The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- Volume XXXVI... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNODN AND EVENING, FIFTR AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-f atrect.— Mur New Drama or Divorce. Matinee ata : OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Inr Baw . Womlue OF HUMPTY Dumpty. ‘Matinee atk a ar WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadw: and 13th street.— Wax SERi0ve FanMiLy—Forry axp IF TY. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Foarteenth street. ENGLISH “Orzna—Matinee at 1—Davort: R OF THE REGIMENT. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st, —Perform- vances afternoon and evening—OLIVER Twist. ‘ BOOTH’S THEATRE, 254 st, between Sth and 6th avs.— Okino Heney VII. Matinee at 14. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Frenon SPy ON (ORSEBAOK—JACK SHEPPARD ON HORSEBACK. ~ NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and louston streets.—THk STREETS OF NEW YORK. Matinee. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, AGE, 1—Advertisements. ‘2Q—Advertisements. «8—Yachting: Ashbury on the Situation; Yachting Notes—Amusements—The Fire Record—The Committee of Seventy: John H. Keyser on he Mourner’s Bench—“Bring it to a Head” — News from Washington—movements of the } President, r@—Around the City Hall: The Situation at the ‘arious Departments Yesterday; $100,000 More for the Laborers—The “Boss” Speaks: Import+ ant Interview With Tammany’s Grand Sa- chem—The Park Perplexites: What the Action of the Deputy Comptroller has Brought About— Man in the Gap: Jonn Foley Breasting the Rising Waves of Tammany—Aguatics: An Ex- citing Boat Race in the Harbor of Spezzia, ltaly—Chap-Fallen _Delegates—Base Bali Notes—The Jersey Insurance Frauds—The Post OMice Box “Extortion”—Wite Murder in Newtown—Drought in the West, G—Saintly Seduction: Trial of a Libertine Preaby- terian Minister in Georgia—Attairs in Ireland— AGrab Thief Arrested—sketch of Mrs. Moul- ton, the New American Prima Donna—Literary Chit-Chat—Seward’s Career—Egypt: Consul General Butler on the plagues of Egypt and the Children of Mammon—The Coming Cholera—Fatal Railroad Aceident—Another Car Crushing Case. G—Eadttorials: Leading Article, “A Singnlar Ap- Deal from the Committee of Seventy—What the Committee Unght to Do'’—Amusement Announcements, ‘y—Editoriais (continued from Sixth Page)—Revo- lution: Highly Important News from Mexico— Spain: ie Cabinet Crisis—News from France—The Mormon Crisis: Judge McKeap's Address to the Grand Jury—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business Notices, 8-—The Union Depot: The Finest Passenger Rail road Depot in the World—The Courts—Aa Charieston Cheat—Jerome Park Races : Open- ing Day or the Fall A.ceting—American Jockey Club—Horse Notes—Louis Napoleon : The Ex-Emperor at Home in South Devon- shire—Memphis Races—Tne Welland Canal— Sons of America—The Ku Klux Klan—How Red Hot Iron May be Handled —Newfoand- land Fisheries. ®—The Loves of the Tailors: The Green-Eyed Monster and His Rava; in Sixth Street— ‘Tne Public Hospitals—Mrs, Dr. Connolly's In- sanity—Episcopal Conventon—American Bosra of Foreign Missions—The Working- men’s Union—Accidental Shooting—Brooklyn Affairs—Financial and Commercial Reports— Marriages, Births and Deaths. 10—Coopers’ Demonstration: Mass Mee! at Cooper Institute—Local Politics—Art Mat- ters—Foreign Topics—Shipping Iptelligence— Advertisements. ‘1—Money Hunting io Detroit—A War of Races in New Brunswick—Naval Intelligence—Army Intelligence—Another Fenian Raid—Foreign Miscellaneous Items—Foreign Personal Gos- sip—Foreign Scientific Notes—Advertise- ments, §2—Aavertisements. Tue Present Has returned from his West- ern jaunt and is again at Washington. Waat Are We to do for gaslight if Comp- troller Green does not take measures for pay- {ing gas companies who supply the city ? . Wit Jaoxson 8. Sonvrtz and the other sixty-nine give one hundred thousand dollars each to the city to tide over the present diffi- culty ? As Water Cannot run up hill, so Croton ywater cannot be furnished to New York city without money. Is the water to be stopped for lack of funds? “At Quiet on THE Potomac,” and on the Hudson likewise; but it is the calm that pre- the storm, and we shall have an earth- in November. Summine Ur or THE RocnestER Conven- Tiow.—It is all about that bird pie :— and wpen fre pie was opened ie is an 10 . Wasn't that a dainty aia To set before the “Ring?” Tae Herarp Writ Apvanor the city trea- ‘sury one hundred thousand dollars towards warrying on the government until the taxes ‘rome in. Will each of the seventy members ‘of the reform committee advance a like ‘mount? | Ssven Mition Dowiars will carry on the public works, relieve the city of its difficul- fies and keep the laborers and mechanics in pmployment until the treasury is replenished by the incoming taxes. Will the seventy rich men on the reform committee each loan the tity one hundred thousand dollars for that \good purpose? Tue Spanish Treasury AcoounTs are in a very confused condition. Malcampo’s Minis- ‘try recommends a course of the most rigid {economy in the administration of the public Yunds, The intention is excellent, The car- \rying of it into effect will be exceedingly diff- ‘oul, The truth is, the treasury deficits and {public debt of Spain are sufficiently heavy for instant embarrassment of any Ministry, and e endangering of the throne itself, as will be ky our cable reports to-day. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, UUTUOBER 7, 1871.—TKIPLE SHEET. A Singular Appeal from the Committee of Sevonty—What the Committec Ought To Do. The following singular and noteworty article @ppeared in the editorial columns of the New York Times yesterday: — If the people of this city are in carnest in their de- ite taming abe ce ss stig % them prove send help to the Committee of Seventy. That committee has already stopped the leak ho which the public money was wg way. The derived more ben- xpayers ve elit ita mitt alt Yor aware of from the fécent exertions ot the citizens who are working on their behalf, But those citizens cannot be ex- pected to give up their time to the task, and defray all the expenses of ligation out of their own pockets. Let everybody help them—the workman With his ten cent stamp, the merchant with a good check, Important proceedings are in pri , and we earnestly beg our readers not to allow the com- mittee to be hampered for want of means, Give according to your power, but give sometning, and give it without delay. Nearly five weeks ago the Committee of Seventy commenced as a volunteer its labor of city reform. For more than a month prior to that period the New York Times bad been de- voting itself gallantly to the work of exposing the corruptions of the city government and of agitating the overthrow of all the present mu- nicipal office-holders. Its zeal and energy ia the cause received, through the aid of Mr. Simonton, its employé in control of the Asso- ciated Press, a wide recognition throughout the country, and gained for the paper the highest eulogiums of Western jour- nals, Its raid upon democratic offi- cials was equal to the dashing victories of Sheridan in the Valley of the Shenandoah, or of Grant in the Wilderness. Not the least singular part of this great journalistic triumph is the fact that it was secured by the admirable management of its managing editor, a young Englishman, who had been but a short time in the United States, and necessarily kuew but little if anything of American institutions, politics and men. Mr. Jennings, a British subject, fresh from the attractions of aristocratic life, seized with vigor and wonderful ability ‘upon the opportunity afforded him by the disclosures of a Person who had been dismissed from the Comptroller's department, and made a fight such as an adroit American politician alone might have been believed capable of making against a powerful Ring, composed of the shrewdest political managera in the country. The reputation of the paper he controls has risen in consequence to a poiat from which it had been steadily declining since the death of its former editor, Henry J. Raymond, and the name ofits English condactor, Jennings, is in a fair way of becoming famous. Its sudden recovery of a position which it was fast losing is due solely to the vigor and point of his editorials; for in its news department it remains as mediocre as ever. When the Committee of Seventy was formed the Times became its organ, or, more correctly speaking, its champion, and urged it on daily in its good work. The committee deserved the support it received, for its mem- bers emulated the disinterested devotion of the Crusaders of old, and vowed to give not only their servicea but their money to the cause in which they had embarked. We were assured through the columns of the Times, again and again, that these seventy citi- zens of wealth and position, who had come. out from their bank parlors and their counting houses to fight the battle of reform, had pledged themselves not only to expose and punish malfeasance in office but to patri- otically supply the funds necessary to carry on the war and to keep the machinery of the government in motion. Their vaults, their safes and their strong boxes were to be opened at the bidding of Comptroller Green; the city was to experience no embarrassments; her honest debts were to be paid, her public works to be prosecuted, her credit maintained, with the means to be supplied by the seventy patriotic committeemen, who were thence- forth to be supreme in the municipal govern- ment, The Heratp called this communism, and recorded its belief that the committee was a piece of unwieldy machinery, incapable of accomplishing any practical results; but the Times, the champion of the movement, took up the seventy upon its broad shoulders and carried them to the front of the army of reform. We are astounded now to read the an- nouncement that the committee begs for funds to aid it in its work, and that the seventy de- cline to defray the expenses of prosecuting the war out of their own pockets. To the 7imes, as we have said, belongs the credit of initiat- ing this fight against municipal corruption, and it must not be left without supplies and ammunition. The seventy committeemen who were to have furnished the means to carry it on, are begging, with hat in hand, for ten cent stamps and good checks instead of standing in the breach themselves, as they are pledged to do. We are confident that the Times must condemn this singular action of the seventy, and we expect it to denounce their conduct as vigorously as it has denounced the rascality of city contractors. There is no reason why they should beg for funds when they and their friends, among the wealthiest of our citizens, have voluntarily offered to supply all that may be needed. Indeed, as the election is s0 close at hand, it may be suspected, by wrong- minded men, that the money is wanted for electioneering purposes rather than for city reform. This is unjust to the good cause—it is unjust to the Zimes and to its able editor. The cause, the paper and the advocate should be above suspicion, and an appeal for sub- scriptions, an attempt to raise funds at this particular time is very apt to be misinter- preted. Let the Times, with its accustomed vigor, condemn the present action of the com- mittee and call upon its members to make good their promise to keep the treasury of the city and the coffers of the reformers full, If money is really needed to legally and effectu- ally secure a better government or insure to the people an immediate opportunity to re- elect their municipal officers, there ought to be patriotism enough, as there certainly is wealth enough, among the committeemen and their friends to supply the necessary amount without taking the ten cent stamps from the workingmon or the dollars from tradesmen and mechanics, But more than this must be done. Not only must the prose- cution of the corruptioniste be continued, but the government must be carried on, the public works prosecuted and the laborers paid, This is the responsi- bility the seventy committeemen have taken upon thempelves, sod they must meet it ina manly manner. ll of them are rich—many of them are millionnaires. Let each of them pay one hundred thousand dol- lars into the now empty treasury, so that the Croton Board, the Health Board, the lighting of the city, the work upon the docks, boulevards, avenues, streets and parks, and all the neces- sary work in the various city departments may go on asusual, The HeRaxp will subscribe one hundred thousand dollars for the same purpose. The money thus advanced will be honestly expended by Deputy Comp- troller Green, and the city will repay the amount when the present troubles are over. The committee is doing well in recovering six hundred thousand dollars from Keyser, and seeking to force other overpaid contractors to restitution; but it must not suffer the gov- ernment to come to a standstill, the laborers to go unpaid, the public works to be stopped, the people to be deprived of water and light, the health of the city to be jeopar- dized, for want of funds. We call upon the seventy members, therefore, to come for- ward at once and place each one hundred thousand dollars, or seven million dollars in all, at Deputy Comptroller Green's disposal for the use of the government, The HERALD's one hundred thousand dollars will be paid as soon as the committee’s money is ready. The amount thus ralsed will carry on the administration until the Legisla- ture shall have met and given us a new charter and an election for city officers. When the city treasury is full the work of prosecuting the corrupt contractors and un- faithful officera can be carried on with all the more vigor and effect. Let the committee prove its sincerity and its patriotism by redeeming its pledges in the manner we have pointed out, and there will then be no occa- sion to solicit ten cent stamps from the work- men of the city, Tar Bio INDIAN who stands ‘Foard over Tammany Hall looked rather pale yesterday in the rain. He ought to be painted blue. Highly Important News frem Mexico— Revelution on the Line of the Rio Grande. The Heratp special telegrams from Mexico, which are published in our columns this morn- ing, bring news of a most important charac- ter from the territory of the neighboring re- public, A revolutionary movement has been made against Juarez. Quite a number of military chieftains, many of them old and tried soldiers, are in arms against the govern- ment. They are supported by many ad- herents, The frontier line is deeply agitated, as will be seen by our reports from Mata- moros and Tobasco. The State of Nuevo Leon takes the lead in the movement, The objective point of the insurrection appears, at present, to be the capture of Tobasco and the seizure of the Custom House at that point. General Pedro Martinez, with all the State officials of Nuevo Leon, ad- heres to the policy of change. The capital re- mained quiet, but the citizens were alarmed. It is the old story, and asad one, Mexico is not afforded time to consolidate her home in- terests or develop her foreign commerce. Her children are unquiet in their ambition and unstable in their political aims. President Juarez appeared to be doing very well. It looked so to the American people. His course of policy will be just now interrupted, if not absolutely reversed. Mexicans enjoy, how- ever, the privilege of judging what is best for the interests of their country. In effecting their government changes they interfere sadly with the rights of foreigners engaged in the peaceable profession of lawful pur- suits. This has occurred in the present case. Capital has become really affrighted, and the members of the trading community fear the loss both of their property and profits. Mercantile marine squabbles prevail on the coast, and attempts at their solution tends to add to the general unquiet, as well as to the setting of cause for ulterior international complications. President Juarez retains his majority in Congress. His address to the members of the legisla- tive body was couched in words of constitutional advice. He pointed out the direction in which industry should be pointed for purposes of industrial gain. He professes himself anxious for the perfec- tion of useful treaties with foreign govern- ments, Mexico looked as if her people were going happily, indeed, just previous to the initiation of the present revolutionary out- break, But Mexico is unfortunate—unfor- tunate in many respects. Temporizing trials of experimental statesmanship will not save ber. Her rulers must eventually permit—not only permit, but encourage—an influx of emigration from abroad. The blood of the Anglo-Saxon must neutralize the effeminate current of what now remains of the “‘blue blood” of the Hidalgos on the country. After that Mexico will fully atone for the faults of the Montezumas. Tae Parxs are about to become wilder- nesses. The plants and animals, and the rare collection of curiosities in the museum will have to be sold if Comptroller Green makes no provision for paying those who attend to them, The Sentence of M, Henri Rochefort Com- muted. Rochefort’s plea for commutation of sentence has not been vain. It was evident from the first that the sentences pronounced by the courts martial were more severe in seeming than it was intended they should be in reality, We do not say too much when we say that France to-day would not permit the execution of many of the sentences which her people approved, if not demanded, a few weeks ago. In the matter of the trials of the Communists, it is impossible to refuse to admit that the Assembly and the Thiers government have acted with great wisdom. We are not sorry that the sentence of Rochefort has been com- muted, We sball be glad to learn that Rossel has been treated with similar leniency. Rossel has the sympathy of most men who know the circumstances in which he was called to act, Rochefort may live to edit another Lanterne, but unless we greatly mistake his words will no longer sting. It wi}! be well for He Assem- bly tobe lenient, for the return of the Bona- partes to power, which cannot bo said to be impossible, may be @ cause of sorrow to some of its mombera, Tbe Irropressible Conflict in Utah. The Grand Jury that has been in session in Salt Lake City during the last few weeks adjourned yesterday till the 13th of Novem- ber, The remarks of Chief Justice McKean are somewhat laconic, but full of meaning. He thanks the jurors for their assiduity, praises them for their independence, assures them of immortality for the indictments they have already found, and promises more work of the same kind when they meet again, This is doubtless a foreshadowing of a determination to make an end of the Utah question. What is to be the end of this matter? What can be its conclusion but the complete sub- mission of the Mormons to the laws of the nation? When the “Prophet” Smith gathered his followers in Missouri from all parts of the States, the Canadas and England, he promised them that country as an “everlasting iuheri- tance,” and gave them revelations and visions about their future greatness and glory. They were to be the possessors of the soil, and cities and temples were to be built in splendor and grandeur, to which would come bending the kings of the earth to supplicate wisdom from the lips of the Prophet ruler, The Saints became arrogant, boastful and supercilious. The Gentiles to them were unclean and cumberers of the ground, whom Heaven spared in mercy for a season, but the day was not far distant when they would be smitten, cursed and swept off the land of the Saints. The Gentiles endured this for a while, but finally got fatigued with these Saints’ sneers and threats, and resolved to bring their wordy neighbors to a settlement. A local elec- tion furnished the sought-for opportunity, a fisticuff, rough-and-tumble fight ensued, and from this insignificant commencement the trouble increased till finally Missouri threw five thousand of her militia into the counties | where the Horsey gbiefly resided, and in due ime the phet ahd his disciples were & ae eed pelled from the State. Illinois received the retreating Saints wit! much kindness, and Nauvoo, on the Missis- sippi, was their next rendezvous. Here they built a beautiful city and made excellent farms, But the same offence to the Gentiles was here renewed. The elders were boastful as before, and to this is added the charge of an utter dis- regard of ‘‘law and order.” During his five years’ life in that city the Prophet Smith became a power in the State— became a lieutenant general of Mormon militia, and announced himself a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, His tragic death cut him off in the prime of man- hood, and Brigham Young became the heir to his throne and all his aspirations. He under- took the journey to the Rocky Mountains to found an empire on the soil of Mexico. The United States war with that republic, the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the ex- tension of the Stars and Stripes over the great American basin spoiled the Mormon project of independent empire, Brigham Young has lived to make the best of his defeat, but he has been very restive and has been a perpetual trouble to the country. He has never willingly tolerated the United States officers, and has looked forward to the time when he could get the Territory admitted into the Union, and with it he would become Governor de jure as well as the Governor de facto that he has been. The railroad and the mines break in upon this idol of his soul, and he becomes again uneasy. With the influx of a Gentile popula- tion the discontented followers of the Mormon prophet seek a larger liberty and the better security of life. With the new condition of things the history of the past bursts into life again and the unpunished crimes of the Terri- tory call for atonement, The government in- sists upon the laws being obeyed there as everywhere else. Brigham answers the charge of broken laws with a revela- tion from Smith. The Court admits of no higher law argument, and undertakes the task of reducing Brigham and the Mormons to obedience. Will he resist? His son responds for him, and talks of prayers, dry powder and rounds of ammunition, and the people are fanatical enough to endorse his threatening folly with a hearty ‘“‘Amen” and rounds of applause. From Missouri there was an outlet; from Nauvoo there were the Rocky Mountains; now where can they go? Brigham should seriously think of the trouble of moving again, for as certain as he permits his boasting sons or dis- ciples to repeat their Missouri history, so certain will he be forced to travel. This Mor- mon matter is as sure to fiad its solution in the irrepressible conflict now begun as did its associate relic in the rebellion. Wit Ex-Mayor Havemerer and his sixty- nine companions on the Committee of Sev- enty give one bundred thousand dollars each to help along the city government ? A Ratirioation Mgetine WaNtEp.—We call upon Mr. Andrew H. Green, the actual head of our city administration just now, to issue a call, as a reform democrat, for a meet- ing of the unterrified democracy of this city, to ratify the good work done by the Rochester Convention ia view of a sound and wholesome reorganization of our city government, Witt ConeressMaN Roosgvett and the other sixty-nine loan the city one hundred thousand dollars each for the present emer- gency? The Spanish Capinet Ortsis.—Admiral Malcampo remains in office as Premier of Spain. His Cabinet was incomplete, how- ever, at a late hour yesterday evening. Sefiors Olozaga and Alvarez declined to serve. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and that of the Interior were vacant in consequence. Pend- ing the acceptance of the seats by some of his friends Malcampo personally assumed the discharge of a triplicated duty—the presi- dency of the council and the two most im- portant of the portfolios of State. Prim was compelled to an official centralization of this sort during his latest term of office. He found it exceedingly dangerous—danger ous even unto death. Paris during the siege had to eat her menagerie to sustain life, New York, under the financial siege with which Comptroller Green has invested the city will have to de- stroy her parks and aqueducts and public works, not to sustain life, but to gourish a eentiment, The Prime Doane of the Season. It would be extremely difficult, if at all pos- able, to find another season in the history of music in New York to compare with the pres- ent one in brilliancy and talent, Among the artists, both home and foreign, whose names are emblazoned on the managerial signboards, there are a few of the prima donna persuasion who are entitled to special mention. One of these is the Swedish nightingale, Christine Nilsson, who may be called the favorite child of song, and whose very soul and being is wrapped up in the divine art. Her debut in Italian opera is looked forward to as one of the events in the musical world, and already the usually apathetic ‘“‘Hub” is convulsed with ex- citement in view of her first appearance there on Monday aight. The subscription for the New York season, which commences on Octo- ber 23, is already very large, and it is likely that everything and everybody that wealth and fashion can bring together will deck the boxes and circles of the Academy when this gifted songstress first essays the touching réle of Goethe's Gretchen in Gounod’s opera of of “Faust.” Artless, unassuming, lsdylike and never tired of study in her profession, Mile. Nilsson has won a name second to none among the artistes of the present day. Mrs. Moulton, an American lady, is another novelty on the musical stage. For years the bosom friend of the Empress Eugénie and the star of tashion in the gay and brilliant Paris of the empire, our fair countrywoman won the admiration and friendship of the most eminent masters of music by the rare excellence of her voice. Rossini, Auber, Garcia and others wrote and spoke the most extravagant things about this voice, and for a long time she was the unprofessional rival of Patti and Nilsson, Whatever may be the result of her appear- ance in public on the concert stage, it is cer- tain that her début is looked forward to with a great deal of interest. Whether the voice that thrilled the gentle eats in the salons of the Empress and the cosey little parlors of Com- piégne will be equally melee in Steinway Hall remains to be seen. At all events, the most hopeful anticlpations are formed, and fashionable circles are stirred by the an- nouncement that Mrs. M. will appear in public. Mrs, Jenny Van Zandt (Mile, Vanzini) is another welcome feature in music this season. The habitués of the Academy will remember with pleasure the flattering success she met with at her début some years ago. Since that time she has gained high laurels in the princi- pal opera houses of Europe, and the fact of her being engaged for many consecutive seasons at Covent Garden, which ranks first in Europe, is a very stroog endorsement of her abilities. She will make her rentrée on Monday next at the Academy In Balfe’s beau- tiful opera of ‘‘Satanella,” with the principal artists of the English opera company to sup- port her. There are dozens of other artists here at present, and it is a pity that they should be scattered into various musical troupes. One or two powerful operatic companies might be formed of them, instead of having, as at present, a number of concert and opera troupes, all opposed to each other and the Public unwilling to patronize all. Nilsson, with Mrs. Moulton as an alternate prima donna, Wachtel as tenor and Santley as bari- tone, would have an Italian opera company superior to anything in Europe. The manage- ment ought to look around and see what materials are to be had for the mere asking, instead of allowing them to be wasted and divided among concert troupes, “TWEED AND CONNOLLY are not to be trusted,” says Comptroller Green, ‘‘and so we will have no water, no parks, no gaslight, no public works, no nothing.” The Race for the America’s Cup. The committee having in charge the arrange- ments for the races with the English yacht Livonia, for the cup won by the America, has, we understand, selected the yachts Columbia, Palmer, Sappho and Dauntless from the Ameri- can yacht squadron, for the duty of maintain- ing our reputation of having the fleetest and most weatherly vessels; and it now becomes the imperative duty of the owners of these yachts to see that they are at once placed in the most perfect condition to meet the vessel that is claimed to be the best that England can produce. In the Livonia we have, no doubt, a formidable antagonist, and we must leave no point neglected that might by inattention cause us to part with the prize we now hold and that was so gallantly won. In a few days the races will be sailed for the Douglas and Lorillard cups. These will be sailed over the Newport course, from Brenton’s Reef Lightship to Block Island, thence to the Vineyard Sound Lightship and return to the starting point, The yachts Sappho, Dreadnaught, Enchantress, Wanderer and Resolute, and possibly others, will take part therein, and as the course is a long one we shall probably have a fine test of the quality of these vessels, Tae SEVENTY CoMMITTEE men are reported to be all millionnaires, They are certainly all wealthy men, and can each afford to loan the city one hundred thousand dollars to carry on the government and prevent serious loss to the taxpayers and great suffering to the poor. Will they do so? Dr. Hares, the celebrated Arctic explorer, will tell all he knows about ‘‘Icebergs,” espe- cially during the summer time, on Thursday next, in the hall of St. Francis Xavier's Col- lege, for the benefit of the students’ library. Dr. Hayes is one of the most celebrated of the many travellers to the far North that we can speak of, and his experiences there must be interesting to a high degree. The cause or object is also deserving of patronage, as St, Francis Xavier's College appeals to the intel- ligence and patronage of the metropolitan public. The Jesuit Fathers have made them- selves a necessity in this city in their admira- ble system of education. Firreen Toovsanp Lasonees in the sercvie of the city are likely to be thrown out of em- ployment at the beginning of inclement weather, because there is no money in the city treasury to carry on the public works. Will the Committee of Seventy, who pledged them- selves to supply Deputy Comptroller Green with all the money necessary to carry on the city government advance one hundred thoa- sand dollars each for that ourpore and keep ‘{ the laborers employed? $$ The Jerome Park Races. Everything that fashion and wealth caw bring together to make the opening of a race meeting brilliant will be at Jerome Park to-day, to inaugurate the fall meeting of the American Jockey Clab. The unparalleled success of the last half dozen meetings has made it an actual necessity for the leaders of fashion to be pres- ent when the flag waves from the handsome club house and the word “go” is given from the judges’ stand to the numerous steeds en- tered foreach race. The interest and excite- ment created at Saratoga and Long Branch will probably culminate during this meeting at the American Derby. The programme to-day is full of interest, First we have sixteen start- ers in the handicap sweepstakes of one mile and a quarter, a race which, from the number and the calibre of the contestants, cannot fail to be interesting in every sense of the word. Then come the Champion Stakes, for three year olds, with seventy-seven nominations, something almost unprecedented. ‘The more the merrier” is a rule that always holds good at Jerome Park, and out of such a large number of nomi- nations for this second race we may expect quite a number of horses at the starting post. The third race will be for the Nursery Stakes, for foals of two years, the distance being oaly one mile, For this race thirty-four horses are entered. A purse of four hundred dollars and a dash of three-quarters of a mile constitute the attractions for the fourth race, The fifth race will be the grand feature of the day, for the ladies in particular, It is a sweepstakes for four-year-olds, distance four miles. Next follows the handicap steeple chase of two miles and a half, ia which everybody must feel in- terested. ‘Tha prospaminé possesses attractions such as have never before been presented to the American public, and the magnificent drive’ to Jeroms Park and the beautiful grounds around the race track cannot fail in bringing together the créme de la oréme of the metrop- olis, and all those, besides, who love this ex- hilarating sport and unequalled amusement. Mr. Theodore Moss tales c ‘ge, a8 before, of the business part of the meeting, and the com- plete order and harmony observant at former races are sufficient testimony of the efficiency of the management. Brigham Young, Jr., on tho Verge of Res bellion. The language of Brigham Young, Jr., to the Conference of the Mormon Church at Salt Lake City on Thursday, was very violent and rebellious, and reminded us of the speeches of leading secessionists ‘‘to fire the Southern heart” at the commencement of our late war. This heir to the throne of Mormondom was bidding for popular favor, probably with a view of stepping ultimately into the ‘old man’s shoes,” when he exhibited such fiery geal, He said the Mormons were entitled te the exclusive occupation and evjoyment of Utah, because they had first made a settle- ment there; that they asked no favors or assistance from any source, and that they defied all their enemies, the government of the United States included. He called the officials now prosecuting the Mormons tools of the devil, and prayed God to curse them. Thon, with violent gesticulations, he exclaimed :— “Trust to God, keep your powder dry, and don’t fail to have on hand a good supply of fixed ammunition.” It appears there were eight thousand Mormons present, and among them the great chief himself, Brigham Young, Sr., and two former Presidents of the Church, Smith and Wells. The rebellious words of this hopeful scion of the patriarch were re- ceived with a universal “amen” and loud cheering and clapping of hands. Now, it becomes a question whether it is not the duty of the United States authorities to arrest this firebrand or any others who may talk rebellion in terms as plain, His language certainly tends to incite open rebellion and armed resistance to the government, We are inclined to think the young Brigham was play- ing a bluff game, that his more discreet father will restrain the Mormons from any open act of rebellion, and that the laws will be exe- cuted without a bloody conflict. Still, where there is so much smoke there may be sparks of fire that an accident might fan into a blaze. Fanaticism is always uoreasonable, and too often dangerous when suddenly grappled. It will be well for the government to be propared at all points, and, while doing everything not to provoke a conflict, it should show no hesi- tancy in choking the very first efforts of resist- ance. ‘The terrible civil war we recently passed through ought to warn the authorities of the danger of being unprepared or hesitat- ing. The Mormon question has culminated, and must be solved at once and forever. If the Mormons talk gunpowder and arms, they ought to have both taken away from them without delay. If the leaders endeavor te incite rebellion, they should be arrested. Ia the meantime, let the courts proceed to prose- cute for bigamy, adultery, lascivious cohabita- tion or for whatever will reach the evil under the laws. Come Ong, Come Att—Custom House republicans, Tammany republicans, Tammany democrats, independent democrats, the Young Democracy, reform democrats, German reform democrats, Irish reform democrats, and all sorts of democrats, the field is open now for a fair fight in our November election, for the power of the ‘‘Ring” is broken and every man may vote his own ticket. Consul Goaeral Butler Detonds Himeolf. In another place in these columns will be found a letter from Consul General Butler de- fending himself from the attacks made upom him by several newspapers in this city. We have no desire to be unjust to any man, least of all to a man who, in a responsible public office, represents the dignity and honor of the United States in a foreign land. With Mr, Butler's quarrel with certain New York jour- nals we have nothing to do. It may or may not be true that these journals have misrepre- sented him and done him injustice. It is for him and them to settle the matter as best they can. So far as we are concerned we have nothing to unsay and but little to add, In spite of his ‘personal appearance,” which, he says, he ‘cannot change,” and in spite of “hia friends,” whom, he says, he ‘‘will not change,” Mr. Butler must remember that he is a pablio man and a servant of the government of tha United States, and that as such he is liable ta be made the subject of newspaper criticiam., It ig necessary for 4 Qongul General, even ie