The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Volume XXXVI. = eee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Twe Batu ‘ vomiue Or Huwrry Dompry, m Recast fam No. 264 BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23a st., _ Sar LITTLE Dewacervas, fo Cmween th and Oh ave, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances afternoon and evening—LEAH, THE FOKBAK EN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bo ol a wery.—BERTHA, THE SEWING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, bet i Houston ot.—Canr, tae FInpLEs. sci ea ina | GRAND OPERA HOUS! a = ‘on aoe HOUSE, corner ot Sth av, ana 23d st. FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tue New Drama oF Drvorox. | WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street Bier Branp. GLOBE THEATRE, 725 Broadway.—NECRO ECORNTRI- ‘CITIES, BURLESQUEs, 20. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. No, 720 Broadway. 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S—Tho British Arbitrator: Arrival of Recorder Ruseeil Gurney; What He has to Say About the American Claims; Great Britain Will Act Justiy—Brooklyn Affairs—News from St. ‘Thomas, St. Domingo, Hayti and Venezuela— Kniguts Templars—Good Templars— American Institute Faw: What 1s to be seen at the Kink—The Agricultural Fair at Trenton, N. w Jersey State Fair—Auother Outrage y Spamish-Americans—The — Courts—T'he Pistol Galiery Shooting Afair—Meeting of the Board of Heaith. G6—Editorials: ips Article, “The Democracy of the Empire State—The Downfail of Tam- many and Its Comsequences—Still One Hope Lett for November"’—Personal Intelligence— Amusement_Annonncements. | 7—News irom France, Engiand, !taly, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Greece and India—fhe Cholera in Europe—Interesting from Mexico—The Gubernatorial Cam- paign in Massacnucetts: Sketch of General Buuler at New Bedtord—Illinois Republican State Convention—Minnesota Republican State Convention—Speech of Carl Shurz in Neghviile, Tenn.—Miscellaneous Telegrams— Business Notices, S—Finarcial and Commercial Reports—Railroad =4 Maticrs—The New Staie Capiioi—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisemeats. 9— Advertisements. 1@—News from Washington—German Fat §@Men’s Association—Aquaiics: Exciting Six-oared Gig Race ou the Kill Von Kull; The Quebec Regatta—Hudson Amateur Rowing Assocta- tioo—New York City News—Fleetwood Park— Cojlision on the East River—Dutchess Couny Fair—Row at a Free Love Gathering—The Harper fragedy Foretold m a Dream—Chiet Justice Chase—A Revertant Ah Sin—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements. AL—Adivertisements. 22m Advertisements. Tae Ivirso1s REPUBLIOAN CONVENTION has recommended general amnesty and endorsed General Grant. It must be borne in mind that this occurs, too, just after Mr. Greeley’s pas- sage through the State. Ten or FirreeN Men were buried under the sand while tunnelling a sewer in Indiana- polis, Iud, One has been taken out dead and another alive, while the fate of the remainder is still in the balance, Senator Scuvrz, in his speech at Nash- ville last evening, took a ‘new departure,” recommending general amnesty and numerous reforms, urging the Southern people to ac- cept the reconstruction acts and the amend- ments, and aiming generally to lay down the groundwork of a new party that is supposed to be acceptable to republicans and democrats alike. Ir 18 TO BE HOPED that Corporation Counsel O'Gorman will not be deterred by the outcry of the radical papers from following out his idea of prosecuting the contractors who have drawn money from the city treasury on fraud- ulent and excessive bills. Let him at once bring the actions he proposes and make the plunderers disgorge. Above all, let one of his first suits be the people against Richard Burg. lary Connolly. Tne City Degapiock.—The injunc‘ion against the Board of Apportionment will re- main in force so long as Connolly continues a member of that Board, The delegation of his powers to Deputy Green cannot affect the in- junction, because the Comptroller is till actually a member of the Board, al- though temporarily represented by another person. The consequence will be that no money can be raised to pay the laborers, and the works upon the parks, boulevards, streets, &c., must be stopped. This will throw thousands of poor men out of work just at the commencement of the cold wenther; yet ex-Mayor Havemeyer, Samuel J. Tilden and the Committee of Seventy insist upon retaining Connolly in office. The dead- lock must continue to answer the purposes of dhe voliticiang, NEW YORK HEKALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEE?, ‘The Democracy ef the Empire State—The Dowefall of Tammany and Its Conse. quences—Still One Hope Left tor Novem- ber. The power of Tammany is broken. Her prestige is gone. Her central junta is dis- solved and divided against itself, and. her hitherto invincible army of followers is all adrift. How are they to be called together again for our November State election? It is supposed by the more sanguine of the “‘un- terrified” that the party State Convention of October, in their State ticket and platform, will secure the union even of the city demo- crats against the republicans, as usual, and that so the Tammany catastrophe will not seriously affect the integrity of the democratic party of the Empire State looking to the im- pending Presidential contest. But this is a rose-colored view of the democratic situation. Itis evident, from the collapse of Tammany, that the chiefs of the rural democracy of the State Central Committee and of the coming State Convention will take the place of the de- throned sachems of the “old Wigwam” io this State campaign. But the necessity of a ‘‘new departure” is upon them, and in meeting this necessity the first question is, What will the new managers of the approaching Democratic State Convention do? They will, let us assume, repudiate the corruptions of Tammany Hall as inconsistent and incompatible with the principles, teachings and objects of the democratic party ; they will cut loose from the Tammany administration of the city as a misfortune for which the demo- cratic party cannot be held responsible, and they will propose a new city charter under a system of checks and balances calculated to secure an honest administration against rings and rogues and frauds and spoliations of all descriptions. We will assume that this coming Democratic State Convention will do all this because of the imperious necessity for some action to this effect, and that upon the ‘new +| departure” thus suggested a State ticket com- posed of men free from any damaging associa- tions with the financial irregularities of the Wigwam will be submitted to the suffrages of the people. What then? Why, then, no doubt, the democracy of the State will make their best possible fight under the circum- stances; but still, if the republicans are united, the general results of our November election, under the circumstances, State and city, can hardly be anything else than a crushiug democratic defeat, For the alleged “high crimes and misde- meanors” of Tammany Hall, whether justly chargeable to one man, five men, ten, twenty ora thousand men, the democratic party of the city, the State and the country at large are and will be held responsible before the bar of public opinion, Ounce upon a time we had a President of the United States of the name of John Quincy Adams, and the regular expenses of the general government under his model administration were about thirteen millions of dollars a year. But there was, under his ad- ministration, an unfortunate accounting clerk in the Treasury, Tobias Watkins by name, who, in setiling up his accounts one day, fell short to the astounding figure of some four thousand dollars. Thereupon the newly-organized democratic party, with General Jackson as their candidate, took up the cry of ‘‘retrench- ment and reform,” harping upon the Watkins defalcation as an evidence of corruption call- ing for the overthrow of the guilty adminisira- tion. That hue and cry, too, assisted materi- ally in the first election of Jackson, and ever since, with more or less effect, the same hue and cry has been employed by the outside party against the inside party in all our political elections—national, State and muni- cipal. All parties, however, in these latter days in power, so far outstrip in their financial mis- doings the unfortunate Tobias Watkins as to make his case appear supremely ridiculous, with his contemptible deficiency of four thou- sand dollars. Under General Jackson’s admin- istration, in the enlargement of official defalca- tions, there was an immense improvement upon the paltry bagatelle of poor Watkins, while, from the demoralizations, embezzlements and general financial convulsion of Van Buren’s administration, such a state of public indigna- tion was created that it swept him and his party out of power as by a continental tor- nado in 1840. But the general demoralizations of our great war of the Southera rebellion brought apon the country a raging epidemic of political corruption, compared with which even the scandalous official stealings under Van Buren are reduced to trifles, ‘‘Shoddy” contractors during the war suddenly bloomed outas millionnaires, and whiskey rings, through their whiskey frauds since the war,, have en- riched many lucky adventurers to the extent of millions, though here and there an unlucky straggler has found his way to the State Prisov, but rather asa subject of public sym- pathy than of public contempt. Still, consid- ering the good name for honesty and retrench- ment acquired by General Grant's administra- tion, this late defalcation of half a million, more or less, confessed by Paymaster Hodge, and other recent federal embezzlementa, would have raised a tremendous ontcry against Gen- eral Grant but for the astounding and over- whelming enormities in its confiscations of the public money charged against the administra- tion of Tammany Hall, This isthe trouble which will confront the democratic party in our coming State election more directly and decisively than in any other State, though it has been operating to the prejudice of this party, and will operate against it, in all the States until after the ap- proaching Presidential election. There is, however, one hope remaining to the demo- cracy of this State in reference to our Novem- ber election, and that hope lies in the prospect of a split in the republican party, Senator Fenton, Mr. Greeley and all the republican soreheads of the State of that faction, are Spparently resolved that Genoral Grant shall be upset in the coming Republican State Con- vention at all hazards, The Grant men and the Fenton-Greeley faction will each have their delegates in that Convention, and even in the event of decisive majority in favor of Grant, we are inclined to look for a bolt on the part of Fenton and Greeley rather than a surrender, The game of these men, we sus- pect, is that of Van Buren of 1848—the defeat of the regular party ticket for the Presidential succession, and so, notwithstanding the col- lapse of Tammany Hall and the cousequent disorganization of the New York democracy, they have yet ahope to save the State ia November through a split ia the republican party, The Alleged Chy Frauds—What is Deputy Green Doing t It must now be clear to every man of com- mon sense in New York that the reform clamor of the past two months has been nothing more than & political job, designed to affect the approaching State election and to secure for a new set of men the municipal offices out of which some of the present pos- sessors have made sach ample and tempting fortunes, The terrible developments that were to drive from office the heads of all the city departments are not forthcoming; the only public officer who-has as yet been judicially pronounced criminally neglectful of his duties, and who has proved himself an unfit custodian of the public property, has been taken into the confidence and fellowship of tho pretended reformers, and we are now told that the Com- mittee of Investigation find their labors so arduous that they will no doubt remain in session until after election. It is true they promise to-day a report on the olty debt, and this they say will not show our financial condition to be so bad as was supposed; but there is at present no indica- tion of the forthcoming of those terrible proofs ofcorruption, unearthed from the Comptroller's office, which were to overwhelm all our city officials with shame and send them from their magnificent brown stone palaces to the white stone cells of Sing Sing. Indeed, it woald seem as if the prime movers in the great investi- gating machine were anxious to keep the devel- opments precisely in their present position until “after the election,” and to afford the people no more light than they at present enjoy. While they have publicly declared that they hold in their possession a confession of guilt from one important public officer, they use their influence and their ingenuity to keep him in office, instead of placing him at the bar of justice, where the whole truth must come to light. They denounce the Mayor and the Corporation Counsel when those officers propose to prosecute the men who are supposed to have made fraudulent claims upon the city, although such suits would be the best and surest method of ar- riving at the truth in regard to the alleged plundering of the treasury. In short, they are doing and will do allin their power to keep alive the recent excitement, and to hold out promises of startling disclosures until election day arrives and their several objects are duly carried out at the polls, Now the people of New York will not be satisfied with this termination of their attempt to discover the men who have defrauded them out of their money and to remodel and reform their municipal government, They will expect Deputy Comptroller Green to make use of the proofs of corruption and robbery which his friends have publicly announced are in his possession, and to bring the offenders promptly to justice. He holds now an official position of great “importance, and there can be no good reason why he should hand over to any outside, unauthorized body calling itself 1 committee or a sub-committee any documents belonging to the department of which he is practically the head. It is his duty, as acting Comptroller, to guard and pro- tect the city treasury; and if, as his friends have deelared, he has discovered that the treasury has been robbed, he should at once make public the facts, At present it looks as if the uuwieldy Committee of Seventy were to be made the convenient instrument of mystify- ing the people and of carrying on a good enough Morgan until after election. The Ministerial Crisis in Vienna. A ministerial crisis, it has been reported, is imminent in Vienna, The Cabinet of Count Hohenwart, in consequence of its policy of decentralization, is bitterly opposed by the liberal journals of Vienna, Itis not our opin- ion that the Hohenwart Ministry is in any very great danger. It is most natural that the Germans in Austria should be opposed to the decentralization policy. Hitherto they have enjoyed a monopoly of office, not in Ger- man Austria alone, butall over the empire. The new policy, which has given autonomy to Hun- gary, which promises it to Bohemia and which has already virtually given it to Galicia, isa heavy blow to the Austrian Germans, It is not possible, however, for Austria to go back. To her decentralization has become as much a necessity as centralization is to Germany. In no other way can the House of Hapsburg retain ,its hold of its widespread possessions and of its numerous nationalities, Hungary will never consent to give up what she has won, Francis Joseph cannot go back upon the Poles, nor can he refuse to fulfil the promise he made a few days ago to the Czechs of Bohemia. The Germans may growl; they may go 80 far as to vote for annexation to the German empire, thus preferring King William to Francis Joseph. Count Hohenwart may even find it necessary to yield to a temporary out- burst of feeling; but the policy of decentral- ization must continue, andthe Germans can never again be the dominant and favored class through what are known as the Austrian du- minions. The presumption is that at no dis- tant day Emperor of Austria will be remem- bered as a title of the past; but there is no good reason to doubt that the Chief of the House of Hapsburg may long be powerful as the head of a new confgderation, A Goop Svuaa@Estion.—Io sentencing a wretch who had been proven guilty of 8 criminal outrage upon a child Judge Bedford incidentally stated yesterday that he would use all his influence at the nex ession of the Legislature ‘o have thiy dence made a capital crime and punish- able with the death penalty, At present the severest punishment that can be awarded is twenty years’ imprisonment. In this, as in allthe Judge’s other thoughtful suggestions for the improvement of our criminal code, he carries with him the hearty sympathy of the people, The crime he now strikes at is one that awakens the most intense loathing and horror in every heart, and its fre- quency of late years demands severer meas- ures of repression. As the Judge said, ‘ithe villain who can perpetrate such an act is not fit to live,” So long as the gallows remains among us it cannot be better employed than in disposing of hideous monsters who are a scan- dal aad reproach to human nature, Chief Jastico McKean and Mormostem— Other Twin Relic of Barbarism Taat Doomed. Chief Justice McKean, of Utah, has taken the bull by the horns, to use a familiar collo- quial expression, in his initial movement against the Mormon polygamists and adulter- ers. He said, in charging the Grand Jury at Salt Lake City:—‘‘You are to say what criminal cases shall be presented for trial. In the discharge of this duty you will be governed by the same principles of law which govern Grand Jurles in Maine and Montana, in Georgia and Arizona ; principles of law every- where applicable throughout the republic. The crimes of murder, arson, larceny, bigamy and adultery and riot in Utahare the same cgimes elsewhere throughout Christendom.” It appears, too, that in empanelling the Grand Jury all polygamists were excused, and this has created a wail of apprehension in Brig- ham Young's kingdom. The Mormon jour- nals, our telegram says, ‘‘are very bitter on the United States law officers in consequence.” This being excused from the Grand Jury panelisa mild term, we suppose, for being excluded, At least the ireof the Mormon newspapers indicates that what action the Grand Jury may take remains to be seen, but looking at the anti-Mormon character of that body and the charge ofthe Judge there seems to be no doubt that in order to bring the ques- tion to an issue some of the Mormons, and, probably, some of the chief, will be indicted for polygamy or adultery, After this it will remain for the petit jury to convict. Of course the same care will be taken in composing this jury as in that of the Grand Jury. No doubt there are difficulties in the way of getting such & petit jury as to give an impartial trial, on one hand, and on the other to prevent the criminals from escaping. Whatever may be the immediate result, we regard this action of Judge McKean as the entering wedge which is to break up polygamy in Utah and to re- our Christian civilization, Eleven years ago the republican party took the ground that the ‘‘twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy,” must be swept away from our country. This was the most em- phatic resolution in the platform of the Na- tional Convention of that partyin 1860. Upon this platform and in consequence of the divi- sions and stupid immobility of the old Bour- bons of the democratic party the republicans elected Mr. Lincoln as President. And they did sweep away one of those twin relics of barbarism—slavery—much sooner than most people expected, through the rebellion of the South, and at a fearful cost of life and money, The otherhas remained. The republican party, having attained its object in securing the government, became indifferent about the existence of that. It acted much the same as the reform parties that rise up successively and at intervals in this city act, making a great noiso and a loud pretence of virtue until political power is attained and *then subsiding into indifference. We always see the same political claptrap in those who are struggling for power and a like abandonment of their noisy pretences when they get power. The Mormon questien has been a trouble- some one and very costly to the government. After the Mormons were driven from Illinois and other places further West by an indignant people they intrenched themselves in the Rocky Mountains, far away from the confines of civilization. They thought to grow up there, become a power in the world and to perpetuate their lascivious and semi-religious ideas. Mormonism was but an imitation of Mohammedanism and was based on the gratifi- cation of the lusts of men, the subjection of the women and a_ species of religious fanaticlsm to capture the ~ ignorant and to bind its members together. Brigham Young, the chief of this ignorant and fanatical sect, little dreamed of being dis- turbed so soon in the mountain recesses where he had established himself. And he might not have been disturbed until his so-called “Church of the Latter Day Saints” had num- bered hundreds of thousands and become a formidable power, had it not been for the war and the construction of the Pacific Railroad. He had the presumption to defy even the United States government at one time, Most of our readers will remember the military ex- pedition which was sent out at an enormous cost, under General Albert Sidaey Johnston, by President Buchanan, to subdue the rebel- lious Mormons, Though the Mormons suc- cumbed then from necessity, they have never ceased to defy, directly or indirectly, the authority of the government, At last the rapid settlement of California and the mining regions around Utah and the comple- tion of the Pacific Railroad have brought these Mormons into more immediate contact with the rest of the people of the United States and our Christian civilization, and the old conflict has been renewed. The American people are determined not to tole- rate such a monstrous anomaly as Mormonism among them, Although the government had failed to grapple with the evil, notwithstand- ing the declaration of the republican platform of 1860, the progress of events has brought it to an issue. The action of Chief Justice McKean is the beginning of the end. The Mormons must either abandon their infa- mous system of polygamy and adultery or rémove beyond the boundary of the United States, Nor bave we reached this point a day too soon, Looking at the increase in number and wealth of the Mormons and at their fanaticism and rebellious spirit, we might, hereafter, have been plunged into a troublesome and cosily civil war, Even now we may have trouble, though there would be less difficulty in suppressing rebellion and maintaining the au- thority of the government than at any other time, But the suppression of polygamy and adultery had become necessary on other grounds, The seeming tole. ration of them by the government has had a demoralizing effect upon the com- munity generally. The laxity of the marriage tie and marital obligations in this country of late years, pariicularly in the West, must be attributed in part to the existence of polygamy and adultery in 8 community which bas had its representative in Congress, and which fiauntingly proclaimed its indedent practices before the world as sanctioned by religion. While not acknowledging such an influence, many of those who have broken the sacred ties of marriage and family to follow their move this disgrace to the United States and beastly notions of the Mormons. The Chief Justice of Utah has raised, know- ingly ornot, an important question affecting the whole of the people of the United States and the framework of society. The govera- ments of the several States operate directly upon individual citizens, and the laws re- garding marriage and divorce are made and executed by them, independent of the federal goverument; but as so many evils have arisen ont of this state of things the question may come up as to how far the United States government can, within the power given to it by the constitu- tion, declare what marriage and divorce are, and, consequently, what is adultery. Jadge McKean says the crimes of bigamy and adultery are the same in Utah as in the different States and throughout Christendom, and that those committing them are amenable to the laws of the United States. The power of the federal government over the Territories is not as restricted as over the States, and can be exer- cised more directly upon individual citizens; still ia this matter of polygamy, bigamy or adultery, springing indirectly from local laws regarding marriage and divorce and affecting the very framework of society, it may be that the federal government can find the constitu- tional power to act. However, the immediate question is that concerning the Mormons, and here there is little doubt the goverument can and will act. The Deification of Connolly. The English Z'imes is assisting a class of men who call themselves ‘‘Connolly’s friends” to get up s mass meeting and procession in approval of ‘‘the manly and firm course” taken by the Comptroller ‘‘in’ defence of law and order and the sacred trust committed to his hands by the people.” These men, having a very lively sense of Mr. Connolly’s delin- refusal to co-operate” with the Comptroller “in carrying out the present financial affairs of thie city,” and they are especially indignant at the “diminished Ring clique.” In all this they have the aid of the needy and unscrupu- lous English Bohemians who are now as anxious to deify Connolly as they were de- sirous a few weeks ago to degrade him, Bat the work of deification will be a difi- cult task, even for an Anglo-American jour- nal. The progress of the thing will, however, be very funny. All the “Connolly's friends” will be duly chronicled. The people will be called upon ‘‘to come out boldly and sustain Connolly.” We shall be told from day to day that ‘“‘the cause he is now fighting for is a just one,” and that the “ery now raised against Connolly” is an out- rage. And the Tammany Ring will be ar- raigned for seeking ‘‘to degrade a good, in- dustrious and honest man,” and ‘to rob him of the office which he _ had so well filled.” Indeed, we shall not be surprised at being assured that he has “all the respectable and responsible citizens in the city supporting him,” and an “‘elegant eulogium on Comptroller Connolly” will be entirely in order. Already the English Z'imes has printed these phrases, and its defence of the public officer who was denounced from the judicial bench as little better than a highway robber cannot go much further than its glow- ing report of the proceeding of Connolly's friends, If this was not such a complete farco it would be exceedingly disgraceful. Richard B. Connolly is the worst man who ever held’ office in this city, He is charged with having robbed the public treasury by means of forged vouchers, and then with destroying the manu- factured evidences of his guilt. So palpable were the frauds committed by him that the Supreme Court tied his hands to restrain him from fresh outrages. Yet the English Zimes insists on this man retaining office pending the examination into his defalcations, and assists in getting up a mass meeting and pro- cession in his honor, Could duplicity go further? ~The people of this city are to be cheated, and the loud cry in favor of ‘‘smash- ing the Ring” is to be responded to by the formation of a new ring tenfold more hungry than the one which is to be destroyed. These schemes must come to naught, and the men who persist in keeping the unfaithful steward in his place will be condemned by public opin- ion, The people of New York want no more rings, and it is especially impossible for them to endure one of which Richard B. Connolly is the leading spirit. Gladiators in the Field. The political campaigns now going on in several States may be condensed into two special phases. Ohio and Massachusetts have shown that it does not require two gladiators to make a fight on the same ficld, In Massa- chusetts General Butler is making a fight on his own account. He may be Quixotic, and fighting windmills; but ‘‘fighting the wind” has been the score of many New England poli- ticians. Some have gone before it; others have taken it on the quarter, and others again have been taken aback and gone down stern foremost. Butler is evidently to the wind- ward, with a full gale in his favor, so far as present appearances warrant the opinion. If Butler should be nominated by the Republican Convention on the 27th instant he will be elected by a tremendous majority, and bis ad- vent in the gubernatorial chair of Mas- sachusetts will be received with tu- multuous acclaims, such as have never been witnessed since the days of Levi Lincoln. If he does not receive that nomination we believe he will succumb with a grace anda Magnanimity that will insure hima place in the United States Senate, albeit bot’ the present incumbents have avowed themselves hostile to his present menacing position. Butler is, therefore, the only gladiator who has thus far entered the political arena in Massachusetts, and as he fights it alone it is not necessary here to inquire who his Sancho Panza is. ' In Ohio there are a number of gladiators in the field, each of whom, no doubt, has his Sancho Panza in the lobbies at Washington. Bat passing for the present such men as Senator Sherman on the republican side and Senator Thurman on the democratic side as the chiefs of their respective clans, the grand gladiatorial combat is between such men as William 8. Groesbeck for the democracy and Senator Morton, of Indiana, the representative of General Grant's administration, and hence the representative of accepted republican principles on the other, This contest may be “affinities” have really been following the quencies, blame Mayor Hall severely for “‘his “preparations” of elmmered down into'a fow words, Groene beck takes strong grounds in favor of the new constitutional amendments—in other and more familiar words, the “new departure”—and his arguments in that direction are attempted to be refuted by Senator Morton, Groesbeck is evidently the lustier of the two gladiators. We judge so from the fact that in Senator Mor- tor’s speech delivered at Mozart Hall, in Cin- cinnati, on the 16th inst., he places himself upon the defensive. Between the two gladi- ators in Ohio, between Groesbeck and Mor- ton, the small fry politicians of the Buckeye State sink into comparative insignificance, and at the same time the star of Bep Butler in the East rises into remarkable brillianoy. Tho Portent of the Kittens. There are many ways of getting out of a difficulty besides fighting out ; and even if one resolves on fighting the smallest sidé issnes may prove a diversion in one’s favor. When the conjurer has some difficult feat to perform, his first care is to divert the public eye somewhere else, while his nimble fingers shift the cards, So, while all ‘the. town had its weather eye on Connolly's accounts, with a ‘Hey, presto!" they find that astute optic turned on the Comptroller's kittens, Wherever that astate organ of vision is bent the HeRALD must interpose its magnifying glass, so that the publio mind may be fully enlightened. Ac- cordingly our reporters have interviewed the kittens, and what their parent saya and how her progeny looks have been duly noted. But beyond these interesting details there fa a world of conjecture 88 to what ft means. Are the days of portents and omens gone by forever? We do not see why they should be. By the identical hole through which “Slip- pery” Richard’s credit had wriggled along with. the stolen vouchers came this black cat. Typical of what? Was it, as the old cat herself intimates, the democratic Party coming back to take possession of its gorgeous home? Was the first kitten a sweet recognition of Connolly’s confession? Did the second kitten, coming through that same hole, mean the restitution which must follow? Can the third kitten signify the safe- guards which will be demanded by the “‘free and independent” ere the “Ring” can securely rollagain? And, most suggestive query of all, does the fourth kitten represent restored public confidence coming in through the aperture by which it went so suddenly out? Pharaoh had his dream of fourteen kine. Why should not Connolly have his portent of four kittens? Our reporter has traced certain peculiar fea- tures on the tiny quartet. There may be something ominous in this, Omens and signa are not vouchsafed for ordinary events, and history will furnish evidence of wider breaches being healed than that which separates Con- nolly from his quondam friends, There is something that appeals directly to the heart in this view of the case. How many anxious hearts all over the wide city are praying that it may be so we would want to have an inti- mate knowledge of the pay roll to be able to calculate; but they must be numerous. It need only be laid before the public to awaken prayers enough to pay the whole city debt if orisons of the kind have any pecuniary value. Connolly has done nobly in this time of hard figures, hard facts and hard names to draw back the veil. which hides the finer part of our natures and show us under the humble entities of four harmless kittens what a hoart’s ease of playfulness and innocence there was in the happy past, He has delicately in- dicated thereby that what has been ought to be; and it is to be hoped that his fellow inno- cents will take up the hint, It may be a de- lusion or a snare of the Evil One in the sem- blance of the big black cat to tell him bitterly what can never be again; but there is some- thing really touching in that picture of the great democratic cat purring contentedly over her four reunited pets. Try again, Richard. ANOTHER OUTRAGE BY SPANISH AMERT- cans.—When will our government deem it necessary to extend protection to the persons and property of citizens of the United States residing in the Spanish-American republics? It has only been a short time since an Ameri- can steamer was seized in the waters of Colombia by an armed party of Colombians, and now we have to record another seizure of an American steamer in the waters of Vene zuela by one of the revolutionary parties of that country, and her being fired into, It is about time that we should take prompt action in such matters, and if one of the steamers that are now cruising in the waters of St. Domingo for no other purpose than maintaining Baez in power was despatched at once to Venezuela to demand redress it would be carrying out the purpose fer which our vessels of war are con- structed, Personal Intelligence. Captain F. Duncan, of the Royal Artillery, has quarters at-the Clarendon Hotel, Recorder A. Pollok, of Washitigton, is staying at the st. James Hotel. E. Valls, of the Spanish Legation, is at the Albe- marie Hotel. Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, 1s sojourning at the St. Nicholas. Congressman Ellis H. Roberts, of Utica, is among the late arrivals at the Grand Central. Ex Congressman Galusha A, Grow, of Peunsyl- vanta, is stopping atthe Fifth Avenue, ¥x-Governdr W. B. Lawrence, of Rhode Island, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Cartain J. Macauley, of the steamship China, ts at the New York Hotel, 4 Dr. J. ©, Ayer, of Lowell, Mase, 18 registered at the Metropolitan. ' General Reeve, of the United States Army, is quartered at the Grand Central, United States Senator William Sprague, of Rhode Island, yesterday arrived at the Hoffman House, George M. Pullman, of Chicago, 1s temporarily re. _ siding at the Brevoort ITouse. Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, ig domiciled at the Fifth Avenue. Paymaster 8. Rand, of the United States Navy, is quartered at the Hoffman Honse, Colonel H. W. Wessels, of South Carolina, is a sojourner at the Graud Central, Mr. De Westenberg, Minister from Holand, has taken up bis temporary abode at the Albemarie Hotel. Arthur Cheney, proprietor of the Globe Theatre of Boston, 18 among the latest arrivals av the Fifth Avenue. Paymaster Cunningham, of the United States Navy, is abiding at the Grand Central. Miss Major Pauline Cushman, of notoriety shortiy after the war, as having been a Union spy during it, yesterday arrived from Chicago, her permanent * dwelling place, at the Metropolitan Hotel, Governor Gilbert ©, Walker, of Virginia, yesterday arrived at the St, Nicholas Hotel, See ae | |