The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1871, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. aaut pee Pie Aelia Loe. 1—Advertisements, 2Q— Advertisements. $—Ben Butler: The Fight in Massachnsctts Grow- jug Hotter—The Republican Rally: The Coming State Convention at Syracuse—An O’Brien Banner Raising—Kings County Poll- ee oamusements —Nanonal Commercial Con- 4—Tottering Tammany: Drawing in the Lines Be- fore the Commg Conventions—The Joint Com- mittee—The Stolen Vouchers—Tammany in the Tracee—Death in a Dentistry: A Young Lady Dies in Brooklyn While Under the Influ- ence of Chloroform—Brooklyn Common Coun- ci!—Close of the Jewish Day of Atonement, 5—Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Murderous Onslaught—Pinked in the Park—The Tenth Avenue Murder—Military Notes—A Brutal Father—City Government— Marriages and Deaths. G— Editorials: Leading Article, “The Republican State Conventions in New York and Massa- chusetts—A Crisis in Each to the Republican Party” —Amusement Announcements. 7—The Situation in France—News from Spain, £n land, Denmark, Switzerland and Rou- mania—The Wharton Poisoning Case—Obit- uarv—Fiendish Outrage by Negroes in West Virginia—News «from Washington—Weather Report—Miscclianeous Telegrams—Views of the Past—Business Notices, 8—Robvery in Daylght—Aavertisements, 9—Advertisements. 10—Aquatic Sports—Proceedings in the Conrts— Newark Ahead—Yeliow Fever in Charleston— The O'Brien Homucide—Is Trenton Going Down?—Snhipping Intelligence—Advertisee ments. J1—Advertisements. A2—Advertisements. Generar Better plaiuly stated to our cor- respondent yesterday that if he was cheated out of the nomination at Worcester he would ran on a separate ticket. If he lost it fairly probably he would run anyhow. Genera Croox has a very sensible idea of Indian warfare, peace commissions and reser- vations. He thinks that the Apache war in Arizona would have been over but for the fact Uhat the reservations served as recruiting stations for the savages, and the Peace Com- missioners protected them. A Yocne Woman died suddenly in a den- tist’s office in Brooklyn yesterday, while under the influence of c!:loroform given her to enable her to bear the pain of having eight teeth ex- tracted. It would seem that disease of the heart was the cause of death, as the chloro- form was evidently administered by a careful and sktlful physician. BricuaM Youne has returned to Salt Lake City, and says he is willing to stand summoned as a witness before the Grand Jury, or to be arrested on a warrant, but he will not yield to imprisonment, We do not very well see how Brigham can prevent the latter contingency if the judze does not consider his case bailable. Certainly, Brigham is too shrewd even at this desperate stage of the game to try armed re- sistance. Tux Bonararrss begin to show their heads, and their hands, too, if the cable report be true that a conspiracy for the restoration of the Emperor Napoleon has been discovered. Pictri, the ex-Prefect of Paris, and chief ad- viser to Napoleon, is reported to be implicated in the attempt. The same report informs us that Presidedt Thiers is in constant fear of assassins, which is hardly a comfortable position for a man of his age to be in, Poor Thiers! Poor France! Tox ANNUAL Congress OF THE LEAGUE OF Peace any Cingrty was opened yesterday at Lausanne, Switzerland, The programme sub- mitted to its deliberation Includes the vexed questions of the day, The ultimate object of the League is certainly a laudable one, al- though many of its members partake of the red tinge of Communism; but if it cannot enforce peace by peaceable means itwill have to conquer peace by war. Thus it would depart from its fundamental prin. ciple and place itself in the same predicament as the very governments whom it denounces for their warlike tendencies, for do they pro- Tessedly ever go to war except for the purpose of securiug an “honorable peace?” If the League cgpfines itself to the solution of ques- tions that properly belong within its pro- vince it may exert a beneficial influence over the European nations and provoke a steady resistance to the extravagant military expenditures and dark designs of the diplomatic busy-bodies whose eelfish intrigues have caused nearly all the wars in Europe, who have fomented and pandered to national prejadices until they have set nation against nation, It was well said by one of the speak- ers, that if the democrate of France and Ger- many unite there will be peace in Europe in spite of the intrigues of Bonapartes and Bis- marcks. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET, The Republican State Conventions in New York and Mresachusetts—A Crisis in Each to tho Republican Party. The New York Republican State Conven- tion meets at Syracuse to-morrow, for the pur- poses of nominating the State ticket and pro- claiming the platform of the party for our coming November election. On the same day, and for the same purposes, the republicans of Massachusetts will meet in State Convention at Worcester; and in both cases the elements of a split exist, and there is some danger of a bolt from the regular party organization. In New York there is a division of the party over the spoils of our Custom House very much resembling that which divided the demo- cratic party of the city and the State between the so-called hardshells and softshells under Pierce’s administration. The main cause of that quarrel and split, by which the State was lost to the democrats, was first in the appoint- ment, by President Pierce, of a hardshell as our Custom House Collector, and next in his removal to make room for a softshell. In the first Instance the ‘‘softs” threatened a bolt, and in the second the ‘‘hards” bolted; and henco that democratic split in New York which opened the way whereby the republicans first came into possession of t he State. Under General Grant’s administra- tion we have at this day a repetition of this ridiculous farce between the ‘‘outs” and ‘‘ins” of the republican camp in reference to the Custom House spoils, The removal of Mr. Grinnell and the appointment of Thomas Murphy as Collector of this port has soured the Fenton-Greeley faction to the point of a revolt, and the delegates of this faction will go to Syracuse to-morrow with the removal of Murphy or the defeat of General Grant as their ultimatam, Senator Conkling is the recognized chief of the Grant-Murphy division of the party, and Senator Fenton is the leader of the Fenton- Greeley faction, Fenton, it is understood, would lay down his arms with anything like a promise of the support of General Grant for the Vice Presidential nomination next year; but Greeley, it is evident, will agree to no compromise which does not include the head of Murphy and a free run of the Custom House for Mr. Greeley and his friends. Hence we think there is great danger of a bolt from this Syracuse Convention; for, in addition to Mr. Greeley's implacable hostility to Murphy, our venerable and patriotic sub-soil philosopher has become thoroughly convinced that the one term principle in reference to General Grant (may the saints preserve us) has become impera- tively necessary for the salvation of our free institutions, But Mr. Greeley, nevertheless, begs the question, for in a long and violent tirade yesterday against our Collector he speaks of him as ‘‘a disgrace to the republi- can administration, which we heartily sup- port,” and as a source of ‘‘weakness to the re- publican party of this State, which we labor to restore to power.” In fact, as between Murphy and Tammany, Murphy to Greeley is the greater evil, and, while he may not support a party identified with Tammany, he will not support a party identified with Murphy. It is morally certain that if this republican State Convention recognizes or tolerates Murphy Greeley and his followers will bolt, and Fen- ton will probably feel constrained to go with him. But will the Convention recognize Mur- phy asa party man in good standing? Backed, as Murphy is, by the President, yes; for we understand that the Grant-Murpby men have secured a decisive majority of the Convention, and that their delegates are all of one miod upon the subject. Nothwithstanding, then, the demoralized and confused condition of the democracy in consequence of this terrible war and these damaging disclosures against Tammany, the general result of our coming November elec- tion may be considered doubtful; for with a republican split, which is probable, and with 8 wholesome democratic reorgnization, which is expected, the democrats, heavily as the odds now appear to be against them, may still rally to their ticket and save the State, and so lay the foundation in New York for still another ‘new departure,” and a popular one, too, for the Presidential contest. In this view, Mr, Fenton or Mr. Greeley, in consideration of services rendered to the democratic cause, may yet become the democratic standard bearer in 1872, free trade and all; for who can limit the transformations of men in party poli- tics in the scramble for the spoils and plunder ? And there is hope, too, for the democracy in Massachuaetts—there 1s hope for a great victory on their side through the bold and vigorous campaign of General Butler against the old rusty republican Bourbons in that quarter. It is reported, and it is probable, that, against all the Bourboa leaders and nearly all the republican newspapers in the State, General Butler has secured a majority in the regular party State Convention. He has notified bis delegates that he expects a hard and protracted fight in the Conven- tion, and calls upon them to come down to Worcester, each man fortified with three days’ rations, and says that by the time these rations are exhausted fresh supplies will be coming in. Among the ortho- dox Massachusetts Puritans the idea does not appear to be seriously entertained that General Grant goes for General Butler, although Butler goes heartily for Grant. But outside of Massa- chusetts the idea is seriously entertained that the secret of the extraordinary popular strength developed by General Butler in this campaign is due to the moral support he baa received and is receiving from the national administration, It is surmised in these parts that it Is the game of Senator Sumner, Senator Wilson and all their followers so to manipu- late the republican party in Massachusetts as to lead off with it against General Grant in the national party convention—that General Grant bas been duly and fully advised of this design, and that, therefore, against Sumner and his backers and their candidate Butler is the candidate for Governor in Massachusetts of General Grant, though nothing has even semi-officially appeared to this effect. But as a straw will serve to show the drift of the wind, it may be assumed that the Collector of Boston, in supporting the election of Butler delegates to Worvester, knew what he was doing; and, moreover, there is no doubt something more than what we see upon the surface in Mr. Greeley's intense hostility to General Butler’s course in this Massachusetts campaign. In the early stages of this Massachusetts contest, when Wendell Phillips was the chief trumpeter of General Butler in behalf of labor reform and the breaking up of that close cor- poration, the Boston republican Ring, and when this new party of labor reformers and the women’s rights women appeared to be the main reliance of Butler, his courageous can- vass seemed to us as profitless as the daring charge of Don Quixote upon the windmills. Now, however, when it appears that, with all the orthodox republican Puritans and all their newspapers combined against him, his friends claim a majority of the twelve hundred dele- gates of the regular Republican State Conven- tion, and his enemies begin to doubt their ability to defeat him, his strength among the Massachusetts republicans, rank and file, can only be accounted for upon the ground that he has the moral support ot General Grant, and that the real fight in Massachusetts is between Grant and Sumner for the vote of the State in the Republican Presidential Convention, as the real fight among the New York republi- cans, ridiculous as it may appear, is between the friends of Grant on the one side and Fen- ton and Greeley on the other side for the White House as the shortest way to get at Collector Murphy. Now what will be the upsbot of this Massa- chusetts Republican State Convention? It will be the nomination of Butler for Governor and his election as the republican candidate, which will be a decisive victory for (teneral Grant over Senator Sumner, or it will perhaps be a split of the Convention into two parties— a Butler and an anti-Butler party—for the protracted struggle anticipated by the General means a doubtful issue, In the event of a re- publican split Mr. John Quincy Adams, the democratic candidate for Governor, will most likely be elected, and in any event the grand issue of this Butler campaign will be the breaking up of the power of Sumner as the contestant for the Presidential nominating votes of Massachusetts against General Grant. Thus, as Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz in quarrelling with the President over his division of the federal spoils of Missouri bolted and turned over that State to the democrats, so Fenton and Greeley in New York in their quarrel over the Custom House pap, and Sum- ner and Wilson in Massachusetts in their mixed quarrel with the President over Sum- ner’s wrongs, may do a similar good turn for the democratic party. Sunday Kum. The enforcement of the Excise law is a matter that calls more strongly for reform than even the alleged frauds that are now under- going such general investigation. While municipal corruption depletes our pockets Sunday rum kills our people. There were three murders on Sunday last, at least two of them replete with the utmost horror, A woman was gashed and cut to death in her bed, it is supposed by her husband during the families’ orgies of a Saturday night spree, A man was killed in his own room during a quarrel by an infuriated fiend, who had screwed his couraze to the ‘“‘sticking place” by copious infusions of poisonous whiskey, and another was stabbed to death over a bar by the maddened barkeeper, because of some disagreement over the price and payment of the deadly mixture he was just serving. This record is enough to warn our city authorities that there are more terrible evils than munici- pal corruption to reform. There is whole- sale murder to restrain as well as wholesale swindling. The Sunday Excise law, which originally closed hermetically every rumshop in the city on Sundays and between midnight and day- break of every day, was modified by the Legislature of 1870 to sait the ‘‘boys.” Although the latter loudly demanded that it be repealed altogether and that free ram be legal, the Legislature refused to do that and would consent only to modify the law, and that only after it had exhausted its ingenuity in postponing the question altogether as long as possible. The law was modified, and rum- shops were permitted to remain open uatil one o’clock at night, instead of twelve, and the price of licenses was reduced. These were the only modifications, Sunday was still kept sacred from the grasping avarice of the rum- seller, and the doors of gioshops, under the law, were closed during the day of rest. That isthe law now. Its enforcement is entirely a different matter. It is not enforced at all. Thereis not even a preteuce of its enforce- ment. No liquor saloons close at one at night unless they are in a neighborhood where their patronage at that hour would not pay the barkeeper. None are closed at all on Sunday, ex- cept in some very respectable neighborhoods, where the owner feels his respectability at stake, or where the respectability of his patrons would prevent them patronizing his shop to a paying extent on the Lord’s Day, and even these have aside door, which can be reached through the hotel entrance or the barber shop, or by some route that out- wardly indicates some very necessary Sab- bath business. Oibers, and the largest num- ber of them, are open without any attempts at secrecy, their doors flung wide as on week days, their array of bottles and decan- ters unblushingly displayed, without the weak pretence of a boarded arrangement round them, which was one of the requirements under the old law. One has only to go in and call in as loud a voice as he chooses for his poison and it is given him, and the presence of a policeman near the doorway or inside the room makes no difference. This is how the Sunday law of 1870, modified as it was, is enforced, and this is the direct cause of the murder list of Sunday, Let reform turn ils hand in this direction while it is making a virtuous spurt, Let ft save the lives and morals of the people while it is pretending to save their money. Tuk Prorte ALONG THE SRACOAST OF Viraiia and North and South Carolina bave been frightened by a prophecy, and are fleeing to the interior, with their household goods, to escape a tidal wave which is supposed -to be due all along that coast on the 6th of October. There is no ridiculing these people out of their fears, for we know that the great earth- quake and tidal wave in St. Thomas in 1867 was foretold a year before by a German phi- losopher. Agassiz has been called upon to allay their fears by scientific reasoning; but they have not been convinced so far, and the exodus continues, A Short, Direct and Good Road Out of Uur Municipal Trou! It must by this time be evident to every citi- zen of New York that under the manipulations of scheming politicians the movement for mu- nicipal reform is not likely to have the result contemplated and desired by the people. The Committee of Seventy, which has now been in existence some three weeks, has held seve- ral meetings and resolved several resolutions ; but further than the probable exercis2 of some influence in inducing Comptroller Connolly to place Mr. Green in the active discharge of the duties of his office, in order to save himself, they have accomplished no practical result. The application made before Judge Barnard for an injunction to prevent the city govern- ment from raising any more money was not the committee's work, but that of an individual citizen, who acted en- tirely on his own responsibility in the matter. Hence the seventy highly respect- able gentlemen have done but little actual good in three weeks, if we except the com- position of a well-written and praiseworthy address to the electors of the State, calling to their attention the evils of corrupt'legislation, and urging them to send none but honest men to Albany next winter. This certainly is good advice, directed towards a practical end, and if the committee can compass a thorough reformation of our State Legislature they will richly deserve the deepest gratitude of the people, The Joint Investigating Committee of Sixteen has accomplished as little as has its larger colaborer, and has not as yet even pub- lished an address. To be sure it has applied to the Board of Supervisors for the delegation by that body to itself of the power to swear witnesses and to send for persons and papers, with a view to an examination of the heads and chief clerks, and an inquisition into the books and ‘documents of all the city departments, But if the Supervisors have the legal power to delegate that authority, which is at least ques- tionable, such an inquiry as that proposed would last over the present election, if not over that of next year, and would doubtless that political side fur several years past have ranged from twenty to fifty thousand, Now let Hall, Connolly and Tweed resign their offices into the hands of their own political friends prior to the November elec- tion, so that the people may have an opportunity in a few weeks of deciding for themselves on the existing issues and of rescuing the city from its present em- barrassing and disgraceful position. This will be fair to all parties, and will put a stop to the schemes of political adventurers. Mayor Hall will do no injury to his own political friends by resigning; for, as we have said, they hold a large majority of the votes of the city, and, if they have the people still with them, they are certain to elect their candidate, If they have not got the people with them they should not desire to rule the city any longer. If the democracy wish to test Mayor Hall's personal popularity, and the Mayor is desi- rous of standing the test, they can renominate him for the office he resigns. It will, after all, only be an appeal to the people which democrats profess themselves to be always willing to make. Upon the Mayor's election will depend, of course, the reappointment or rejection of Messrs. Tweed and Connolly, the latter of whom, in his recent letter to Mayor Hall, expressed the belief that he had confidence which he boasts has been so libe- rally bestowed upon his management of the city finances. and of the heads of the two departments need cause no additional embarrassment to the city, as they can be made to take effect from the time their successors are duly qualified to enter upon the duties of their several offices. lost mone of that popular The resignations of the Mayor In short, this is a direct and patriotic way out of our present deplorable troubles, and it may save—if anything short of a miracle can save— the decaying fortunes of Tammany. Marsbal Mac™: Vindicating His Master. Since the fall of the Paris Commune noth- ing has happened in France which in im- portance can be ranked with the evidence just given by Marshal MacMahon before the Com- mittee of Investigation. It is the first time since Sedan that words of strength have been spoken for the fallen Emperor. We all of us remember how Napoleon was blamed—how he was laughed at, how all the blunders and disasters of the brief campaign from Saarbriick to Sedan were laid at his door. He (Napoleon) was the Alpha and Omega of French mis- fortune. The fallen Emperor has kept silence. He bas not complained. He has not ex- plained. MacMahon now tells us that he alone is responsible for the disastrous results of his march from Chalons to Sedan. Napoleon had not dictated to him. The resolution was his own; andif in carrying it out he failed the failure is to be attributed, not to any influence exercised upon him by the Emperor, but to end as fruitlessly as such investigations do end ninety-nine times out of a hundred. In- deed, as no city department appears as yet to have evinced any disposition to obstruct an in- vestigation, the application to the Board of Supervisors seems superfinous and only a new source of delay. Several days ago it was an- nounced that Deputy Green had secured docu- mentary evidence fixing criminality upon the Mayor of the city and other public officers, and we were promised immediate and stariling developments at the hands of the acting Comp- troller. But they are not yet forthcoming, and Deputy Green is now fully occupied with his efforts to raise money to carry on the ordi- nary business of the government. Further than this he bas done no more than the committees have done towards accomplishing the grand revolution to which the people have other causes, on the existence of which he (MacMahon) did not calculate. The fact is MacMahon takes to himself all the blame of that disastrous march. At the same time he thinks he did what was best, so far as he could been invited. To-day the main feature of the situation is that the city government is deprived of the power of raising money to carry on its business and is dependent on the favors of those wealthy bankers and merchants who may choose to advance funds for that pur- pose, for which, of course, the city will have to pay liberally in the end. It seems now as if this result were all that the politicians care about accomplishing. They will keep money and its equivalent, votes, out of the hands of those to whom they are opposed; they will continue to promise startling disclosures and to make use of the strongest disparaging epithets they can discover in a well supplied vocabulary; they will persist in heated appeals to the people until election day has come and gone, and then the storm will blow over and the victors, whoever they may chance to be, will enjoy the spoils. Now, nothing is more certain than that the people desire to ascertain who is corruptly responsible for the swindling and extortion to which they have been subjected for several years past; that they intend to hold the guilty parties to accountability and to drive them from office, and that they insist upon a simple amendment to the present city charter, by which the Mayor, who is elected by the people, shall have the absolute power to remove the head of any department of the municipal government, and shall be responsible for the honest and efficient management of the whole. The question is, how is the popular will to be car- ried out? Weare living under the law as it is, not under the law as we would have it, and we must go legally to work to accomplish the results at which we aim. New York is the metropolis of the United States, and her citi- zens have time and again proved their devo- tion to order and their determination to preserve it at any cost. They do not desire the rule of a vigilance committee, or a revolution, or any violence and lawlessness, to bring disgrace upon the good name of their city. There are two methods to pursue, if they become convinced that their present rulers are unworthy of their confidence. One is to get rid of the objec- tionable officers by impeachment, and the other is to elect a Legislature that will use the power of the State to legislate them out of office, The rantings of a partisan press amount to nothing outside these two practical courses, and we do not believe that the people of New York are willing to see their great works of improvement, such as the build- ing of docks and the laying out of boulevards, avenues and parks, sacrificed to the schemes of political adventurers, But while the hands of the people are thug in a measure tied until the time shall arrive when they can make their wishes known through the power of the ballot box, and render their verdict upon their present rulers, there can be little doubt that they would gladly welcome the opportunity (o exercise the privilege of passing judgment upon the management of their municipal affairs at the present time. This being conceded, there is a short, direct and good road out of our existing troubles. Mayor Hall, Comptroller Connolly and Com- missioner Tweed are the three public officers with whose official acts the citizens are alleged to be dissatisfied. They belong to the democratic party, and are mem- bers of the Tammany Society, in good standing. Mayor Hall was elected by a dem- ocratic majority of twenty-five thousand votes, and Messrs. Tweed and Connolly hold their present positions by virtue of this majority. The city of New York is democratic; of that there can be no question, Her majorities on judge, in the circumstances. much on the strength of his men, and he was totally ignorant of the movements of the jubilant. and the other commanders do not give similar evidence, of Great Britain from Hamburg. He counted too other commanders-in-chief. We do not wonder that the evidence given by MacMahon has produced a profound sensa- tion in France and that the Bonapartists are We shall be surprised if Bazaine We shall be still more surprised if Napoleon does not now speak out and give us his view of the cause of the Sedan sorrow. It is just possible that the Emperor will perse- vere in his policy of silence. however, that the Emperor, by a well-framed proclamation at this juncture, might redeem his throne and crown. French peasantry have a lingering affection for the empire. that the Emperor was in no way to blame for the disasters which have befallen their coun- try—that he himself was made a victim to the incompetency of his own servants, and to the treachery of political factions, they will raise acry and reveal an energy which will leave small place for the republic and for the Bour- bons. golden opinions; and it will not be wonderful if he should yet find it convenient to play. the role of s Monk and restore the exiled Bona- parte to his throne. take President Thiers will now find that he needs all his sharpness. A Word of Caution—The Yellow Fever It is our opinion, The masses of the If they can only be convinced MacMahon, by his honesty, has won Unless we greatly mis- on One Hand and Cholera on tho Other. The yellow fever is spreading in the South and advancing northward up the Mississipp! Valley. Natchez, Miss., and at Vidalia, La. It fs in Vicksburg, Jackson and Fortu- nately it has been kept under in Charleston, 8. C., though it exists there yet. At the same time we learn that the dreaded cholera was spreading in Russia and advancing west- This disease had reached the shores A vessel belonging to the United States, the Loretto Fish, arrived at Cardiff, with Asiatic cholera on board. Four men had died withit. By the vigilance of the British authorities this ship was prevented from entering the docks at Cardiff. Now it is important that the health officers of New York should be watch- ful to prevent either yellow fever or cholera en- tering our port, and that the city be thoroughly cleaned, Thus far we have bad no reason to complain of Dr. Carnochan, He has been vigilant, even when assailed by o party press, and when some of the shipping merchants were cunningly endeavoring to circumvent his sanitary precautions, Let him continue to do his duty fearlessly, and the people will sustain him. But more than this is required, The Board of Health and all the city authorities should be energetic and have everything done to clean and make the city healthful. We urge this more earnestly now, because there is danger that amid the turmoil about the city frauds and the deadlock in the city treasury necessary sanitary measures may be neglected. Money must be obtained somewhere, and at any cost, to keep the city clean, whatever other works may be suspended, in order to be prepared for and to ward off the dreadful dis- eases that keep approaching, and that might reach this metropolis at any day. Cholera or yellow fever here might do more damage than ward, if'a third of the city were burned to the ground, Remintscences of Our WirmA Nice Pack of Patriots. The family quarrel of the New York repub- licans, like all other family quarrels, is expos- ing to public view some very unsightly skele- tons. The last, and by no means the least revolting, is that which was taken out of its closet by ex-United States Marshal Robert Murray yesterday and paraded before the eyes of the world in the columns of the radical organ. With amazing and at the same time amusing effrontery this ex-officer of the national government, who was one of the foremost model patriots during the war of the Southern rebellion, lets the people into some of the secret workings of a department which held the liberty and sometimes the lives of American citizens in its hands. According to Murray, Mr, Thomas Murphy, the present Collector of the port of New York, when threatened with trial by a military com- mission on a charge of supplying shoddy hats to the soldiers of the Union army, appealed to the ex-Marshal to ‘‘save him from Fort La- fayette.” Tho ex-Marshal, on his own show-. ing, tmmediately set to work to discover what evidence there was in the bands of the govern- ment against his friend, and finding that his own detectives were industriously hunting up the case, introduced them to Collector Murphy, posted them as to his ‘“‘cleverness” and political influence, and became cognizant of a bribe of five hundred dollars being paid’ to one, and similar amounts being promised to two others. In referring to the latter the ex-Marshal affords us a peep into the mys- teries of the service of which he was so shin- ing a light. “These two men,” he says, “afterwards informed me that they got what is known in detective parlance as the ‘goose,’ which means that they were cheated.” Nobody cares a straw for the squabbles of these republican cliques outside of the few political harpies interested in retaining or gaining office. In regard to the charge of defrauding the government brought against Collector Murphy, that gentleman's version of. the story is that an unscrupulous enemy, then powerful in the War Department, was anxious to pack a military commission to try the charges brought against him and to convict him unjustly of the alleged offence, and that his own efforts were directed merely towards securing justice. Be this as it may, the case against Mr. Murphy was tried, and resulted in his acquittal. But the whole exposé shows the character of the rascals who held almost absolute power over the liberty of citizens during the war, and ex- plains how it was that rottenness and fraud eat into the very core of the government in the hour of the nation’s greatest danger and tribulation. Franck Payine Ur.—A cable despatch, which we print this morning, has it that President Thiers is ready to pay immediately the fourth half milliard of the German indem- nity, Who will deny that France has done well in the midst of her great misfortunes? Amonth or two more and German soldiers will no longer offend French pride by their, presence on French soil, A nation that can behave so well in such circumstances must yet, at no distant day, arise and reassert her importance. Why will not Frenchmen be true to themselves? Personal Intelligence. Viscount Vilatn, of the Belgian Legation, ts doml- ciled at the Albemarle. Secretary of State, Homer A. Nelson, ts regtstered at the Fifth Avenue. Judge Sloane, of North Carolina, 1s among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, ls at the New York Hotel. ©. Franguelo, of the Spanish Legation, yesterday arrived at tne Albemarle. Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, is again at the Fifth Avenue. Senator Poland, of Vermont, ts among the late ar- rivals at the Grand Central. General D. C. Littiejohn, of Oswego, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue. Captain Murray, of the steamer Baltic, is staying at the Everett House. General Stockton, of New Jersey, 1s agaiu at the Bt. James, Generals Hartsuff and Steaaman, of the United States Army, are quartered at the Hoffman. General W. 1. Reynoids, of Rnode Island, 13 regis- tered at the New York. Judge Field, of albvion, ts again at the Fifth Avenue. ‘ Professor Lansing. of Massachusetts, ls at the St Nicholas. John ©. Evans, of Washington, ts at the Gilsey House, MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. President Grunt’s Eastern Tour. Boston, Sept 25, 1871. ‘The arrangements for the Eastern tour of Presl- dent Grant have been definitely agreed upon. The President, together with members of the Cabinct, will arrive tn Boston on Sunday, October 15, and be received and entertained by @ comumittco of tho city Council. ‘The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new Post Office will take place on Monday, October 16, in the presence of the Chiet Magistrate, the Cabmet and numerous distinguished personages. Immediately the President will proceed to join tm the festivities incident to the opening of the Euro- pean and North American Raliway, which will con- tinue three days. ‘The President will remain until ‘the close. The President tm Pittsburg. PirtsBURG, Sept. 25, 1871, Extensive preparations are being made to receive President Orant on his return from the West. Tho Council to-day voted him the hospitality of the city. A meeting of citizens, without regard to party, wil be held to-morrow night. It 1s expected that the muttary, firemen and other societies will partici- pate, aud the day be made a general holiday. CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE. Cazenovia, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1871. Chief Justice Chase ts here, the guest of General Ledyard. ‘The party consists of Miss Chase, Mra, General Sprague, Gerrit Sintth and General Coch- rane. —————————— NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. aay ; tmaa, From Harper & Brotlers:—“‘At Last; a Chris tn the West Indies,” by Onarles Kingsley; Shak~ speare’s comedy of “The Tempest,” edited, with. notes, by William J. Rotfe, A. M.; ‘Annie Turner,’?) a novel. ; From the Catholic Publication Soclety:—‘The Pic. torlal Bible and Church History Stories Abridgedy’ By the Rov. Henry Formby. YACHTING NOTES. Yacht Restless, N.Y.Y.0., Mr. Astor, went ashore on Cape Island 24th inst, and stilt rewatns, w)iy her garboara started. Yacht Seadritt, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Major, retuned from a cruise yesterday, aud will reudezvevus at Whitestone. f yacht Daphne, B.Y.C., Mr. Wood, frov, Staten Peg pound oh, é oriise eastward, o'rrived ab veatone yes! ur Y.0,, Mr. Pone, ‘returnod to acht Bunsby, Hi Whitestone yesterd here she will eimai for tie ibe pretest acht Edward stewart, M%, Laurence, from Newport for Now York. reach@d, whitestone yestor- le —_