The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1871, Page 8

1 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. PROPRIETOR, a GORDON BENNETT, All business or news letter and telegraphic NEW YUKK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1871—QUADRUPLE SHEET. The State Democratic Convention and the Tammany Ring. The democratic State Convention will meet under peculiar circumstances at Rochester to- morrow. In view of the stupendous frauds of the Tammany Ring, and the damage the party has sustained in consequence, every one is saying, ‘What will they do with it?” ‘What ‘Gespatches must be addressed New York | will the Convention do with the Tammany Bizrar. felume XXXVI....... one AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ++-No. 276 | know. Ring?” Enemies and friends alike, republi- cans as well as democrats, are anxious to The former would rather see the Con- ‘vention take an undecided or trimming course, because that would strengthen the republican AOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Maztrra— Taz Max | party, while the mass of the honest democrats e NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston strecis.—Tux STRKETS OF New Youk. : GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. ana 234 st x OGE. FIFTR AVENUB TUEATRE, Twenty-i strest.— New Drana or Drvoror. geosiys “3 4 pean uted OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.— fTOMIME OF HUMPTY DunPrY. way.—THE BALLET Pax. if os \WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broa La ux Hxin at Law. dway and 13tb street, | ABADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street,—ENGLISH Preea—Tue Daventse or Tux REGIMENT. ‘Lsrapt THEATRE, Prsson—Mantua. + WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances afternoon and evening—OLIVER TWiST. Nos, 45 and 47 Rowery.—Orena iene te ‘28d at, between Sth and 6th avs. — “ GLOBE THEATRE, 7% Broadway.—-NEGRo EccrNTRt- Crrizs, BURLESQuEs, £0. GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.—Va- BiBry ENTERTALNNENT. UNION SQUARK THEATRE, corner of Fourteenth street Jand Brosdway.—Nxgno AOTs—BURLESQUE, GALLEN, &O SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAuL, 585 Broadway.— ru Sax Fuancisoo MINSTRELS, BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., between éth mod th avs.—BRYANT's MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Pswoxo Eocenrnicrtins, BURLESQUES, AC. Matinee alain \, PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth ati » Parner Su ere ROU, Foerength sires ‘elrone AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHINITION, Third avenues Siaty-third street.—Open day and evening. ry — QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, October 3, 1871. ‘ CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pack, SSR PR 1—Advertisements, 2—4dvertisements. 3—Advertisements, 4—Advertisements. S—War on the “King: The Citizens’ Committee in Arms at Last; A Warrant of Arrest Aguiust Mayor Hall Applied For; He is Chargea with Malfeasance in Office; A Clerk in the Comp- troller’s Uitice Makes’ an Affidavit on the A counts; Justice Bixby Interviewed—Aroused: ‘The Empire State; Voice of the Rural Democ- | \ eT A Foretaste of What Tammany Will Get ‘To-Morrow; Honest Men Coming to the Front; Governor Seymour on the Underlying Causes of Pablic Corruption; The People’s Party to | Be Purged of Thieves and “!tounders;” Re- | Views of the Situation by Governor Seymour, | Jonn A. Green, A. P. Lansing, Judge Com- Stock, Francis Kernan, John Ganson, William G Fargo and Others; A Warning from the Greek; Historical Parailel from Delphi. eee . aa Rural Democracy (vontinued from age). ¥—Voice of the Rural Democracy (Continued from Sixth Page)—A Pompadour Saves a Young Lady's Life—naying of a Corner Stone. 8—Editorials: Leading Article, “The State Demo- cratic Convention and the Tammany King’'— Movements of the Fresident—Amusemeal An- Douncements, 9—News from England, Ireland, France, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland—Ship wreck on tae English Coast—The Knell of Polygam: ing—The Rochester Convention: Pres the Contesting Delegations from New wo Amusements—The Great Fete Champetie— Miscellaneous Telegrams—Local Items—Busi- ess Notices, ZO—The Great ‘Injunction Case: Deputy Comp. trolier Green Invested with Full Power— Tammany’s Difticulty—The Aspect of Afairs Yesterday About the Cily Hali—Comunission- ers of Sinking Fund—Yrhe Police Pay—Prose- cuting the Contractors—The Jersey Municipal Frauds—Newark’s Democratic Coup d’Evat— Election ia Hoboken— Reckless fle Prac. lce—Robbery of the New York and Boston ’xpress Company. Q1—Revolt at Sing Sing Prison: Attempted Escape of Forty Convicts— Tue National Game—Sun- day Schgol Meeting—A Woman Badiy Beaten— Love, Desertion and Suicide—The Public Debt~ Financial and Commercial Keports— City Government—Marriages and Deaths, | 12—War on the “Ring” (Continued from Fifth Page)—Judge bixby’s Ordeai—Tbe Comumis- tee of Seventy—Fire Recora—Shipping In- teiligence—Advertisements, 43-The Commune: Further Defence of Its Chiefs and Its Acts by George Wilkes—Beautiful Barmaids: The Great National Exhibition at | Woolwich, England—The Prince Aloxis—Sui- | cide of an Editor—Eiection Ballots and Ballot Boxes—Koraer RaMian Sports—United States a—Proceed edings in the Cours—The Fate of Mi be ings in the Courts—The Fate of Miss Bi A. Post—An Atierican ‘Yattersalls— Brooklyn Afairs—Generai Beauregard Inter- viewed—Mexican Depredations on tne Texas Frontter— Recovery cf a Lost Steamer—Natural Gas in Bufalo—Advertisewents, 15—Advertisements, AG=— Advertisemenis, Quaprurtz SHzer Heratp.—The heavy press of advertisements compels us to issue a muadruple sheet Heratp to-day. In these stirring times, when our columns are brimful of important news, we regret that some of our advertisers’ business announcements have been crowded out. This inconvenience will, we doubt not, be submitted to cheerfully, for the public know that we study their interest. If quadruplesheets, containing sixieen six-column pages, are not sufficient, we shall increase our Bpace so that neither our advertising patrons nor the public in general shall lose a single } line. Jvper Comsrook is a man of heroic mould, He would rather lose his right arm than use it } to vote a Tammany ticket. Tae TriaL of Mapame Van Buskirk for producing the death of Emily A. Post was | commenced in the Brooklyn City Court yes- terday. “Toe Boss” Not On Deck.—Will “the Boss” be on hand at Rochester to-morrow? No. His attendance, they say, wili be pre- vented by important engagements elsewhere. Very Funxy.—All the democratic papers sympathize with Mr. Greeley touching bis misfortanes at Syracuse. Misery loves com- pany. Jomn A. GreEN says that Tammany is doomed. This seems to be the general senti- ment, one might almost say the general hope of the politicians. It is well to remember though that threatened men live long. Tax Posiic Dest Statement for Septem- ber shows a reduction during the past month of $13,458,620—a larger monthly reduction than has been exhibited since the summer of last year. Brienam Youno was arrested yesterday by the United States Marshal in Salt Lake City on an indictment charging him, under the Terri- torial laws, with lewd and lascivious conduct with sixteen different women, whom we may presume were, according to his creed, his wives. This brings the Mormon difficulty to a crisis, and we have nothing to do now but await bis utter demolition in the courts and the immediate downfall of the last relic of barbarism in this free country. i ‘acht- | or j hope the Convention will denounce unsparingly the frauds and throw overboard the Ring leaders who were guilty of them or responsible for them. There seems to be little doubt that the Convention will take a very decided course and lead the party out of the mire of Tammany frauds and rule. We judge so from the language and determined attitude of prominent democrats who will be in the Convention or who have great influence in the party. In order to show the sentiments of leading representative democrats, as well as of the rank and file of the party, and therefore to get an idea of what might be expected from the Convention, we sent a trusty correspondent to different parts of the State for information. The result of his labors may be seen in the copious reports and interviews with promi- nent men published in another part of the paper to-day. Frank Kernan, ex-Governor Seymonr, A. P, Lansing, Judge Comstock, John A. Green, John Ganson, W. F. Fargo and other representative demo- crats hold the same opinion as to the frauds in this city and the necessity of both denouncing them and ignoring the Tam- many chiefs. Some of these gentlemen, in the honest indignation of their souls, express themselves in bitter terms, Even Horatio Seymour, who is generally disposed to trim his sails a little, aod who assumes a more moderate tone than some of the rest, cannot find an excuse for the frauds of the Tammany magnates, The mass of the country demo- crats everywhere declaim loudly against them, aud demand a thorough reorganization of the party. Some are particularly severe on Boss Tweed for the speech he made in this city a | few days ago, which is regarded as a defiance | to the party and the Convention. Looking at the odium that has been brought upon Tam- many by the conduct of its leaders, the coun- try democrats regard the action of the Old Wigwam in holding primaries this year as an assumption, a defiance and a disgrace, They consider that these should have been Jeft to the people. The question is, Will Tweed, Sweeny, ; Hall, Connolly and the lesser lights of Tam- many who are implicated directly or indi- rectly in the frauds on the city claim to be represented in the Convention or to havea controlling influence there? Will they pur- sue the rule or ruin course? The bold front they assume might indicate such a determina- tion. Yet we can hardly suppose they can venture so far with the load of odium resting | upon them and in face of the universal indig- nation of the democracy. They ought, to use a familiar expression, to hide their diminished | heads. If they wish well to the party they will not appear at the Convention, and will neither attempt to be represented nor to exer- cise an influence there, They are past the point of being saved, and it is useless to clutch at straws. Should they, however, en- deavor to force themselves upon the Conven- tion, it will be necessary for that body to drive them away. If we mistake not, that would be their fate Such eminent democrats as Charles O’Conor, Augustus Schell, Oswald Ottendorfer, Magnus Gross and others representing the party of this city in the Convention, could have no association Wiu the &»g or its satellites. Nor will the country democrats, judging from the senti- ments they express, bave anything to do with them. The Tammany leaders and the Tam- many organization ought to abdicate, volun- tarily as a controlling power in the party of this State, for their day of usefulness as such a power is past. The old society may con- tinue to exist and under new chiefs and as an organization subordinate to a State democratic organization may be useful, but it cannot be supreme any longer. Should Tammany be reckless enough to fight the reformers of the Convention and throw discord among the | democracy it may damage the party but can- not save itself, But it is said the Ring leaders will remain in ihe background while they put others forward, with the hope that the present excitement will blow over and that then they can resume the reins of power. There may be some such linger- ing hope, but if o it is groundless. The pres- eat leaders of Tammany are gone—bob, line and sinker. Then, again, it is said the rival of Tammany, the Young Democracy, is as cor- rupt and more hungry for the spoils, and that to invest it with power would prove in the end just as disastrous to the party and as ruinous to the taxpayers. What, then, is the Conven- tion todo? In the first place, what delegates are to be received from this city? It cannot remain unrepresented in the Convention, This is a delicate question to decide, for upon the decision of it may depend both the future pros- pects of the party and government of the city. The Convention should take it for granted that the power of the Tammany Ring is destroyed and must not be restored, and that the power of the party must henceforth be in @ State organization. Whatever delegates may be re- ceived the Convention should have this object in view in its action. Government by a club is the most concéntrated and worst kind of oli- gatchy, particularly when that is under the control of men of low instincts, When the Convention becomes organized so as to exclude or override the power of Tammany, it should in its platform earnestly denounce the corruptions and extravagance in this city and all connected with them. Then it should propose to amehd the city charter so as to set aside the present municipal authori. ties and to place power more directly in the people, The present city government bas shown itself to be a hydra-beaded monster, as bad as the former government by commis- sions, or worse. Regppnsibility should be well defined and provision made for a strict super- vision over and the greatest publicity of all money should be spent without the people knowing of it. If the Convention will clearly and specifically make a platform with these objects in view it may reconstruct the party, secure the confidence of the people and give the democracy a fair chance of maintaining its power in the State. No half measures or com- promises will do. Thorough reform, earnest- ness and sincerity are required. Nothing else will satisfy the people or can save the party. General questions of public policy or as re- gards national affairs are of much less import- ance just now than such as bear upon the city and State, and particularly upon the city, These, in fact, are entering into national poli- tics, Nearly all the republican orators through- out the length and breadth of the land make our city affairs a prominent theme in their speeches, The State Democratic Convention at Rochester, therefore, will hold a prominent position for good or evil, in a national point of view, as well as with regard to the State and city and the local interests of the party. Much depends upon its action, Let os hope it may not disappoint the wishes of the demo- cratic masses of the State and country, The Labor Question and Trade Strikes in Great Britain—Rapid Progress Towards @ Constitutional Revolution, Great Britain is being still more deeply agitated by the Isbor wages and work-time questions, The trade strikes remedy is now attempted on every side by the men, while capital appears to be still more alarmed at the idea of the financial consequences which must inevitably result from an acquiescence in the demands of the operatives, The most impor- tant interests of the nation are now involved in the struggle. The cable telegrams report that the Newcastle miners assembled in mass meeting yesterday. They re- solved ‘to insist on their demands and to persevere in the sirike until its objects are accomplished.” The vast hard- ware shops of England are affected. The cut- lers and scissors grinders of Sheffield have “struck off” work. The carpenters of the town have followed thelr example, The cot- ton spinners of Bolton joined the movement yes- terday. Scotland sympathizes with the popular cause, The spinners of Dundee have quit work, in accordance with the rale of their brethren in Bolton, The strike of the Newoastle engineers still continues, and the breach between the workmen and their employers is as distinct as ever. The attempt to import foreign workmen proved a failure. Several of the Belgian and German artisans who were brought to England to fill the places made vacant by the men on strike have re- turned home. Mr, Mundella, the English Member of Parliament who visited this coun- try some months since, is engaged in endeavor- ing to heal the differences between the engl- neers and the masters. His mediatory attempt is treated with respect, but the grand indus- trial whirl which now prevails in Britain will not be calmed by individual interference. The causes which produced it are deep-seated; the cure must be radical, Its application will strike at the very root of feudalism in the land, revolutionize the monetary system of the em- pire and obliterate the law. of entail in property. When British industry has passed the chasm which separates it from aristocratic idleness it will enjoy the benefits of a democratic republi- can government—that is, provided it remain true to its first principle in its new position, Past Prayine For.—‘‘Why didn’t you pray when the horse was running down the moun- tain with the wagon at that dreadful rate?” asked one pious old lady of another. ‘‘I did pray,” was the answer; ‘‘{ did pray till the breeching broke, and then what was the use of it?” Such is the case with the Tammany “Ring.” It is useless now to ‘wait for the wagon.” It is past praying for. Queen Vicrorta.—Some days ago we heard that Queen Victoria was sick unto death, The Prime Minister, Gladstone, and the Prince of Wales were both summoned to her presence, Hours and days bave elapsed and we have had no news. Does it mean that the government is determined to preserve silence at all haz- ards, or that the Queen’s condition is so pre- carious that silence is deemed wisest in the premises? To us the silence is ominous, It seems toimply that the government is fully aware of the fact that a crisis has been reached. The British people, with all their faults, are conservative, The present generation is bound up in Victoria. We are willing to hope for the sake of our British cousins that the life of the Queen is good for many years to come; for, so far as we can see, after the Queen must come the deluge. Nothing like this has happened since George the Third was proved to be a confirmed lunatic. Tne Bzsom or Destruction.—An intelligent country democrat says that Tammany must be destroyed—that Governor Hoffman and the ‘‘ Ring” have been at loggerheads since the 12th of July—that Tammany must go, atid that the canal ring and a good many other rings must be broken or swept away. Wake up! That tidal wave, expected in North Caro- lina, is moving over New York. BeavrecarD Favors tHe New DerartURE and Gratz Brown for the next Presidency. He very sensibly says the Southern people, how- ever, do not feel disposed to dictate to the North in the matter, and very unwisely says that General Grant will inaugurate a military despotiem if he is re-elected. ee Wim G. Farao thinks it will not be necessary to go far to settle this Tammany question in the Democratic State Council, He says that Tammany must be squelched, and the day of judgment is at hand. TAMMANY must take a back seat and be humble and submissive and penitent, and then, perhaps, she may be admitted at Rochester. These seem to be about the most favorable terms that rustic democrats will yicld to the Tammany sachems, “Here's Rioangss,"—The Hvening Post says that “the rumor which we mentioned on Saturday that the Tammany leaders have Sbandoned the hope of controlling the State Democratic Convention seems to be con- firmed.” Rumor! Why, bless you, it is the universal hue and cry that the Tammany leaders will not be admitted into the Conven- tion, or if admitted at first that they will be expelled before it is over. Events travel fast the city affairs, Not a dollar of the public ; when millions are at stake, Criminal Charges Against Mayor Hall—A Now Complication. Yesterday afternoon an application was made at the Yorkville Police Court for a war- rant for the arrest of Mayor Hall on affidavits charging him with a criminal neglect of his official duties, The documents placed before the presiding Justice are of a voluminous character, and accuse the Mayor of a variety of offences—of conniving at the robbery of the public treasury; of neglecting to ex- amine into the correctness, justice and legality of the accounts embraced in the several warrants that were set of a general disregard of the requirements of the law. Justice Bixby, before whom the case was brought, refused to grant the warrant asked for, but issued a summons requiring the appearance of the Mayor at the Court on Wed- nesday next, at ten o’clock in the morning. The arrest of Mayor Hall is, no doubt, the highest trump card of the men who are gam- bling with the city reform movement, It is to be played at any cost, whoever may be a loser by the trans- action. The excitement must be kept up, and no better means can be devised to accomplish that result than the incarceration of the Chief Magistrate of the city, for how- ever short a time,.upon charges of official malfeasance. But the first thing that will strike every honest and independent citizen is, why did not these ardent reformers, if sin- cerely desirous of bringing offenders to justice, placs at the bar of the Criminal Court the real malefactor, who at present shelters himself be- hind their own skirts? The charter, which requires the Mayor to ocountersign the warrants drawn for the payment of the bills alleged to be fraudulent charges against the city, assigns to the Comptroller the duty of “settling and adjusting all claims in favor of or against the Corporation and all accounts in which the Corporation is concerned as debtor or creditor” (article 5, section 34 of the new charter). The next section, as amended by section 35, chapter 574 of the Laws of 1871, makes it the duty of the Comptroller to report to the Mayor the name of every person in whose favor an account has been audited, “with the decision of the Auditor upon the same, together with the final action of the Comptroller thereon.” Now, it it cer- tain, from these provisions, that the Comp- troller and the officers subordinate to him in his department are entrusted with the prin- cipal responsibility in the settlement of all accounts against the city; and that iffrandulent claims have been suffered to pass the ordeal of their department they are the real crimi- nals, An honest desire to do justice to the citizens, irrespective of political considerations, would -prompt the arraignment of the princi- pal culprit, and not that of any mioor offender. But probably the explanation of the designs of the political managers of the present crusade against Mayor Hall is to be found in section 107 of article 16 of the new charter, which provides as follows :—‘‘The power of making appoint- merNs herein conferred (to wit, all the ap- Pointments given to the Mayor under the charter) shall only be exercised by the Mayor elected to that office, and not by an acting Mayor; and in the event of the death, resig- nation or removal of such elected Mayor, such power shall devolve on and be exertised by the Comptroller of said city.” Let us see what the examination of Wednes- day next will bring forth. If any criminal acts should be proved against Mayor Hall let him suffer the penalty, whatever it may be. At the same time it should not be forgotten that Richard B. Connolly, under whose official régime the stealing of the Watson vouchers was perpetrated and concealed until after the death of the alleged robber, is still Comptroller of the city, and that in the event of the re- moval of Mayor Hall the whole appointing power of the city would devolve on Connolly and his Deputy Comptroller. Jony GANSON says that if Tammany comes to the Convention she must come with her head bowed down. No delegation will be admitted from New York city but one fresh from the people. The rural democracy are fired with indignation, and the grave yawns for the con- demned sachems, Sorp Ovt.—It appears that Wendell Phil- lips and his party of Massachusetts labor reformers are in a high state of indignation in consequence of the trick played upon them by General Butler. They say that he sought their confidence as a reformer, and obtained it 80 far as to persuade them to postpone their State Convention till after the regular Repub lican Convention, and that then he turned them adrift. So the man who was for them the champion of reform and the man for the hour they now denounce as ‘‘a contemptible coward,” a ‘political swindler” and a ‘‘traitor,” But what does all this signify? We had some such music as this at Syracuse, and we expect some more at Rochester, No Hopr.—We learn from the interior of the State that there is no hope for the democ- racy in 1872, for that, with the collapse of Tammany, all the fat is in the fire, and that it will take at least four years to repair dam- ages, and that John, Tom, Dick or Harry for the coming Presidential battle, it is all the same to the democratic party, Horatio Seymour is somewhat befogged with the Tammany revelations, He speaks of the general spirit of waste and extravagance engendered by the late war; but in lopping off democratic corruptions he would avoid barsh measures as far as possible. Mr. Sey- mour is too amiable for the crisis. We like the idea of Mr. Tilden that ‘‘this gangrene of cor- ruption must be cut out by the roots,” Tue Swepish PARLIAMENT has just legis- lated for the reorganization of the national army ina bill which makes all male sabjects of the crown liable to military duty. In time of peace prepare for war. What does the little northern Power fear? Not the constitutional monarchy of Germany, certainly. Emperor William respects the rights of the peoples, He says so, at least, Ricwarp aNp Roptn, and the reason, ac- cording to Mother Goose, why they will not come up to time at Rochester :— Richard and Robin the Doss) yore two merry men, ey laid in bed till half-past ten; ‘Then Robin jumped up and looked out on the sky, “Ho, ho | Brother Kicaard, the sun’s very high.) Do you go before wity the bottle and bag, And I'll (ollow after on little Jade Nag." The Tragic Death of General Clanton, of Alabama. We have already published accounts of the tragic death of General James H. Clanton, of Alabama, at the hands of Colonel D. M. Nel- son, of Tennessee, in a one-sided rencontre in Knoxville, Tenn. General Clanton was an officer of high grade in the Confederate army, but since the war was a good, conservative citizen, and at the time of his death held an important political position and was in all respects regarded as a worthy citizen. Colonel Nelson, his opponent, was an officer in the Union army, a member of the staff of before him for his counter signature, and | the well-known General Gillem, and a son of General T. A. R. Nelson, now one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. They were, therefore, both Southern-born men, who, although they had in times of war taken hostile positions, were, at the time of the trage- dy, in a state of comparative personal friend- ship. In an unlucky moment a foolish quarrel @rose upon a question of personal courage, when Nelson hastily obtained a double-barrelled gun, loaded with slugs, and in a moment of frenzy fired at Clanton, The first shot disabled the lat- ter in his right shoulder, and, as it is described, he heroically upheld the maimed limb with his left hand to give direction to the firing of his revolver at his antagonist, but without effect. Now, what has the community to learn from this mournful occurrence? What moral can be deduced from it? Simply this, that South- ern men should take a new departure from their past associations. They should learn to estimate the value of human life more highly. Their infernal predilection to shed human blood upon any silly provocation should give way to a more humanizing sentiment, and it should be their endeavor to show by their actions that they dre both morally and physi- cally courageous. : The death of General Clanton has naturally cast a gloom over a large circle of friends, while the future uf the eurvivor in the rencon- tre must be enshrouded in gloom, if it be not followed by a terrible retribution. A. P. Lanstna, a hopeful agricultural demo- crat, says that the prospects of the party, af- ter all, are good; but that everything depends on how Tammany is shelved. The shelving must be neat and complete or the party will go down with the Ring. Thatis what this man means, and the time has come for plain speak. ing. King Amadeus’ Aoxicties. General Espartero did not tell King Ama- deus all about the exact condition of Spain during his reception of the youthful monarch at Logrono. It may be that there was too much to tell, or that the General was too con- siderately polite to be sufficiently loyal to tell it. _The Spanish people went about their own work notwithstanding. They furnished, ina very short space of time, a vast amount and great variety of information to His Majesty. They told him that they were very poor, and convinced him of the fact. He consequently- doled out a sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in charity, and received thirty thousand petitions, promising, it is to be presumed, to read and attend to each paper. The Spanish monarch has thus become a liberal national almoner, returning to the people a round sum of their own money. He has also been made certain of plenty of work during the next couple of months. The peti- tioners will keep quiet, awaiting his decision on their applications, and Spain will be reported tranquil from the coast line to the banks of the Guadalquiver and Ebro. Espar- tero is an experienced manager of the Spanish political “Ring.” He knows how to produce public effect, and always advances his own personal interest a little during the crisis, Governon SzyMovr of course attributes Tammany stealing to the demoralizing influences of the late war. The Westfield explosion and the revival of tight-fitting pan- taloons are also due, no doubt, in his opinion, to the same baleful cause. Tae Most Turrutine horror we have ever heard of is that of the acronaut in Indiana who was about making an ascension, when the cords that held the balloon to the earth broke and he was carried up clinging to the ropes below the basket. At the height’ of a mile, where he looked to the people below, among whom were his wife and little child, as a mere speck in the firmament, he let go his hold and fell, turning over and over as he fell emerging from the distance, until he struck the earth, and was crushed into an indistinguishable mass. His body rebounded four feet from where it struck. The horror of such a death as that, with its few minutes of desperate struggling to get into the basket and its few minutes of headlong flight through the air, has never been exceeded in fiction or fact. Governor HorrMay, according to General Green, is politically dead, being the cloak of respectability to ‘‘the Ring” and its tool in big measures, The Governor, however, may come out all right this coming winter in sign- ing the bills of a ‘new departure.” Forty Conviots ATTEMPTED TO EsoaPr from Sing Sing Prison yesterday by the tug- boat arrangement which they put to such good use some time ago, The captain on this oc- casion, however, was equal to the emergency, and brought his boat to an anchor at once, so that the convicts were all secured again. Sing Sing has become a mere mockery of a prison, with its useless walls and lax guards, and either ought to be abolished or improved. Danie WEBSTER ON THE GENESEE FAtts.— The falls of the Geneseo at Rochester have been the making of that prosperous city, Daniel Webster, in an after-dinner agricultural speech there, many years ago, spoke with great enthusiasm of those wonderful falls. “All summed up together,” he said, “giving you a fall of two hundred and ninety feet!” But the fall of the Tammany Ring at Roches- ter will be greater than this, and more awful than the fall of Sam Patch. Frank Kernan thinks the Tammany chief- tains convicted of criminal negligence, if not of worse. Judge Comstock believes the charges of fraud established. William G. Fargo wants the Rochester platform to denounce corrupt men. Governor Seymour hints that certain offictals have yielded to temptation. Such is the verdict of the commercial, agricultural and legal interests of the State = George Wilkes and the Commune. We publish to-day another letter from Mr. George Wilkes in defence of the Commune. Like its predecessors, it is written in vigorous and graceful English, and is very pleasant reading. The views it presents, however, must often provoke a smile of amused incre- dulity from the thoughtful reader, We might sum up our opinion of it as a serious production by aying, “Mr. Wilkes is so—s0—so very delightfully enthusiastic!” He seems to have carried into mature middle’ age the fiery fervor of early youth, He espouses his cause with the ardor of a schoolboy ina college debating club. He speaks of it with the warmth of a youth's description of his first flame. The Commune, indeed, according to him, is the incarnation of every noble aspiration of humanity; it is the symbol of progress, enlightenment and civilization ; it is the magnetic needle to which gravitated the virtue and heroism of nineteenth century France; it is, in short, an impossible monster of goodness, Thus much told, it- ia scarcely necessary to add that Mr. Wilkes also believes M. Thiers to be a Jesuit, acting under the immediate orders. of the Pope, and the army of Versailles a mob of superstitious and blood-thirsty bigots. t There {s no proposition too extravagant ta be gallantly put forward by this Don Quixote of the-moblots, He takes in detail the charges preferred against the Commune and disposea of them with the facile logic of a devotee de- fending his creed. He is, no doubt, .simply just in stating that the chiefs of the Commune were opposed on theory to the death penalty for any crime, how: ever infamous. But how about the murder of Lecomte and Thomas? asks the impartial critic, Ah, retorts Mr. Wilkes, they were’ assassinated five or six days before the Com- mune was inaugutated; and, besides, they were ‘‘suspected of reactionary proclivities,” But again, the execution of the Archbishop of: Paris agd his fellow martyrs? Again the. response comes, ‘They were the agents of mon- arehy and priesteraft, and—look at the atroci- ties of the other side!” Alas! the truth is that human nature is human nature still, Saddest and darkest of all the truths that force them- selves upon the mind of the student of history is the appearance, at intervals more or less, removed, of these carnivals of passion and intolerance and blood. It is now a dogma of theology, and again a political principle that drives men into this madness of wholesale slaughter. The proscription of Sylla, the war of the Fronde, the struggle between Paris and Versailles—they are all alike in kind; they spring from this same intermittent in- sanity that clouds over the consciences of men and stirs up every wicked and horrible passion of human nature, But, while we cannot belicve with Mr. Wilkes that the Commune was an immaculate angel of goodness, we do not credit that it - was stained with all the crimes that have been laid to its charge. The story of the female petroleum incendiaries seems, thanks to Mr. Frederic Harrison, to be pretty well exploded: Nor can it be doubted that Paris in the days of the Commune was as orderly and far more moral than it had been under the empire. But how much of this was the result of an evanescent exaltation of feeling, and how much a solid and substantial growth of virtue, it is hard to say. Like the struggle between the Cavaliers and the Roundheads and the first French Revolution, this memorable con- test will, probably, always be productive of two opposite opinions. At any rate it is idle to dream of a unanimity of judgment until two or three generations have passed away. Genera Jonn A. Green, familiarly knowa as Johnny Green, the head centre of “the hayloft and cheesepress democrats,” saya that Tammany can’t come into the Rochester Convention; that the honest country demoo- racy would rather lose the election than have any further association with “the d—d"— that is, ‘‘the doomed Tammany Ring.” You are right, Johnny, ‘You know how it is your- self.” Grorer H. PENDLETON mace a speech at Toledo, Ohio, on the 29th ult. He was espe- cially tart upon the subjects of the Washingtom Treaty, claiming that that treaty was upon @ basis only nominally favorable to the United States ; that the Executive in his course in the “St. Domingo affair” had exceeded all author- ity, and otherwise arraigning the administra- tion of General Grant. Mr. Pendleton seems to have entered the Rubicon he speaks of, but will he be able to cross it? “Wnat Arg You Gorsa to Do Anour Ir?” once sneered a notorious public plun- derer when upbraided with his ill-gottem wealth. We give the answer this morning ia the letters of our Special Commissioner. Tha rural politicians go to Rochester to-day pledged to revive the golden age of American politics, when an office was an honorable badge of the people's esteem, and when thieves were appointed only to positions in the State Prison, Goyz Anytiow.—If the Democratic Convens tion at Rochester compromises with Tammany the party is gone, and if Tammany is cut adrift the party is gone for this election any- how, for the Greeley republican bolt, it ap- pears, is all moonshine, MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. Grant in ago—Reception aS tho Tremout House. CHrcaao, Ill, Oct. 2, 1671. President Grant held a reception in the parlor of the Tremont House, vetween tweive atid one o'clock to-day. Nearly five thousand people, of all condi- tons or ile nid of both sexes, pald their reapectay to him, Mrs. Grant and daughter Nellie also CY reception for ladies at the same hour. Gencral Preparations for Receiving the Presidontiall Party In Dayton, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 2, 1871. President Grant, in @ telegram to Robert G. Corwin, of this city, states that he will arrive im Dayton \o-morrow morning. Witn a view to arrange for his reception & mecting of citizens, without dig- tinction of party, was held at the Board of Trade rooms this morning. The following is the order of arrangements:— Military salute on arrival of the Presiaent at the depot. ‘Ronurat Schenck, General T. J. Wood and Judge: Lowe, In carriages, Will receive the President and suite and convey them to the Beckel House, escorted: bya ¢ompany of Zouaves, the police and citizens, ‘At eleven A. M. Mayor Morrison, supported by the’ City Council, wiil formally receive and welcome tha. President to the hospitalities of the city, 1 At ohe P. M. the President will proceed to the Sot- diera’ Home, escorted by citizens, Upon nis arrival there he will be transferred to tho care and atten- tion of the officers Ynd inmates of that excellent Institute,