The New York Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD | ocr specat despatch trom salt Lake Cy, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING GLOBE THEATRE, 72 Broad Broadway.—NEGRo ECCENTRI- ‘CITIES, BURIESQUES, Ac. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Tok MAB RIED Bacurion, sai ous IARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and —Tuk STREETS OF NEW Youk. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8h ay. ana 23d shL— EMLREN Ocer. FIFTAR AVENUE THEATRE, Tw: f strect. — Tur New Drama or Divorce. saa sich : OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuz I. ToMiMe Or HUNPTY Di cael pan ae ae WALLACK’S TH _ TALLAGK EATRE, Broadway and 18h street. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ENGLISU ‘OreRa—TuE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. STADT THEATR! Ce -E, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.—OreRa WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ‘ances afternoon and evening—OLIVER Twist. BOOTH’S THEA’ < — gROOTIS THEATRE, 23a st, botwoen Sth and 6th ava, oe F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, 0; ite City Hall.—Va- RIETY Eurmuraseneoe apa ! UNION SQUARE THEATRE, corner of Fourteenth atreet and Broadway.—NEGRO ACTS—BUuLESQUE, BALLET, &0 LINA EDWIN’s THEATRE. No, 720 Broadway.—KELLY & Leon's MinsTRELs. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAUL, 585 Broadway.— Tuer San Fra: CO MINSTRELS. BRYANT’S NEW OPERA WOODS! be 7th avs,—BRYANT'S MINBT! a St, between 6th TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NEGRO BoceweRioreins, BURLESQUE, dc. urteenth street, between PARIS PAVILION CIRC! 2a ANISM, &0. and 3d avenues.—EQUES’ AMERICAN DISTERUER EXHIBITION, Third avenue and sa third —Opea day and eveni TRIPLE ‘SHEET. ee isond Sunday, October i, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. PAGE, 1—Advertisements, 2— Advertisements. B—State ans City Politics—New Jersey Politics— Bvard of supervisors: The ‘fax Levy Con- tirmed—Judge Hilton and Tom Fieids—The Committee of Seventy—More Monstrous Ac- counts—The Mayors Ofice—The Wouevard Malcontents—Payig the Croton Laborers— ‘The Injunction Order Not Yet Settled—The “big Judge” in Trouble—Heariless Child Mur- der in Paterson—The Weather. 4@—Religious Intelligence : To-Day's Programme ; HERALD ewes Correspondence—Death in the Lamp-A Mean Burgiar—The Caledonian Cluo anu the Goldie Testimoniai— Advance in Coal Freight—financial and Commercial Re- port—Marriages and Deaths. 5—Deaths ertusements. eading Article, * iyzamy”—Personat ‘intetligence—Yacht- ing Notes—President Grant—i' rospect Park Fair Grounds—Amusement Announcements, ‘%—News from France, Spam, Eugiand, Ireland, Algeria and India—Queen Victoria—The ‘Trou- ‘The Deatn Knell delpiia Exctiement: Further Var Charles Vezin’s Afairs—Tue Cour and the Drxma—Call for a Mass Meetng of Workingmen—A Jersey Horror—Losi at Sea— Miscelianeous Telegrams—Local intelligence— Business Notices. S—Aadv G—Adv tisements. 10—Paris Fashions: The Approach of Winter Ush- ering in the Modes for October—Slipping in- tell gence—Adverusements, 1—Acdvertisements, 12—Aadverlisements. “Not Mvcn or a Snowrr, AFTER ALL”— The Greeley bolt from the Syracuse Conven- tion, What says ‘Daniel Pratt, the great American traveller,” and the perpetually trav- elling candidate for the White House? Tue Week 1x Watt Street closed on a better market at the Stock Exchange, but without any material difference in the gold premium. Much curiosity, if not anxiety, is experienced concerning the Treasury pro- gramme for October, which doubtless will be made known, as usual, on Monday morning. Generat Gast, in his progress out West, as in the East, seems to be recognized at all his public receptions from point to point as the man for 1872. Inthe lurid light of the mis- deeds of Tammany Hall the people every- where are recognizing the saving principles of economy, retreuchment and the reduction of the public debt. In fact, Tammany has been doing a great work for President Grant, as aa illustration of the difference between saving and wasting the public money. Tue Tax Levy.—The Board of Supervisors yesterday confirmed the tax levy for 1671. The amount to be raised is two per cent on the total valuation of the real and personal estate of the county, and to this is added an amount to cover the excess of the State tax The figures are as for 1871 over that of 1870. follows :— Total valuation of real estate Two per ton this amount . Excess of Siate tax of 1571 over 1870.. and p Total AMOUNE Of TAX.........eeeeeeee The rate of taxation is thus two and about éeventecn-one-hundredths of one per cent, It is stated that the Receiver will give notice of the opening of the books for personal taxes and banking institutions by Wednesday next. Tae CoaL Monopo.ists have commenced their annual raids upon the purses of resi- dents of Eastern cities. The Reading Railroad Company gave notice yesterday that it would forthwith advance the toll ov coal fifteen cents per tor, as a large percentage of the products of the Pennsylvania mines must necessarily pass over this road to the seaboard, and as the company is not restricted in its charges for freight, no doubt a further advance will be made in a few weeks. Let Congress, at its next session, bear this fact in mind and pro- tect the public from further extortions by the monopolists by repealing the duty upon coal and giving our citizens an opportunity of pur- chasing cheap fuel. THE Ruquistr10s FOR me Mn. EVANS. —George ©. Evans, late agent for Pennsylvania, for recovering from tbe federal government cer- tain moneys due that State for equipment aud sustenance of volunteers during the late war, and who is charged with embezzling a portion of the funds collected, was arresied in this city on Friday night on a requisition from Governor Geary. Mr. Evans was brought before Judge McCunn, of the Superior Court, yesterday, and his discharge asked for on the ground that (he moneys alleged to have been misappropriated were the property of Mr. Evans, being bis legal fees while acting a8 State Agent. Judge McCunn took the papers and reserved hig devisior published to-day, shows that the work com- menced by the Grand Jury is being vigorously pressed, and that the Mor- mon leaders are to be speedily placed on trial for offences against the statutes. It appears, however, that the ‘Saints are determined to fight for their special and peculiar privileges, and that, while the purchase of arms goes briskly on, their papers advocate open resistance to the laws, and breathe defiance to the hereti- cal United States government in a wonderful and alarming manner. As our despatch says, the Mormon heart is being fired, and as a set- off against the terror of the conflagration Camp Douglas is to be filled up with govern- ment troops. Ever since the people destroyed the system of slavery which had for ages prevailed in this country they have been learning and teaching to others the lesson of perfect obedience to law. But while that great wrong existed, and was sustained in a measure by law, there was not seen that ready obedience to acts of Con- gress which we now everywhere behold. We allremember the silly attempt made a dozen years ago by the late President Buchanan to enforce the laws against polygamy. Brigham Young laughed at Congress, at Mr. Buchanan, and at the army that he sent to enforce the will of the people. The Prophet armed and equipped his saints, and sent them forth to meet the national troops, who were snow- bound in the Plains, and who, instead of cap- turing Brigham’s army, were captured by them. The Mormon leader made money by that expedition and defeated Uncle Samuei’s soldiers in a bloodless campaign, so that the latter were glad to return to the States with their own lives, instead of bringing in the scalps of their enemies with them. From that date until the completion of that great national enterprise, the Pacific Railroad, Brigham Young and his followers were bold and blatant. They defied the power ofthe United States, and under the plea of religious toleration dared Congress to enact any laws to repress or destroy this Mormon abomination, But Congress did pass such laws, and sent out its officers to Utah to en- force them; and our despatches of yesterday and the day before from Salt Lake City show that the government officials in the Territory are determined to enforce the laws against polygamy and to begin with the biggest Mor- mon of the lot—Brigham Young himself. It has beén stated in recent despatches that Young was ready to submit to arrest, in the full consciousness of being able to over- come all the charges against him before the law. We can hardly interpret this language, for if the charge of polygamy is pressed against the Prophet we cannot conceive how he can justify himself before the law; but if his indictment is based upon some other charges we are yet in the dark as to their nature. We have no doubt that if Brigham is arrested at all it will be for polygamic practices, and we have too much faith in the sbrewdness and common sense to believe that he will voluntarily batter his brains out against Uncle Sam’s artillery. The people of the United States are in no mood at present to be defied and browbeaten by such a handful of licentious followers of a false Prophet as the saints of Mormondom are. The Americans are a religious and liberty-loving people, and avy appeal to thelr sentiments of religious toleration will receive a respectful hearing. It is upon this ground, and this only, that polygamy has been per- mitted to exist so long. The government was lenient toward it as toward a religious insti- tution; but when it began to loom upasa great theoeratic system, defying alike the laws of the land and the moral sentiment of the people, Congress took it in hand and applied the proper remedies, which we feel convinced will effect a radical cure. But while the government is thus de- termined to rid the country of polygamy, it will not needlessly lay hands on any religious right which belongs to the people of Utah, in common with the rest of us, under the constitu- tion. They may still build their churches and ordain their prophets and apostles, and preach polygamy in those churches if they please ; but it they openly practise it, as they do now, they must submit to the same measure of justice as would be meted out to polygamists in this city. Impartial justice is one of the bright jewels of the republic, andit must not be plucked from Liberty's crown by other hands than those which have placed it and maistained it there. We have people of every name and nationality living among us here, and if we allow one class to break the laws we cannot reasonably expect another class to obey them, unless, indeed, the laws agree with the will and desires of the people. Tolerance toward polygamy would be an invitation to African fetishism and Hindoo fire-worship, or any other equally extravagant notions, for which as good a religious excuse might be shown, perhaps, as has been presented in behalf of the Mormon abomination to come and settle among us. We see how bold it has made the free-lovers in all parts of the Union, and it is but reasonable to expect that other extremists would not be slow to take advantage -of this leniency also. It is with more than ordinary satisfaction, therefore, that we view those proceedings againet this sin, because the HrraLp was the first to lift its voice against it and to demand its suppression by the strong hand of Justice. And we did this in behalf of morality and reli- gion, and in accordance with the monogamic sentiments and practices of the majority of the citizens of the republic. What the sturdy elo- quence of the Chaplain to Congress failed to do the more quiet but determined eloquence of Chief Justice McKean and his Grand Jury seem likely to accomplish. Religion is dis- graced instead of being honored by the prac- tice of polygamy, and while we must admire the Mormons for their indomitable courage and perseverance, which has converted a desert into a garden of roses and made the barren land yield a thousandfold of the choicest fruits, we must nevertheless unquali- fiedly condemn the system of vice and immorality which, under the name of religion, they maintain in Utab, There exists a strong public sentiment in the Territory now against it, not alone among the les,” but very largely also among the “saints,” and, if put to a vote, we believe nota mapas: iepoeall's to the asbratendlan! We hope, therefore, that the United States officials will not let up until the Mormon “religion,” like every other form of religious faith in the land, sball submit in the same measure to its regulation and protection by law. Religion that sets itself above law is not the religion of the Cross, for the Founder of Christianity taught obedience to secular authority in religious as well as in civil mat- ters, and the Church and the State have in all ages mutually rested upon the strength and purity and wisdom of each other. And they must do so to the end oftime. Thedeath knell of polygamy has been sounded, and we may therefore expect its early dissolution, The Bonievard Laborers—The Last Night. The meeting last night, alleged to have been called by the laborers in the Department of Parks, turns out to have been a fraud. The workmen and mechanics employed by that department bad nothing to do with get- ting it up, and very wisely declined to attend. At the appointed time about four or five hundred persons, but few of whom are engaged on the public works, appeared at the rendezvous; but no organization was effected and nothing was done. A portion of the crowd adjourned to a lager beer saloon, where they were harangued by some ward politician ; but the attempt to make anything like a demonstration was an entire failure, and the whole business was repudiated by those in whose interest it was professedly undertaken. Up to this time the efforts of adventurers and foreigners to inflame the passions of the people, and to create a riot in the city, have been happily frustrated. This has been mainly due to the good sense, moderation and patience of the laboring classes, at a time when these qualities haye been severely tried, The sudden .stoppage of the wages they had honestly earned, and upon which they depended for their daily bread, and for the food and shelter of their families, combined with the apprehension that they might be thrown out of work at a season of the year when they most need employment, was sufficient to have driven them to rash and angry demonstrations. The knowledge of this induced the demagogues and ruffians, who find their profits in sensational excitement and lawless outbreaks, to urge on the suffering men to acts of disorder and outrage. But all these efforis have failed, and the laborers and mechanics of New York have won the sympathy and respect of their fellow citizens by their admira- ble behavior in this trying moment. While they have a perfect right to meet and discuss and agitate the question in which they are so vitally interested, they have proved by their prudent action last night that they are not only law-abiding men, but that they have the sense and magnanimity not to embarrass the municipal government by impatiently pressing their claims. It is to be hoped that their commendable conduct will meet its reward in the speedy payment of the wages due to them and their steady employ- ment onthe public works. Deputy Green will no doubt supply the money that is needed without any delay. The spirit of Judge Bar- nard’s order favors the steady prosecution of all the public works, and is heartily endorsed by the people. It would be deplorable if any political or personal considerations should be suffered to interfere with the im- provements now progressing so favorably and advantageously to the city, and Deputy Green, while jealously guarding the treasury from fur- ther plunder, should be carefol that the departments of docks and parks are treed from all further embarrassments by reason of the city troubles. The English Barmaid Fair. An exhibition of English barmaids is one of the new ideas developed in the brain of John Bull, though it is impossible that he could have perfected it except on the suggestion of some thrifty Yankee. The exhibition con- sists in a contest among the regularly entered crack barmaids of England, to decide who can most ably and gracefully perform the duties of that responsible station. Fifty elegantly deco- rated bars are presided over by the chosen contestants, and their fair hands are kept busy entertaining the crowd and the judges by expert concocting of all the drinks known to the English drinking catalogue. Ale and beer and gin, and even highwines, are dis- pensed at the usual prices to the intellectual Englishmen who enjoy this sort of thing, and who are vested with all the rights of judges, It is not stated so, but we judge that in making a decision on so interesting and impor- tant a question the personal beauty of the barmaid, the comely shape of her arm, the agreeable style of her conversation and her coyness or forwardness are all considered, as much as the ability or dexterity wilh which she can draw ale from the wood and furnish beer for guzzling John Bull. The natural taste for the beautiful which these judges have cultivated all their lives would lead them to prefer a handsome one to a homely one, and consequently the contest degenerates, after all, to an exhibition of physical beauty of a very robust and coarse type. The English barmaid In romances is generally virtuous, piquant and pretty, and in real life she is frequently all these; but it is not easy to see how she can long retain the first two charac- teristics when such exhibitions have become an acknowledged national peculiarity. Io this country we bave nothing just similar to the English barmaid. The only character at all assimilating it is our better claas of pretty waiter girls, and, Heaven knows, they are bad enough. When we contemplate what sort of a crowd would be brought together here at an exhibition of them—a sort of Indus- trial Fair of Working Feminity—the heart sickens. It is quite certain that the English barmaid fair, while at present a more refined entertainment than that of our concert girls would be, is not calculated to improve as it progresses. The English barmaid, by being called out to make a public exhibition of her- self, will goon from bad to worse until she loses. all semblance to those delightful: crea- tions of Dickens, who used to make us com- fortable at their cosey fires, brew for us such glorious hot punches, and give to the cheerful Meeting barroom of the English inn that happy and delicious aspect that only the virtuous English barmaid of romance covld possibly invest it there would be a very respectable minority. if ; with, The Rochester Democratic Convention— The Tammany or Anti-Tammany Dele- gates. The first important business before the Democratic State Convention—which meets at Rochester on Wednesday next—will be the admission of the Tammany or anti-Tammany delegates from this city. The same issue in a diluted form was the occasion of the Greeley bolt from the late Republican Convention at Syracuse; but the squabble between the Conk- ling-Murphy men and the Fenton-Greeley fac- tion was a mere bagatelle compared with this direct issue between the Tammany and anti- Tammany democracy—the ‘‘Ring” and the Reformers. Mr. Tilden, as Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, has de- clared that “the only way of safety to the party, when discovered to be affected with gangrene, is to take a sharp knife and cut it out by the roots ;” and this sharp remedy will doubtless be submitted by him as the special duty of the party in their State Convention. Tammany has appointed her delegates from the city; but whether ‘the Boss” will head them in person at Syracuse or remain at home we do not know. We incline to the opinion, however, that he will not go up to Rochester on this occasion, and will be exceedingly mild and gentle in his instruc- tions to his friends, whose delicate and difficult duty it will be to make it appear that ‘‘the Old Wigwam” under its present administration is ‘‘all right,” and that the raral democracy cannot afford to abandon it, But these friends of ‘the Boss” will be confronted by a powerful anti-Tammany coalition, headed by Charles O'Conor and representing the reform demo- cracy of the metropolis, demanding admission and the overthrow of the Tammany junta. What then will be the action of the Conven- tion as to the claims of these conflicting dele- gations? On the ground of regularity no doubt the Tammany delegates will be recog- nized, if agraeable to the other side; but on the ground of municipal and democratic reform we understand that the sine gua non of the anti-Tammany delegation will be the expul- sion of all the representatives of the ‘‘Ring” from the Convention. A tough job this for the Rochester peace- makers; yet what can they do but cut loose from the ‘‘Ring” and ‘whistle her down the wind,” if this is the ultimatum of the reform democrats? But if excluded from the Con- vention will ‘‘the Boss” surrender or will he fight ? How can he fight disarmed and with his magazine of communication in the hands of the enemy? What will he have to fight for, dethroned and shorn of his power, and with no earthly prospect of a restora- tion? He will be compelled to retire and “give up the ship,” and so the ‘‘Ring,” already superseded by Mr. Green and his Committee of Seventy, will pass away, and be only spoken of hereafter as certain things that did once exist and flourish, like the cedar of Lebanon, such as the Great South Sea Bubble, the Yazoo speculation and other grand joint stock money-making adventures of that de- scription. We expect great things of this Rochester Democratic Convention, because the simple issue presented is the salvation or dissolution of the democratic party. Why Do the Germans Halt in France t— Why Do They Return Towards Paris? The questions are difficult. The cable telegrams tell us one day that the troops of the Emperor William have just made a com- plete ‘face about” and are on their way, rejoicing, towards Berlin and their happy homes and cosey, contented firesides. Then again, next evening, perhaps, we are informed that some payment of the French indemnity money has just fallen due, and that the German army has been halted at a conve- nient distance to some large and im- portant city in France, and; refuses to ‘‘move on” until the cash is forthcoming. On this the French government makes a grand treasury effort, pays a milliard or two of francs, and on go the Teutons again. They appear distrustful, how- ever, and éontinue to look back. To- day we hear that the Prussians have actually returned a detachment of their army to the neighborhood of Paris, ané that the troops of His Majesty William have reoccupied the towns of Clermont, Cressy and Oriel. What is the meaning of this? Pay or no pay, the French cannot efface the mark of the heel of the military conqueror from the soil of their country. A chief cause is to be found in the fact that the concentrated imperialism of Ger- many fears the political effects of the diffu- sive agency of French radicalism in Europe, and that the Emperor William is duly in- formed of the progress of Queen Victoria’s illness, and wishes that his bayonets should bide on French territory, and in the vicinity of Paris, until the issue of the attack on Her Majesty’s health is known. He fears lest the “Reds” of the ‘Continent should clasp hands with their revolutionary brethren in Britain at the moment of the Queen's decease, and thus, it may be, imperil at one and the same moment the succession to two of the most “powerful thrones in the world—that of Great Britain and his own, Our Paris Fashions Letter. The readers, and especially the lady read- ers, of the HeraLp this morning will peruse with delight the letter of our Paris fashion correspondent. It claims particular attention at the present time. The late war, the terri- ble siege, the ravages of the reign of terror of the Commune, combined to drive away from the capital of France that elegance which refined taste conceived and which the cunning of Parisian modistes shaped into form in the recognized dresg fashions of the day. Paris, before the war, ruled the fashions, and every city in the civilized world acknowledged its supremacy. The disasters which caused the downfall of the French empire were the means also by which fashion, for the time being, was banished from the capital it had long years ago made its home, Now, that the horrors of war are over, and the deep furrows which they made are being obliterated, the gay goddess again shows signs of reoccupying the place which for a time she abandoned. Our fas’ writer, in to-day’s corresponderce, lay a chapter of aristocratic gossip of the P capital which will enable the 38] readers to learn what styles in cut color will be the rage in articles of the fast-anproaching winte. season. Review of the Religious Press. The religious sentiment of the religious press runs about the same way In regard to popular topics this week as it did last. The Hvangelist (Presbyterian) thinks that “every honest man in the city of New York must rejoice to find that Mr. Andrew H. Green is installed in the office of Comptroller, and, though nominally Deputy, yet in reality exercises the full powers of that high office.” “A democrat in politics,” says the Hvangelist, “he (Mr. Green) has felt the shame and dis- grace brought upon his party by the corrup- tion which tainted like a leprosy the govern- ment of the city of New York. Only a few days since we met him in the street, and had along talk in regard to our city affairs, and while thus engaged Mr. Samuel J. Tilden came along and joined in the conversation.” Both of these gentlemen, though democrats, adds the #vangelist—the latter chairman of the State Democratic Committee—were as indignant at the frauds which had been brought to Tent and as earnest and even bitter in denouncing them as could be any republican. We littie thought that In a week these two men would be holding the key of the position in New York, and tnat by as long head and wise management o: Mr. Tilden Mr. Green would be placed in the office of Comptroller, a head of the Department of Finance of the The Observer thinks that ‘a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.” Passing “silver and gold” we should like to know where the ‘‘good name” included could be selected for prominent political purposes. The Observer also gives a chapter from “Treneus’ Letters,” in which some ‘honest words about bad novels” are uttered, followed by an article on ‘‘Great Riches and a Bad Name,” concluding with the adjuration, ‘There goes a thief.” ‘‘ Look well to thine own house, ob Israel, lest thine own house be persecuted.” The Independent refers to the ‘‘Old Man of the Sea;” and, to judge from the character of its editorials, it is fair to presume it had the old man aforesaid upon its back when its editor penned its last editorials. Without passing its discussion of the ‘‘ Cosmic Phil- osophy,” based upon lectures: delivered at Harvard University by one Jobn Fiske, we find the latter rejects, on scientific grounds, Atheism, Pantheism, Positivism, and also Jewish and Christian Theism, as sitaply a species of anthropomorphism by which the human is made the model of the divine. Mr. Fiske at last adopts Cosmism as the proper designation of the religion of the pure scientist. This is simply the view taken by another man of the same name, who isa scientist of busi- ness. hy We do not find in the balance of our religious papers any particular matters commanding reference at the present moment, Our religious correspondence and summary is fruitful of further su.gestions to our reflect- ing religious friends. The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. Yesterday the Jews held the ancient Festi- val of Tabernacles. It was wont to be a grand day among the Jews when the Jews had a country and a home of their own. The Jews of the new school give prominence only to one day. The Jews of the old school regard the second day as scarcely less important than the first. The Feast of Tabernacles was one of the three principal feasts of the Jewish year. It lasted in the good old times, when life was easy, for seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths formed of the boughs of trees, in commemoration of the habits of their ances- tors. Long before Israel fell the Feast of Tabernacles became as artificial as has become any one of the feasts of the Christian Church, Quite as much as we Christians, the Jews remain faithful to their ancient creed and their ancient habits. If, in the observance of their old customs, they have introduced innova- tions, it is not for us to blame them; for we, too, have innovated—innovated perhaps even more than they, The Passover feast, how it has changed since the days of Moses! The Holy Communion, how it has changed since the days of the first Disciples! It is not uninter- esting to find the sons of Abraham doing their duty religiously in this new and far away land, and so many thousands of years after the death of their founder. It is just two weeks since we congratulated the sons of Israel on the commencement of their new year. Knowing what we do of their national character, we have no hesitation in congratu- lating them on their fresh Feast of Tabernacles. We all the more wish them joy that the Feast of Tabernacles is the original of our own old- fashioned, but always joyous, Thanksgiving Day. When the year is rapidly advancing towards its close, and when the barns are filled with plenty, why should not we, in our Christian way, and they in their Jewish way, bless the all-bountiful Giver of Good? We ought to be thankful for everything which pre~ serves or tends to preserve the religious prin- ciple. The Pence Congress and the European Peoples. The delegates to the Peace Congress assem- bled in Lausanne, Switzerland, have been again reconciled towards each other. They have also displayed a still more friendly inclination towards the world at large. They have just enjoyed the soothing influences of an excellent banquet, and the stomach—an organ which some physiologists say supersedes the heart as the centre of feeling —being satis- fled within them, they have given to the nations a slight inkling of the tendency and bias of their united mind and individual brain. Both are with the popular cause. The peace men made a “‘pilgrimage”—such is the word- ing of our cable news telegram—from Lau- sanne yesterday to the tomb of M. Flocon, the fiery French radical republican who exiled himself from France at the moment of Napo- leon’s coup d'état and died in Switzerland in the year 1866. This action of the Peace Con- gress representatives denotes the tendency of the world’s will with respect to government. Every form of faith has its sbrine and God. The honor paid to Flocon’s memory assures the monarchs that peace is with the peoples and that a united democracy is its best safe- guard, Mopnine unoffending citizens is no longer ahee' oful amusement in North Carolina, A ys ago ten festive Ku Kluxes were con- before the United States Court in gh of playfully hanging and whipping ns who had incurred their displeasure, yesterday seven other members of this alrous order pleaded guilty, in the same rt, to shnilar offences. Queew Victoria and tue Prince of Wales.’ It is no longer to be denied that a crisis has arrived in the long and prosperous reign of Queen Victoria, For thirty-four years the British people have rejoiced and been glad under the reign of a woman of whom history will speak with high respect, if not with great! praise. All the world has been compelled to admit—and the admission has never been grudgingly given in these columos—that in the character of Victoria was to be found the model of a good Queen, a good wife and a good mother. Since the death of the Prince Consort, in December of 1861, the Queen has evidently been a great sufferer. Her ex- cess of love has been followed by a great sor- row; and if in the agony of her sorrow, inten- sified by solitude, she has ceased tobe an active or potent force in the world, we ought not greatly either to wonderor to blame, At best & Queen, even the greatest, is but a woman; and if, in consequence of her sorrow or her solitude, Victoria is no longer physically or intellectually what she once was, it ought not tobe a source of gratification to any, but a cause of sorrow to all her people. . Still, her sickness and consequent unfitness for public duty must be regardod as facts ; and it is not possible for any one to refuse to admit that as the result the British people have been brought to the verge of a great constitutional crisis. According to our latest news, Premier Gladstone and the Prince of Wales were both in attendance on Her Majesty at her Highland home at Balmoral, Scotland, Princess Alexandra, wife of the Prince of Wales, returned to Great Britain yesterday from a brief visit to the Continent. She landed at Aberdeen and hastened to visit her mother- in-law after the reception of a very cordial wel- come from the inhabitants of the ancient city. Balmoral, since it became the property of the Prince Consort, has been a favorite retreat of the Queen, as her own published works testify. Since the death of the Prince her liking for the place has been revealed by her more frequent visits and her more prolonged residence. At Balmoral it almost seems as if she wished to die. If it should turn out that the Queen is sick unto death, or that, intellect- ually, she is unfitted for the discharge of her onerous public duties, the Prince of Wales will succeed as King, or come into power as Regent. He is the heir to the crown, and nothing but a revolution can deprive him of his rights. This is the great fact of the hour. The Prince of Wales is the prospective mon- arch of Great Britain, As King or as Re- gent, in the circumstances we have supposed, he must come into power. How will he be received ? It is not for us to forecast the future with too much confidence. In the event of the im- mediate death of the Queen, the accession of the Prince of Wales to the throne will be simple and easy. Much has been spoken and written regarding his character. It must be admitted that his praise is not on every lip. But youth has its privileges; and men in high places are sometimes too much seen, We are willing to be generous to youth, and to recog- nize the influence of the fault-finder. The Prince of Wales may, after all, not make a bad ruler. In the event of a Regency, the difficulties of the Prince’s position are likely to be greatly aggravated. A regency may be opposed by the Queen. In that case it will revive all the unpleasant memories connected with the sickness of George the Third and the regency of George the Fourth. It will divide the sentiments of the British people, all of whom love the Queen. George the Fourth got over this trouble; but times are changed since then. The known opposition of the Queen, no matter what the necessities for a regency, would make the position of the Prince Regent uncomfortable in the ex- treme. The result might be a revolution which would prove destructive of the mon- archy. Monarchs are not so necessary as they once were even in England; and if the Prince of Wales is wise he will attend to that fact. Another George the Fourth on the British throne is an impossibility. Personal Intelligence. General A. Gorloff, military agent of the Russian government, ts at the Hofman House, Vice Admiral Rowan, of the United States Navy, is at the New York Hotel, United States Senator Allen G. Thurman, of Ohto, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicvotas, Unitea States Senator William P. Kellogg, of Louisiana, ts sojourning at the Fifth Avenue. General G. Morley Sorrell, of the United States Army. is quartered at the New York Hotel. Judge George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, is stop- ping at the Fifth Avenue, YACHTING NOTES. Yachts Enchantress, Mr. George Loril- lard, and Wanderer, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Louis L. Lorit- lard, left their anchorage off Quarantine, Staten Island, last evening and proceeded to sea on a short cruise eastward. They will visit Boston, among other ports, and return to New York the latter part of the week. Yacht Columbla, N.Y.Y.c., Rear Commodore Os- good, will leave her anchorage of Quarantine, Staten Island, to-day and proceed to New London, where sie will recelve additonal ballast aud be taken on the ways to be fitted for tne races soon to take place. Yacnt Fleur de Lis, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. John S. Dicker- Laghsehip yesterday aiternoon, and at evening returned to her anchorage off statea isiand, Yacat Tidal Wave, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. William Voorhis, saiicd down the bay yesterday afternoon and re- turnea to her anchorage in the North River during: tne evening. Yacht Madeleine, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Jacob Voorhis, re turned from a fishing excursion yesterday, and is now anchored oif pie eighth street, Bast River. Yacht Tarolinta, aes C., Messrs, Kent, 18 at aM chor uit Bay Kidge, L. Yacht Dreadnaught , Captain Samuels, is anchored off quarantine, ‘bie has been painted eK. : following passed Whitestoné to-day:—Yact Mystery, M.Y.C., Vice Commodore poo return- ing from @ two months’ cruise, en Tou for New York. son, salied out to the “PRESIDENT GRANT. CHICAGO, IL, Sept. 30,,187L. President Grant reached bere tis afternoon, and will remain until Tuesday morning, when he will leave for Pittsburg, en rowle for Washington. He ts ‘a guest of his brother wnile here. UNION LEAGUE ‘MEETING. Wasnt ASHINGTON, Sept, 30, 1871. Ameeting of the National Executive Committee of the Union League of America will be held at the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, on Tuesday next, at two o’clock P.M. The republicans regard this meeting as important from the tact that action wilt be taken on the dificult question peading in Ar- Kansas, Lousiana and olher states. PROSPEOT PARK PAIR GROUNDS, ‘The entries for the purses to be contended for a& the Fair of the Prospect Park Fair Ground Associa- lion Will close at the office of the Associaton, cor- ner of Pulton and Boerum streets, Brooklyn, on Monday evening tiext at nine o'clock, Eight pees purses are otered for horses of all grades, b tbree minutes to two minutes and t uty a seconds. ‘There should be a lave List, of eggries.