersey dem- ocracy, or that even the terrible war upon Tammany will materially shake the integrity of their local organization, they have nothing but their own local unity and strength and the popularity of the head of their ticket to depend upon, Nevertheless, upon the strength of Parker, and upon their acceptable platform, embracing ‘the constitution as it is,” and upon the thorough organization and discipline of the party, we look for a sharply contested fight in New Jersey, and the best on the part of the democrats of any fight of the year since their electrifying victory of March last in New Hampshire, Tho Labor Agitation in England. As will be seen from this morning's cable despatches, the Associated Masters of Newcas- tle have, in a letter to the London Zimes, in- formed the public that four thousand one hun- dred and sixteen workmen are now engaged daily, and that the additions to the force of workmen are such that the town and neigh- borhood will, in consequence, soon resume their former activity. It was only yesterday that we printed a cable announcement to the effect that the Strikers’ League was plentiful of cash, that eight shillings a week would be paid for every man and one shilling a week for each child during the continuance of the fight, and that it was the determination of the stri- kera that there should be no concession. Then, again, we know that the employers of labor are in league; that their agents are bringing men from all parts of Europe to fill up the vacant ranks, and that on their part there is no disposition to submit to defeat. It is almost a necessity for us to believe that the vacant raoks are being filled up with knob- men from all parts of the three kingdoms and from many sections of the Continent in which skilled labor can be bought. We do not much believe in “strikes.” We believe much less in ‘knobbing.” To “strike” is often just, but as a general rule it defeats its purpose, “Knobbing” is essentially wicked; it is one man of no principle robbing another man who las, So between the two—between the ‘‘stri- ker” and the “‘knob”—we go in for the ‘“stri- ker” as the honest man, and pronounce the “knob,” if not a fool a scoundrel, How the Newcastle troubles may end we know not. This, however, we do know, that “striking” is the order of the day, and that “Kknobbing” is the weapon which the master uses to put the ‘‘striker” down. We know, too, that, asa rule, the ‘‘striker” is an honest man and that the ‘‘knob” isa coward or a knave. This, also, we know: we know that the “‘striker” is of the workingmen, and that the workingmen are in sympathy with the International. Tho International is an insti- tution which is popular, not in Europe alone, but in free America. Witness our demon- stration of Wednesday. The times are full of danger. The railroad and the telegraph have done much for the millionnaire ; but, although the millionnaire has been the first to reap the benefit, they have done much also for the workingmen; and the workingman is now giving good and substantial evidence that he, too, means to use his sickle and to gather in his harvest. The people against the aristoc- racy is almost played out. The workingmen against the capitalists—that is the question of the hour; and it is a question quite as inter- esting here in free America as yonder in dy- nastic, aristocratic Europe, Whatis to be the result? Nothing but fair play can set matters right. Tue DISARMAMENT OF THz I'reNcu Na- TIoNAL Guarp.—The disarmament, accord- ing to a cable despatch, of the French National Guard has commenced throughout France, The work is quietly progressing, no resistance to the enforcement of the decree of the National Assembly dissolving it is interposed in any of the departments, and everywhere tranquillity prevails, The antici- pations at one time were that the measure could rot be successfully carried out without provoking disturbances which might lead to bloodshed, Happily for France, and fortu- nately for the chances of still better accom- plishments in the’ future, tho people have acquiesced in the decision of. the National Legislature, and have interposed no barriers to the dissolution of the national pilitiag ing more of the hotels that line Broadway, im Saratoga, wore destroyed by fire on Thursday, morning, and a third was partly damaged, so that between the Grand Union and the takod, Sa Wel sis of is Shosspghirg ety ® building and 9 half remain. The hoiels that’ were destroyed—the Patk Place and the Columbian—were by no means among the chief hotels of the place, but they were of suf- ficient value to sum up a pecuniary loss by their destruction, and that of the stores and. stock under them, to two hundred thousand ” dollars. To make matters worse, the excited citizens of the stately pleasure haunt have the impression that the fire was incendiary, so that it is apparently not their “luck,” but some determined enemy, possibly envious of the profitable uses to which nauseous mineral waters have been put, who is pursuing them with his dread malice. ; It is hardly to be supposed that the dignte fied. statesmen, the fortune-seeking bogus nobility, the gay sports, the solid old mer- chants, the thrifty mothers, the eligible daughters or the fashionable belles of the Avenue are attracted to Saratoga merely by the delight of drinking sixteen glasses of Congress water before breakfast. It is hardly more probable that they gather there every summer for the delicious pleasure of the moonlight drives to Saratoga Lake or to put up pennies for the “Ingin” boys to shoot at. The races might call them together for atime; but that cannot certainly be the attraction after race week is over. The club honse certainly does not attract the mothera and daughters nor the solid old merchants, nor can the feminine glory of thirteen’ changes of dress a day deceive the Senatorial magnates into believing in its summer fascinations. The actual success of Saratoga as a summer resort lies in the fact that people go there because other people go. The human race, like sheep, goes always in flocks. Saratoga has been a watering place since the date of Burgoyne’s surrender, when the grand old heroes of the Revolution actually betieved in the healtb-giving quality of its waters. But now it is nothing more than a caucus room for party politicians and a show room ‘for finely dressed women, These go there not’ for the waters or the races or the drives, but because others are going. The hotels and hotel life are the chief attractions of the place, and the infamous incendiary who seems bent on destroying the hotels of Saratoga has taken the best method of destroying the charm and prestige of Saratoga itself. Toryism Loeking Up. The signs of the times are bad for the Glad- stone administration in England. So far as we know there have been but two important elections since Premler Gladstone made use of the royal warrant for tle abolition of pur- chase inthe army. To the aristocrats gen- erally the policy of Mr. Gladstone was offen- sive. To the House of Lords it was an open insult. To both houses of Parliament, and, indeed, to the whole body of the people, it was asurprise. The surprise has not been con- vincing. The people are attached to the Crown, and the general feeling was that Mr. Gladstone made a use more bold than wise of the royal prerogative. The people in all lands do love change; reavtion will set in against even the best administration; and it does seem as if the author of ‘Coningsby” and “‘Lothair” might be once again Prime Minister of Great Britain. Some weeks ago the government lost East Surrey. Now it has lost Truro, Itis a bad sign for Mr. Glad- stone. It is good sign for Mr. Disraeli. The tide may turn, but it now runs in an anti- Ministerial direction. For the moment tory- ism is looking up. Wendell Phillips and General Butler. Wendell Phillips, General Butler, the Cris. pins, the labor reform party, the Interna- tional and the women’s rights women have combined their forces against the Old Bourbon republican ring of Massachusetts, and they are a powerful coalition. Regarding this holy alliance, as holding the balance of power in the Old Bay State, the democrats are brist- ling up with extraordinary enthusiasm, inspired by the hope of slipping into a glorious victory in November. Massachusetts was never in such a.stew before as she is now, and Wendell Phillips ay@ the women agitators of women’s rights are keeping the fire well supplied with combustibles and the caldron up to the point of boiling over. Phillips on Butler speaks like a prophet of Israel to the worshippers of Baal. In the estimation of Phillips General Butler is not only a mighty man in Israel, but the only man who can save the State and the nation. According to Phillips, Massachusetts, since the good old days of Samuel Adams, has not had a candidate for Governor who could hold acandle to General Butler. He is the only one alive who has an idea or a policy on any ques~ tion, or who would be missed if he died to- night. Mr. Phillips as a candidate had per- mitted the newspapers to run over him, but General Butler fights them, hip and thigh, and is taking the conceit out of the editors. The republican party is dead, at least in Massachusetts, as Mr. Phil- lips informs the world; but it resists a burial. It represents nothing, it is good for nothing, its candidates have not an idea beyond the spoils; while the progressive Butler, as the standard bearer of the labor, party, is raising the red flag of refurm over the stagnant pool of party politios; and this constitutes his great offence to the old fogies, and this it is that makes him so many enemies, He is,, moreover, down upon the moneyed corpora= tions, including railroads in general and the Eastern Railroad in particular; he is dowm upon the Southern Ku Klux Klans, and he is down upon the grogshops, and, if elected: Governor, he will make the rumsellers howl. With such stirring appeals in behalf of General Butler, as the champioa of labor reforms and negroes rights down South, and: women’s rights everywhere, and of tem- perance in Boston, can it be wondered at that: Massachusetts isin a great ferment or that her old republican Bourbons are frightened,, while the democracy are inspired with visions | of a democratic Governor slipping in between the new Butler party and the old republicans? We can’t tal what is coming in Massachuactiqg