The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1871, Page 6

~NEW YORK HERALD SBROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New Yorx Bizzav. Letters and packages should be properly pealed. " Rejected communications will not be re- ‘wrned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubdtished every day tn the jorers Four cents per copy. Annual subscription (Price $19. SSS Velume XXXVI. ++--Ne. 278 Sear LY ag AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. poem RIE Oa RAR gti A JENUB, THRATRE, ‘Twenty-fourth street, — par or Bumprr Douprr. pMARLAoKs THEATRE, Broadway and 1h street.— ACADEMY OF = on = EUBIO, er ourtoveth street. ENGLISH \ AMOO's MUSE corner 80th st, —Perform- pb a Twist. Peay a ty EATRE, $84 ot, bet between Sth and 6th ava — \somzay B. Brosdway.—Tur Bavust Pan. yamsren. B, Bowery.-Catamact or TUR DeOME LOR, THE HIGHWAYMAN. ‘NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Pri and ‘Houston streots.—Tux'Srarsts oF Naw Youx. MES. Ff. B. CONWAY'S B! YN _ . Al ROOKL' THEATSE.. 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The Mayor of New York iu a Po- Mice Courethe Board of Ap pportionment—The Municipal Deadiock: A Day’s Lull in the Po- litical Storm; What an Outsider Thinks About Mayor Rall; No More Funds for Public Works Year—The Lavor Reformers: Convention ot the Massachusetts Stave Sage —Con- Haroradpeteat Manat I ican. Convention Jersey Irs—Sinking ot Hine Pilot Bour Moses H. Grinnel!l—Frightful Death— Naval Intelligence—Assassination Near Baf- : Special Meeting of 6-Yachti the New York lub; The Broo! Yacht m Yacht Club—North Carolina Ku Kiuxes—Protestant Episcopal Convention—National Eclectic Medical Asso- ctation—New York Juvenile om—Finan- cial and Commercial Reporta—| kete—! and Deaths. ee Aeading Article, “The Democratic Convention—The Kejection and Con- ‘Qomneton of ‘fammany”—Personal Intelli- gence—Musical—Weather Report—amuse- ment Announcements. ‘9—Nows from France, Spain, England, German: Italy and ge ae ol President Grant at Dayton, Ohio—The Mormon Trou- blés—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Iilinois Demo- cratic State Convention—Business Notices, 8-Amusements—Meeting of the Southern Baptist Association of New York—The HgraLp to Arkansas—Advertisements. @— Advertisements, @—The Kochester Convention (continued from bate peswe—etiving Intelligence—Advertise- 1—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements. 4 Peeswwent Grant visited the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Obio, yesterday, and re- pelved a warm welcome at the hands of the Weterans at that asylum. The President's Plectioneering tour—if it is an electidneering #our—scems to have been more successful than the bran bread philosopher's. ‘May tae Besr Men Win.—John C. leevan, Joe Coburn and other knights of the ‘ring” were on hand yesterday at Rochester. hey belong to the ‘‘unterrified democracy” of @ elty, and were left Sat with ithe terrified all the re me - Is Ir So?—A Long Islander, taking a view }-of our municipal situation yesterday, observed | quietly, ‘‘Well, it is s magnificent farce—a | eomplicated farce—a patriotic farce; but still it ts a roaring farce, and Joage Barnard’s i fokes are the best of the season.” Whocomes mext ? Tux MascacauserTs Lasor REFORMERS pominated a Gubernatorial ticket yesterday end adopted a platform that was exceedingly wadical in its provisions, demanding not only | fhe eight honr requirement, bat even insisting , Mpon an entire abolition of capital and wages. | Wendell Phillips, at the opening of the Con- H yo, made an address of considerable | Bength, upholding the principles of the Inter- mationale all over the world, and explaining | the workingmen's position regarding the fail- ' mre of Ben Butler at the Worcester Conven- } tion. He said that Ben would yet be the work- s Senator, and Vice President on the ticket with Grant, and in 1876 would be his iden Horruax not put in an ap- i pearance yesterday at Rochester, and Gover- mor Seymour hoped that Governor Hoffman's | pame would be left out of the Convention, as he was not there either on the one side or the other. ‘‘Are this a free fight?” asked an out- sider at a Southwestern barbecue, pointing to & rough-and-tumble scrimmage going on, from which he had just been rescued. ‘‘Itare a free fight,” was the response. “Then,” said the stranger, ‘‘count me out ;” and so says the Governor. Tax Democratic Epirors’ Association aT —This is an association of demo- eratic editors who dance attendance at the party State Conventions. We think it would be better for them and their position, even as party editors, to stay at home and make the politicians dance attendance upon them. The aewspaper editor who is a mee slave to his is apt to be a mere dependant upon the that fall from the party table to the of hie days. The Democratic State Convention—The Be- | * Corrupt or unfaithful Mayor moro speedily Jeotion aud Condemnation of Tammany. The Rochester Convention, sow in session, Presents to the country in one respect a grati- fying contrast to the Syracuse gathering of last week. Its proceedings thus far have been orderly and dignified, while those of the republicans were marked by scenes of rowdy- ism worthy of the palmiest days of the Empire Club or the Mozart organization. The time was when democracy was supposed to be & synonym for rufaniem at all public meet- ings; but if we are to judge from the expe- rience of the present year the political parties appear to have exchanged characteristics, and the fighting, swearing, cudgelling and shoulder- hitting seem to be monopolized by the hitherto respectable republicans. The Convention or- ganized yesterday and proceeded to business, the details of which are to be found in our full and graphic reports; but an adjournment was taken until this moroing without making aticket. We are thus ignorant at present of the character of the candidates to be put in nomination ; but the probability is that they will be decidedly anti-Tammany in their com- plexion, and as such the more deserving of public support, The Convention acted wisely in the disposi- tion made of the dangerous question of the New York delegation. It had no authority and no precedent for recognizing the inde- pendent delegates, who were simply self- elected opponents of Tammany, without any- thing to show that they represented any con- siderable number of the New York democracy. There was no doubt as to the regularity of Tammany, and the Convention had nothing to do but to recognize it; but, at the same time, it was resolved that the Tammany delegates should not occupy seats in the Convention or take any part in its deliberations or action. They were told, “You come with proper cre- Gentials.as the only delegates duly elected to represent New York city in our body. We do not question your regularity, but we condemn the official conduct of the men who at present role the organization that sent you, and we are resolved to wash our hands of their corrap- tions. We refuse to sit with you orto act with you.” The Tammany delegates, appreciating the awkward position in which they were placed, made a virtue of necessity and withdrew from the Convention, giving as their reason the desire not to embarrass the great democratic party, but pledging themselves and the New York democracy to the support of tL> ticket. This was a shrewd stroke of policy; for, had the Tammany delegates: insisted on occupying their seats, they would have been kicked out neck and crop, “and in_ that wfvent _ the opposing delegation might have been admitted. At all events, it would have been @ blow from which the Tammanyites would not have readily recovered. To call the re- sult a triumph for the Wigwam is, however, claiming victory on very slender grounds. The rottenness and rascality of the close corpora- tion by which Tammany is ruled, and the no- torious corruption of some of the prominent members of the Ring who at present hold that corporation under their control, were openly declared by the most prominent members of the Convention to have forfeited the right of the delegates to occupy the seats to which, on the ground of regularity, they were fairly entitled. To avoid being turned out as un- clean members, unfit to sit in the company of honest men, the representatives of the Wig- wem withdrew apparently of their own accord. Thia certainly is a sort of triamph which no honest man would care‘to achieve. So far as the contesting delegations were concerned, no official notice appears to have been taken of them by the Convention. They could not lay claim to seats with any expectation of success, and if they have aided in the denunciation and disgrace of Tammany their journey to Rochester has not been Pelikoat good fruit. But the Young Democracy required more than this. They hoped against hope that they might have been admitted to the Convention as representatives of the New York democracy, and thus have laid the foundation for a rival organization in the city which might hereafter lay some claim to regularity. They have been disappointed, and no course is now open to them except to place a rival ticket in the field in the present election for legislative and municipal offices, composed wholly of democrats, 4 to test their numerical strength against en ‘ammany in every districtin the city. If suc- cessful they will be in a condition hereafter to meet their opponents in a fair fight on the floor of a State Convention and to point to the vote of November as a Y acy’ that they repre- sent & majority of the New York democracy. In the meantime it remains tobe seen whether the Convention, before its adjournment, will take measures for the yeosgomisation of Sp party in thie city, y, either by Tequiring Tam- many to open her doors and to abolish her anti-democratic, oligarchical rule or by sweep- ing her authority away and providing for an entirely new organization. The Convention did not content itself with simply driving Tammany from its midst and ridding itself of all contact with New York cor- ruption. The resolution of the democracy of the State in regard to the affairs of New York city is outspoken and practical, and in this quality it throws the frothy declamation of the republican platform into the sbade. “We view with indignation,” they say, ‘‘the corruption and extravagance recently brought to light in the management ofthe municipal affairs of the city of New York, and denounce as unworthy our counte- nance or toleration all who are responsible therefor; and we pledge our best efforts to prevent a repetition of such abuses, and will look with satisfaction upon the panishment of all upon whom guilt may be fixed.” They do not end, bowever, in strong expressions of dis- approbation, but go on to lay down a@ plan of reform. They demand that the next Legislature, now soon to assemble, shall come to the relief of the citi- zens of New York by vacating all the muni- cipal offices in New York forthwith, in order that the electors of the city may have an early opportunity to choose new rulers; by centraliz- ing power in the Mayor eo as to give him more control over the subordinate departments of the administration, and hence more complete responsibility for their honest and capable management; by giving to the Governor the same power to remove Mayors as he at preseut than through the slow process of impeach- ment; by providing for municipal elections in the spring of each year, so as to place in the hands of the people the power to make a com- plete change in the city government, if desir- able, without the embarrassment of a general election; and by the publication of all city accounts at short intervals, as well as by af- fording greater facilities to the tax- payers, to restrain and punish abuses and to secure speedy trials of offenders in independent courts, In addition to this, they favor the passage of laws to restrain and define the power of towns, counties and muni- cipalities to create debt and to tax the pro- perty of citizens. This, certainly, creates a comprehensive, intelligent ‘and efficient plat- form for city reform, and presents a practical end to which the efforts of all good cltizens can be directed, without having resort to semi- vigilance committees or questionable agita- tion. The democrats of the State, who have evinced. sincere desire to denounce and punish official dishonesty, can do much in the next Legislature towards securing the beneficial results foreshadowed in their resolutions; for it will be dangerous work next winter to at- tempt to buy up republican votes to again do the bidding of Tammany. We may, there- fore, hope that the seeds sown by the Roches- ter Convention will bring forth good fruit. in due season, even if the candidates it may put in nomination should be dragged down by the weight of the corruptions and squabbles at this end of the State. The Conventionists, of course, indulge in the usual amount of invective against republican rule, and, as there is ample ammunition for a sharp fire into federal corruption, their resolu- tions in that direction are sharp and effective, The platform will receive more attention here- after; its general character is good, and if the candidates put in nomination are free from taint, and recogniz:d opponents of official cor- ruption, they may yet win a race which has latterly seemed hopeless, Tae Rev. Henry Warp Bgxouge, it is ramored, was taken quite aback the other morning in finding the Hon. Benjamin Wood among our city reformers, but—4-11-44—why not? Is:not honesty the best policy ? The Kaiser, the Papacy and the Jesuits. The Emperor William of Germany, having settled the conditions of the relations of his subjects and countrymen towards France, and peacefully sheathed bis sword of triumph in Berlin, is about to ba called on to arbitrate the question of religion—a task still more diffi- cult, and [perhaps more dan; ngerous, than the | 2 ‘first, German churchmen aro in congress in | 88 Darmstadt. They are of the Protestant per- suasion, and men who appear to beljeve that the spirit of Martin Luther remains unquiet in the land, his Episcdpal principle not having been fully vindicated. These modern reformers are about to runa tilt against Papal infalli- bility and the Jesuits. They call on the Emperor's government to ‘‘oppose” the first and to “prohibit” the second within the land. It is not very likely that the ruler of the great German empire cares a fig for infallibility, other than the infal- libility which follows the military efforts of a national army. His Majesty has some millions of Roman Catholic subjects and he will proba- bly permit them to settle with the Jesuits as they think bost. As to *‘the sovereignty of the State and the liberties of the people,” Kaiser William is just the man to look after both care- fully. The Jesuits are to be “‘kept moving,” notwithstanding. The reverend gentlemen be- long to a moving and migratory order. Italy has been just “after” them, or their property; Spain bas hada tussle with them; the Ger- mans distrust them; Mexico bas ‘‘plucked” them; Central America blames them for most of the political troubles of the States, and the Cuban patriots regard them with suspicion. The disciples of Loyola have a difficult mis- sion—one which affords small hope of abiding results or even an abidiag place in this world. Tae GLORIES OF JEFFERSON AND JACKSON were referred to yesterday by Mr. Tilden as the guiding lights of the democracy with the eclipse of the lights of Tammany. The al- lusion was enough to make the bones of ‘‘Old Hickory” rattle in their. cotta. Genera. Borige AND THe Pronust- TiosisTs.—General Butler has written a letter to the prohibitionists of Massachusetts, in which he says he must work for all reforms in- side the republican party; but inasmuch as the late Republican Convention entirely ignored the temperance question he suggests that it is the daty of every man in favor of a probibitory law to nominate and support an independent candidate, This is one way of whipping the devil around the stump, ¢ and not be accused of bolting the rezalar nomination. = bios | Butler is ready for a fight at any time, and now that Wendell Paillips, the labor reformers, the pro- hibitionists and other outside as well as inside political organizations are ‘down on him,” he is, no doubt, ready to have a tilt with any one who shall tread upon his coat tail. The world could scarcely move without Ben Butler had a hand in each diurnal revolution. Pretry Goop For “‘Sam”—His remark in opening the Rochester Convention yesterday thet “‘it is time now to proclaim and to enforce the decree that whoever plunders the people, though he steal the livery of Heaven to serve the devil in, is no democrat.” “Hi! hi!” Tue Kv Ktvx Covrr in Raleigh, N. C.; has adjourned, leaving thirty Ku Klux cases un- tried. Ton of these mysterious raiders were sentenced yesterday, and six Ku Kluxers, who were convicted, were let off in considera- tion of turning State’s evidence. Altogether, the record of the term has been very satisfac- tory. The vision of these ten comrades work- ing out their terms in the Albany Penitentiary at breaking stone, with shaved heads and cross-barred clothes, will go an immense way to take Ku Klux ideas out of the heads of young Southern chivalry. It suits the case better than making martyrs out of them. Tar Wie Orv Men of the Journal of Commerce think that the money filched by rogues from the City Treasury should be wrested fromthem. We think so, too. Let the Committee of Seventy push forward for this money, for great will be their reward if they got this money, and it will be very useful, possesses in the case of Sheriffs, 0 a8 to reach | too. The Intemporate Prehibitioniete of Massa- chusetia, =. 5 ‘ : It seems to be the fute of all reform con- ventions to show the fallacy of their pro- posed reforms by thelr own short- comings, The nominating convention of the liquor prohibition party held in Boston yester- day waa the most intemperate assembly that wé have had to chronicle for many a day. The members were not exactly drunk on old rye or champagne, but they were undoubtedly ine- briated, to » degree where sodden stupor would have been a relief by the violence of thelr own temper. No habitual rioter laden with New England rum, could have presented 80 awful a warning to temperance men as Dr. Fulton, the Boston divine, presented by bis riotous proceedings under the influence of un- governable rage. It all came about through a brave little woman, Mrs, Bowles, who asked and obtained permission to read a memorial and resolution in favor of woman suffrage. The moment she commenced Dr. Fulton, who bas heretofore been considered a divine above reproach, except in such minor matter as hay- ing denounced the memory of Dickens in the pulpit, and drank lager bier if a Chatham street “garden” during the unguarded moments of “anniversary” dissipation in New York— this divine Fulton commenced a violent harangue against ‘this woman,” taunting her with the very inability to vote against which she was then protesting, denouncing the chair for thus launching her upon the Con- vention and declaring that he would not snb- mit to any association with the suffrage peo- ple, ‘‘such as the infamous Theodore Tilton and the Woodhull-Claflin tribe of free lovers.” The intemperate divine, in this strain, made quite an interesting orgie out of the Conven- tion, and gave the boys in the gallery more fun, though of a worse kind, than they could have found at any.of the Bowery gardens on a Saturday night. Some of the members of the Convention, who had not yet felt their liquor, rebnked the intoxicated parson so sternly that he, believing, probably, with the usual halluci- nation of befuddled brains, that nobody in the Convention was sober except. himself, threw up his appointment on the committees, and during the rest of the evening made no sign more important or suggestive than the grunt or snore of exhausted humanity. The brave Mrs. Bowles carried her poiut, and, after nom- inating a full State ticket, the Convention ad- journed and the members, utterly unnerved by their exciting spree, betook themselves home- ward. For a Temperance Convention the show was a maguificent success as a frightful ep a and, in fartherance of the principle cove of wed the sale of liquor, it was sug- ve of an additional clause to the teetotal- ers’ platform prohibiting intemperance in speech. General Grant and Collector Murphy. General Grant, it appears, has been de- flaing his views and his position in reference to Collector Murphy. The General knows that the charges raised against the Collector in reference to certain contracts with the govern- ment during the war have been disproved, and that Mr. Murphy is all right; and as he Gatisfactorily discharges the duties of his Present office the President does not feel called upon to remove hiin ia consequence of factious or personal clamors raised against him. This means that the Collector will not be removed nor requested to resign, inasmuch as General Grant desires him to continue at his post. The opinion, then, we think, may be safely ventured that Senator Conkling will soon find himself very much mistaken if he supposes that, having secured from the Col- lector all the assistance desired in the matter of the Syracuse Convention, and having no further use for him, he may be conveniently removed. We dare say, indeed, that if put to the test of a choice between the hostility of Conkling or the removal of Murphy, General Grant will stick to his Collector. Now, if the Senator wishes to settle this question, let him come on. If a coalition of forty-six Protest- ant clergymen could not budge Mr. Murphy we think he will prove more than a match for Senator Conkling. We Have It ar Last—The play of “Hamlet” with the part of Hamlet left out by general request, in a New York Democratic State Convention from which the city of New York is excluded. Paris was France, but Paris is France no longer. Tue Exxorioys iN Mexioo—A Peace Party Trivmen.—A HERALD telegram from Mexico city, published in our columns to-day, announces that the national parliamentary elections terminated on the 30th ult. Juarez obtained a fair working majority in Congress, The reactionary revolutionists were yaatly disappointed, a public gS if we can judge by ‘he’ wording of the report, is being gradually restored. The Marplots and “‘moblots” of the country continued at work here and there notwithstanding. General Dias still advocates the threadbare Mexican plan of State secession and the formation of a new republic. This means, perhaps, Diaz for ® presidency somewhere and at all baz- ards. If Diaz is really a Mexican patriot he will lend his talents to maintain one republic with benefit to the people before he sets up another. He is an able soldier. Let this be his next duty. Syracuse vs. Roonsster.—At Syracuse the contesting delegations from this city were admitted, and a row and a bolt were the con- sequences; at Rochester Tammany takes the hint and retires, and all the other delegations are excluded, and brotherly love prevails. MINNESOTA AND Wisconsin have been vis- ited simultaneously by the most destructive prairie fires probably ever known. In Minne~ sota an area of two hundred miles was swept by the flames, scattered houses and barns and stock being destroyed, five lives lost, and bundreds of families deprived of their homes and property. In Wisconsin the destraction was fully as great, and the area of destraction was even wider. The long dronght which has prevailed in these States had rendered the prairie grass as dry and combustible astinder, Tae Bia Jupes arrived in Rochester at twenty-five minutes past twelve Tuesday night, only to fod next morning that he was superseded by bigger Jadges in the Conven- tion; aad so he, too, signed the paper and retired, The Charges Again’ Mayor Hall. The attempt to make a political drama out of the city reform movement received very little encouragement from the procvedings at the Yorkville Police Court yesterday. Mayor Hall, who had been informed of the charge made against him, attended in person, waived an examination, and tendered bail to appear at any time to answer to the accusations before a jury. The counsel for the persons making the complaint declined to ask any bail, being satis- fied with the Mayor's personal recognizance, and after some demonstrations on the part of the people assembled inside and outside the Court the farce ended. The proceedings taken by the Committee of Seventy were wholly unnecessary, and were only designed to keep up the excitement of the city troubles for political purposes. The complainants could have gone directly before the Grand Jury with their case if they had possessed any evidence to warrant a criminal prosecution ; but the police court episode was needed for effect. The citizens of New York will soon grow tired of such claptrap. They are as eager as -ever for municipal reform, and are resolved to accomplish it and to rid the city government of all who have been unfaithful to or neglectful of their trusts as soon as they get the legal opportunity todo so. If offences that can warrant an indictment can be proved against any public officer he should be brought before the Court at once, so that he may be reached and disposed of as speedily as pos- sible in the manner provided by law; but the people are sick of seeing an honest reform movement made use of to forward the schemes of a few political ragamoffins and newspaper Bohemians. A System ef International Weat ser Neports. The popular interest and confidence in our Weather Burean continues to increase. At a recent meeting of the Memphis Agrioul- tural and Mechanical Society a movement was set on foot for internationalizing our weather | and storm signal system. The object of the movers in this enterprise, who quote the con- ference which met at Brussels in 1853. (as recommending a universal and systematic plan of observations), is to utilize weather reports from all parts of the world for ogri- cultural purposes, and thus obtain the moat aecurate and useful forecaste of crops and all statistics needed by farmers and merchants. The idea isa good one if practicable, but not a new suggestion. The HERALD some time ago pointed out how the present informa- tion daily issued from the Signal Office may be used by farmers and horticulturists; and the Chief Signal Officer issaed a gircular on this subject some months ago. This officer has already taken steps to unite the West India reports with ours, just as those of Canada have been united for some time; he has also stated bis purpose, as far and as fast as ocean cables are laid, to employ them for weather telegrams whenever the information they can bring will be practically useful. When the proposed Pacific cable is completed the intelligence from the Sandwich Islands will be of great value. The importance of information from all parts of the atmosphere cannot be exaggerated, if we regard the great aerial ocean as we regard the aqueous ocean, one mass, all of whose parts move together, and, although separated, united, Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea. Germen Protestantism and Lufallibility. At Darmstadt, yesterday, there was held a meeting of Protestants, representing various portions of the German empire. A declara- tion was adopted setting forth First—That it is the interest of Germany to oppose the doctrine of Papal infallipility. PM eve prseny r the dogma ts inimical to the sover- Sti destructive of that freedom of conscience which int the basis of pure religion. Third—That the establisnament of the “Order of Jesus” must ve prohibited. We are not much surprised at the news. It accords with our knowledge of facts that meetings of a similar sort have been held all over Protestant Germany. The Protestants of the North, much as they love unity, are de- termined that anity will not be purchased by the giving up of their Protestant principles, It would be strange indeed if the countrymen and coreligionists of Luther would swallow infallibility and all its accompanying nonsense. Io a few days we expect to hear something of the meeting of the ‘Old Catholics” at Munich. Until we know what they havedone ‘we are not unwilling to suspend our judgment. It is important to know that North Germany has snubbed the bishops, that Bavaria ‘has snubbed the bishops, and that Austria has done the same. With the Protestants on the watch, with the Catholics divided, and with the govergments all opposed, infallibility has a small chance in Germany. So far as Ger- many is concerned the Vatican Council has proved a failure. SSS ‘ Alt Branxs.—It is reported that when the Democratic Qonvention yesterday, after the retirement of Tammany, voted to exclude all other city delegations, the Hon. Ben. Wood, of the democratic reformers, ‘‘stroked his mustache and wilted.” His prize was a blank. It was, they say, a regular Kentucky lottery operation—all blanks, Tax INTERNATIONAL Prison Rerorm Con- G@ress.—The prison reformers of the world are preparing to hold a grand international con- gress in Switzerland in the year 1872. An American delegate has just arrived in Europe to make arrangements for the assemblage. Nothing like being ahead; and ‘‘ahead of time” if possible. Mrs. Fry made a grand humanitarian rout about prison reform in England many years ago. One of her first rewards was the receipt of a poetic apostrophe from Lord Byron, thus :— Oh, Mrs, Fry! why go to Newgate, why etn to poor rogues, and wher2tore jot begin with Carltou and other jouses; why not try your hand on Hardened and imperial sin? Just so, The situation remains the same. Horatio Risgs TO THz Maw QuestTion.— In an interview with reporter yesterday at Rochester, Mr. Seymour said :—‘‘This is the very crisis in the career of the democratic party. The whole country is made to ring with the frauds of which irresponsible persons in New York are guilty, and all the frauds and all the corruption are saddled on the democratic party.” That's the trouble, Gover- nor, The “Old Man of the Sea” is on the beck of Sinbad, and how are you going to get him off? That is the task before your Con- vention, SE TWREDLEDUM AND TwEEDLEDES.—"Boss4 Tweed and-his Tawmany delegates, as having the genuine trade mark of democratic ortho- doxy, were recognized as the regular delega- flon to the party State Convention, That was tweedledum. Secondly, on account of the irregular financial transactions of the “Ring,” it was deemed by the rural demccrate expedient for Mr. Tweed and bis delegates to retire, and they retired, and that was tweedledee, ‘Tis strange there snoald such ‘'Twixt tweediedum and tweodieassn ved Tae Francia. Activity or New Yore: Crry is indicated {a the annual report of the Clearing House yesterday, which shows that the clearances of sixty-two banks during the past year amounted to over thirty thousand million dollars ($30,000, 000,000). In other words, the banks received and paid out during one year a sum twelve times greater than the national debt. Toss Mzn, says Horatio Seymour, “whe have so disgraced the party in New York olty must be cut off root and branch.” Tammany republicans, do yo hear that ? Personal Intelligence. General S. P. Heintzelman, of tne United States Army, ts at the Sturtevant House. John R. French, of Washington, is at the Metro Dolitan Hotel. Generai J. A. Potter, of the United States army, is quartered at the St. Nicholas. Captain 3. ©, Spencer, of the United States Navy, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue. General R. F. Stockton, of New Jersey, ts residing at the St. James Hotel, General R. Lenox Banks, of Governor Hoffman’s staff, 1s stopping at the Clarendon Hotel, General H. 8. Sanford, of Newport, ex-Minister to Brussels, is at the Brevoort House. Viscount Parker, of Englaad, has apertments aa the Everett House, General George L. Hartsuff, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Captain 3, H, Norton, of the United States Army, is sojouruing at the Hoffman House. C. Franquelo, of the Spanish Legation, ts staying atthe Albemarle Hotel. Major J. N. Knapp, of Auburn, ts residing at the St. Nicholas. Professor B. Silliman, of Yale College, is stopping at the Brevoort House. John N. McCullougn, of the Pittsburg and Fore Wayne Railroad, 1s at the St. Nicholas. J. D. Cameron, of Pittsburg, ts sojourning at the Brevoort House, Miss Ulara Louise Kellogg and Signor Randol@ yesterday arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. General O, L. Shepherd ana Colonel G. W. Patten, of the United States Army, aro quartered st the Sturtevant House. Governor R. B. Bullock, of Georgia, yesterday, arrived from the West at tne Fifth Avenue. MUSICAL. AA PAREPA-KOSA ENGLISS OPSRA—BOHEMIAN GIRL, The Academy of susic was crowded last night, being the second subscription night of the season. The opera was the favorite “Bohemian Giri,” with the old cast, except Mile. Ciara Doria and Mrs. Cook. . Castle, Campbell and Seguin were ap- parently nerved + extra efforts, and all made @ reates snecet Shan Shey cre ais eee: ‘The new prima donna—Clara Ined the sympathies of the audience and ow herself an artist im best sense of the ‘word the best Arline we have heard for we A ears—much better than eliher Rose ee rae id Mr. Behrens Le, yp nd orchestra ad- muirably. Mrs. Cook made a fair gypsy queen, and proved herself a deserving artist. On jay the opera of “Martha” will be given. To-night the com} appear in Brooklyn in “The Daughter of the iment.” Srapr THeaTRE—FRA DiaAvoLo.—Wachtel’s popu larity is increasing, Last night the Stadt Theatre was crowded to the doors, Auber’s opera “Fra Diavolo” was given, and Wachtel, in the chief rise, once again added laurels to those he has already won, This German tenor has certainly a marvellous voice, aud the enthusiastic appreciation of hte powers by his Teatontc brethren deserv es a cordial endorsement by all who have heard him, mx performance night was characterized b; cullar britiias nan, expression aud novelty that quite enhanced’ this jepreemnneiaee. of an 0 pera heretofore too much hackneyed by insignificant artists, Without img detaris, it 13 quite suf- fictent to say that Wachtel juitted nimself to the satisfaction of perhaps the most crowded Ceeyiin 4 that has congregated within the walls of the Theatre for years. His ception of the char- correct, bis voice thriled wu gus and able personetion of Boppo, she" brizand uy us lon Ld who wed ‘himself an artiss Mr. tnroo gn Miss Lgl tee role of ith great Lvs yy. Mme, Zeriine, ood Herr josch as Giacomo are of favorable mention. s atogether ore Sisvolo was creditably represented. WEATHER R£PORT. War Daranruens, OFPics oF THE CaIEF Signal OFFIORR, WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. ‘The highest barometer extends Irom Tennessem to Virginia, having moved somewhat northeast since Tueaday night. The low pressure which was thea some distance south of Alabama ts probably central im Appalachee Bay and eastward. Heavy rain hag failem in southern Florida, but has now ceased. Northeriy winds, with clearing weather, prevails in Alabama and An area of +low pressure nas faoved very suddenly from the nortan west into lowa and Lake Michigan. The pressure has fisen. with clear and hasy weather in the Middle and: Eastern States. Haay and clear weather have prevailed in the Ohio vak ley and.northward. Light winds have prevailed on the Middle and East Atlantic coast, and northwest erly winds have veered to the southeast briak om Lake Michigan. Probdabtltttes. ‘The low barometer in iowa snd Wisconsin wi, Probably move southeas: and east with brisk south- westerly winds from Iilinola to Lake Erie and northwesterly winds on Lake Suaper- jor. The prevailing dry atmosphere will probably prevent extensive rain. The Cyclone in the Eastern Gulf will probably pass northeastward at some distance off the South Atlantic coast, with diminished violence. Cloudy weather will probaviy extend into Virginia, and clear weather continue im New England aud Texas. TOLEDO, WABASH ABD W: WESTERN RAILROAD, —~rommpo, Oct. 4, 1871. The following were elected directors of the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad to-day:—A. Boody, A. M. White, A. B. Baylis, Isaac W. Knox, George Cecil, William Kidd, — aun be Augustus Bood; ea D, Drummond rm \y was reelgored Fresiaga eum Assistant President, and 4. sf dent. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS, Tn Ph fladelphia, Tuesday night, ® woman nemed Ros, while intoxieated, suffocated ber child by lying om It Im bed. Samuel Burroughs, of Providence, R. 1., died Tuesday wight in church while leading thé prayer of the congregation... Dr. Charles P. Wood, of Manchester, N. H., was yesteriag sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment for producing aa {Raion Basis ofilal majoriy fer Governor of Calt~ ed a tan. comes oa tuleige tn in Budlalo you Pot Pato aa in Woe'caual twenty-seven, wae found drowned tm nt eiBuidale yentarany. oii tae, agit am “isinal, vows Nag CN danger.