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

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PAGIB PAVILION Bands CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, between SESS ORAS St © mo oreme—te TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Friday, October 6, 187 =— = = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, {haveruisements vertisements. S=Baitimore Episcopal Convention: Second Day of the Triennial Convention of the Episcopal Ghurch—Meeting of the American Board of Foreign Missions—Grand Duke Alexis: Ar- Fangements for Hi Reception—Foreign Personal Gossip—City Politic3: The Ta- cuse Bolters in Council—State tica—Where is the Democratic Party?— inning Notes, Political and General—The y: Second Day’s Proceed: of the State Convention in Rochester; The Nomina- tons; Tammany Snubbed, Abused and Re viled; Closing Scenes and Incidents. e Convention (Continued from ‘Third )—Kings County Polities—Our Manicipal Perplexities: The Situation Yester- day at the Various Departments—The Ameri- can Institute Hocussed—New Jersey Poll- tics—The Department of Docks—General Jail pwarse’Aronna the World with th 2 una the World wit @ Great American Statesman: Interviews with the Mikado, Khedive, Sultan and President ‘Thters—New York Ophthalmic Hospital—New York Athletic Club—Yachting Notes—Amuse- ments—New Publications Received—Abuses @t Castle Garden—Mormonism: The Utah ‘Troubles from a Liberal Standpoint; Polygamy ae Bowery.—Tunke Fast Mzx— Worn Out in This Generation—New Ctty—Cuban Independence—Tne Voice of the Vatican: The Latest Encyclical of Pope Pius IX.—Tne Chamber of Commerce—Suits Under the Revenue Laws—Crushed by a Street Gar—Alleged Larceny—An Elephant on the Rampage. @—Editoriais: Sema 8 Article, “‘The New York | sonny A eir ‘New Departure’—The Prospect the State and the National Out- look for 1872""— Amusement Announcements. (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Situation in France—The Ministerial Crisis in Spam—News trom Rome, England and India—The Mormons—Conflagration in the ‘West—News ae boi pen faa tr ree ‘Telegrams— Weather Keport— Yachting Notes— Personal Intelligence—Views of the Past— Business Ni 8—Proceedings in the Courts—The Murder ty = Farman Street, Brooklyn—Brooklyn Mercantile ‘2 Iabrary—A Railroad Thief arrested—Another Competitor for the $10,000 steam Canal Boat— A Chinese Row ou a Louisiana Plantation— Financia and Commercial Reports—Domestic @—Aeport of the y Brooklyn Afa! Superintendent of Bulldings— irs—Murder of the Overseer of a Farm near Buifalo—Death of a Murderer— Marriages ml Pecon tke Aunt Beco ot a 0—The Passage Through the : Repo ie HERALD Correspondent of the Mont Cenis Ln- uguration Ceremonies—Mystic Park Races— American Jockey Club—Horse Notes—North- ern Pacific Ratiroad—Snipping Intelligence— Advertisements. 41—Advertisements, 39—Advertizement _A Misyomer—The Americus Club. There ™~ Benot a merry cuss to be found in the whole Prganization at the present time. Tee Emperor or Braz AND THE ALA- ama Cramms.—The Geneva Conference can- fpot commence business because the Emperor ij Brasil bas not appoiated his arbitrator. from home is the reason. Why not : the Emperor in Rome? What is the use the telegraph? Is the world to stand still mtil His Majesty of Brazil returns to Rio Soe Surely not. ‘ fae New Pouicr.—In the lottery of poli- Boa strange prizes occasionally turn up. One Of the richest has been drawa by the people of New York in the accession of the Hon. Ben Wood to the ranks of the city reformers. Ben’s has astounded the “Ring,” who look with dismay. Should he venture into he Wigwam the Tammany roughs would draw [poker and pistol upon him. Their cry goes forth, “Is it fair, Oh, Benjamin, to treat old ; friends thus?” But the Hon. Ben will stand firm and deal out justice on the thieves should Pheir number be 40 or 4-11-44. Tae Hearne Corez in THE GoLD QMaexer.—A month or s0 since the importing ‘merchants were subjected to the rigors of a _ wery active “cornering” of the supply of gold /< pflected bys clique of speculators who, by ‘buying aod holding enough to control the mar- ‘ket, compelled the merchants to pay very Gearly for the use of gold borrowed to make y remittances to Europe and to pay castoms &uties, But within the past few days a re- markable discovery bas been made. The game speculators quietly sold out their gold fand went ‘“‘sbort” of the market, but the buy- ‘ers happened to be the very same merchants. iy! ‘The victims are the speculators now, and the ___ merchants are getting their revenge. 4 A Dwoovgry.—Governor Seymour after he at Rochester discovered that charges Of official corraption had been fthe Tammany ‘“‘Ring;” that municipal trouble existed in New York; that an injanction had heen granted against the city ; that ex-Mayor Havemeyer had “‘stopped the supplies ;” that Green was Deputy Comptroller; that ‘Connolly's vouchers had been stolen, and that Lhe seventy committeemen were kicking up as wuch dust generally as was raised by the fly jon the ball’s horn, Sammy Tilden supplied the Governor with a beck file of New York Hizeawns, the Governor read them, voted to Genounce the “Ring,” and returned pat the roof on his 2ew house, i / tude before the people of the State and of the country at large. This “new departure” is one of the most remarkable events in all the history of American politics, In its causes and their immediate consequences we have nothing to compare with it in all the strange vicissitudes of our controlling party rings, juntas or regencies of the past, and it is pro- bable that we shall have nothing to compare with it in the future. As faras it goes the collapse of Tammany may be compared with the late collapse of the French empire, and tor all practical purposes the fall of Mr. Tweed may be likened to the fall of Napoleon the Third; but with this difference—that while for Napoleon there is the prospect of a restor- ation, for “the Boss” there is not the ghost of a chance. Politically he is dead as Julius Cesar, and around him his late all-powerful Tammany “Ring” has wilted like Jonah’s gourd vine over the head of the faithless prophet. Tammany Hall itself is destroyed and superseded, and the independent Assem- bly district takes its place. Had this Rochester State council assembled on the Fourth of July last the edicts of Tam- many would have been the proceedings of the Convention, as the decrees of Tammany were the acts of the Legislature of last winter. The Tammany junta had risen not only to the absolute control of the party in the State and the State government, but had assumed the position of the ‘“‘king maker” in reference to the Presidential succession; for there were none to call her power to account, The fifty, sixty or eighty thousand democratic majority of this city, as the occasion might require, which secured the State, was in the hands of Tam- many, and the vote of the State was the basis of all the Presidential hopes and calculations of the national democracy. Hence the com- manding power and prestige of Tammany as the great central nucleus and base of opera- tions of the party. What, then, is the pros- pect to the party in the State or the nation with Tammany thrown out of the Rochester Convention, with all her electioneering appli- ances taken from her hands, and with the democracy of this city all adrift? At the first glance it would appear that the State must be carried by the republicans by an overwhelming majority, in spite of all the petty Custom House defections of Fenton, Greeley and Com- pany, and that in the Presidential contest Gen- eral Grant will be enabled to walk over the course. But in a closer view of the new position taken by this Rochester Convention we find that itis the strongest possible position that could have been chosen for the party. It de- taches the party from the corruptions and the control of Tammany ; it does all that could be done to relieve the party from the bad odor into which Tammany has fallen, aod it places the party upon a sound and popular platform of mu- nicipal reorganization. Disorganized, there- fore, as the party is in this city, and de- moralized as it must necessarily be to some extent throughout the State, it yet possesses a State ticket and platform calculated to har- monize the party, city and State, in the No- vember election. We incline to the opinion, therefore, thatthe democrats will hold their own, and perhaps more than their own, in the “rural districts,” and that their losses in the city will hardly be felt in the Legislature. They may lose their State ticket by a consid- erable vote with the loss of their usual over- whelming city majority; but throughout the country, on this new departure of reform, the loss of the State will be neutralized, as a cause of discouragement, by the release of the party from the dead weight of Tammany Hall. The overthrow of Tammany is a great point gained to the democratic party, looking to the future. The advantages will hardly be apparent in 1872; but they will enable the party, as on the new amendments to the con- stitution, to fight the republicans on equal ground in 1876, Their little delusive victory in New Hampshire last March was a Bull Run victory to the democrats. It brought out the copperheads of the North and Jeff Davis in the South in glorification of the event as the beginning of a revolution which would restore the constitution as it was under Buchanan, Thus the old Union party of the war was roused once more from its slumbers, and in the April Connecticut election allthis demo- cratic New Hampshire fat was cast into the fire. Then came Mr. Vallandigham with his “new departure,” accepting ‘the constitution as it is;” but he came too late to turn back the popular tide for 1871 or 1872 on the issues of the war revived by Jeff Davis. There was a hopeful celebration of the Fourth of July by the ‘Tammany Society of the Columbian Order,” but next in order came that unfortunate conflict of democratic authorities on the right of Orangemen to parade in our city streets. That affair of itself created an ominous muttering of public opinion through all the length and breadth of the land against the rule of Tammany ; but all this has since been thrown ont of sight by the developments of the astounding financier- ing of the Tammany “Ring.” These develop- ments and the aniversal hue and cry of public indignation which they have awakened have compelled the democratic party of the State to cut loose from Tammany and to ‘‘whistle her down the wind, a prey to fortune.” This is a revolution in the party camp, and time will be required to enable the democracy of the State and the country to recover from the shock. Meanwhile the political diversion thus created, driving the party everywhere, from the offensive to a defensive attitude, has operated, as we have seen in the late Cali- fornia and Maine elections, and, more con- made against | spicuonsly, in the more recent town elections in Connecticut, to strengthen the republican party under the banner of General Grant; and we anticipate the same effects from the same causes in next week's elections in Penn- sylvania and Ohio. We had expected something to the advan- tage of the democrats from the late Massa- chusetts Republican Convention at Worcester and the late Syracuse Grant, Conkling and Murphy versus Fenton, Greeley and Rufe Andrews Convention, But General Butler, home to with all his blowings and threatenings of a revolution in Massachusetta in @ bolt for Mr. Greeley, in the very act of denouncing Syracuse Convention and Professor White and Senator Conkling and Tom Murphy, laid down his arms and called upon his followers to join in the good Gght against Tammany Hall. So all these radical mutineers against General Grant, such as Sumner, Trambull, Logan, Gratz Brown, Carl Schurz, Fenton, Greeley and Rufe Andrewa, when put to the test tamely surrender, or go beating about the bush for some new party organization. The republican lines are not materially disturbed by these malcontents in reference to General Grant. Tammany has done more to strengthen him than the High Joint Commission, and the enlargements of our city debt by Tammany have worked as much to bis advantage as the reductions of the national debt under his ad- ministration. This New York revolution, then, in the democratic party comes too late for the na- tional campaign of 1872; it comes, perhaps, too late for our State election of next Novem- ber; but next in importance to the ‘new de- parture” on the oational constitution this set- ting aside of Tammany had become a party necessity, in order to place the party on a sound footing before the American people. Bat the Rochester Convention has achieved a great work in putting the democracy of the State and the Union on the right road for the White House in 1876. There is no reason now to fear that the Democratic National Conven- tion of next summer will result in any distrac- tions of the party over its Presidential ticket ; for there is no longer any fear of a violent conflict for the democratic nomination. If Governor Hoffman is wise he will peremp- torily decline the empty honor in 1872 and reserve himself for the reconstructed New York democracy of 1876; for in that campaign the democratic party, com- pletely reorganized, free from all dead issues, and taking the load on all the great living issues of the day, will have aa easy task be- fore it against the two or three parties, sec- tional and personal, into which the present republican party will almost certainly be di- vided. General Grant is clearly master of the field for another term; but after his re-elec- tion his party will begin to go to pieces in the contest for his successor, and he will let it go. It is in this view that this new democratic de- parture at Rochester points to the greatest re- sults in the general reorganization of the party. What is to Become of the Mormon Women? Now that the very last nail has been driven into Brigham Y oung’s coffin, and he is just ready to be “screwed up,” it is absolutely necessary to see what provision ought to be made for his family. With such a multitudinons family as the uxorious Mormon has reared and culti- vated the question is one likely to frighten the executor upon his estate out of all propriety. In other words, when Brigham and his re- tainers are all divorced by the strong hand of the law from their extra wives, what is to be- come of these unwedded women and their fatherless children? Brigham alone has seventeen wives, and, ona rough calculation of his own, about sixty-one children, and of these sixteen wives and probably fifty children will have to be torn from his paternal and conjugal bosom and sent out into the world in an absolutely unsettled state, not knowing whether they are married and legitimate, concubines and bastards, or widows and orphans. The other elders, although not so immensely’ mated as Brigham, each present an array of superfluous women and children that makes the aggregate to be provided for absolutely appalling. The charges against Brigham now pending, on which he is to be tried before a United States Court and a jury composed entirely of Gen- tiles, will certainly be a useless piece of persecation and a queer specimen of legal ad- ministration if it convicts him of bigamy, sentences him to fine or imprisonment, and yet permits him to keep up his sev- enteen families as heretofore. While punish- ing the crime it must put an end toit, and when it finds Brigham guilty of bigamy it effectually and forever disposes of the Mor- mon practice of polygam y. The future of the Mormon wives thus rudely divorced is therefore the important point of the great Mormon problem just now. By the strangest inconsistency in the great laws of nature—those of supply and demand—the great mass of sturdy. miners and hunt- ers upon the broad lands of the West, from the Missouri river to the lower rim of the Pacific slope, are ‘‘short” of women, if not in fact entirely destitute of that important article of household furniture, while the Mor- mon men, with their degrading conditions of marriage and concubinage, have long been overwhelmed with a supply, and find them- selves just now most disastrously overstocked. The most natural method of rectifying the great evil of the coming wholesale divorce- ment, therefore, would be a new distribution of these bereaved relicts among the hardy men of the West. The distribution may be made in any way that is satisfactory to the women, and as they have the right of suffrage they ought at once to take a vote uponit. Cer- tainly, if some peaceable measure is not pro- vided for the emergency, the rape of the Sabines two thousand years ago, with the interested sexes reversed in the cast of char- acter, may find its counterpart in this century on the plains of the West, and each hardy bachelor of the prairies may, at some precon- certed signal, find himself borne off a helpless victim by some desperate Mormon widow with six children, It is most unfortunate that these extra women are to be thrown on the world’s market just at this time, when woman's great numerical prepon- derance over the other sex makes her, with all her acknowledged sweetness, a “drag ;” but certainly there is no particular market In the world where they could be “damped” with more pecuniary and matrimo- nial advantage to themselves, But the honest miners of Utah and Nevada require some pro- tection, and before the divorcement actually takes place the consequent evils that thus threaten them must be provided against. The Mormon elders can hardly be compelled to give alimony to all their divorced wives. That would be recognizing the fact that they were wives, which the United States law cannot recognise. Besides, to make one man pay alimony to sixteen wives would be « ‘ance, and will probably have to be left finally for circumstances to unravel. Bat in the meantime let the women have ® vote upon it, if only to get their opinion on the matter. It would be interesting to know what they thought of it, even if it were absolutely certain that their decision might not affect the views of Chief Justice McKean regarding equity in the case now pending before him. Suffrage, the great boon which women are now saffering for and which these Mormon wives have obtained far abead of their agitating sister- hood in the East, will have proven indeed a delusion and a snare if it offers them no con- solation in their present dire distress. Let them vote and hope. The Westera Democracy on Kailroad Mo- mopolice—New Iseucs Loomiug Up. The Illinois Democratic State Convention has strack a chord on the subject of railroad monopoly and high rates that must vibrate ere long from one end of the country to the other, In the resolutions reported to that body condemning the policy of tariff protec- tion the ruinous cost of railroad transporta- tion is noticed. The resolution to that effect says :— “That to the same policy is chargeable ina large degree the heavy cost of railroad transportation, the cost of such transportation being always in proportion to the cost of iron, and that it is idle for the Western farmer, not- withstanding his superior advantages of soil and climate, to expect to compete with other parts of the world when his products are con- veyed to market over rails which cost seventy per cent more than they cost elsewhere.” This shows that the democrats of the West feel in their material interests the dathaging effect of bigh railroad charges, and that they begin to move fora remedy. Men's political views and affiliations are shaped more by in- terest than by prejudice, and the Western farmers are likely to go with that party which attacks high protective duties and railroad monopolies, The action of the Illinois demo- crats, therefore, is wise and opportune. Though the question may not have great in- fluence in the approaching elections it must become in time one of paramount importance. The resolutions reported to the Illinois Con- vention, however, touch only a part of the evil, A high protective tariff, which increases the cost of railroad iron seventy per cent, is but one of the causes of exorbitant rates of freight and fare. No doubt the cost of iron enters largely into the expense of constructing railroads and keeping them in repair, and con- sequently adds very much to the charges upon transportation. But the enormous profits and extravagance of railroad companies, the con- solidation of lines and interests, and the growth of these into vast monopolies of late years, to- gether with watering railroad stock and specu- lations of the stockholders and managers, do more than the construction or repairing cost to oppress the industry of the West and the farmers everywhere, The resolutions of the Illinois State Democratic Convention are well enough as far as they go, but they fail to grasp all the evils of railroad monopoly or all the causes of high rates of freight, Some of the great railroads of the country have had their stock doubled or trebled to enrich the managers. Bonds have been issued too often for the same purpose. This process of watering—to use the term expressed in Wall street—necessarily calls for larger re- ceipts to pay interest, and every farmer or merchant who transports anything, or every passenger, is charged accordingly. If a rail- road which cost ten millions of dollars in con- straction and equipment earned a million a year a good interest would be returned upon the capital, with a fair margin for repairs, Suppose the original stock were eqaal to the cost, and that by the familiar process of water- ing it is increased to twenty or thirty millions, the interest on this stock or bogus capital would be double or treble, and the commu- nity are expected to pay freights and fares to meet that. We say suppose this, but in reality there is no supposition, for this is what has been done with some of the railroads and is being done all the time. Instead of paying one dollar for freight the people have to pay two, and the industry and interior commerce of the country is crippled for the benefit of railroad monopolists, managers and specula- tors. The evil is growing every year, and it can- not be long before a remedy must be found, The State Legislatures are for the most part under the control of railroad monopolies. Many of the members are directly interested as stockholders, directors or managers, or are bought up by the rich corporations, It is much the same with Congress. There is little hope for relief from the Legislatures of the States. It must be made a national question, and the party that will take hold of it earnestly may rise into power by the issue, Though the State Legislatures may not be 80 easily forced to legislate against this monopoly the public may be aroused so as to compel Con- gress to act. There is no doubt that Congress has the power under the clause of the constitu- tion enabling it to regulate commerce among the several States and to exercise a control over the railroads, for these are as much the arteries of commerce between different sections of the country as the great rivers. This question is destined to become an important one in our political issues hereafter, and the democrats are acting wisely in bringing it prominently before the public. Usarateru Frttows—Jobn R, Fellows and the other fellows on the Tammany delega- tion to the Rochester Convention, who de- manded the ‘‘swift and signal punishment” of all municipal officers found guilty of corrup- tion, From Tue City or THe Pores TO THE Lasp or THE PHARAoHS.—His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, accompanied by a distin- guished party, will reach Rome early in No- vember. After his reception by the Pope and the Italian monarchy he will set out for Suez, If the Emperor is endeavoring to “experience religion,” he shoald go to Suez first and to the Vatican afterwards, so as to be enabled to re- ceive the light in a continuous, uninterrupted stream, The ‘first shall be last and the last first ;” ao it may be all right. Waxteo—A new combination that will re- [elect Rergando Wood member of Congress, Secretary of State, for which position Deid- rich Willers, of Seneca, » German ‘adopted citizen and a man of sterling character, takes the place of Homer A. Nelson. The renomi- nation of the officers was due to their faithful and economical administration of the State government in their several depart- ments; and the fact that they are all known to be strongly opposed to the Tammany “Ring,” and favorable to the reorganization of our city government will increase their popularity among the people of the State. In order to render the rebuke of Tammany the more marked and un- mistakable, the contesting delegates from New York were allowed to appear and address the Convention, and a letter from Mr. Charles O’Conor was received and read. But the crowning work in this direction was the adoption of a resolution providing that hereafter no delegate shall be received from this city as a member of a Democratic State Convention unless he shall have been elected by an Assembly District Convention, not called by Tammany, but originating with the democratic voters thereof, and that in all future State conventions the vote of each delegate from New York and Kings shall be taken separately, as in other Assembly districts, so that the whole votes of those counties shall no longer be cast as a unit to override the voice of a minority. This is the finishing blow to the old Wigwam. It destroys the long boasted regularity of Tammany, and leaves each Assembly district at liberty to elect its own representatives to a State Convention. The effect of this action is most damaging to Tammany at this time, It lays the axe at the root of her power, as the legislative nominations made in the same way will have the stamp of regularity. It rales the Tammany delegates out of the next State Convention, which body will select representa- tives to the National Democratic Convention, and thus it destroys the influence of Tammany with the national administration, in cave of the election of a democratic President. Hitherto, it will be remembered, Tammany has undertaken to control the federal patron- age in New York, and has generally suc- ceeded ; but with the destruction of her regu- larity her power departs, and she will have no more pretence to dictate at Washington than she would have to rule in Constantinople. The platform adopted by the Convention is unusually compact and pointed. The arraiga- ment of General Graut’s administration as false to its pledges and faithless to its constitutional obligations, contains, of course, a great deal of the customary partisan claptrap, yet there ‘is enough trath in the charges of corruption in federal offices to give pungency to the accu- sations. The resolution accepting the emanci- pation of the slaves of the South and their enfranchisement and perfect equality before the law as the inevitable sequence of the civil war and the overthrow of the’ rebellion is distinct and . unequivocal, and is a proper atonement for the sins and errors of the past. There is a coolness and effrontery about the resolution on the purity of the ballot which is really refreshing. When a democratic convention in the State of New York denounces a fraudulent repetition of votes and a dishonest @anvass of the ballots as crimes which are treason to representative government, we are strongly reminded of the conversion of Johany Allen, of Water street renown, and may look next for a sermon on the rights of property and the beauties of benevolence from Reddy the Blacksmith. But as the resolution winds up with a declaration approving of the con- stitutional amendment now pending, making bribery a ground of challenge and denying the suffrage both to the briber and the bribed, we may conclade that among the other won- ders of the day the democracy have grown enamored of a pure ballot-box. Onthe subject of the tariff the democrats are more out- spoken than their opponents. They denounce the present tariff in strong language; declare that the tax on imports should be levied strictly for revenue purposes alone, and ex- press the belief that ample revenue for all purposes of government can be obtained with- out levying any tax whatever opon necessary articles, such as iron, coal, clothing, medicines and all materials used in the mechanic arts, A plank is introduced renewing the pledge of democratic fidelity to the doctrine of equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever creed or nationality, and especial favors to none—a renewal deemed desirable in view of the evident tendency on the part of repub- licanism toward a revival of the old Know- Nothing war of race and religion. These principles, with an endorsement of the present State government, a special laudation of Governor Hoffman as the worthy successor of the great democratic leaders, Clinton, Tompkins, Wright, Marcy and Seymour, and the powerful denunciation of municipal corruption upon which we com- mented yesterday, form the platform on which the democracy of New York now stands be- fore the people of the State. The emphatic denunciation of the planderers of our city treasury, and the practical plan presented for the reorganization of our muni- cipal government will be found the most inter- esting portion of the convention’s work, so far as the citizens of this end of the State are concerned. The programme laid down by the convention is that which the Hxratp has suggested and advocated—the vacating of all the city offices, so as to allow a new election in the spring; the concentration of responsibility and of power over all subordinate departments in the Mayor ; the removal of the Mayor himself, upon charges, by the Governor, and the periodical publication of all payments made by the city government on any account whatsoever. The Democratic State Convention has pledged its party to carry out these reforms, and hence the démocratic Senators and Assemblymen, with the exception of the mere tools of Tam- many who may be here and there elected, are bound to vote for them in the next Legislature. Hitherto the republican members have come to the aid of Tammany, taken the money of the Ring and voted to perpetuate their power ; but this will be @ dangerqus game to play next words as well as by its acts to just such a reform as the Committee of Seventy has pro- fessedly been laboring to secure. Now let the Committee approve and endorse the work, and show its honesty and by recommending all democratic candidates except the nominees of Tammany to the sup- port of the voters of the State. A Disturbance in Madrid—A Fresh Trouble for King Amadeus, A few weeks ago no one would have been surprised to learn that King Amadeus had found it convenient to retire from Spain and seek a home, with his young and beautiful wife, in his oative Italy and under his father’s roof. He had done what he could; but» his best had failed. A happy change took place. Sefior Zorilla accepted the reins of power, and all of a sudden Carlists and Isabellinos and Montpensierists and unionists and pro- gresistas and republicans united. Even Castellar felt that the time had come when it was his duty to put the reins upon his eloquent tongue and so give the government a fair chance. Encouraged by the improved aspect of affairs in Madrid and yielding to the advice of his best friende, the young King undertakes a tour through the provinces. Beyond all expectation the royal progress was @& success, The King traversed a great part of the country, and was everywhere well received. At a time when it was sup- posed that all was well and that the royal progress had conciliated all parties, an unfor- tunate accident—if we can call it an accident— occurs in Madrid, Sefior Sagasta is elected President of the Cortes, and Zorilla, feeling that a powerful rival has come in his way, re- signs, A Cabinet crisis during the course of a royal progress through the provinces is, to say the least, awkward, On learning of the’ resignation of Zorilla King Amadeus telegraphed to Logrofio, offer- ing the seals of office to Espartero. Espartero, notwithstanding all the kind words he spoke to the King a few days ago, refuses to under- take the responsibility of forming a Cabinet. Zorilla is again requested to remain in office, but he politely and firmly declined. Later news has it that Admiral Maloampo was invited to form a Cabinet, and that he accepted the responsibility. The mew Ministry, so far as we know ap to the present moment, is as follows :—Malcampo, Premier and Minister of Marine; Alvares, Minister of the Interior; Olozaga, Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs; Colmeiro, Minister of Justice; Bassoli, Minister of War; Candau, Minister of Finance; Beranger (probably), Minister of Public Works, Some of these names have already been prominent in Spain; but most of them are new, It is noteworthy that none of the men who fig- ured during the revolution, with the exception of Alvares and Olozaga, are found willing to farther risk their fortunes in the cause of the stranger King. We are not without the hope that Amadeus may yet prove the sa- vior of Spain as William of Orange proved the savior of England. . But we cannot deny that he seems to be far from the end of his troubles, Why Espartero and Serrano and men of their stamp should stand aloof, it is somewhat difficult to explain. 80 far as we can gather it, seems to they are not in sympathy with the men have now got hold of the King’s and conscience, The standing men is not a good sign, and terial crisis is not It is aif. cult to get over the idea that the King’s progress has not been so much a success as we have been taught to regard it A royal or presidential progress is always more or less & success while it lasts ; but we have witnessed both royal and presidential ‘“‘swingings sround the circle” that were moré showy in the fact than potent in the result. In spite of the apparent success of the young King in his provincial tour—and we cannot deny that the success bas been apparent—we are not satisfied that he has yet won the victory. It is little absurd that a nation which cam boast of a great history and a great literature, as well as many living great men, should find it necessary to yield to the monarchical prin- ciple, It is a little more absurd to find them wandering over the world begging for a king. If there is a most absurd in the case it is this— that, having found a king, they are not satisfied or willing to give him a chance. Spain flung away her chances whén she had the oppor- tunity and did not set up a republic. We look for fresh trouble in Madrid and the Spanish provinces, the agitation in the capital and in the town of Prado, northwest ‘of Toledo, being merely first notes of warning, and we shall not be surprised to learn that Amadeus, having found out the true value of a crown, has flung it from him in despair and disgust. Mr. Seward Home Again.” In another colamn will be found the account of an interesting interview which « Hepaup correspondent had with ex-Secretary Seward. The Nestor of American statesmen, who but a few days ago returned from his pilgrimage around the world, has found a new lense of life in foreign climes, In his declining years he has witnessed triumphs that equal the homage usually rendered to poten- tates, At an age when other men think of nothing but repose. he who has weathered so many storms of State braved and overcame the dangers and hard- ships of tropical countries. Wherever he went his fame preceded him and secured a recogni- tion of his worth and past achievements, It is said to be the characteristic of this conntry that men who have filled high positions in the State pasa out of the public mind as soon as they pasa out of office, This may have been "