The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1871, Page 6

Po NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Wouston strects. —THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Sb ay. ana 23a st— EILEEN Oo8. FIFTA AVENUS THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tur New Drama or Divouck. OLYMPIC THEATR. Broadway.—Tue BaLLeT PAN- Tonime OF HUMPTY DUMPTY. Matinee at 2. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and USth stroet.— Tux Sen0vs Fant.y, ACADEMY OF” MUSIC, Fourteenth Orxna—THe BouEMiANn Grew. STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.—Orena street.—ENGLISH Bxason—FRa DIAVvOLo. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st,—Perform- Bnces afternoon and evening—OLIVER Twist. BOOTHS THEATRE, 234 st, between btn and 6th ave. — Eixe Henny VIII. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—PUTNAM—HANDSOME SAOK, THE HIGHWAYNAN. ‘| MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— AONDON ASSURANCE. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—Ox Hanp. GLOBE THEATRE, 724 Froadway.—NeGro EcomntTai- Ciries, BURLRESQUEs, &c. Matinee at 2. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- Way.—NEGuo Acts—BURLESQue, BALLET, &0. Matinee. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL Hai Broadway.— ‘Tue SAN FRaNcisoo MINSTRELS. Rai 5 LBRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 st, between 6th end 7th avs.—BRYant's MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Noro Eocentaicrrixs, BURLESQUES, &c. Matinee at 234. PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourtesnth street, between Bd and 3a Fahd agate Ma hg &o. ind TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, October 4, 1871 =—_— wes pain, apni CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Advertisements, ‘@—Advertisements. 3—Rochester: Gathering of the Democratic Clans; the Fight Over Tammany; Tweed and His Troop Present; the Great Lights of New York Democracy in Their Fighting Array— New York Republican —Nominations— The Republican State General Com. miltee—Senator Genet Endorsed—Kings County Politics—Political _ltems—Stamping Out Polygamy; Brigham Young Submits to Atrest; General De Trobriand’s Views of the Situation—?he New Loan—Miscellaneous Tele- grams, 4—The Tammany Turmol!: The Vay Before the Battle and the Incidents Thereot; Sidewalk Speculations as to Tammany’s Place in the Convention; ‘The Boss” at the Department of Public Works; Views of the Mayor on War- rant Signing; Judge Barnard’s Charge to the Graad Jary—ritish Opinion of the Cor- poration of New York—Yachting Notes—The Atalian International—Board of Foreign Mis- flous—Montreal Items. S—Proceedings in tho Courts—The Tugboat Shoot- ing Affray—Trotting at Mystic Park—Chicka- saw Jockzy Club Ravces—Horse Notes—Chris- tine Nilason—Aquatic—Massachausetts Poll- tics—Assault on Juage Ledwith's Brother— Heavy Robbery on Broadway —Brooklyn Affairs—Burning of the Bridge at Cohoes— Bg aevenl: on Mrs. Augerot—Marriages and 5. G—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘‘The Rochester Convention—Tammany, Past and Present— Policy of the Democratic Party” —Amusement Announcements, ‘¥—Editoriais (Coptinued from Sixth Page}—France ana England: Important Communication from President Thiers to the British Cabinet—Ger- many and France: Prussian Explanation of the Military Halts in the Evacuation—News fiom England, Spaia, Italy, Swedeu and Hayt'—Movements of the lresident—Hon. W. H. Seward’s Rezura to America—Prince Alex- is: Sa:ling of the Russian Ficet for Madeira— Mi-cellaneous ‘telezrams—Views of the Past— Personal latelligence—Business Notices. S—Finiacial aud Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Newark's Crizainal_Calendar—a Coady Silver Present—-A Distinguished Pro. late Expected in Baltimore—Advertisements. snes: Additional Particulars of the 1—Amusements—Obituary—Oiid Feliows’ } Nation—Homicide in_ Tennes- see—The al Miners’ Troubles—European Markets—Shipping —_Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 41—Advertisements, 12—Adverusements. TamMANY has been said to have ruled the roost a long time; but from recent develop- ments it seems the Committee of Seventy now rule the roster. Tae Krxe or SWEDEN is engaged in forming anew Cabinet. His Ministers resigned after their parliamentary defeat on the question of the army reorganization and territorial defence bill. Sweden desires peace, and in this the Swedes maintain their character for caution and prudence. “Tne Boss,” after all, it is given out, will show himself among his friends at Rochester in order to give them strength. If so, it will be the weakest device of his whole political career. He is not wanted at Rochester, and in going there he will only assist in digging hisown grave. His time has come, and he ought to hang up his fiddle and retire, Tae Swepish Army.—The upper House of the Swedish Parliament has approved of the clause of the bill for the reorganization of the army “sich makes military service compul- sory cn all male subjects of Sweden. This looks lively. Sweden evidently sees a great war in the not distant future. Germany and Russia must fight sooner or later. Come the struggle when it may, the Swedes mean to be ready. It is not dificult to determine which side they wil’ teke, They havea big grudge against Russia, and they want but the oppor- tunity to recover much of their lost territory. Tag Conngoricut Town Exeorioxs in their results indicate a general demoralization or general apathy among the democrats which is extraordinary. Even the democratic strongholds of New Haven an@ Hartford have been carried by the republicans by majorities in some cases really astonishing. In New Haven they bave carried six of the eight wards, and the city government will be strongly republican. It is Tammany that bas thus discouraged the Connecticut democracy, and the Ruchester Convention must open a ew set of books, or the party throughout the gountry may as well be disbanded as to at- éempt to hold its untenable position. A Bien American Promotion 1N Jaran,— EB. Peshine Smith, from the service of the State Department at Washington, goes out to “Japan to act as legal adviser of the Japanese government. Mr. Smith is a New Yorker, and comes from the newspaper profession. We may, therefore, expect that, as legal ad- wiser of the Japanese government, he will act with an snlightened regard to American in- terests in that quarter of the world, while catefully avoiding all entangling alliances and complications. His talents and experience in public affairs well qualify him for his new and responsible position, and we bave no doubt that he will worthily ‘fill it, especially as he goes out highly endorsed by the government be loaves to the cavernment he ig to serve, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OUTUBER 4, 187L—TRIPLE SHkicr, vA The Rochester Convenuon—rammany Past and Present=Policy of the Democratic Party. There will be warm work in Rochester to- day if we may judge from the portents in the political sky, strong men of the rural democracy, who have made their voices heard :No. 277 | through the columns of the Hmgatp, demand the unconditional ejection from their State Con- vention of the Tammany delegates, and of every individual who comes tainted with the unsavory odor of New York municipal corrup- tion. The weaker brethren, with Horatio Seymour at their head, although hesitating to declare warto the knife and the knife to the hilt against the old Wigwam, unite in denunci- ation of the pestilent policy of the ‘‘Ring,” and declare that something must bo done to save the party from the evil effects of its misdeeds. Their words sound trampet-toned through the State, from Montauk Pojnt to Lake Erie, and the hearts of the great mass of their followers respond to the judgment they pronounce. It is felt that no half measures—no temporizing, timid compro- mise must be permitted at this time to render the position of the democracy uncertain or even questionable; that they must not alone denounce official rascality and peculation, but must prove the sincerity of such denunciation by driving out from among them the” rascals and peculators, even as the thievish money changers were driven from the Temple by the great Founder of the genuine principles of democracy centuries ago. We may therefore calculate upon an immediate, fierce and deter- mined attack upon Tammany as soon as the Rochester Convention Is duly organized, so that even in its initiatory proceedings it may be free from contact with a corruption offen- sive in the nosirils of the people. But in the meantime what will be the course of the Tammany braves who have travelled ‘~| towards the setting sun to be present at this great gathering of the democratic tribes, and who expect to sit in council with the sages of the rural districts and to share in the division of the spofls? Will they crawl into their holes and their filth, like the Digger Indian, with- out showing fight, or will they emulate the courage of the Delaware, the Tuscarora and the Mohican, and dash forward on the war- path to meet the enemy? We incline to the opinion that the men who have grown into bloated millionnaires upon the profits of municipal plunder and legislative in- fluence, gained through the iron rule they have established over the city de- mocracy by means of the close corporation of Tammany, will not give up their valuable power without a desperate struggle. Follow- ing the policy they have so long successfully pursued, they will no doubt use their money to influence the action of approachable d:le- gates; but if this should prove insufficient to secure their admission to the Convention, they will declare war against its action and its candidates. The demand of Tammany for recognition will be based upon the strong plea of regularity. ‘‘We are the regular organiza- tion,” they will argue, ‘‘and to cast us out and admit an unauthorized delegation to our seats will be revolution in the partly.” They will point to the last election, in which the Young Democracy, as it is called, made a strong and determined fight against the Tammanyites and were defeated, as a proof that the contesting delegates cannot even claim to represent the majority of the party at this end of the State. They will urge the enormous majorities Tam- many has rolled up in New York year after year, overcoming the large republican vote ia other parts of the State, and raising to power the candidates of democratic State Conven- tions, in protestagainst the destruction of the organization. They will declare that the eminent lawyer, Charles O’Conor, is not a representative leader of the city democracy ; that the venerable Tilden knows absolutely nothing of the people, who know just as much of him, and that he is more in sympathy with the dead Marcy and the gravestones of the democracy than with the living masses who roll up majorities, fairly or unfairly, in favor of the party nominees, They will point to their sixty-odd years of existence, to their life-long service in the demo- cratic cause, to the many struggles through which they have passed, to the recorded judg- ment of the State Convention that Tammany and Tammany alone can claim the right to speak for the New York democracy in that body, and they will ask ‘‘Are we to be set aside for a self-constituted delegation spring- ing from nobody knows where and represent- ing nobody knows whom?” Now, there appears at first sight to be justice in Tammany’s claim, and it may be said in her favor that men are not organiza- tions, and that time and again, in just such dilemmas as the present, leaders have been changed but the organization has gone on as before. ‘‘The king is dead—long live the king!” has been a proverb of Tammany, as of monarchies. Since the ‘union of the hards and softs ait Cincinnati dynasty after dynasty has risen and fallen in the old Wigwam, and yet the camp fires have never died out. For some time after the union Lorenzo B. Sheppard was supreme in ‘the councils of the Sachems, as the favored representative of Horatio Seymour in his palmiest days. His was the régime of high, intellectual foreheads, of hair worn long and combed behind the ears, of great deliberation and of profound states- manship—-+too profound, indeed, for the ander- standing of politicians of the calibre of Tam- many committeemen, past and present. Fer- nando Wood then loomed up into power; but as there was ever but one Fernando, and- he was his own prophet, his interests speedily clashed with those of the crowd of young aspirants who came clamoring about the Wig- wam at that particular time. Among these were to be found Ike Fowler, Dan Sickles, John Cochrane, Barlow, Emanuel Hart, and the slovenly and unclean -George N. Sanders. -It was the era of political stars. A great struggle took place over the federal spoils to be disiributed by Buchanan in this city, which ended in the appointment of Ike Fowler an Postmaster. Fowler at once took | the lead in Tammany, and launched out into a style of magnificent political prodigality which astonished the natives, He initiated the reign of parlor politicians, of kid gloves, flue cigars, Widow Cliquot and hotel dinners, and drove the machine at an astonishingly rapid rate, until fis course was arrested by government detectives and the bill of expenses was found to have been drawa against Unole Sam's Treasury. On the strength of this sud- den downfall Wood again succeeded to power, while Bill Kennedy, Anson Herrick, Cooper and others took upon themselves the management of Tammany. Windust’s be- came the headquarters of the red men in place of the New York Hotel, and Monongahela sup- planted Verzenay. But these leaders were not successful, and in the great struggles with Fernando Wood they were defeated as often as they were victorious. The beginning of the existing régime dates from the time Elijah Purdy became Grand Sachem. The old War Horse originated the present race of politicians whose sins are before the people and whose delegates are knocking at the door of the Rochester Convention, With Purdy figured Jobn Kelly, Dan Delevan, Harry Vandewater, Dick Connolly, John R. Briggs, the Big Judge and Frank Boole. On the death of Purdy and the decay of Boole Tweed suc- ceeded to the honors of Grand Sachem, and behind him stood the brains of Peter Bismarck Sweeny and the oily policy of Dick Connolly. In the old Purdyan days Tammany and Mozart used to divide the spoils, taking each a share of the offices and plunder- ing in copartnership, But the present rulers determined to make no compromises either in place or plunder, and they proved too fast fighters for Mozart, Fernando Wood abandoned the contest, struck his colors and took office under Tammany, Like the Vicar of Bray, who must be Vicar of Bray to the end of the chapter, Fernando, the member of Congress, was determined to be member of Congress, no matter to whom it might be necessary to swear allegiance. These are the men who now form the Tammany “Ring,” who roll up enormous democratic majori- ties in New York, and who will claim recogni- tion in the Rochester Convention, despite the recent developments, or pull down the party that ignores their regularity, It is easy to see that the democracy of New York are in an unenviable plight. On one side stands the powerful Now York ‘‘Ring” breathing vengeance against them should they join the cry to hunt down Tammany. On the other looms up the Young Democracy, with its venerable heads—O’Conor and Tilden—vowing destruction should the Convention fail to reject Tweed and his representatives, to denounce the Zammany “Ring,” and to admit the contesting delegation. If the Rochester Conventionists avoid the headland of Scylla they run on the rocks and shoals of Charybdis. If they steer clear of Charybdis they are dashed to pieces against Scylla. They have but one chance of escape, and that is to sail steadily along with the popular current; to @enounce official corraption in a. plain, out- spoken manner and in unmistakable language ; to refuse to admit any Tammany representa- tives to their conventions until the organiza- tion shall have been. thoroughly” purified and thrown open to the democracy ; to wash their hands of all affiliation with municipal robbers and legislative corruptionists; to establish a powerful, absolute State organization; and then to nominate honest men, go home to their farms and their business and trust to the people to elect their candidates. As to the New York delegates, the best thing the Con- vention can do is to exclude them all, and let them fight out their own battles in the city in their own fashion. Let the rural democracy lay down the platform and make the ticket by themselves, without the aid, advice or consent of the cily. In no other way can they fully satisfy the people of the State and escape the taint of association with New York corruption, As to Tammany, let the democrats of the State have no hesita- tion in casting her overboard—bob, line and sinker. Although she has the just claim of regularity on her side, her history, from first to last, is covered all over with dark stains of treachery to the party. The defeat of Cass, unfaithfulness to Buchanan, secret aid to Lin- coln, treason to Seymour, are but a few of the blots on her escutcheon. We repeat, let the Rochester Convention kick out the whole tribe of snarling, fighting, plundering, schem- ing New York politicians in whatever guise they may present themselves, and send them home to fight their own local battles and to be dealt with by the voters of the metropolis. By this means the democracy may yet secure a victory in the State and elect a Legislature that will put @ final stop to municipal plunder- ing and rascality. “fr 1s A REVOLUTION,” said the republicans in the streets of Paris when they heard the news from Sedan. ‘“‘It is a revolution,” says the wide-awake Sammy Tilden, as he hears the common voice of the gathering democracy at Rochester from the country districts. Tur Sixe Sine Revott, in which about forty convicts attempted to escape, on Mon- day, proves even more, on the additional light thrown uponit, the utter inadequacy of the reg- ulations and the guards at that defective strong- hold, Convicts who, in the just pursuance of the law, would have been hard at work on the quarries, were among those concealed for hours near the water side, waiting for the tug- boat to cast off its lines and sail, carrying them to liberty. The other convicts inside the walls, who knew of the intended attempt, but who could not take part in it by reason of their too rigid confinement, all took to the walls at the tumult of the at- tempted escape, and the guards, suddenly ap- prised of the desperate state of affairs, -fired off their guns at random, helplessly depend- fog on the sound of a gunpowder report for the capture of the truants. Only one honest man on the Beene seems to have had elther sense or nerve about him, and that was Cap- tain Ward, of the tugboat, who at once let the anchor go and held his boat fast until the wretches were recaptured. He deserves all credit as a brave and cool man, fit for almost any emergency, and the whole list of Sing Sing officials deserve removal a8 perfectly useless in their vocation, Tar Temperance Mey, in view of the awful amount of whiskey drinking connected with the late Syracuse Convention, and of the fear- fal consumption of Bourbon and applejack which marks the gathering of the democratic clans at Rochester, talk of running an indepen- deut temperance ticket. Very good; but in revolutionary times public opinion will not be satisfied with cold water, and the hotter you make the revolution the greater will be the demand for whiskey. This, then, is a bad year for the temperance cause in New York New York— Collector Murphy Must Resign—Spotted “Tail Fenton Wants His Scalp and Red Cloud Coukling Consents. The war upon Mr, Murphy has taken a new Tho Republican Quarrel to shape. The advice given by the Hgrarp be- fore the assembling of the Republican Conven- tion is now accepted by many of the republican politicians and newspapers. The difficulty is that most of this advice is accompanied by a series of attacks upon Mr, Murphy, so flercely, and at the same time indiscreetly handled, that they would seem to be written in his interest. A high domestic authority in the Grant family has been cited as saying that ‘‘General Grant is a very obstinate man.” And the General has been so severely assailed himself by partisan newspapers that he may feel that the Zridbune and its allies have given hima new bon@of sympathy with the Collector. Primarily, then, it may be said that the assaults upon Mr. Murphy are foolish and un- generous, The time is speedily coming when nogentleman who cares for his good name. will take office, The reader of our party news- papers would be supposed to believe that there is no honesty in political life—that our taxes are collected by thieves and retained by them. The Zridune has taken a good deal of pains to show that Mr. Murphy is a rascal, Mr. Cornell a bearer of false witness, and Mr, Laflin worse than either. Yet the Tribune has over and over again commended these gentlemen to public confidence, It praised them to serve its turn; it abuses them to serve its turn, Neither time was it sincere; but, being a party organ, its praise and blame are controlled by the exigencies of party dis- cipline. The charges against Mr. Murphy are so frail that their resurrection now, from the grave of a dead and buried court martial, merely offends our sense of fairness, Mr. Murphy was a manufacturer of hats, When the war broke out he had a large amount of money, He invested his money in contracts for the army service, as other moneyed men did. Like most of the contractors, he was denounced asa swindler and tried before a court martial, Unlike many of them, he was acquitted. Still the ill name of having ‘‘made money out of the war” has clung to him, as, in fact, it has clang to everybody who was in the contract business. ‘This is an illustration of the occa- sional freaks of popular injustice. For the war could not have been waged without sup- plies, and supplies could only come from contractors who invested their money and furnished supplies for a profit. Still, all money thus made has been tainted in popular appre- ciation. And although Gibbor tells us that St. George of Cappadocia was an army con- tractor, he is not the only one who was ever canonized, but perhaps the only one who was not absolutely damned. ‘ As for Mr. Murphy, while wa see no evi- dence to hold him guilty of the charges made against him, and williagly bear testimony to his faithful performance of his duties as Collector, and certify that he has been as zealous and consistent a republican par- tisan as Mr. Greeley himself, and recog- nize him as the victor at Syracuse, it is plain that he is mot the man to lead the republican party in the fall campaiga. Grant all that his friends claim—and we grant it all— his usefulness is dead. Mr. Fenton has fought him furiously, Mr. Conkling, whose re- cent victory has terrified him with fears of con- tinued matiny, would willingly escape some of the consequences of his own triumph by throw- ing into the Greeley den the head of Murphy. Murphy has done Oonkling’s work; he has served him with clan-like fidelity; he gave him victory at Syracuse ; of what more use can he be to Conkling? There is to be a Senatorial elec- tion at Albany two years from now. Conkling holds the seat.’ He would like to hold it again, He thinks he can placate his enemies by aban- doning Murphy and make easier his own road to victory. So Murphy has been abandoned. His re- liance now must be upon Grant, and Grant alone. As it abands, the principal service he ean do to Grant is to simply say to him, “Mr, President—You gave me this office, You have befriended me here. I have done all I could to serve you; but my usefulness is gone. Whether truly or falsely accused, I am accused, I cannot embarrass you. I cannot be even as much asa straw in your way. I give you my resignation, and 1a retiring to private life I shall take my assailants, with Greeley at their head, and teach them their duty before a jury of my countrymen.” Some- thing of this kind Murphy must do, He can depend no longer on Mr. Conkling. If he does not see that this Senator and his friends have abandoned him he cannot see the sunshine. If he does not know that before Ulysses pours the cream into his firat White House cup of coffee there will be a ravenous, whooping delegation of political braves in the ante-room, with toma- hawks and knives—Red Cloud and Spotted Tail at the head—sbrieking for his honest, auburn and finely-scented scalp, then he is the most innocent Irishman in these broad do- minions. But he does see it. So let him retire with the best grace. Who shall succeed him? Some say E. D. Morgan, othera Edwards Pierre- pont. The Fenton men would consent to either. Some suggest A. B. Cornell, or C, A. Arthor in the interest of Conkling. Neutral men crave William H. Robertson, of Weat- chester, while the Greeley republicans insist upon General E. A, Merritt, Chauncey M. Depew or waias Hutchins. None of these nominations are as good as the nomination made by the Haratv:—Send Murphy to Madrid, recall Danie &. Sickles and make him, as Collector of the Port, the administration leader.in New York. Murphy will be suited, for he can spend his money and see the bull fights, Grant will be suited in having as his representative a man of conspicuous ability, perye and experience, And thé republics party will be guited under the captaincy of » man who is as eloquent as Ovakling, as sagacious as Fenton, and who will do what is fair all around, without fear or favor. Femate “Sremens” in Enotann,—Four hundred women employed in the flax mills of Bolton, England, quit work yesterday and joined the associated male ‘‘strikers” already “out” on the wages advance and time ques- tions. Tho women of England will soon be- come a very infiaential power in the party politics of the kingdom, both as voters and electioneering agitators, ‘The Charge of Jadgo Barnard—A Showing for the Judiciary. Judge Barnard’s charge to the Grand Ji places him directly in antagonism to the Tam- many leaders. He not only comes up to the siandard of honest administration set up by the Committee of Seventy, but he goes beyond that, and touches with no tender hand upon the malfeasance and frauds in office that have been developéd to so alarming an extent of late. He says that nearly all the fast horses and fast women in the city are supported out of the City Trea- sury by men _ holding sinecure offices, or by men with bona fide dutics who make more than their allowance by fraud. “I simply call your attention to this,” said he, “go that some of these men holding sinecuro offices may go to work and get an honest liv- ing, if they can, or else take—in their cases, at least, their more legitimate employment—the highway, so that we can send them to the gal- lows or State Prison.” He also referred to the enforcement of the statutes against the sale ofintoxicating liquors, the sale of fradu- lent tickets on steamers and relative to ob- scene literature; but he was especially clear and forcible regarding the enforcement of the election law. He said that repeating must be suppressed with a firm hand, and in order to do his best to serve that purpose he had determined to keep the Court of Oyer and Terminer open until after the election, and on that day and the day after to issue warrants as a police magistrate and see if he could not punish such frauds by heavy penalties, ‘‘No light punishment,” said he, ‘‘will be given these defrauders of honest suffrage, no fines or short term in the Penitentiary, but a long incarceration in the State Prison.’” Altogether the charge is of the most satisfactory charac- ter to the honest men now striving to secure the honest administration of our municipal affairs, coming especially as it does from a Judge whom these very men have severely denounced and before whom they expressed a fear of bringing their injunction suit. The Judiciary have shown a clear and manly record throughout the Tammany upheaval, and we look to Judge Barnard to carry out the suggestions of iis charge faithfully and zeal- ously to the close. TAMMANY AND THE Runat Disrrtors.—The Tammany Ring, they say, has fifty thousand men who are ready to follow, their leaders to the death, and thatif these leaders are to ba sacrificed — Then fifty thousand Tammany mea ‘Wul know the reason why. But the democrats of the rural districts re- spond— We are coming, Father abraham, Three hunared t nd more. ‘Tag Famine in Persia AND THE Dgsona- TIONS OF THE PeoPpre.—Most melancholy ac- counts continue to reach London from the famine-stricken districts of Persia, Desola- tion follows the footsteps of Death on every side, By cable telegram we have the sub- stance of a report which has just been re- ceived by the Queen’s government from Teheran, The province of Khorassan—made famous in the songs of the poets—is blighted to toan extreme degree, Eight thousand per- sons died in one city from the effécts of hun- ger during a single month. Food extortion- ists, river inundations and a sickening and fatal pestilence added to the horrors of the visitation. Then, again, there was war. The Afghans, observing, as they imagined, their opportunity, made a military raid on the terri- tory. They carried forty thousand of the people away to slavery. The Persian gov- ernment remains exclusive and nativist not- withstanding. England and Russia proffered to aid the sufferers, but the humane offer was rejected through the promptings of national jealousy and the love of commercial gain. So will it ever be until the great East is civ- ilized, Tae Coarce or Tuk Six Hunprep.—It is reported that six hundred railway tickets to Rochester had been purchased up to yesterday morning by the Tammany leaders for their Convention delegates and strikers, This looks like a preparation to move the previous ques- tion in the old-fashioned Tammany style. We call upon Mr. Tilden, Chairman of the State Committee, to provide for law and order in the Convention in advance by securing a strong police force. The “‘loyal” republicans at Sy- racuse were in danger of being turned out by the roughs until the police were called to. the rescue, and then law and order prevailed, BriewaM YOUNG AND THE TéRRITORIAL Laws or Uran.—It is a curious fact that Brigham Young is to be tried under the Terri- torial laws of Utah, over the making of which he no doubt had great influence. These laws against offences of immorality and indecency were made, probably, with a view to keep the saints straight within the limits of Mormon morality; but, under Chief Justice McKean, they are likely to have, probably, a more ex- tended application than the framers antici- pated, The common law of morality, as recog- nized by this and all other civilized Christian countries, will be applied to the interpretation of the local laws of the Territory. Evidently Mormonism is doomed, and the sooner the Mormons abandon their system of polygamy or emigrate to some other country the better. Tne SanuEpRio is the great Jewish Council of seventy members, to which the High Priest is added. Our municipal Sanhedrim likewise consists of seventy members, and if we add Judge Barnard as High Priest we have the thing complete. Prayer Mextixas,—The Methodist, Pres- byterian and Baptist Churches of Elizabeth propose holding a series of union prayer meeting services, commencing on Tuesday next, Such a movement would be a good thing for the gity of New York in this critical time of sinful and dangétdus excitemonts. The time has come, indeed, when our city most urgently calls for the prayers of all the Churches, and they ought to organize an ex- tensive system of daily prayer meetings to help us out of our municipal troubles, A Sixavuiar Stevaare is now going on in Hartford, Conn. It is to see, not who shall get, but who shall not accept, the Post Office, Two gentlemen have already declined the honor, Perhips the Rochester Convention to-day may furnish a few disappointed gentle- men who would not objoct to that place—or anv other, The Crisis in Utah. The special telegrams to the HzRaup from Salt Lake City have, during the lest ten days, vised us of the development of a purpose the part of the United States Courts in to reach Brigham Young and his asso- who have so long bid defiance to the Goverothent and the laws of the nation. At one time we have been advised of the Mormons preparing to contend with force of arms againyenll interference with their leaders and the instituting of their Church. At other times wa have been assured of the most perfect submission of both prophets and people to the decisions of the courts, ‘the interesting con- versations held ty our special correspondent with Colonel De Trobriand ana Governor Woods, published in to-aay’s Hzratp, seem to promise the latter solution of the difficulty. But with an understanding of the history of that poor, misguided people, we have learned to distrust all their assuraif¥es, and when they announce peace or war experience has taught us that it is the safest part to read them ex- actly opposite to what they say or profess. The only possible understanding of Brigham Young is to read his policy from the standpoint of necessity, What heis compelled to do may be counted upon; what is left to his own will and choice will be governed by the hopes that he can entertain of successfully carrying out his own schemes of aggrandizement and thor- ough independence of all human control. Late despatches from Salt Lake City have informed us of his arrest upon a charge, of offences under the Territorial law, and of his expressed willingness to appear in the Court to answer to the charges preferred against him, the most conspicuous of which, at the present moment, is ‘for lewd and lascivious cohabi-, tation with sixteen different women, under the statutes of Utah providing against offences t against morality and decency.” Thus far we are informed by telegram. The despatch received last night, as well as that of a preceding date, speaks of the Pro- phet’s ill-health, and in consequence of which he has been unable to appear in Court, ‘This. is undoubtedly the fact, for thera is no dispo~ sition in the federal officers to admit of trifting or. to being put off with paltry excuses. From all appearances the day of reckoning with the Utah prophets and apostles has been reached, and if the United States officials fn that Territory aro as prudent as there is every rea- 80x to believe that they are, an end of the open and avowed outrage of law is certainly to ba counted upon, and the present action of thé courts is assuredly the beginning of that end. In the latter part of the nineteenth century no sevsible person can take any pleasure in “persecution ;” but, with the onward march of civilization, it must be apparent to every one that, under no pretext whatever, can any person or community be permitted to live in defiance of law. This is precisely the question in Utah to- day. Brigham Young has repeatedly, from the, pulpit and through the press that he controls, uttered deflantly his disregard of ull human law on the subject of marriage, bis defence being its unconstitutionality. This defiance has now, reached its culmination, and the officers of the government there are forced to bring him before the ‘courts to settle this point. ; Tt has been expected that the issue would be begun on the disregard and violation of the anti-polygamic statute of Congress; but the Grand Jury have evidently concluded to com- mence with the statutes of the Territory, and these are so very meagre on the subject of marital relations that the present charge can- not be regarded as much more than the step- ping stone to the act of Congress. j About a year ago, when an excursion party of wealthy Bostonians carried with them a bottle filled with the waters of the Atlantic to mingle with the waters of the Pacific, they, called in at Salt Lake City to spend the Sab- bath and to hear Brother Brigham io the Tabernacle, Every one of theso Boston siints’ would have given Brigham the.¢old shoulder , in New England; but, following the loose morality of the world when they were away, from home, they were ensily indoctrinated ta “doing in Turkey what the Turkeys do,” and so they hastened in the morning to hear the inspiration ot the modern Prophet.’ Courteous, as all travellers are, they invited Brigham and his chief apostles to dine with’ them in their Pallman palatial car, which the Mormons accepted, and, in return, the Boss onians were invited to reserved seats in the: Tabernacle during the afternoon service.’ On this occasion the Prophet was. un- commonly communicative, and premising that he might never have another opportunity, of unbosoming himself to so distinguished a auditory, he avowed for the first and onl, time that which is now the groundwork for hia arrest, On that occasion he said that he had, sixteen, wives and forty-five children whom he’ supported. A Deputy United States Marshal was present on that occasion, and on hid affidavit and complaint the present action is predicated. Brigham cannot go back upon this statement, for at least six or seve thousand persons listened to him, and, if noces- sary, his Boston auditory can be summoned aa wit With proper regard to possible contingen« cies the Utah Legislature, entirely Mormon, and of Brigham’s election, were scrupulously, careful not to make any provision of civil lave for the regulation of marriage. In all thd statutes of that Territory there are but twa brief sections that in any way refer to the sub- ject, and both of them are evidently intended” to encompass the Gentiles.only, It is for the violation of section 33 of an ‘‘act in relatioa to'orifffes and punishment” that Brigham ia arraigned, It reads thus :— If any man or woman, not being married to each otter, ewaly and Jasciviowsly associate and cohabit together; or if any man or woman, married OF unmarried, w eullty of opon and gross lewduesa, and iy mako any open aud indecent ox: ure her, overy such person fending shall be punished by linprisommont not exceott tom years It is on the first four lines of this seotion of the statute that Brigham Young has been arrested, and his Tabernacle speech to the Bostonians, reported for and published in his organ, the Nets, is the evidence, together with that of thé personal testimony, that ia ready to be produced against him. Bat this is only the preinde to Brigham’s troubles. Some weeks ago our Salt Lake correspond- ent narrated the account of the arrest of the notorious Danite, Bill Hickman, and the prob- ability that this blood-stained Mormon would disclose tha dark career in which he had trava *s n