The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1871, Page 6

oat o {a - . * “ 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, * PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorK HERaqp. Volume XXXVI......cccccsereeeeceeesee NOs 286 ——_——_—— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. suites afternoon ana crema’ Vin CuLD BEALE Pry Ed ‘334 st, between Sth and 6th avs, = —__ BOWERY THEAT! Bowery.—' TELL—TAREB Fast Men—Tas Suoriones or Pa i \ NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, bet Pri ad Houston streets.—Tux Stunts oF New Youn \_ GRAND 01 r DOPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth ay. ano 88d sh \ ,LINA EDWIN's —-FPRENOH A EDWIN"S THEATRE, No, 130 Broadway. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street. Tux NEw Deawa or Divorce, \_UNTON SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- ‘Way.—NEGEo ACTs—BURLESQUE, BALLET, Cc. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Ta® BALLET PaN- ‘TOMIME OF HUMPTY DUMPTY, | STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery'—OPzRa Skas0N—POSTILLON. {_ WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. MAsKS aND Faces. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Opxga—Lucnezta Borcia. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. Lavy or Lyons. SAN FRANCISOO MINSTREL HAL, 585 Broadway.— TRE BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Fourteenth street.—ENGLisu BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 st, between 6th ana 7th ave.—BRYANT's MINSTBELS, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NxG@RO ECoENrTRIcITIES, BumLsegus, ac. PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth at: Detween Rd and $d avenues EQUESTELANISM, AO.” AMERICAN-INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, Third avenue nd Sixty-third street.—Open day and evening, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, October 13, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, PaGE, AAdvertisements. 2—Advertisements, 3—Wail Street Yesteraay: Exciting Drama in the Stock Exchange—Stoppage of the Stuyvesant Bauk—The Wall Street Markeis—How the insurance Companies are Affected by the Chicago Fire, 4—Ciucago: No Renewal of the Fire; The City ‘Tranquil; Sheridan in Control; Seventy Boaies in the Norgue; Relief Coming from All Quar- Se er: 5—Aid for Chicago Sufferers (Continued from Fourth Page), G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Chicago Disaster—The Crisis in New York and the = Fimancial Condition of the Country”—Amuse- Ment Announcements. 7—Fire and Flood: Terrilic Confagrations in Micht- fan and Wisconsin—Additional About the Vhicago Fire—Yachting § Matters—Miscella- neous felegrams—Business Notices. 8—The City Trouvles—The Ingersoll Case—Man- damusing Green—Proceedings tn the Courts— day Gould asa Bondsman—Protestant Epis- copal Convention—Commercial Report. 9—Domes‘ic Markets—Advertisements, 10—Invasion: A So-Called “Fenian Raid” on Can- ada—Mr. Seward at Home—The brednan Soctety—Shipping Intelligence—~Advertise- meats, 11—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements, “Iv 13 aN Int Winp tHat Biows Nosopy Goop.”—A morning contemporary says it has seen no more ‘‘cheery reading” since the beginning of the Chicago calamity than the announcements of insurance companies whose advertisements crowd one of its advertising pages. THe PouricaL Leavers oF Sparn indi- cate a desire for a more intimate union in the cause of their country. Espartero and Sa- gasta, with others of brilliant name and excellent reputation, are about to aid in the revision of the political platform go as to ren- der it more comprehensive and national, and, consequently, more acceptable to the people at large. This reads ominously for King Amadeus. - General Grant's Boston ReEcEptioy.— General Grant suggests that the entire sum— twenty thousand dollars—appropriated by the Boston Common Council for his forthcoming reception be passed to the relief of the Chi- cago sufferers. If this shonld be done there is no doubt the patriotic citizens of the Hub would raise by private subscriptions more than that amount to properly entertain the Chief Magistrate of the country. It 1s MELANCHOLY To REFLECT that while Governor Baldwin, of Michigan, was writing bis proclamation asking the people of his State to respond to the call for the relief of the suf- ferers in Chicago a vast portion of bis own State was being devastated by the fire furies ; whole villages were desiroyed, many lives lost and hundreds rendered shelterless. The horrors of some of the scenes in Michigan almost rival in intensity those that have been described as having occurred in Chicago. Gexerat O'NEWML, THE FENIAN, crossed into Canada at Pembina, Minnesota, on Mon- day, with a force of Fenians and attacked and seized a Canadian custom house and the post of the Hudson Bay Company. They were promptly overtaken and atiacked by United States troops and General O'Neill was cap- tured, The folly of this undertaking is enough to disgust all sensible Fenians, as well as men of other views, on the subject. As for Gen- eral O'Neill, bis capture near the Vermont border by a United States official, his trial and sentence to imprisonment, and his pardon, are too fresh in the memory of our people for bim to have veniured on so foolish a move- ment, It is quite possible now that he will get a sentence that will stick, for bis persistent mis- leading of his credulous countrymen and his chronic inclination to get the United States government into hot water. ‘ Tag Pouiticians AND Ciicaco’s Ca- LAMiTY.—How is it that we see so few of the names of prominent politicians among the lists of subscribers to the Chicago relief fund? Where are the municipal authorities of New York? If her city treasury has been unwarrantably depleted the pockets of the principal magnates.are certainly not. Where is Tweed, with his many millions? Where is Comptroller Connolly, with his many more? Where is Sweeny? Where is Judge Hilton? Where is Deputy Compiroller Andrew H, Green? In short, where is the Tammany Ring and the ring of the Committee of Seventy? Where is Honest Tom Murphy and bis Custom House ring? Come, gentlemen, let us have the ‘‘ring” of the true metal in this deplorable crisis in the affairs of weiat was once one of the most fourishing cities in be country. The Chicage Disaster—The Crisis in New Yerk and the Fisancial Condition of the Country. - > There is an old saying that it is the last feather which breaks the camel’s back, and this, perhaps, is not inapplicable to the great disaster at Chicago and the financial condi- tion of the country. That calamity may prove the additional weight, which, bearing upon an unhealthy and abnormal state of things, may prostrate many business establishments and create a financial revulsion. We hope it may not be so, but there are indications of coming evil, A sudden loss of seventy-five millions, a hundred millions or more of property, whatever the amount may be destroyed at Chicago, would at ‘any time produce a disturbance of the money market; but under ordinary circumstances, when business and the financial condition of the country are g00d, there would be no great revulsion. Both the resources of the country and its recupera- tive energies are extraordinary, and the effect of such a catastrophe under a favorable state of things generally could only be temporary and limited. At present, however, there is Treason to fear the consequences may be more serious and wider spread. We would not ex- cite unnecessary apprehension, and think, really, that the general estimate of the loss at Chicago is much too large; yet we caution business men and the public to be prepared for the worst. It is evident from the perturbations in Wall street that the capitalists and speculators there are in a state of trepidation. We may say, indeed, there is a panic. Money is scarce and at a high rate of interest, and stocks have gone down with arush, In fact, the effects we see are far greater than that one cause of the Chicago fire, though that is doubtless the moving or stimulating cause. We must look for other causes as well for the existing financial pres- sure and general apprehension. The eight or more insurance companies in this city that have either failed or suspended will proba- bly place some of the banks in a critical situ- ation, Indeed, | it was understood st night that the Stuyvesant Bank had suspended, and it was said several other banks were likely to follow. There is no telling how far the crash may extend, But, as was said before, we must look to other causes for this state of things beside the Chicago fire. Let us look, then, at these other proximate causes, as well as at those more remote and general.. The banks of New York have been extending their loans of late beyond the limit of prudence for speculative purposes. The average loans in September amounted to three hundred and ten millions, whereas the usnal average had not exceeded two hundred and sixty millions, Here was an expansion of fifty millions. The banks have, consequently, been brought to the verge of their reserve, if, indeed, they have not gone beyond, They bave been accommodating their friends for stock speculations upon fluctuating or ficti- tious values. We have over and over again and for some time past warned them of the danger of expansion, of the peril they run in aiding the stock speculators. They are now ina dilemma. Stocks generally have -fallen from ten to twenty-five per cent, and some more than that, since the bank expansion cul- minated two or three weeks ago. If they call in their loans now they would precipitate a crisis in the market. Of course they are afraid to do this. Then, again, can they bear the pressure and tide over the still declining market? Every way they are in a critical situation. A more remote but direct cause of the trouble now in the money market, and of the greater trouble portending, is the miserable financial scheming and operations of the Secretary of the Treas- ury. He has been intent on making political capital for himself and the administration, by floating a loan for refunding a portion of the debt, without regard to, or knowing anything about, the financial condition or prospects of the country. He flooded the market with money at one time for this purpose, and brought it down to two per cent interest. It was just at this time that he and the adminis- tration organs made a loud trumpet blast, which sounded from one end of the country to the other, about the wonderful succesa of the new loan. This was claimed to be the acme of financial ski. But it did not bring down the capitalists of Europe or this country. After the screws had been put to the national banks, and they took seventy millions of the new loan for conversion of the six per cents they deposited as security, the Syndicate was con- cocted for placing the balance of a hundred and thirty millions out of the two hundred millions of new five per cente. The loan thus assigned to or taken up by the Syndicate was a drug on the market from the first, and Mr. Boutwell has been straining all his efforts to give it character and keep it afloat. In doing this he bas kept the money market inflated and stimulated bank expansions and stock speculations, At last the reaction has come, Mr. Boutwell cannot keep gold down nor gov- ernment securities up to the point where the loan can be floated or the debt refunded ac- cording to the conditions of the act of Con- gress, He has, in fact, fearfully demoralized the financial affairs of the country and the money and stock markets, without accom- plishing the object he had in view, Among the other financial embarrassments now existing or that are imminent it is not unlikely that the Syndicate may fail and have to throw up the five per cent paid in on the hundred and thirty millions of the new loan or on a portion of it, It will be remembered that the bankers who subscribed for the twenty-one million loan dated January, 1861, threw up fourteen millions of it and lost the five per cent paid in on that amount because of the secession movement. They preferred to lose seven hundred thousand dollars to running the risk of losing more in the disturbed condition of the country at that time, The Syndicate may yet find itself in a similar dilemma under the crisis that seems to be pending and through the wretched mismanagement of Mr. Boutwell. The Secretary, to ust a rather vulgar simile, bas been cutiing his own throat by attempting to float the new loan and to bolster up the Syndicate through tampering with the money market and stimulating expan- sion ahd speculation, But there are other causes for the present financial trouble and threatened crisis, and of a more general character, These we have NEW YORK HERALD, importations, and the continual drain of all the specie we raise, as well as the export of bonds, to make up the balance of trade against us, Mr, Boatwell has imagined that his enormous receipts from imports, keeping the Treasury filled to excess all the time with un- productive capital, showed a happy state of things. He has been dreaming of specie pay- ments when every dollar of spscie we could extract from the mines, or that could be raked up anywhere, except that which is used by the merchants to pay duties and by the gold gamblers, goes abroad to pay oar constantly increasing indebtedness to Europe. How can we expect to be in an independent condition financially, or to keep values steady, when we are at the mercy of foreign creditors and our debts abroad are constantly aug- menting? What we really want is reduced taxation to the lowest point for an economical administration of the govern- ment, so that industry may be stimulated and our products raised and brought to market at less cost. Everything is too high and on & scale too extravagant. The enormous revenue raised by the government is mainly the cause of this state of things, Then the profits of the trade with foreign countries go abroad for the most part because the government will not afford the opportunity to increase our ship- ping; in truth, it isa most humiliating fact that our shipping is declining every year. In short, the whole financial and economical policy of the government, which has been chiefly suggested and sustained by Mr. Bout- well, is a failure, and is dragging the country into embarrassment more and more every year. We know not how far the present crisis may go, but if we can bridge it over, even, there is little hope of permanent stability and improvement till our whole financial policy is changed and a more able man is placed at the head of the Treasury Department, The Bonaparte Cause and the Late Elec- tions in Fraace. So fur as we know the result of the late elections throughout France for the Conseils Generaix, it is difficult to pronounce on the success of the different parties, The reports are somewhat contradictory. Itis noteworthy that the Bonapartist and legitimist journals do not boast of victory, All the other par- ties claim majorities, Another noteworthy feature in the news is that the Presse deplores “the low standing of many of the men elect- ed.” One journal warns the authorities to be on their guard, lest the Bonapartes should attempt another coup d'état. Altogether it is not yet quite clear which of the parties is to triumph in the end. It-is undeniable that the character of the Conseils Generaux will, toa large extent, determine the character of the French government which is to come. It consists with our certain knowledge that while there is not a majority throughout France in favor of any one of the forms of government proposed, the Bonapartists are strongest as a unit, They are not so powerful as the legiti- mists and Orleanists united; but, although they are not making any show of their strength, they are stronger than the legiti- mists or the Orleanists when taken separately, By not merging their differences the Bour- bons have committed a grave blunder. They have lost a favorable opportunity, France begins to be impatient for some fixed and stable form of government, as it is universally felt that the Thiers government is but a tem- porary expediency; and it is this impatience which inspires the imperialists with hope. The republican party ought to have had more success, It does not seem, however, that their hour of victory has yet arrived. Tue Latest Reports From Cntcaco.— The sad work of digging out and burying the dead is still going on in Chicago, and the cheery work of rebuilding the city awaits only the moment when the ashes are cool enough to handle, In the meantime an im- provised city of a hundred thousand people has arisen on the adjoining prairies, and the undismayed merchants, bankers and news- paper proprietors of the city are temporarily arranging to carry on their business in huts or shelter tents, or, if exceedingly for- tunate, in cottages or basements, The mar- vellous energy of that strange community that made Chicago originally is bent on re- making it, and in~-all the prevailing distress the people take consolation in the thought that it shall be rebuilt much better than before, The relief supplies are arriving, order is well preserved by General Sheridan, and time and the cheery heart of Chicago are all that are now needed to bring back the magic city to its old site more beautiful than ever, The scenes and incidents of the fire are de- tailed fully in our special despatches in other columns. Presipent Grant has issued another pro- clamation against the Ku Klux in South Caro- lina, He warns them to disperse within five days and deliver their arms, ammunition and uniforms over to the United States marshals, The President has issued one or two proclama- tions similar to this in relation to the South Carolina Ku Klux within the last six months, evidently being loth to bring the full power of military law to bear upon them in view of the very effective work beiag carried out by the United States courts in North Caro- lina against Ku Klux in that State. But if the Ku Klux of South Carolina wear out his patience they will discover that he can use very strenuous measures as well as issue warning proclamations. Mr. Lester WALLACK, with his accustomed promiptitude, comes to the rescue of the Chicago sufferers with a check for one thou- sand dollars, which he handed in to the Heratp fund yesterday. He says that he intends to give a performance for the aid of the sufferers, but that as time is especially money in the present instance he cannot wait until the performance to contribute his offer- ing. The dramatic professionals in this city have shown themselves characteriatically generous in contributing to the relief fund, PaaR itin ce NANNIES Boston Senps A CoMMITTeE, consisting of three prominent and worthy citizens, to Chi- cago to co-operate with the authorities there for the relief of the suffering people, The committee is backed by the bone and sinew— the ‘‘sinews of war” especially—of the Puritan City, Thigjs a good way to reach a proper understanding of Chicago's great sorrow and ascertain how ii best may be alleviated, tee of Seventy and Deputy Comptroller Green. We havo a few words of advice for Deputy Comptroller Green and the Committee of Sev- enty, to which we seriously advise them to give their earnest attention, instead of suffer- ing themselves to be influenced or guided by the suggestions of political adventurers who desire to turn the present reform movement to their own selfish purposes, or by the silly vaporings of English journalists who know nothing about Americans or American institu- tions. In carrying out the efforts to secure municipal reformation two points should be borne steadily in mind—first, that every step taken by the friends of honest government must be in strict conformity with the law; and, secondly, that in rectifying past abuses the present interests and the future prosperity of the city must not be made to suffer. New : York is a law-abiding city and has a reputa- tion for order and high civilization upon which no stain must be allowed to rest, Time and again the great metropolis of the Western Continent has proved her readiness and her power to crush out with a strong arm the first attempt to plunge her into anarchy; and promptings calculated to lead to such @ deplorable evil can only emanate from the most reckless of political rowdies or from foreigners who are educated in the belief that a republic is only another name for law- lessness and ruffianism. The citizens of New York are mainly sensible business men, and they can readily detect the difference between an Lonest desire to expose and punish official misconduct anda disingenuous effort to em- barrass and cripple the government for politi- cal purposes, There are only two methods by which our present municipal administration can be legal- ly changed, short of voluntary resignation or the expiration of the several terms of office— the one by impeachment of the Mayor and heads of departments as provided by the law; the ofher by legislative action, The Repub- lican State Convention declared its opposition to efficial corruption in general terms, although it untortunately failed to denounce those mem- bers of its own party who have been bought up like cattle in Albany, session after session, by the New York democratic leaders, The Democratic State Convention virtually turned out the New York delegates, denounced the depravity of the city government, struck a fatal blow at the organization of Tammany, and laid down a practical plan for a complete remodellisg of our municipal laws and admin- istration, It is certain, therefore, that the next State Legislature must perforce bestow upon New York the entire and sweeping reform she so much needs; for, whatever party may be successful in the election, the members of the next Senate and Assembly dare not refuse to enact the laws necessary to secure that result, and the Governor is not likely to veto such a. measure, The Committee of Seventy appears to have given up all idea of attempt- ing to solve our present difficulties by the im- peachment of the city officers. Indeed, the slow process ot the courts and the ample oppor- tunities afforded to a defendant to delay a judgment, would preclude the hope of reaching a result until after the commencement of the next legislative session. The stupid blaster- ing of the English-edited 7imes about an effort to get rid of Comptroller Connolly by impeach- ment before the election of next month is, of course, the result of an Englishman’s igno- rance of o}r laws and customs. It seems cer- tain, theréfore, that we must wait and hope for the relief to be extended to us from Albany, when, with a new and effective charter, placing power and responsibility where ,it belongs, in the chief executive officer of the city, who is himself directly accountable to the electors, the citizens of New York will enjoy the opportunity to pass their own verdict upon the conduct of their present rulers, There is no other legal road to the end sought to be accomplished by the Committee of Seventy, and hence there is no other it can safely pursue. What is to be done in the meantime with the city government? The politicians and the partisan press aré urging Deputy Comptroller Green to withhold all appropriations from the public departments until after election, They believe that by throwing men out of work, by stopping contracts, by turning Park police- men adrift, by crippling the Fire Department, the Health Board, the Croton Board, and by discontinuing all park, boulevard, avenue and street improvements they can deprive Tam- many of votes and elect themselves and their friends to office. Now we warn Deputy Comptroller Green and the Committee of Seventy that this is both an unwise and a dan- gerous course to pursue, The people did not enter upon this reform movement as parti- sans, and they care no more for one political faction than for another in carrying out the end they have in view. They desire to stop all improper expenditure and all dishonest application of the public money; but ‘they do not desire nor will they suffer scheming politicians to compass the stoppage of the wheels of government, the injury of the city’s credit and the serious damage of public property to subserve any political ends. If Ingersoll and Garvey have been allowed to plunder the city treasury in the past that is no reason why the Departments of Docks, Parks and Streets should be embarrassed in their legitimate works and thousands of laborers turned out of employment. Deputy Green has a double duty to penform—to guard against the waste or misappropriation of the people’s money and to see that the city gov- ernment is properly supplied with funds and the public credit maintained. He cannot per- form the one and neglect the other and yet hope to retain the confidence of the citizens, Our advice to the committee and to the Deputy Comptroller is, not to suffer themselves to be made the tools of political adventurers and not to use their power to gratify pique, resent- ment or jealousy. The moment they become {dentified with political intrigue or personal malice they destroy themselves, Are they now entirely free from such influences? Unica is in a quandary, She wants to raise ten thousand dollars in aid of the Chicago sufferers on a city bond payable in 1872; bat this action conflicts with the letter of its charter, This is rather a slow way of doing charitable thing, Why do not the citizens of Utica come forward like those in less wealthy localities and raise by voluntary sub- “FRIDAY, OCTUBER 13, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. frequontly referred to, Look at our excessive | A Few Words of Advice to the Comm!t-’| scriptions a handsome sum? Where are Horatio Seymour, Senator Roscoe Conkling and other opulent politicians? No “pent up Utica” should contract their powers in this dire hour of a sister city’s distress. P. S.— A philanthropic citizen, Theodore F. Paxton, has come forward and cashed the Utica city bond and added five hundred dollars as private donation. The Suffering Pooplo from the Western Prairie and Forest Firee=Thoy, too, Call for Relief, but How Mucht We bave from time to time, for weeks past, called the public attention to the disastrous fires which, in the prairies and forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota, have destroyed millions of property of all descriptions and have made thousands of people homeless and destitute. From the despatches which we publish on the subject this moraing it will be perceived that these fires, especially in the forasts of Michigan, are still raging and burning out from bouse and home hundreds of people and reducing them to the dangers of starvation, Such is the report to the Secretary of the Treasury, of yester- day’s date, from O. D. Conger, M. C., and J. H. Sanborn, Collector of Customs at Port Huron, on Lake Michigan, They say that “the people in many cases have been driven into the lake to escape burning,” and that over three hundred of these poor people have been picked up already and brought into Port Huron, and they ask authority to use the steamer to cruise along the lake coast ex- pressly for the rescue and relief of other suf- ferers as far as possible. Of course the Secre- tary has given the order requested, and doubtless the steamer will do a vast amount of good in the line of service suggested. But this is‘ mere drop in the bucket; for, we repeat—aud it can hardly be repeated too often— that there are hundreds of families, if not thousands, including large numbers of women and children, in the States of Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Minnesots, Iowa gnd Ne- braska; and ia the Tertitory of Dakota, who, from comparative abundanéé id comfortable homes, have been reduced by these sweeping fives to the verge of starvatign. These suffer- ing people call for help; for, scattered about over the prairies, in detached families, or as solitary wanderers, and remote from the cen- tres and railway lines of traffic and travel, they are in danger of perishing before they can reach assistance, or before assistance can reach them, We, therefore, call upon the local or United States officials in or near the “burnt districts” of the States and the Territory indicated to report to the office of the New Yorx HeRatp the extent, as far as they know, of the sufferings resulting to the inhabitants of their burnt districts, and their immediate wants, so that they, too, may share in the benefits of the universal spirit of charity which this overshadowing Chicago calamity . has awakened, We are glad to believe, from the relief pour- ing in, that there isno danger any more of any extreme suffering from want of food or clothing among the houseless people of Chi- cago; but there is danger of death to many, from starvation or exposure, of those homeless wandering sufferers of the prairies. Bat if their sufferings are not known to any who can help them, how are those poor wanderers to be relieved? They must perish. The post- masters whose offices are nearest to the districts desolated by these prairie and forest fires will therefore be doing a good service to their fellow citizens by making known through the New York HERALD (which is at their service) the extent of the sufferings, within their knowledge or belief, entailed upon the settlers rendered houseless and homeless by these desolating forest and prairie fires. American Jockey Club. The racing at Jerome Park has been of the finest description as the autumn meeting pro- gressed. To-morrow we expect to witness still more of the grand amusement in all its excellence. The ball opens with the race for the annual sweepstakes, two miles. This is for three-year-olds, and the nominations num- ber seventeen, The second race will be for a purse, distance one mile and three-quarters. The third event is also for a purse, with weight penalties for previous victories, one mile and aquarter, The fourth race is the Champagne Stakes for two-year-olds, distance three-quar- ters of a mile. This stake closed with seven- teen nominations. The fifth is a selling sweepstakes, distance one mile and an eighth. The sixth and last race of the day will be the Grand National Handicap Sweepstakes, dis- tance two miles and three-quarters. The nominations for this event were nineteen in number, and only three have declared out, leaving a field of sixteen. Those who have accepted the weights imposed by the handi- capper will make a grand field, and the race should be one of the best of the meeting. The following is a list of the favorites in each race at the American Jockey Club rooms last ey a SWEEPSTAKES~Monarchist first, By the Sea second, Denison & Crawlord’s entry third. THE MILE AND THREE-QUARTER PURSE—Harry bagsett first, Jadge Durell second, Finesse third, THe PURSE WiTH WEIGHT PENALTIRI—Madame Dudiey first, Lizzie B. second, Impecunions third. TRE CHAMPAGNE STAKES—Meteor first, Gray Planet second, Concelt third. THE SELLING SwREPSTAKES—Felicity first, Ca- dence second, Ratan third, THE GRAND NATIONAL HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES— Babcock’s entry first, Sanford’s entry second, Tele- gram third, Tat Cmicaco Rewer MEETING IN Lox- pon.—The meeting which assembled in Lon- don in response to the call of Minister Schenck, to aid in the movement for the relief of the Chicago sufferers was a grand success, Americans and Englishmen combined in the cause of a common charity, A sum of ten thousand pounds sterling was subscribed in the room, Chicago merchants whose estab- lishments have been burned down attended, They were received with demonstrations of the most kindly respect and liveliest spmpathy, We report the proceedings of the assemblage by cable telegram in the HERALD to-day—one of the most pleasing uses which has yet been made of that subtle agent, electricity, the everyday subordination of which by the great newspaper press of America has already gone Tue Rewter Feecine is pervading New Eng- land at this time just as the war feeling did when the Union was in danger. The Boston Young Men’s Christian Association, with its numberless eub-agencies on the system organ- ized during the war, is being set again in motiog for the bengfit of the Chicago sufferers, i NER en SE ene Se Ae en eS ES SA SLE WE OE Te ak Se Sete Sasi es The {ntornational Yacht face for thd America’s Cup—The Controversy Closed. The obstacles that were so unexpectedly: and unfortunately cast in the way of a race for the America’s cup between a representa- tive vessel or vessels of the New York Yacht Club and the English yacht Livonia appear now to be happily removed. Commodore Ashbury has at last consented to race the seven races offered him, on the further con- dition, however, that in case of a tie in the first six races the seventh or deciding race shall be run over a course of his own selection—namely, the light-. ship sea course, and not, as the club proposed, over the course on which they should thoem- selves decide. The New York Yacht Club, determined not to cease their efforts to ac- complish a match and to meet the demands of Commodore Ashbury, have waived their right to name the deciding course and yielded to this new condition, It is true-there still re- Jains the technical and immaterial point as to what olub or clubs Commodore Ashbury may claim to represent; but as that gentleman is at liberty to present the cup, should he win it, to any club he may select, this question will not, of coarse, be suffered to stand in the way of the contest. We may therefore reckon upon a series of interesting matches, commencing on Monday, the 16th of October, and continuing’on alternate days until the whole series shall have been run, and every American will say, with hearty good will, “May the best yacht win.” This happy result having been reached, it fs unnecessary to notice Commodore Ashbury’s long communication, published to-day, more especially as it is mainly a recapitulation of a controversy already worn threadbare, We may point out, however, one or two facts which dispose of his claim to race at this time as the representative of any English club except the Royal Harwich. His first cable despatch to the New York Yacht Club was clearly a challenge to race ita champion vessel either the expiration of the néseasary tix mont Me ine or sooner if the club would consent to waive Such notice, But if there should be any doubt as to whether a challenge was intended it is set at rest by the explanatory cable despatch, | numbered ‘‘five” in Commodore. Ashbury’s selection, which says, in reply to an inquiry made by the New York Yacht Club, “I pro- pose racing for the Cup in October.” To this despatch the following response was sent :— “The New York Yacht Club consents to waive the six months’ notice and accepts your challenge as representative of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club to race for the America’s Cup in October.” The challenge had come from Commodore Ashbury, who was known to represent the Royal Harwich Club. - The answer was sent to Commodore Ashbury, and accepted his challenge as the representa- tive of that club, Indeed, at the time of the receipt of this acceptance, so plaia in its terms, Commodore Ashbury, according to his own statement in his present letter, did not repre- sent any other club than the Royal Harwich, | “had no positive knowledge” that he could ob- tain the authorization to represent any other club, and was afterwards actually refused that, of the Royal Cork Club. Commodore Ash- bury could not, therefore, have sent a chal- lenge to New York on behalf of any club he did not represent, and the specific waiving of the six months’ notice by the New York Club could not have been in favor of a club which did not through its representative challenge them until long after the date of such special concession. If Commodore Ash- bary did not recognize the waiving of the required notice and the acceptance of the challenge as in favor of the Harwich Ciub alone, as it in distinct terms stated, then it was clearly his business to set the New York Yacht Club right upon that point. Besides, if he had eventually been refused the cer- tificates of all the clubs, which he then “had no positive knowledge” that he could obtain, what would have been his course? Would he in that case have pretended that he had sent no challenge at all to New York, and that the acceptance of the New York Yacht Club was not an acceptance of a chal- lenge from his own club, the Royal Harwich? We are confident that when Commodore Ash- bury reflects upon the untenable nature of his technical points he will not allow a mere quibble to prevent a contest which he has himself invited, At all events, race or no race, it is well that the New York Yacht Club bas brought to a close a correspondence of which all our citizens are heartily tired. An Ivpious BLASPHEMER, while the fire fiend was raging in Chicago, harangued a multitude from the steps of the Court House, inciting to disorder. He cried out, ‘Where is your God? Where is your God now? Where are your God’s angels now?” A policeman grabbed him by the collar and con- fined him in the basement of the Court House. What became of the blasphemer is not known—the Court House was soon after con- sumed—but God's little angels are now beat- ing a tattoo at every heart in the land, arousing the people to deeds of the sublimest charity toward the perishing inhabitants of the stricken city, Mr. Sewarv’s Wercomz Homg.—Our vende erable and universally respected statesman, Mr, W..H. Seward, on his return to Auburn yesterday, from his ‘‘voyage au tour du monde,” met with an honest, old-fashioned welcome home from hie ‘friends and neigh- bors,” and in response he made them one of those appropriate and happy off-hand speeches of his which are as grateful to his hearers as they are creditable to the distinguished orator. Having followed him on his travels, and re- ported the honors accorded him from point to point, from Auburn to San Francisco, from Japan to British India, to Egypt, Turkey, Italy, ! Germany, &c., to New York, we need only here repeat our frequently expressed wishes, that in the quiet shades of his peaceful home he will devote a portion of ‘‘the evening of his’ days” to a narrative of his great expedition ;/ for ithas been an expedition abounding in the materials for a book which ought not to be withheld from the world. No Wastz,—The local authorities and rev sponsible citizens of Chicago should see to it thatthe generous means flowing in upon them from all quarters are judiciously distributed and husbanded, in order to weather through the Jong wiater that is close at hand, ‘