The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1871, Page 6

a6 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. perenne ne eoetcuwend All business ar neis letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heap. Letters and packages should be properly fealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ‘warned. ee UNE Bae ee THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn he ear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. ADVERTISEMENTS, to limite? nomber, will be in- ‘perted im the WeRkLY HeRaLp and the European ‘Edition. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing ana Engraving, neatty ana promplly exe- ‘Cuted at the lowest rates. eee AMUSEMENTS TWS AFTERNOON AND EVENING woop's hl Broadway, », corner $0th st.—Perform- ‘fnces afternoon and evening—La MENDIANTE. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—NeGRo EcoENTRI- CITtRS, BURLESQURS, £0. Mattnec at 2. 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PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteent Bd and 34 aventicn “EQuEsTRtAwisne bo, weeh Petreen AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, Third ‘and Sixty-third street.—Open day and evening. eee TRIPLE SHEET, New York, St = — CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. jaturday, September 30, 1871. Fage — avertisementa, 2—Advertisements. S—City Politics: The Anti-Tammanyites; Charles O'Conor teading tho Reformed Democratic Delegation at the Kochester Convention; Mise Counfoas Local Political Movements—Kings Politics —-State rolitics—Newark City Politucs—The Presidency: “Superb Hancock” on the Situation—Nattonal Commercial Con- vention—Yachting Notes—Fair Play for the English Yacht Livonta—Locat Inteilicence. 4—The Great Injonetion Case—The Pinched City Purse: The Supervisors and the Sinking Fund; Dead-Broke Departments; More Figures on the Fravds—The Stolen Vouchers—Paying the Laborers—The Bead Pianist: Funeral of 4) Sauderson—Obseqiles of Charles Scrib- S—Boutwen: Speech of the Secretary of the Trea- sury at Cleveland, Omo, Last Night; The New Departure of the Democracy, Critteasea De- fence of the National Banks; The Tait; ’ivil Service Reform; ‘The Spread of Repubtican- fin Nerragausett Pa coe closing Day of the September rottung Mi Large Attend- ance During the Week; S spleddid ‘eather and @ Good Track—Orange County Horse Fair— ge hd Races—The Defauiter’s Doom: Trial the ape of the Pejepscott Rank, Maine— Tne Law on Abortion—The New York Acad- emy of Medicine Compliment City Judge Bedford—Army and Naval Inteiligence— font Adiray in Cuba, N. Y.—Marriages and 6—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The Syracuse Republican Convention and’ the Greeley Bolt- ers—City Reform and the Opportunity to the —— Party ’"—Amusement Announce- meni 7- — n Victoria's Health—News from England, France, Russia and Greece—The Alabama Claims—Tne bio in Europe—The Yellow Fever in South—{mportaut_ from Utah—Aa Philadelphia Financier: Mysteri- ous Disappearance of a Pmio ideiphia Mer- chant —News irom Washington— foundered at Sea: Thriiling Story of the Wreck of the Brit- ish Merchant Ship Subhme-Amusements— Persunal Inteiligencc—Miscellaneous ‘Tele- grams—Business Notices. S=—Customs Duties m the United States: Iistory of the Tariffs on Iron, Cotton and Woollen Manu- Iactures from 1789 to 1871, 9-Customs Duties in the United States (continued from Bighth Pi clober’s Public Debt Statement—New York City Intelligence—The Jewish Feast of Tabernac! in Brooklyn—Kings County sors~Financlal and Commer 10—The Heath Pt ored Voy Abroac e—Adveruise- ments. 41=+The Courts—The Philadelphia Sensation— Foreign Trade of the Untted States—. Fatal Assaullt—Advertisements, | —No Yellow Fever | be secured, Tho Ayracnse Republican Convention and Syracuse bas, we fear, put an end to the Presi- dential chances of the venerable Mr. Greeley. ‘The complaiut upon which his delegation from Convention, which substantially declared them best to throw away.” NEW YORK: ‘HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30; 1871-—TRIPLE: SHEET. promptly pay the'laborers ‘tholr wages; but, | A ;Gromndtens Ounce sania sy Amerts the Greeley Bolters—City Reform and the Opportunity to the Democratic Party. The late Republican State ‘Convention at this city bolted was that the decision of the outsiders affliated with Tammany Hall, was an intolerable outrage; but the real issue, be- hind the scenes, General Grant or Mr. ‘Greeley for the ext Presidency, ridiculous as this proposition may appear. The journal which represents Mr. Greeley’s case, his cause and his grievances, whines, blubbers and pro- tests over the action of the Convention, but it repeats the wise conclusion of ancient Pistol, “T eat and swear.” It says :—‘‘We accept the ticket nominated yesterday at Syracuse, and pledge to its support that solid three-fourths of the entire republican vote of this city whose delegates were insultingly driven from the Convention. We accept the miracle of clumsi- ness called the platform, and bow to the monstrous State Committee, Come what may, we must carry New York for honest government and against the thieves. Let the mnew-made oracles of the republican party, who yesterday strutted their brief hour on the stage at Syra- cuse, enjoy their fleeting triumph; we have nobler work in hand. Ours is the task to save the easy republican victory over city robbery and State misgovernment they have done their This is a capitulation; but mark the con- trast between it and the surrender of General Butler at Worcester, when fairly defeated. On the one hand it is a capitulation full of wrath and rebellion; on the other it is a frank and manly acknowledgment of defeat. We say that the real issue presented by the city Greeley delegation at Syracuse was Grant or Greeley for the Presidential succession; and we have the admission from the Tribune that had the Greeley delegation secured ‘the ma- jority of the Convention the most that they would have said on the party platform in ref- erence to General Grant would have been that “for its conepicuous share in the beneficent record (the record of the republican party) we endorse the national republican adminis- tration.” In other words, they proposed to Inmp the merits of the administration, and to avoid any special recognition of the merits of General Grant by carefully avoiding the men- tion of his name. How could they mention it, in view of Mr. Greeley’s ultimatum of the one term principle in reference to General Grant? But the majority of the Convention met this issue fairly and decisively, in putting General Grant at the head of their platform, and in resolving that ‘‘we recognize in the wisdom, patience, courage and patriotic foresight of the administration of Ulysses S. Grant (mark you how they rub ii f)a full redemption of the pledges upon which he was nominated, and we view with pride and admiration the results of his policy and action.” Then, after reciting the great achievements and wholesome measures of his administration, the Convention declares that, ‘‘Accepting, therefore, these triumphs of diplomacy, legislation and admicistration as the natural results of republican principles honestly carried out by a republican adminis- tration, we tender ovr hearty thanks to the President, General U. 8. Grant (they like the sonnd of his name), and to the members of both bouses of Congress, who have contributed to achieve them,” This means that, in the opinion of the re- publican party of New York, it is absurd and preposterous for Mr. Greeley to think of dis- uting the claims of General Grant for another Presidential term, and that no better candi- Gate is wanted for the party in New York in 1872 than General Grant. Nor can there be, in any reasoning mind, a reasonable doubt that this substantially finishes the Presidential aspirations of Mr. Greeley, at least in connection with the approaching Presidential campaign, His only chance, as an independent third party ‘‘farm- er’s candidate,” was ina bad break in the republican New York Convention, from which the nucleus of a third party in his behalf might With his surrender, however, though a very ungraceful surrender, he con- fesses that General Grant is too much for | him, even among the farmers of New York, and we may therefore assume that, as in the Alleged | case of the second nomination of Abraham AW AUdvertisements, Lincoln, Mr. Greeley, with all his arguments nn and remonstrances, intrigues and bolts to the Tur Cuor aa VISITATION s subsided in j contrary notwithstanding, will, when tbe Hamburg. Pleasing news for the people of | time comes, fall into the support of General New York. Grant for another term, Murphy or no Mur- Boston 18 ALREADY , ALREADY after the | the Grand Duke Alexis, the City Council having taken the matter in hand. The Hub is seldom behind “PrayinG wit Fine” is the term ap- plied by the Springfield Republican in its reference to the threats of certain parties in this city’ about inciting a riot, and advises all hands to Ict the mob alone. Sensible advice. Dozs Mr. Preswenr Wuitr become any more honest and less corrupt after Mr, Greeley accepts the situation and goes for the candidates of tie Syracuse Convention than before the venerable philosopher de- termined to take the back track? Tanirr Lroistatios,—A table of tariffs, compiled by the Secretary of tho Treasury, is published on our eighth and ninth pages this morning. It wili be found of great in- terest, not only to our macufacturers of iron, cotton and woollen articles, but to students of political economy all over the country, A Nearo was Exrcvtep in Towsentown, Md., yesterday for outraging a young while git. The condemned during his prison life proved to be a table rapping medium, but his supernatural accomplishment was rather a source of dread than of rejoicing to him. He confessed bis crime and met death or on the scaffold. Tae Rumorev Boxararre Coyspinacy.— We published a day or so ago a telegram from London announcing the discovery of papers in the Tuileries showing that a movement was on foot aiming to place Napoleon on the throne of Belgium. We now baye a cc dict of this false report and are told that rumor was unfounded. The absurdity a course as that alleged to be phone ated by Napoicon was patent on its face, phy in the Custom House, Snch are the antecedents of our venerable bolting philoso- | pher. But this coming November coutest in New ork will be fought directly and mainly upon the issue of « reorganization of our municipal | government. Upon this question (with a | sharp eye, nevertheless, to the State Senate, in reference to a United States Senator in the place of Mr. Conkling, whose term will soon expire) the organ of the Greeley bolters promises a support of the State ticket and platform of the late party State Convention. But the would-' be leading republican organ in the cause of “tity reform objects to the “lame and impotent conclusion” of said Convention on oar city affairs in forgetting or neglecting to propose any definite plan or idea touching the reorganiza- tion of our city government. Here, then, is the opportunity offered to the Democratic State Convention which meets at Rochester next week—a golden opportunity, to appropriate this thunder. The republicans have pointed out the deadly character of the foul disease which has been and is preying upon the vitals of this city—a disease resulting from the cor- rupt coalitions and practices of both parties in” their manipulations of our city charters and city plunder from time to time; but the Syra- cuse Convention hag failed toupropose a reme- dy. It only proposes the removal of the old set and the employment of .9 new set of hun- gry dovtors. Let the coming Rochester Con- vention propose to the people of New York, city. and State, a scheme for the reconstruction of onr city government in black and white, embracing honest elections and the means for securing honest elections, a fixed accounta- responsibility and liability to imme- diate removal and punishment on the part of the heads and subordinates of each of our city { departments, and let their scheme embrace a bility, published monthly report of allthe receipts and expenditures, &c., of every department of the city, and the democratic party may even yet secure the honor and the glory of the great work of reform suggested. The Greeley bolters at Syracuse surrender; but they are disappointed and disaffected. They profess great zeal in the cause of muni- cipal reform ; but they have no disposition to are resolved to: have their revenge upon Sena- tor Gonkling in the elections to the Legis- lature. Notwithstanding, then, the discourag- ing demoralization of the democrats, in refer- ence to the heavy indictments against Tammany, there is yet a obance for them to secure the Legislature, through the divisions and discords in the republican camp, 98 be- tween Grant, Conkling and Murphy on the one side, and Fenton, Greeley, Grinnel!, Pleason- ton, Andrews and the rest of that tribe of dis- appointed men on the other side. The Syra- cuse Convention has made the merits of General Grant and his. administration the main question; but the main question before the people of this State, from the centre to its extremities, is the reorganization of our city government upon a sound and healthy basis. Let the honest democracy at Rochester, cutting the Tammany “Ring” adrift, make this important matter of city reform tho main question, with some specific plan of re- organization which will commend itself to the people, and the democratic party may still save the State in our coming November elec- tion, and so take a fresh start for 1872. The Medical Profession and Malpractice Marders. : ‘The telling charge of our City Judge (Bed- ford) in reference to the terrible malpractice murders which have come to light within the past few weeks, thas awakened a hearty response among the faculty of medigine. In our col- umns elsewhere w i be found a series of teso- lutions. drawa up by the New York Academy of Medicine and presented to Judge Bedford, which fully sustain the position ‘taken by the latter gentleman on the inadequacy of the punishment at present accorded to murderers of the abortion class. The Academy “pledges all its influence and its efforts in support of any legislation, or other means which our law officers may propose, offering a reasonable prospect of removing the pestilence of criminal abortion which is on our country.” This example of professional pride, of Integrity and humanity, should be largely followed by the schools of medicine all over the country. It is not enough that it be known to the people that all regu- lar practitioners denounce and abhor the murderous charlatans who grow rich upon their unpunished crimes; but their voice must be heard and their advice and assistance offered to those who undertake to make the shameful blot upon our civili- zation a thing of the past. The case of Dr. Perry, sentenced to two years’ imprison- ment, points the justice of Judge Bedford's complaint; which the resolutions quote: Out- side of the question of panishment, the con- fasion upon the very standard of the crime makes it desirable to be clearly defined in unmistakable terms. We bave™ previously given our reasons for supporting Judge Bed- ford’s proposition to legally rank the killing of the mother by a criminal abortion as murder in the first degree. It is the very horror of horrors, and since its extinction will lie to a material extent in the hands of the medical profession we invite all its members to an active share in the good work. Queen Victoria's ILLNEss—Tne Crisis Ar- PROACHING.—The HERatp’s special cable de- spatch from London states that no bulletin was issued in yesterday’s Court circular in regard to the health of Queen Victoria. This omission, joined with the report that the Prince of Wales and the Premier, Mr. Glad- stone, had been called to Balmoral, created excitement and alarm in the public mind, and fears were entertained that Her Majesty’s condition must be critical. It begins now to be evident that Mr, Disraeli had good reason, if not direct authority, for the statement which recently set all Englandablaze. The death or the abdica- tion of the Queen may be looked for at any moment, and in either cvent a popular excite- ment may be witnessed in London and the Great mannfacturing towns such as England has not experienced for many years, Tur AvavaMa CrArms.—The International Court of Arbitration, which is to assemble in Geneva for the setilement of the Alabama claims, is as yet incomplete in its representa- tion, The day of meeting has been, consequently, postponed. It is thonght that the delegates will not assemble for two months to come, The reason which is assigned for this delay, by our cable report from Switzerland, is that the Emperor of Brazil has not commissioned his representative, who is to appear as tho fifth delegate of the Council. We are already aware that they do things very slowly in South America, but we think that his Majesty Dom Pedro could afford to ‘hurry up” a little in a matter of such serious import as the Alabama claims question. A Deravitixe Casurer of a bank in Port- land, Me., yesterday was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment at hard labor for the em- bezzlement of sums amounting to thirty-six thousand dollars. It appears from his confes- sion that the embezzlements extended over a period of twenty-one years, and that he com- menced peculating in order to pay off little debts which had accrued, his salary of four hundred dollars, even before the war, and one thousand dollars after it, being insufficient to support his family of a wife and four children. The sentence of the Court was very severe upon this unfortunate, and we hope that it will be proportionately severe upon the directors of that bank, who thus stinted a hard working servant and mercilessly tempted him in a place of responsibility by so mean a retaro for his services, Tax Wasninaton Lepublican etatea that “General Butler aroused a great many people in his late campaign in Massachusetts, but no one ever supposed he would awaken old Gideon Welles.” Why not let the political dead rest—why restore the relies of Noah's 1 Ark? Tho Public Works and Judge Burnard’s Iojanction—The Incitemonts to Riot. The modification of Judge Barnard’s injunc- tion so as to admit of the carrying on of the work on the docks, parks, boulevards and avenues of the city, and the prompt payment of the laborers and others employed thereon, relieves the public mind of much anxiety, and will do more than any newspaper arguments could effect to defeat the efforts of s certain set of designing agitators to involve the metropolis in a disgraceful riot, While the people have been earnest in their desire to secure a faithful administration of the municipal government, and to put a stop to the lax and corrupt financial manage- ment to which they have been subjected for a number of years past, they have never wished or intended that the great system of public improvements, under which New York is grow- ing so rapidly in wealth and beauty should be abandoned or even delayed. When the injunc- tion was first granted, while everybody acknowledged the necessity of checking the payment of money out of the city treas- ury on such accounts as those of the Ring printing associations and the new Court House contractors, there was & general apprehension that its effect might be to embarrass the public works, and many of the members of the Committee*of Citizens, as well as others who had. been prominent in the reform movement, hastened to protest against such a calamity, and testified to the confidence felt in the‘integrity and com- petency of the officers at the head of the de- partments of parks and docks. Judge Barnard, therefore, is strictly in harmony with public sentiment in making it plainly understood, by a supplementary order, that the money neces- sary to. carry onthe works of those depart- ments may be raised without let or hindrance, and that there is no intention on the part of the Gourt to interfere ‘with the expen itures by the proper officers, But there appears to be some hesitation on the part of De; Comptroller Green to carry out the splrit of Jadge Barnard’s order and to make the necessary advances to the Department of Parks, It is _to be hoped that this difficulty will be removed, and that Deputy Green will not suffer any personal pique or prejudice to interfere with the interests or to thwart the will of the people in this direction. This is a most critical period of the year for the public works. In case of a stoppage the avenues and places which are now in prepara- tion for grading would soon become filled with stagnant water, to the detriment of the public health, if not at the risk of a pestilence. The works on the parks and on the docks, now in progress, would come to a standstillat a season when frost might soon set in and render all that has heretofore been done a dead loss to the city. Deputy Green knows better than most men the serious amount of d:anage that would be inflicted directly upon the public works, and indirectly upon real estate all over the city, py the adoption of ex-Mayor Have- meyer's policy of ‘stopping the supplies,” and he sbould not risk his reputation in the new position that he has been called upon to fill to gratify any feeling he may harbor against his old associates on the Park Commission. Another most serious evil that would result from the failure of the Deputy Comptroller to adopt the spirit of Judge Barnard’s order, and to provide the necessary funds for the departments of dogks and parks, would be the sudden throwing of many thousands of poor men out of employment, as well as the post- ponement of the payment of their just claims for services already rendered. It is gratify- ing to find that every respectable peper in New York, of whatever shade of political opinion, denounces the recent infamous attempt of a disrepu- table Tammany advertising sheet, and an English edited partisan journal, to incite a riot in the city; and yet there is no doubt that very great excitement would attend the dis- missal and non-payment of some fifteen or twenty thousand men whose daily earnings are their only means of subsistence, and who would not be able to find work all the winter if their labor on the parks and roads should be discontinued at this time. Itis to be hoped that Deputy Green will bring no such misfortunes on them, especially as their toil adds wealth to the city, and as the money they draw is returned a hundredfold to the ownera of property, who are taxed to pay it, in the rapid increase in the value of real estate, But we have at the same time a serious word of advice for the laboring men who may be affected by the probably unavoid- able delay in the settlement of their wages, and by the fear of being thrown out of employment, Whatever may be the regolt, let them set their faces resolutely against all those evil advisers who would Incite them to acts of lawlessness and violence. They have only to reflect upon the character of those who talk so glibly of mobs and riots, and of ‘bringing down” objectionable citizens, to be convinced that they are not the friends of the laboring men. The paid tools who do the bidding of the worst men in the ring of corrupt officials, and Englishmen who are ignorant of Ameri- can institutions and who havea British sub- ject’s natural prejudice against the young républic, are the parties who cunningly prompt honest, hard-working mechanics and laborers to break the law, or impudently boast that they can raise and wield mobs of them at their pleasure to “bring down” such citizens as may have incur- red their wrath, The workmen have a right to meet and to adopt any peaceable means at their command, by appeal or re- monstrance, to secure the payment of their hard-earned wages, or to avert the calamity of a stoppage of the public works upon which they aro employed. The sympathy of the people is with them. But let them break the law, and they would lose that sym- pathy and place themselves in a false position, from which they could not hope to escape without serious injury to their cause, and probably without a punishment that would be terrible in its severity. It is to be sincerely hoped that the modification of Judge Barnard’s injunction will remove the present diffloulties in the two important departments of parks and docks, and that the acting Comptroller will earnestly aid in the effort to continue all the great works of im- above all things, the good order of the city, must be preserved and the laws enforced against all who would violate them. ‘The Macgregor Clan. The freedom of public meeting is among those things which we Americans love to proudly call our “rights,” But, like the right to'vote, it may be so tampered with, smothered, or, what is worse, enlarged on in a left-handed sense, as to become practically nugatory in so far as it is a guarantee of protection to our liberties, The ‘honest citizen who goes to deposit his one vote at the ballot box. may justly complain, when he finds that not only has some mus- cular fellow citizen obligingly voted for bim, and go deprived him of bis manhood suffrage, but that he is compelled to look on while the aforesaid ruffan votes from ten to twenty times, as party expediency demands. Similar to this must have been the feeling with which the builders who convened at Teuton Hall on Thursday night to oppose the present building law and organize for the purpose of criminally prosecuting Mr. Macgregor, the Superintendent of Buildings, observed their meeting taken possession of by a number of rowdies in the interest of the Macgregor. Their astonishment must have been still fur- ther heightened by the production of a num- ber of whitewashing resolutions which were passed over their heads. These resolutions coolly advised the necessity of asking Macgre- gor what he thought of the charges advanced against his honesty in administration, and still more coolly advised the asking of that worthy’s opinion upon the, building law as it now stands on the statute book. There is not the smallest pretension to sincerity in these resolutions, viewed in the light of the object for which the meeting was called. This can be Usgiraied Py by a perfectly parallel cage, Eiwin eat is accused of stealing ‘and ‘burning a number of vouchers. Strong evidence has been given against him, What 9 proof of public spirit it would be deemed for thé District Attorney to resolve on not prosecuting the alleged burglar ‘‘without first seeking an explanation as to the truth,” &c., aod in addition requesting Mr. Hagerty to. suggest what alterations he would like in the building of voucher closets, and some hints on the changes he would desire in the law on burglary. We say emphatically that the whole proceed- ing was one of outrage throughout, which, so far as Macgregor is conceraed, places him in ® worse position than over. The necessity to use such means to defend himself is tantamount to the admission that he has no valid defence to offer at all, Such glaring wrong will not help any man in Macgregor’s position. Its intro- duction in this city is no novelty; but its inauguration at this critical period in our municipal affairs is not only reprehensible, but not to be tolerated. If Tammany sup- poses that through its ready-fisted ruffianism it can put down the honest endeavors of the citizens towards a purification of our city offices it will find itself mistaken. The chiefs of the party are loud in their defiance of an appeal to the courts, but in this first public step to arraign one of their number it calls up its bullies and “like a very drab unpacks its heart with cursing.” The builders intent on the prosecution of this Macgregor should only be the more de- termined to persevere In their perfectly just course. We hope such will be the effect of the lesson of Thursday night, Emigration from Alsace and Lorraine. Prince Bismarck may find the work of Germanizing the inhabitants of the newly acquired provinces of Alsace and Lorraine & more difficult task than he anticipated. The people of this recently made German territory do not take kindly to their new masters, and this notwithstanding the desire on the part of the German authorities to make things as pleasant and to introduce as few changes as possible. Letters from Strasbourg and other places within the two districts inform us that the flow of emigration from the conquered provinces is on the increase. Indeed, tho emigrants have become so numerous of late that various measures have been taken to check the ebbing tide, The price of passports has been raised; a French regulation of 1856, but which for a long time was obsolete, requiring that persons desirous of emigrating before receiv- ing their passports should prove that‘ail their pecuniary obligations were satistied, has been revived, and besides these the privileges en- joyed by emigration agents have been with- drawn, and until further orders they muat dis- continue the business in which they were en- gaged, When it has been found necessary to adopt such stringent measures as these to keep the people at home the difficult task which the German government has before it may readily be imagined. The Alsatians and Lorrainians will not, they say, be Germanized, and sooner than live under German tule they are willing to quilt tho Yand madeé doar fo them by all the associations which bind ‘people to the land of their nativity. Foop For Corre: Darinkers.—The duty on coffee has been reduced two cents per pound the past year, yet the price remains the same, The Washington Republican ascribes this to the fact that the crop has been a failure this year in nearly all the great coffee-growing districts, Is it not rather to be ascribed tothe large amount of the native bean now used in manufacturing what is called the “‘extract of coffee?” Or perbaps it may be owing to a rise in the price of chiccory, barley, beans or some other cheap adulterating agent, to the flavor of which coffee drinkers in this country have become so accustomed that they prefer the spurious to the pure Mocha or Java, Brieuam Youno’s Arrest is so imminent that Colonel De Trobriand has prepared special accommodations for him in the camp of the federal troops, While this may be considered ® courteous recognition of Brigham’s high position it is more likely « neceesary means for his safe detention, for, although the Mor- mon elders, Brigham among them, have lowered their hostile tone lately, and now make no threats more alarming than that Brigham will be able to answer all charges against him legally and fally, there is no doubt that these same elders, if they find his captors careless or weak, will have no hesitation in brovement now going on in the city aad to . rescuida him by force of arms, cam Life Insurance s7u.°™ The Post Magazine, an insurance papct Pub- lished.in England, replying.to the plainfs’ Fob a Seereapeantat Rei a FES doliar policy in the New York Life Company, and has been disappointed in his dividend, seeks to throw discredit upon all American life! insurance companies. The. alleged is that the accounts corporations ara 49 incomplete as to make i¢ impossible to ascertain their real ahpanciee status, ‘reason ished by our, By such a statement the) Post’ ine not only betrays much ignorance of the system as carried out in this country, but also shows that it is illy informed of the changes whidh have already taken place in the English insurance laws, as well as of the opinions expressed by the highest authorities in England of the supe- rlority of the American code as establishing public confidence in the institutions under its supervision, We have previously alluded to the r ark of Mr. Sprague, Vice President of the Instituto! of Actuaries in London, that America possesses exactly what is required in England—namely, ‘a fixed standard for the valuation of policies, so that there can never arise a dispute on the important question of whether a company is solvent or otherwise, For the benefit of the Post.Magaeine we must explain that this fixed standard gives every life company in America the means of satisfying its policy-holders, under the supervision of the State Insurance Department, that. it possesses intact;.and in- vested in the best and most available securi- ties, a sum of money which will insure to them the reinsurance of their polictes if necessary, or, what is more to the purpose, ' will be suffl- cient, with the current annual ae a an improvement ‘at “interest, to ‘hee wae claim as it ‘becomes due. Thé recent excellent inguranoo law of 1870 in” England, the text of which must have! escaped the observation of the Post Magagine, is in imitation of the American plan of governing urance companies; but in order to give it its fall value it will be necessary to adopt our system of a fixed basis for the mathematical calculation of value, or the Mability of a com- pany in regard to Its outstanding claims, : The remark of the Post Magazine, that high interest ‘‘means great risk with frequent flactu- ations,” is applicable only when more than the legal rate is exacted ; but we must remind that journal that the charters-of American compa- nies do not permit such investments, nor would they be possible under our present usary laws. ‘We may venture to add that the assets of such’ leading institutions as the Equitable, New York Life and Connecticut Mutual are as well and safely invested as those of any European life office, being limited to advances on first class bonds and mortgages and to the purchase of government and State boads. To sum up the whole matter, the object of our English contemporary is evidently to draw attention to an unusual mortality in the recent experience of the New York. Life, which haa properly acted as a check upon too liberal a division of the surplus. But stich attacks are to be deprecated, as they tend to place too much in the background the first grand princi- ple of life insurance, which is; not paying div- idends, but sccuring to the policy-holder, be- yond all contingencies, the sum for which he is assured. e Tue Porwapetpuia Press gives some four columns about democratic. fraudsin Pennsyl- vania, and says it is only beginning the cam- paign, Fortunately for the credit of the State the e'ection is only a short time off. But what Las become of Evans? And where is Vezin— who sent so many relatives a-wheezin’—and many other fraudists in the Keystone State who remain unac counted for? Yanxeg ENTERPRISE AND Inist Gents, as well as a little blarney, seem united in the ~ person of Impresario Gilmore, who is now in Europe engaging talent for his grand inter- national musical festival to be held in Boston next summer. We are informed by cable despatch that he has already succeeded in se- curing the promise of the attendance of the celebrated band of the Queen’s Horse Guards, and, no doubt, his modesty would have induced him to have invited Her Majesty herself to come over, were she in good health. He also expects to secure the crack’ military bands in France and:Germany for the grand event. If all these bands unite in one tre- mendous blast there will be no necessity for. Gabriel to blow his horn ; for tbe Hub will go up—or dowu—before he can bring, forth a solitary ‘‘toot.” Tue Boston Advertiser is getiiag as bad ag some other papers in the matter of editorial amenities. It says that Butler's figares-were a ‘“‘lie” before the nomination, and he knew better than any other man in Massachuselts that they were a “lie” when he used them. When papers of the proverbial stafdness of the Boston Advertiser bandy the ‘he’ nes must cert come to a very sa pass in old aritantoal Tasiaahysctis, Lesage \ Ma. Bourweu. Fortowie Our Apvicz.— The Secretary of the Treasury, in his speech at Cincinnati, confesses that the income of the government is too great, that taxation is too burdensome, and that it is necessary to reduca the taxes. He has come to the conclusion, also, that it is not wise to contract the cur- rency, but that we should let the country grow up to specio payments, Mr. Boutwell did not hold such views formerly, and has pursued a policy at variance with them. H seems disposed at Inst, however, to follow, the advice we have been giving him all along as to the currency question and taxation. Tne RoongsteR CONVENTION is to be held on the 4th of October. On the following day itis predicted that a tidal wave will sweep out all creation on the Atlantic const, ‘‘After Rochester the deluge.” FUNERAL OF GENERAL CLANTON. Mowtaousny, Ala., Sept, 2, 1871, ‘The grandest demonstration ever known in Ala- bama has been given to General Ulanton. His body, lying in state at the Capitol, was visited by over ten thousand persons, ‘The Methouist Episcopal church, where the funeral sermon was preached, was filled, ite the ssi achen gine around it packed with people, The Pad ger: «4 hag over two = long? tT abut malta ouses Were porated put ore ing a f of the pooete is great, and men women ly shed tears, The colored ulation vied in their demonstrations of respect. contributions have been mae for the beuetit of the family oi the deceased, Hver¥ busingsa house te chowet,