The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1871, Page 6

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OFF * AMERI Bend Sixty- HIBITION, Third avenue Open day and eventing, t- CRIP TE Petree - New York, Monday, September 1S, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, SHEET. Wace. Ss 1—Ad vertisements, 2m Advertise nts. 3—Ruins of the King: Opinions and Speculations ‘on the Sit What Does It Mean’ Another govern y City: Outery Against Corrup- ton—The Starved Circus Boy—Music and the 1 Musical Review—New York City— of Connolly: Iinportant Letters’ of to the Comptroller and General y 1 from the Fi- mons Yesterday ty the Me- tropolis and kisewhere; Civil Corruption Cen- sured ritual Orauions from the Various Christian Puly le Spirituatists in Council, mati ht Chit-cnatr Maite ations | The Minister’s Missing. Wife—Brook- A Wale Murders Ler itusband— dew Publ e elegrams—News (rom Washington— Notes, S—Mai) News trom Europe—Foreign Personal Gos- sip—The Tragedy in New London—Odd Fellow- ship: Annus! session of the Grand Lodge of the United States at Chicago—The Largest Taxpayers in Hoston—An Old Coupie Burned to Death at Coytesville, N. J, 9—Boutweil’s Mismanagemen:i Vaymaster's Ac- counts Mouldering in the Treasury Depart- ment Five Years Before Exami:! —Shock- jag Occurrence in New; i al and Commercial Reports—Custom Tlouse Stats: tics—Boating in Kochesier—Marriages and Deaths —Advertisements. 10—Sunday’s Tombs— ath Morning at the paign—The Mas- norship—The Political Fyrnt Meeting of a Democraue and pn—Running Notes, Po- he New Native Amertean Movemeni—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- menis. 1—aavert 42 - Advert: As one of the warlike signs of the times it deserves to be noted that Sweden, one of the most peaceful of the king- doms of Europe, is reorganizing her army. In the event of Russia and Germany coming into collision it will be difficult for the King of Sweden and Norway to keep out of the fight. Ut is well for Sweden to set her house in order. Tur Equrnoctiats.—We have had the first, if not the last, of our September equinoctials, and, according to the old rule in such cases, we are now entitled to afew days of bright and balmy weather; but, considering the ex- traordinary season of cold, cloudy and stormy skies that we have had since May last, we ought to be prepared for a thunder storm, a snow storm or a hurricane as the next thiag io order. Tne Mextoans in Lower Catmrornta have been celebrating the anniversary of Mexican independence by the blending of United States glories with those of Mexico, If they would further celebrate it by restraining Mexican pirates on the Gulf shore from seizing Ameri- can ships they would further conduce to cor- dial harmony between the two countries, Tue Inucrr Disrinrers and defrauders of the revenue in North Carolina are now de- clared to be Ku Klux because of their opera- tions, which, without going to the length of whipping and maltreating Union men, includes pretty heavy swindles on the government. This matter of Ku Kluxism seems to be mainly # question of geography. In Wash- ington similar operations are generally termed fruly loyal. Turer Cotorep MEN were hanged on Sat- urday in St, James Parish, La., all the officials wh: conducted the execution being colored men. This may be termed a progressive step for the lowly race, for when they so far forget the antagonism ef races as to carry out the severest penalty of the law upon their own adberents, peacefully and as a matter of course, they have advanced beyond even some of the white nationalities ip this country. ! point NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEP 5 a nr of The (ky Oificuty sSeilved—Kemo the Comptroller. The people of New York will be rejoiced to learn to-day that Mayor Hall haa removed Richard B. Connolly from the office of City Comptroller, and has tendered the position to General McClellan. After the decision of Judge Barnard in the inyunction case the Mayor, as the Chief Magistrate of the city, had but one duty to perform; to rid the Finance Department of an officer who stood branded in a judicial opinion as criminally un- faithful to his trast; who had shown himself unfit to be the custodian of the city’s bonds and documents by losing from his office at a critical moment papers of the greatest im- portance, and who had defied the popular will by obstinately refusing to resign his po- sition and give place to a successor in whom the people could repose confidence. At first it was supposed that the contumacious officer could only be reached by the slow pro- cess of an impeachment before the Court of Common Pleas; but it was generally be- lieved that there must be some method by which an unfaithful head of a city departmeut could be made to yield up bis trust into the hands of those who had confided it to him, and such appears to be the fact. The highest legal authority in New York has advised the Mayor that the power of removal exists as an inci- dent to the power of appointment, except where restriction is specially made at the time the appointing power is bestowed, or when there is some express statutory enactment in regard to the power of removal; and that the process of impeachment provided in the charter is only a.co-ordinate power, and does not conflict with or destroy the absolute power of removal vested in the appointing head. This, however, is not the only ground upon which the Mayor's action is based. The Comptroller, pursuing the same line of policy which is thought by many to have the petty trick of the plate-glass burglary, hit upona plan by which he might, as he hoped, retain possession of his office, and thus defeat the ohject of the Mayor and With the approval induced the will of ibe people. ot the partisan organs and__ political adventurers who have been seeking to turn the recent municipal turmoil to their own profit, the Comptroller appointed a new de- puty, and publicly abdicated his office for five months, leaving all the powers and duties be- longing thereto in the hands of his own ap- This to defeat the ends of justice has, it is believed, recoiled pointee, cunning plot upon those who invented it. It would be an absurdity to suppose that an officer who holds accused of his position by appointment, when malfeasance or threatened with removal, has the power to p'ace another person in discharge of his duties under the An impeached this successor fictitious name of a deputy. could by own nominal public officer his retaia means ap- and the and emoluments still powers of his office, The Mayor regards this action of the Comptroller as an actual relinquishment of his office, and in this opinion he is con- firmed by high legal authority. On the ground, therefore, that Mr. Connolly has the well right of the power of removal, Hall the office and ap- points a successor to the present incumbent. resigned Comptrollership, as as in Mayor claims The letter which conveys this information will be delivered to Mr. Connolly this mora- ing, and it remains to be whether he yield up possession seen will of the department without further delay, or whether be and his present abettors will bit upon some other plan for retaining the Comp- trollersbip in their hands, at the expense and to the serious embarrassment of the govern- ment. Under any circumstances the people of New York would never be satisfied with a successor to Mr. Connolly appointed by himself, His reputation is not such as to render it desirable that he should retain any connection, direct or Indirect, with the Financial Department of the city government, or that any of his personal friends sbould aid him in a whitewashing of his official record. He must stand aside entirely. The Court, which has condemned him, will not be likely to remove the existing injunction until he is out of the office. The appointment of General McClellan as his successor will be heartily approved by the taxpayers, aad by our citizens generally. investigation Should Mr. Connolly persist in holding on to his office there is but little doubt that the Courts will uphold the right of the Mayor to remove him. In the meantime we advise the Investigating Committee to con- tinue their labors and not to suffer the new trick of the Comptroller and his abettors to prevent the earnest prosecution of the work they have undertaken, Tur Movnt Cenis Tonngu.—A-correspon- deat of the London Times telegraphed to that paper on Saturday that he had traversed the Mount Cenis Tanne! in thirty-eight minutes; that the air in the tunnel was excellent; the rails perfectly level, and that the entire work had been admirably done. So the Alps have at last been pierced, and science has put into the shade and rendered for ever unnecessary such exploits as those which gave glory to a Hannibal and a Napoleon. The Pacific Rail- road, the Suez Canal and the Mount Cenis Tunnel, these have been the great engineering works vi the age, Science commerce and eee religion moving hand in hand, the promise is that the world will be couquered after a very different fashion from that contemplated by Napoleon or Cwsar or Alexander, A Cartous Ph: in the City Fraud Mud- dle~Jumping About of the Party Press, Among the new phases in the matterof the city government frauds being presented from day to day, the most curious is that of the appointment by Comptroller Connolly of ‘Mr. Andrew H. Green, formerly of the Central Park Commissioners,” to the position of Deputy Comptroller, by the advice of Mr. W. F. Havemeyer, and to the great joy of our English-controlled contemporary, which had lashed itself into fury over these frands. Now, we have nothing to say against “Mr. Andrew H. Green, formerly of the Cc. P. C.,” and hope he may prove the best instrument to reach all the facta about the frauds upon the city government ; but it is certainly strange to see the paper that was so furious become all at once as gentle as asucking dove on learning of bis appointment. It had vociferously demanded the resignation or removal of Mr. Connolly, and now it is satisfied that he should hold his position, as he has appointed Mr. Green, formerly of the C. P, C., Deputy, with power to act for the time being as Comptroller. Thus Mr. Green is given the onerous duties of investigating and exposing the frauds of his. superior, under the very eyes of that superior himself. How he will do it remains to be seen, unless the appointment of General McClellan blocks the litule game. It is not unlikely, too, that our British-inspired contemporary, which exhibits such remarkable change of opinion, may have thought that in this move it saw the way clear to grind a party axe or to vent some personal spleen. To show the effect the action of Comptroller Connolly bas had upon the party press, one side and the other, we publish to-day in another part of the paper articles on the sub- ject from an English newspaper (pub- lished in this city) and the New York World. We give them for what they are worth, and the public can take its choice. All we care about is to get at the truth, whoever may be damaged by it, and to prevent one guilty party taking refuge by assaults upon others who may or may not be guilty. Let every tub stand upon its own bottom. We have said from the beginning that the noise made by the English newspaper “(published in New York) was for party effect, and from personai considerations, parading the same figures from day to day and using these as an advertisement. Now it is more apparent that all its hubbub and fuss and its demand for the overthrow of the Tammany Ring are ouly its plan to get at the spoils of office by new combinations and by forming new rings. It has been whispered that Sammy Tilden has been the principal or one of the principal movers in the assault on the Tammany Ring, and that the headlong action of our English contem- porary was inspired by him. As chairman of the State Democratic Committee he was natur- ally jealous of the power of Tammany, and bas taken this course to destroy it. We see thus the strangest movements among pol- iticians of all stripes to break up one ring and to form others in order to get at the cily treasury and power. This appears to be the secret of the present excitement. The same spectre of frauds has been revived over and over again for a like purpose in the course of a few years. We attacked constantly, and, indeed, long ago, the gross extravagance of our city au- thorities, and, therefore, could wait to see what the pretended virtuous party journals were after. Their object—which we have exposed all along—is appareat to the public now. If our English contemporary had been sin- cere in desiring an honest investigation of the city frauds and reform, why did it not endorse our proposition to have Mr. Royal Phelps, Mr. Belmont, or some other gentleman of like standing and ability in financial matters, ap- pointed as Comptroller? There would be no doubt of a full and honest investigation by such a gentleman. Then the public would be satisfied. But it seems to have another. object in view, and hence its delight at the appoint- ment of “Mr. Andrew H. Green, formerly of the C. P. C.,” to the position of Deputy Comp- troller by Mr. Coanolly, while Mr. Connolly himself holds the position of Comptroller. One object, as well as that which springs from panty consideration, appears to originate in some private grief. The English hewspapeg(pub- lished in New York) and the political cliques, which are ‘aiming at the spoils, think Mr. Green would serve their purpose, and, conse- quently, Mr. Green, late of the C. P. C., was appointed to take charge of the Comp- troller's books, The Committee of Seventy— a cumbrous body—as well as all the other machinery set in motion on“pretence of making investigations and reform, are not likely to do much, One such gentleman as we have sug- gested in the Comptroller's office would do the work thoroughly and honestly, if untrammelled by the presence of a superior in his own department. The violence of our English contemporary has, as was said before, shown the motive by which it has been inspired. No one assumes virtue or more loudly declaims against vice than the vicious. Our contemporary was differently conducted when under the control of that thorough and accomplished journalist, Mr. Henry J, Raymond. As to its contempti- ble attacks upon the Heratp because we would not lend ourselves to the party schemes of those who have been s0 furious against the city authorities without | discrimination, we can bear them very well. The Heratp has been accustomed to these, and still has gone on prospering from year to year as the leading journal of the country, A bundred times it has been said our circula- tion and business were declining; still our cir- culation keeps increasiag and our columns are filled more and more with advertisements, At this very time, when the old cry of declining business has been raised again by this English newspaper (published in this city), our circulation is greater than ever, and our advertising business larger than at any other corresponding period. It is this increasing prosperity that enables the Heratp to be independent of parties, cliques or any outside influence, and that lic. In the matter of the city affairs we have pursued the even tenor of our way, criticising them fairly and un- flinchingly, while the party journals were sleeping. Bat, while «we earnestly de- mand an investigation and reform, we have had reason to doubt the motive of the pre- tended reformers, We have seen too often how such reformers tura outin the end. The onts are forever fighting to get in. They raise a howl which usually requires the sooth- ing action of a committee of sixty or seventy nice, quiet gentlemen, who, with many hems and haws, proceed to what they term an inves- tigation, generally ending up with a gout-inspiring dinner, handshaking and an ill-considered verdict, and then everything goes on as before, the old combination carry- ing on its old game; or else they demand a new deal, and the new combination, just in, grasps with terrible rapacity at the treasures placed for the first time within its reach, The Sermons Yesterday. The pulpit discourses yesterday have noth- ing particularly to recommend them save their utter simplicity and in some instances shallow- ness. The Brooklyn pastors appear to have taken away the palm from their New York brethren in directness of thought and utter- ance. If we except Dr. Thompson’s evening discourse (which will be found in another column) in the Broadway Tabernacle, there was nothing ‘‘sensational” in any of the sermons reported by our corps of reporters yesterday. That reverend gentle- man gave the Church and the press and the Christian community and society in general a pretty effectual “scoring” for their lack of interest in the moral statns of this city, by which such a state of corruption and degrada- tion as we now behold has been fostered and permitted to exist. The sermon was osten- sibly to young men, but it was a good one for some old heads and hearts to hear and to feel. While we have hasted to be rich and bave neg- lected the city, our millions have been taken by official-thieves, our public schools handed over to ignorance and sectarianism, the press has become demoralized and panders to the vicious and the bad, and our city and State and national governments have been under- mined by the example of luxurious ease and the results of ill-gotten wealth which are spread out before the young. This is Dr. Thompson’s indictment, and the Church is charged with very much of the assumed guilt attending it. The remedies suggested are the toning up of the moral standard of the com- munity and pressing the thieves and planderers to the wall by legal enactments. The people have begun the latter, but the Church has failed to proceed in the former. The country experiences through which the Rev. Dr. Hepworth passed during his summer vacation had so possessed his soul that he greeted his congregation yesterday with a “sciological” treatise—a mixture of science and theology—on the goodness of God in giv- ing us such a world, with its beautiful sur- roundings. The Rev. Father Cazean, probably under a similar inspiration, directed the atten- tion of his vast audience in St. Francis Xavier's church to the harmony of faith and science, and sought to disabuse their minds of the false notion that the two are antagonistic, But the good father from this standpoint made an indirect, but, nevertheless, plaiuly under- sbood, appeal for faith ia the dogma of Papal Infallibility. Dr. John Hall exalted the preaching of the Gospel as the first and highest of the duties of a minister of Christ, and cited the words and the example of St. Paul therefor, But we opine that if Paul lived ia our day and in this city he would not speak or write very highly of much of the preaching which we hear, and we are glad tbat Dr. Hall also condemned it and urged ministers to seck more of the sim- plicity of Christ in their sermons. The Rev. James Beecher supplied his brother’s pulpit in Brooklyn yesterday and sought to demonstrate that the dispensation of God’s love is seen not in the tearing down and rebuilding of things, but rather in the development of new from the old. Mr. Meredith, in Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, discoursed eloquently on the unity of the Church, and the necessity for every member to be in his place; and Dr. Chapman, in St. Jobn’s, enforced the power of Christian example upon the world, and gave ample illustration thereof. For the beau- tiful or the brilliant thoughts contained in the other sermons delivered throughout the pulpits of this city and vicinity yesterday we refer our readers to the reports on another page of this paper, and recommend their perusal, so that our readers may know who have said the the best tuings or the prettiest. The Customs Treaty Between and France. Since the close of the late war Alsace and Lorraine, the ceded—or, if the reader prefers it, conquered—provinces have been most unfortunately circumstanced. The provinces mainly depended on their manufactures, But the whole system of arrangements made them dependent on France. Cut off from their ancient market and not yet having time to obtain a new, their condition was miserable in the extreme. It was natural that in these circum- stances Alsace and Lorraine should be discon- tented and even disaffected. The treaty just concluded, if we understand it aright, gives them their ancient privileges with France, So far as trade is concerned they are as they were before the war broke out. In concluding this customs treaty we think France bas done well. To conclude such a treaty was no doubt against the grain of the French peeple. Bat the German has had to pay forit. The one thing which France desires and needs now, next to freedom from her debt obligations, is the evacuation of her territory by the German forces. In consideration of what Germany gains by the treaty Germany consents to evacu- ate the departments of the Aisne, Aube, Céte d'Or and Jura and to reduce the whole army of occupation to fifty thousand men. As we have said it was a good and wise thing for France to do. We hope soon to see France herself again, and we feel convinced that this customs treaty will not retard her recovery, Sgorerary Boutwei1t, who told Jobn Covode that he was appointed to attend to the Treasury and not to make electioneering speeches for the benefit of Pennsylvania re- publicans, and whose Assistant Secretary some time ago ordered that the wages of clerks who went home to vote should be de- Germany Ljaakes it the popular organ of the pub. | ducted, is off for Ohio to make a aveegh ‘EMBER 18, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET, ‘The Churches, the People and the Move- ments of the Ago. Revolution anid conservatism are the two ac+ tive and antagonistic principles of the times. We mean by this revolution in the broad sense of progress and improvement, and not in the barrow sense of local disturbances or bloody outbreaks ; and by conservatism not merely the effort to preserve order, but the resistance to progress or innovation of any kind, the sup- pression of the aspirations of the laboring masses and maintaining the status quo of old and existing political and social institutions. On the side of progress or revolution are the working classes and the disfranchised of all countries, with o «great number of the advanced thinkers of the age. These are largely represented at present by the International, the workingmen’s unions and other similar combinations, which have loomed up lately as a dreaded power to those who oppose them. On the side of con- servatism are tho monarchs, aristocracies, most of the great capitalists, shoddy parvc- nus, the fashionable butterflies of great cities, the Church hierarchy and nearly all the preachers of the different religious sects, mili- tary chiefs and the old fossil statesmen and politicians who live in the past. These are the hosts arrayed in desperate conflict to deter- mine the political and social future of man- kind, One of the parties, at least, in this conflict, has mistaken its mission—one which has de- parted from the fundamental principle of its faith, and upon which rests the heaviest responsibility—we mean the Church. Not only the Roman Catholic Church, but all the sects or divisions of the so-called Church of Christ. None of these sects are in sympathy with the laboring masses or with the lib- eral movements of the age. Their con- duct toward the mass of the working people is very much like that of the Jewish hierarchy, the very religious Pharisees and the rulers in Judea to those poor workingmen— to Jesus, the carpenter's son, and the fisher- men—who founded the Christian religion. They have made religion so genteel and fash- ionable—so much a thing of state, form and luxury—that the poor cannot enter, or, at best, can only enter at the back door. The gorgeous priests, the richly paid and luxu- riously fed preachers, and their dainty con- gregations, clothed in silk, seated on velvet cushions and locked in their pews from vulgar contact, forget that to the poor the Gospel was preached—forget that the men who first preached the Gospel were poor men, who lived, and barely lived, by the daily labor of their hands, Like the pious Pharisees of old, they preach sabmission and humility to the poor while they revel in luxury and bestow their attentions on those who live luxuriously. Entering any of the churches in these times— yes, any of our American or New York churches—and looking at the congregations, one might conclude that religion was made only for the rich, and that the poor have no lot or portion in it, How, then, can we expect the preachers to sympathize with the masses in their efforts to rise in the social scale—to acquire political rights, or to improve their condition? They talk enough about equality in heaven, about the reward for suffering hereafter, and the ne- cessity of patience and submission to the starving or to those who can barely exist by the most exhausting toil; but that isthe extent of their charity. They give this cheap advice, but will not attempt to raise one of the bur- dens of the people even with their fingers. Yet they are ever ready to denounce the suf- fering poor, who, chafing sorely under afflic- tion or disabilities, organize to demand relief. In any great struggle for liberty or reform the churches are almost always against the people and with their oppressors. We do not mean here the Roman Catholic Church alone—which claims to be the only trae Church, though that is the most pow- erful and has most adherents In the civilized world—but the Episcopal Church, the Method- ist, the Presbyterian, Independent and others as well. Some, itis true, are more liberal and have a more equalizing or democratic ten- dency than others, but all court the wealthy and neglect the poor. There may be more excuse for the Catholic Church than for the rest, because the head of that claims to be a monarch and to rule by divine right, because its hierarchy is an aristocracy, and because it is based on the principle of absolute obadi- ence. There is none for the Protestant Churches, which profess to be liberal and pro- gressive, and to follow more closely the lowly Jesus and His poor disciples. The consequence of this standing aloof from the working masses, of want of sympathy with them in their movements to rise in the social and political scale, and of becom- ing the allies of oppressors, is to drive the people into infidelity, to desperation and bloody revolutions, and to endanger the established rights of property. This was seen in the conduct of the late Paris Commune, The people have not learned to distinguish between what is real Christianity and that which ig professed by the clergy, who help to oppress them and keep them in ignorance, and they say we will have no such God and ho such Saviour a8 our oppressors or their allies call npon, Much as the character and objects of the Paria Commune, the Interna- tional and the workingmen’s unions have been misrepresented, there is no denying the fact that a great many of the members reject religion and proclaim their infidelity because the Churches and priests are against them and uphold the monarchs, aristocracies and a moneyed oligarchy, All the movements of the age, with the rapid diffusion of intelligence through the press, tele- graph and locomotive power, tend to elevate the working classes, It is impossible to pre- vent this progress or to arrest it for any length of time. If the preacherg remain blind to the fact and will not aid in the movement the Churches and society must suffer, Infidelity and the worst features of Communism and Socialism may become more widely diffased than ever. The Churches must go back to the fundamental principles of Chris- tianity when it was the religion of the poor, and as promulgated by the poor fishermen, or they will be overwhelmed, On the other hand, if they will take up the cause of the people, educate and elevate them and wisely direct the movements of the age, they may prevent bloody revolutions aad gaye the good that bas been gained by modern civilization. Societ; is upheaved to its very foundations, and is passing through the most important crisis in history. It ought to be the mission of the Churches to aid the people in their aspirations for a beiter state of things. —_—_——_———_—_. The Comptrolier’s Remedy—A Chance fer a New Deal, Eureka! Connolly, the impeachable, has at last discovered a plan for bringing to light the corruption in tie city government, even as Archimedes, after patient research, sud- deuly found a method of detecting the adul- teration of King Hiero's crown. This infalli- ble test is vouched for by an ex-Mayor and endorsed by the new organ of the Comptroller, and its name is Green. The modus operandi to put it im motion is at least ingenious, Connolly, the Comptroller, holding office under an appoint- ment by the Mayor, is found, on a judicial in- vestigation, to be not altogether free from the suspicion of having allowed the city to be rob- bed through criminal negligence in his depart- ment. So Connolly, the Comptroller, appoints friend Green, of another city department, his deputy, and then Connolly, the Comptroller, retires from his office, and friend Green, the deputy, becomes Comptroller in his place. This, we are told by Connolly's organ— &@ paper but recently so resolved upon a thorough reform in the city” government that it would hear of no compromise, is to cure all the evils of which the people have so long complained, and is to unearth certain hidden evidences of corruption which are to ‘implicate Hall and Sweeny.” To be sure, we are warned that we have lost the chance of bringing one ter- rible malefactor to justice, for the Comp- troller’s organ. informs us that the famous stolen vouchers alone implicated Tweed, and they are gone forever. But we are to fasten guilt upon Hall and Sweeny, through the instrumentality of Green, and then the old emerald ring will be destroyed for ever, and & new one substituted in its place. Let us hope the new combination of Cons nolly, Green, Havemeyer and the British- American organ will give us a real and not a bogas reform. It will not be enough if Comp- troller Green rests satisfied with taking a few insignificant scalps and only raises the hair of an auditor, an assistant auditor and a book- keeper who may have fallen under his displeasure. It will not satisfy the peo- ple if reorganization should be confined to the transfer of the city deposits from tha Broadway Bank to the Bank of North America, or to some other sach trivial change. Let us have first the discovery of who stole the vouchers, a revelation which a gentleman who himself enters into office upon special vouchers should be well able to accomplish. Then tet every head of a city department appoint a deputy and retire from office, leaving his deputy to discharge his duties, and we shall thus secure a new deal in the city government without any necessity to appeal to courts or charters. ‘weed may thus give way to ex-Sherifl O'Brien; Sweeny may step aside for Collector Murphy, and Ifall may leave the west wing of the old City Hall to the occupation of the Big Judge. Thus may we hope to be saved; thus may the British-American organ of the Comp- troller secure a rich share of the city printing ; thus may a bran new ring be slipped over the neck of the delighted New Yorkers; and thus may the persecuted Connolly enjoy a peaceful political grave, while the Men of Munster and the Tammany braves shed tears of sympathy over his remains and raise the plaintive cry, “Green be the wart above thee!” od Advice to the Democratic Party. The advice of the Cooperstown (N. Y¥.) Freeman's Journal to the democratic party is that of a man who looks the political situation fairly in the face, with the purpose of meeting the necessities of the crisis. Thus our rural contemporary says that this year’s elections, especially those of Connecticut and California, “are among the indications that the democratic party, as now organized, is in a minority in the Union ;” that ‘‘the defeat of the republicans in New Hampshire was not a democratic victory in the true sense of the term ;” that ‘Ohio will be carried next month by the republicans almost beyond a doubt;” that ‘Pennsylvania will very likely go the same way;” that ‘‘it must then be acknowledged that there is little or no hope of success with Hoffman” (who is not a candidate for the Presidential nomina- tion), nor for ‘Hendricks, Pendleton or any old democratic leader of that class.” In all of which opinions we concur, because they are opinions over and over again expressed by the Herap, But why will none of these old stagers of 1864 and 1868 answer for 1872? Our rural contemporary aforesaid answers the question by frankly confessing that the democratic party wants a candidate who will draw some reinforcements from the conservatives of the republican party; because the democratic party cannot succeed without such reinforce- ments; that the Presidential candidate of the party must be some such satisfactory man on the “‘new departure” as Chief Justice Chase or Governor Gratz Brown, ‘‘or some other man of that stamp.” And this, too, is our opinion. But, says our Cooperstown philoso- pher—and he is a philosopher—‘‘the first step towards this mach needed success (the national success of the democracy) is that they carry the State of New York for the democratic ticket this fall;” for, says he, ‘let New York go republican this fall and Grant will claim his re-election as certain to follow.” Just 80; and we think it may be said that the democrats themselves will admit that if they lose New York this fall they are gone, “‘hook and line, bob and sinker.” In order to save New York, however, the managers of the party should get their State Convention together at an early day, so as to take the new departure demanded in reference to our city affairs. Instead of considering this important subject, the Democratic State Com- mittee have called their State Convention to meet on the 4th of October, a week after the Republican Convention, because the Demo- cratic Committee want to see first what the republicans willdo, They will be apt to steal the very thunder which will be most effective in thé election; and so here we have a demo-~ cratic blunder which, if not corrected, may cost the party the loss of the State. Our Cooperstown philosoper jntimates that the