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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. sAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROYRIETOR, Volume XXXVI. -No, 299 NTS THIS AFTERNOON my EVENING, BOOTHS THEATRE, 28a st., between 5th and 6th ava, — GUY MANNERING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hrte—-A FAVoRITS Fanor. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets. —Lonp DUNDRRARY, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Sth ay, ana 9d st— Buuren OGR, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 720 =P: Ovega—FLeUx Ds TuR, SrentEn yy AavOR ¥IFTR AVENUES THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tur New Drama or Divorce. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur BALLET PAN- TOMIME OF HUMPTY DUMPTY. ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broad- way.—PRIMA DONNA FOR A NiGut, &. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broaiwa: AGGRAVATING SAM-—THE NERVOUS WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broaawa ances afternoon and evening—T! ACADEMY OF MUSIC. *Geanp Vaninry EN BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUS La Favoriva. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Divorce. and Uta street.— AN, corner 30th st, —Perform- HR OOTOKOON. 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Page, (Advertisements, 2— Advertisements. 3—City Politics: Republican Ratification Mecting at Cooper Institute Last Night; Letters from Senators Conkling and Fenton; Fierce Denun- elation of the ‘“ammany Leaders—State Potitics—Letter of Senator Sumner to the Colored Convention im Columbia, S. C.—The Municipal Mudide: The Com- mittee of Seventy Showing Their Hands; Suits Instituted Against William M. Tweed; Charles O'Conor Interviewed—Buuer and the Horton Heroes—Chicago Afairs—Disaster on Lake Michigan—News from the Pacific Coast—Virginia and Tennesse» Railroad. 4—1be Chicago Fire: Starting Vevelopwents; The Origin of the Conflagration a Mystery; A Ro- Mace of the Fire; Ald for the Sufferers; Athericans Abroad—The Forest Fire Funa— The Fires in Western New York—Rail Car Casualties—National Insurance Convention— Suspension of the Lamar Insurance Com- pany—Russia’s Representative: The Emperor Anxiou3 tor Tidings of His Son—Brooklyn Atairs—Jersey’s Mystery Explored—Esca’ from Sing Sing Prison—The Westfield Vic- tims—Murder in New Jersey—Naval Intelli- gence. : S—Political: The Canvass in the Rurai Districts; A oe ep Vote Expectea—Running Note:—Poiiti- cal and General—New York City News—tor- ere Explosion in New Orieans—Oar Public ‘arks: First Annual Report of the Park Com- missioners; What Has Been Done to Beautily Our Breathing Places—Murder in Michigan— The cCviton Lobby and the Washiugton ‘Treaty—American f#ibie Union--New Publi- 5) 1a Central Railroad—Yellow Fever in Charlesion. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “Ihe Kepuodl.cans at Cooper lasiitule—The Coming Battle aud the Prospect in the City and the state"— Amusement Announcements. 7-The European Crowns—News from EI Scotland, Austria and France—Denmark Prussta—The ‘Treaty of Washington Bonapartes—The South Paciic—Bri West Indies—South Carolina frou! Califoraia Vigilants—Bloody Chinese Riots in Los Angelos—Thanksgiving Proclamation— land, nd NEW The Republicans at Cooper tustitutc—The Comtng Battle and the Prospect in the City and the State. The republicans of the city of all the cliques and factions held last night a Union ratifica- tion meeting at Cooper Institute, of the pro- ceedings of which we give a report in another part of this paper. The particular attraction advertised for this meeting was that Senators Conkling and Fenton would both be present and among the speakers appointed for the oc- casion—two men supposed to be as widely separated on the question of the spoils as “Boss Tweed” and “Jimmy O’Brien.” But neither Conkling nor Fenton made his appear- ance. Both were expected. Either would have been welcome, especially Fenton; but both were unavoidably absent on ac- count of other enazemants, you know. The next best thiag, however, towards a re- conciliation of Conkling men and Fenton men, Murphy men and Greeley men, in the absence of the two Senators, the inside and outside representatives of the New York republicans, was the choice of Horace Greeley as chairman of the meeting— a distinction whisk Some ne the venér- able professor of agriculture and the meeting great satisfaction. The large gathering ap- peared, too, as if inspired by a common pur- pose against all the powers of Tammany, and by a common desire to sink all personal griev- ances or factions squabbles in the paramount object of Tammany’s overthrow. But notwithstanding this apparent harmony and patriotic inspiration at Cooper Lustitute, there is not much of either enthusiasm or harmony among the party leaders, cliques and factions, city or State. For instance, the Standard, « Grant organ, says, “We can never fight Tammany unless we unite. Tam- many is as defiant as ever it was, and its Opponents are as much divided as they have been at any time within four years;” and then “there is a multiplicity of tickets among Tam- many’s opponents, and this is just what Tammany wants.” The Times, Conkling organ, is also somewhat dubious, for it says that ‘‘the cordial assistance of Mr. Fenton and his friends in the present contest would undoubtedly be of the greatest service, and we hope there will be no stab delivered at the republican cause this year by its professed friends,” and that ‘to see the strength which is now arrayed against Tammany frittered away for want of combined purpose would be spectacle too deplorable to stand . :tiently.” The Tribune, Greeley anti-Grant organ, says, “We have no doubt that our next Legislature will be republican; we greatly fear that it will not be incorruptible. Hence our para- mount anxiety is rather to keep corrupt and mercenary republicans out of the Legislature.” Hence Mr. Greeley advises his friends to vote “inexorably and openly” against thieves who “may have bought or begged republican nominations.” Doubts, divisions and suspicions, it will thus be seen, prevail in the republican camp ; but this advice in regard to republican thieves who may have “bought or begged” a nomina- tion is the unkindest act of all; for the de- voted rural friends of Mr. Fenton and Mr. Greeley will be apt to construe it asa hint to give the democratic candidate the preference for the Legislature in every case against a republican known or suspected to be a thief or YORK 1871. Mr. Fenton has broken ground in a speech at Jamestown in support of the repub- lican State ticket. Mr. Greeley, on this ticket, it may be said, has shaken hands with Collector Murphy at the Cooper Institute; but your disappointed politician is a slippery cus- tomer, and when most urgently needed is most likely to turn up among the missing in the battle. : The success of the republicans in this State contest will be a triumph for General Grant in being the ratification of his strong endorse- ment by the Syracuse Convention, Are the Fenton-Greeley faction to be relied upon in this work? Yes; if they are prepared to re- cognize the general voice of the party from Maine to California in favor of Grant as the party standard bearer for 1872. No; if Mee Renton and Me. Greeley. stil sotertain the delusion that they may get a new shuitle, cut and deal of the cards in the national party convention. In short, considering the fact that the Fenton-Greeley faction are disap- pointed office-seckers, and have little or noth, ing to expect from General Grant, we do not expect them to put themselves to any incon- venience in assisting the General to carry this State election. This suspicion is widely entertained. It is certain that there are numerous personal feuds and factious divisions among the incongruous elements Opposed to Tammany in the city, and that while doubts and misgivings prevail concern- ing the republicans of the interior there are no doubis as to the unity of the democrats throughout the State. And so the political situation in the State is changed. A few weeks ago it did appear as if the republicans and reformers of all sorts in a combined move- ment would carry everything before them. To-day, notwithstanding this Cooper Institute republican union meeting, the chances appear to be in favor of the democratic party, includ- ing Tammany Hall, Chancellor Beust on the Lateruational. A special despatch to the Hrratp—which we publish in this morning’s issue—informs us that the Chancellor of the Austrian empire is preparing a note, which he intends to address to the different governments of Europe, in re- gard to the International Society of Wo rkmen. The Prussian government has also taken up the subject, and the Iaternatignal is to receive the attention of the Prussian Parliament, Emi- nent jurists and special functionaries, we are told, are at the present time engaged in draft- ing a law which, when framed, will be sub- mitted to the Reichsrath for adoption. From this it would seem that Austria and Prussia are determined to take active repressive Measures against the great socialistic society, whose ramifications extend all over the Con- tinent. When it was first hinted that the Em- perors of Germany and of Austria would meet for mutual conference it was openly avowed that the principal object of their meeting was with reference, to the increasing influence of this very society, These avowals, although coming from well authenticated sources, both in Berlin and Vienna, were in HERALD, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1871—TRKIPLE SHEET, The Probable Discovery of the Pole. | rest till that is done; for (to borrow a fre- The recent telegrams announcing the first | quent quotation of Humboldt’s), fruits of Polar discovery by the North German bees * Sm ceaseless changes, seeka the unchanging expedition are highly interesting verifications of American researches, Just as Columbus | A French Retrospect af Napoteon’s Diplo- inferred the existence of continent in the far macy. west from the tropical wood he saw drifting France is emphatically a country of teadi- into the Canaries, physical geographers have | tions, The very “gloom of the glory” which long since argued, from the drift wood of the was, and which has now faded away, appears West Indies picked up on tho coasts of Spitz- | to be more dear to the minds of the French bergen, that the Gulf Stream penetrates the people than the very pressing realities of the mysterious periphery of the Pole. {n the far | moment which is upon them. They live to a famed and memorable expeditions of Dr. Kane | great extent in the past, and use the weapon the existence of an open Polar sea was dis- | of q deceitful logic against the consequences tinctly announced as the result of his explora- | of facts which have been fully accomplished. tions and afterwards reiterated by his | Such being the case we are not at all surprised followers. But in Europe the honor of this | by the contents of a cable news telegram from great discovery was persistently denied the | Paris which appears in the Heraup to-day. American geographer, and, after his death, | The French are now, ander the inspira- through the influence of those who envied him | tion of some ‘high personage”—who it is the glory, a veil of incredulity was thrown | may be easily inferred—endeavoring to over his narrative and the open Polar sea | explain the negotiations which preceded the spoken of asa myth. It now seems that the | war which took place between Denmark and Germans, after the inpis of Rear Crows | the alied powesg of Prusyia gud pus in years, are beginning to appreciate the labors | the year 1866. ‘This i is connate’ of Kane and to learn that there is some credit | through the columns of the Courrier Diplo- to be given to American enterprise. matique, England, as is alleged, proposed at But, while to Dr. Kane belongs the honor of | that period, through the Queen’s Minister in the first discovery of the open sea around the | Paris, the project of an alliance offensive and Pote, the physical hypothesis upon which its | defensive between France and Great Britain existence was first demonstrated also belongs | for the support of Denmark against Prussia toan American. During the progress of the | and Austria, The united forces were to act by Japan Expedition, under Commodore Perry, | sea and on land. ° Napoleon was to have as an the flay-officer of the squadron ordered a sur- vey of the waters and currents of the Western Pacific, and committed the charge of it to Cap- the coast of Formosa, the powerful Karo Scivo, or Japanese Gulf Stream, which drifted his against a furious storm driving it to the south- ward. It became at once evident to this saga- as the fatter, and that both these immense heat-bearing rivers in the ocean were inces- santly discharging themselves into the Polar Basin. Carpenter theory of oceanic circulation announced last winter, the American seaman argued for tue mild temperature of the Polar Basin due to the hydrostatic or bydrody- namic interchange of waters from tbe Equatorial to the Arctic circle, and even went 80 far as to suggest the possibility of steaming to within a few hundred miles of the North Pole by following the Gulf Stream with the water thermometer. At the time this hypothe- sis was announced it was received with little favor abroad, and not much more at home, until last year, when Professor Carpenter him- self endorsed it, and when Dr. Peterman, of vessel for several days to the northward | was lost during the interval. Anticipating by several years the | hand—to reveal his policy in the Prusso- equivalent for his aid in the operations the privilege of rectifying the French frontier by the annexation of a portion of the Rhenish tain Silas Bent, who discovered, in a gale off provinces of Prussia. Bonaparte hesitated. He required three days to consider. The plan was then accepted; but the force of France When the fact of Napoleon’s acquiescence was made known officially to the British Cabinet Earl cious officer that the Karo Scivo was a stream | Russell replied that it was “too late,” as Her of equal or vaster volume than the Mexican | Majesty's goverament had decided not to in- Gulf current, and that the former was as hot | terfere in the case of Denmark, “AIL is vanity,” says the preacher, Eurl Russell and Lord Cowley tickled Napoleon's vanity by thelr proposal, This caused him to show his Dauish question, He did so and was defeated, just as effectually as was his warrior uncle at Waterloo when Wellington's order, ‘Up, guards, and at them!” rang out along the British line. The French should have con- cealed this correspondence, but there is no accounting for national predilections or popu- lar foibles. Another Mormon Exodas Threatened. A despatch from Salt Lake informs us that a Mormon leader has threatened that, in case there be any more convictions of Mormons by the United States authorities, the Saints will Gotha—the projector of the present German | burn their property and make another exodus. expedition—published the results of thermo- | Howsoever these fanatics may be regarded on metric deep sca explorations in the waters lying | the score of morality, they certainly are no between Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen. The most recent and trustworthy investigations collected by the indefatigable Peterman— whose labors were upsetting all his own turn denied ; and it was as confidently stated that at the meeting of the potentates the In- ternational question was not atall brought up, | or, if brougit up, was only discussed inci- \ dentally. The subject now is up again, and we find the Austrian Chancellor playing a a Conkling man. At allevents, from the mul- tiplicity of tickets, parties, cliques and fac- tions, into which the anti-Tammany elements are divided in this city and in Kings county, and from the fact that there is anything but harmony between the Grant-Conkling-Murphy men and the anti-Grant-anti-Murphy friends of The Fires in Wes New Yorke Amvee. | Fenton and Greeley in the rural districts, we menta—Business N: 8. are inclined to the opinion that Tammany will S—benedetu's Defence:—History of the Franco- Prussian War—ihe Board of fiealth—av tempted Suicide of an Alleged Counterieiter — Pro-eedings in the Courts—Pubitc Instruc- ton—Rosenzweig on Triai—Aquatics—‘ieavy Burgiary at Woodbury, Conu.—Marriages and Deaths, 9—Financial and Contmerctal Reports— Domestic Markets—The Cotton Movement—Base Ball Notes—Swaliowing a Forged Check—Adver- tisements. 10—News trom Washington—Protestant Episcopal . “op, Yention—Churcn Electioneering—shipptug: x Inteitigen’e—Advertisements, yertisements. We. vertisements. Governor HorrMan has named November 23 as a day of thanksgiving in the State. Tue BRAZILIAN GorFeuMENt has formally promulgated aah emancipation law in the ter- tig! fF the empire. The members of the uedictine Order of Monks immediately lib- erated their sixteen hundred slaves. The slave shall go free, and “4the laborer is worthy of his onal OS fi Exgcrion Fun 1n Perv.—The Peruvians are about to have a goveromental election, qp Lima, A telegram from that city infyems us that the resident foreigners and (many Peru- vians are engaged in collectig a three days’ stock of provisions in thetr dwellings, as it will be unsafe to go O'%¢ of doors during the period of voting, The Cabinet introduced soldiers into che city and disguised them as policemea. ‘To this complexion does it come,” in some instances, from the use of the ballot. Nose se hs Tuk Avsrrias Empire tends more and more towards decentralization daily. Party squabbles and Ministerial jealousies take the place of a statesmanlike consideration of the difficulties which surround the Crown. We are told to-day by cable telegram from Vi- enna that Count Hohenwart will resign the Presidency of the Council if Bohemia refuses to send Deputies to the Reischrath. Will this effecta cure? The revolution of 1848 was staved off in Vienna by a royal declaration given to the people from’a window of the palace in the words, ‘‘Metternich has re- signed.” The day for such expedients has passed. Democracy has progressed wonder- bully ia Europe since. + Bex Breer delivered his lecture in oppo- sitlon to the Treaty of Washington in Boston last evening, and as a telling stroke of diplo- macy bad the captqig and crew of the recap- tured schooner Horton afraiged on seats to the rear of him, At a preconcerted cue in his speech, calling on these men to stand up aod show the people what manner of men they proposed to consign to British dungeons, the seven sait sea heroes rose up and somewhat sheepishly faced the large assemblage before them, It was a very effective piece of clap- , trap, but Butler will have to get up something ven more pathetic and startling before he can | Grant in the Re died as te his much-degired scheme of | as to assist General Grant and the Custom war ou Boglaud, carry the city, and that even with the dead weight of Tammany the democrats will carry the State. The April election in Connecticut, the August election in North Carolina, the Sep- tember elections in Maine and California and the October elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa all show that on the platiorm of General Grant's administration, as contrasted witn tag panicipal administration of Tam- many, the républican party has been gaining ground, and that in the States named the, party is united under the standard of Gener>” Grant for the Presidential succession — But this rule will not apply to New Fi, Sinse the breaking ap of the political firm of “Seward, Weed & Gr seley,” in the Republi can Chicago 90" vention of 1860, the party this St ‘has been divided into two factions, 9"a under General Grant's administration the dividing line between these two factions has become more sharply defined than ever be- fore. These two factions are now the Grant and anti-Grant wings of the republican camp. The recognized chiefs of the Grant wing are Senator Conkling and Collector Murphy, and the chiefs of the anti-Grant wing are Senator Fenton, Mr. Greeley and Rufus Andrews. The great trouble lies here—General Grant is a candidate for the Presidential succession ; but so is Mr. Fenton (though he would be sat- isfied with the Vice Presidency), and so is Mr. Greeley, and he has it on the brain. The fight at the Syracuse Convention was not so touch a fight between Conkling and Fenton or between Audrews and Murphy as a fight of Greeley against Graut. Mr. Greeley's game for the Presidency actively began with his tour to Texas. That was {o get ¢ South, Next he made his agricultural tour to Minné- sota—that way for the purpose of laying a good foundation among the farmers of the West. Then came the important test of the New York Republican State Convention. If he could carry that against General Grant he could fight Grant and might, perbaps, cut him out in the national party convention of 1872. All this may appear extremely ridiculous, but it belongs to the history of the politics of the day. The experiment to get New York committed against General Grant was tried by Mr. Gree- ley, under cover of his city delegation at Syra- case, and it was a failure—a complete failure, But what dees that signify now? We see, from the course of our sorely disappointed philoso- pher since the Syracuse Convention, that his wrath is not abated against Murphy; that he believes he was cheated at Syracuse by Conkling, and that he is at least as firmly re- solved to do all he can to defeat General publican Conveation of 1672 leading part in the matter, Count Von Beust, we are told, is about to address the governments of Europe a note on the subject of the International, praying, it is presumed, that they would exert their influence in suppressing that organization. It is diffi- cult to imagine what effect such an appeal would have on the statesmen of Europe. The difficulty of complying with such a request is obvious, There is not a government on the Continent that regards the International bat with disfavor if not actuat dread, Its growth and increasing influence are the suvjects of alarm, but how to stunt th< one and neu- tralize the effects of the ‘other are questions not easily answered. 1, eycry department of labor and indv-'t.y the society has its follow- ers and i “,avocates. Closely identified with the tr de unions of the Continent, and these Ur’ ced with similar organizations in England “and in this country, it possesses a widespread power not easily encompassed, The Austrian statesman recognizes this by the very appeal he makes, He desires that all governments will co-operate to crush the International. What response will be made to his appeal? Neither England, France, Italy, nor Spain, we feel satisfied, will care to meddle with the subject. In fact, these countries are not in a position to do so, In Russia greater vigilance may be adopted and closer watchfulness exercised; but what will all this avail? The subject that moment it tampers with the indus- tries of the nation and trouble will ensue. The same remark applies to Holland, Swit- zerland has nothing to fear from the [nter- national, Indeed, it is difficult to believe that any other course than that of ‘‘masterly inac- tivity” will bs pursued by the varions govern- ments appesled to for the suppression of the International bugbear. In Germany we feel satisfied that Bismarck will touch the question very gingerly. German workmen are thinkers, what they consider their right#, How Count Beust intends to deal with the subject at home we shall watch with interest, and with not a little misgiving as to the final regult, The discordant elements within the Austrian em- pire to-day are numerous, and it is not im- probable that this last move may have the effect of increasing the already existing dis- sensions. The International is patient and plodding, secret in its workings and revolu- tionary in its tendencies. It only strikes when it finds a weak «pot, aud it scrutinizes very of at least one buodred and twenty miles, and a@ temperature of fifty-four degrees Fahren- theories—show that on the west coast of Nova | from Nauvoo thirty years ago. Zembla the Gulf Stream maintains a breadth | of children has sprung up among them since fools, as they would show themselves to be by acting as above suggested, The fact is these Mormons are in an altogether different situa- tion now than when they made their exodus A generation that time, each one, no doubt, claiming some share in the property of his parents and having heit, cooling down, at depths of thirty or forty | acommon interest in saving it from destruction. fathoms, oniy from four to six degrees. Other observations charted by the German geogra- pher conclusively establish a Gulf Stream tem- perature of forty-one degrees Fahrenheit in still higher latitudes, although there have been always occasional ice drifts, difficult to pass. In this country maoy were anxious that Captain Hall should test the Bent theory, now popularly known as that of the ‘‘Thermometric Gateways to the Pole.” But it is, perhaps, Opposition to burning and destroying may naturally be expected from this quarter, Moreover, if the Mormons determine to make another exodus, where are they to go? There are not many more wildernesses to conquer on this Continent; for since the Saints first set- tled in Utah the railroad and telegraph have brought all sections of our country together, and made, as it were, one family of the whole people. One railroad already crosses the Coatinent; others are under way, American better that Captain Hall should not have | and before many years a grand longi- attempted it. To cross the seas between | tudinal railway will coastitute the iron hack Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla should be | bone of the Continentfrom Hudson Bay to the attempted only by a thorough sailor, and one, | Isthmus of Darien. The Mormons will, there- like Sir James C. Ross, fully acquainted with | fore, find themselves hemmed in on all sides ice belts, It took Sir James, when breaking | by the vast improvements of the age, and through the ice belts around the South Poie | finally be obliged to succumb or be dispersed at one time not less than forty-six days, | like the lost tribes of Isracl. The Mormons from the 18th of December, 1841, to the 2d of | cannot afford to make another exodus. Their February, 1842, to work through an ice stream | grown up children, to say nothing of their of about five hundred miles in width; but he | many wives, will not consent to it, and none was rewarded by finding on the other side a | but a few old superannuated elders, who are great open sea free of ice. of no particular use anywhere, will form the Modern geography is intensely interested in | grand caravan that will start for the new discovering what lies beyond that ice belt | Promised Land. Our advice to the Saints crossed by Ross in the Antartic regions, which | and sianers of Mormondom is, stay where you all navigators before him—Cook, Balleny and | are, adapt yourselves to the spirit of modern even Wilkes—had believed and emphatically | progress and civilization, obey the laws of declared to be an impenetrable barrier to | morality aud of Uncle Sam, love your neigh+ | further progress toward the South Pole. Ac-| bors—not their wives—as yourselves, and | cording to common prejudice, be should have | you will surely reap and enjoy the blesaed moment the Belgian government touches the | and your thoughtful laborers are jeulous of | and cold as be advanced Poleward ; but this ciously anticipated. The Prilllant anticipa- tions of Ross were not ! and, after breaking through the ice-wall which | threw itself'as.u cordon around the Pole, be | found an open sea, in which he could sail with- | out difficulty thousands of miles. In the first year, after emerging from the ice belt, there was to be seen “nota particle of ice in any direction from the masthead,” and on the very next day the gallant explorer descried Victoria Land, with its lofty volcanic cones towering to the height of Mount Blanc, and thus ‘restored to England the honor of the discovery of the southernmost known land, which bad been nobly won by the intrepid Bellinghauseo and for more than twenty years retained by Russia.” There can be liitle doubt if such a persé- vering and skilful sailor as Ross could now take a steam vessel, armed with an ice saw at her prow, into the sea between Spitabergeo and Nova Zembla, where it is penetrated by the Gulf Stream with its potential thermic properties, that a brilliant geographival dis- covery would crown the experiment, The closely to discover weaknesss, Possibly it may be this very fear which animates Count Beust at this time to exert himself, and with the full knowledge of Austria’s weakness be- fore him be attempts a hazardous undertak- ing, the failure of which may add to the per- plexities which crowd thick and heavy on the emplre of Francis Joseph. Scounorets in the shape ol impostors soliciting aid for Chicago have made their ap- pearance in Syracuse. Beware of them. The best way for the charitably disposed to do is to send their contributions to some well-known and responsible parties, aud pay oo attention House in their campaign agaiast Tammaay of | to itinerant solicitors, ice belt once broken through the sieamer would have but little difficulty in making ber seaway to the highest latitude reached by Parry on foot, and the sight of the Pole itself recompense the explorer. It isa remarkable coincidence, confirming the reports of the North German expedition, that Ross and Kane, at different times and at the earth's antipodes, observed the fact now telegraphed of “the seas swarming with whales.” Further intelligence will be awaited with liveliest interest, There is evidently much reasou to hope that either the American or German expedi- tion will solve the long-shrouded mystery of geography, The scientific world will never | was by no means the cage, a8 Ross saga- 5 found a steady and progressive ‘increase of ice | reward of the faithful. Tuk Disaprornrep Bonapartes.—In spite of all the agencies, press management and “Teappoloted, | Hiahulactitad a4w3 ts {295F The cadve of the fallen Bonapartes and to bring them back to power they seem to fail everywhere on French territory. The latest news shows that even in Corsica, the birthplace of the family, where Bonapartism was supposed to be in the ascend- ant, Prince Napoleon has been defeated as a candidate for the Supreme Legislative Council of the island. The Prince was so disap- pointed that he made a violent political speech at Ajaccio on Tuesday. Talk of agitators, why, these Bonapartes are the most active and irrepressible of disturbers and disorganizers! They bave ever been the enemies of peace at home or abroad when their ambition was to be gratified. Lets hope the French people may have learned wisdom from the past and will henceforth do without these would-be demi-gods and masters of France, Tue Enerisn Preuss THE CHICAGO Fire.—The latest numbers of the English papers at hand contain long editorials on the recent disastrous fire in the Garden City of the West. Surprise and sympathy stand promi- nently in the comments of the English jour- nals. They express the conviction, however, that great as is the extent of the calamity, the irrepressible energy of the American people will be equal to the disaster, and that Chicago will rise again from its ashes greater than ever, purified by the flame, and seeking in the future a more glorious destiny than that which favored it ere the misfortune which strewed its streets with blackened ruins robbed its inbabi- tants of their property and their wealth. Jaoos Tome, the republican candidate for Governor of Maryland, is making « quiet but thorough canvass of the State, He is not at all regarded as 9 “musty Tome.” ane eegieen ae Tue - Cuinene Riots in California. The account, * Chinese riots in Los Cal., reads v ery ma like some of the account of negro riot in Ku lux neighborhoods im the South. A couple of hinamen, it seems, quarrelled and fought, and one %ot the other, The officers of the law, white u.'2%, or Ku Klux, so to speak, went to arrest the ,*ur' vive ing heathen, when they were violently’ as- saulted by @ swarming horde of the pigtailed: barbarians, who used guns and pistols and routed the officers at once, killing one—a citi- zen, who had been called upon by the officer for assistance—and wounding two others, Thereupon a mob of white men collected at once—just as the Ku Klux always do—at- tacked the Chinese quarter, met with a slight resistance, which only aggravated them to greater fury, and finally, having captured the whole Chinese quarter, hanged fifteen of the Celestials and arrested the remainder, Just as in the Ku Klux accounts, the terrible colored men, who always start the row, got all thé casualties and were all arrested, and then the excitement was allayed and order restored. "24, Pu Boe ews Go It seems to us from the particulars of this affray as we gather them by telegraph that the ‘‘Chinee men” of California, like those of Belleville, N. J., the other night, bave discovered that they bave rights under the fifteenth amendment which left them some- what above the degradation and oppression that the Bill Nyes in the West and the coarser mass of laborers in the East insist shall be their portion. They don’t interfere in elec- tions, and although quite an influential minor- ity, especially on the Pacific Coast, they hava never yet bronght their reserves to the aid of any political party or banded themselves to- gether for political purposes. They are, in fact, condemued on both sides. Democratic and republican conventions both denounce Chinese cheap labor, evidently for the purpose of winning the votes of the Bill Nyes of each party. But John Chinaman has had new light let in on him, and if anything finally leads him to the ballot box or persuades hin to mass his sixty odd thousand pigtailed votera at the polls in defence of his rights, it will be just such mob law proceedings as the civilized citizens of Los Angeles have chosen to take against him, When parties flud that John can cast a vote as well as Sambo, and can work cheaper, then they will remember him mora kindly in their platforms and arrest criminals of his kith with more regard for the due pro- cesses of law. In the meantime John is fust learning to see things in that light. The Forest Fires and the Welcome Rains The long drought which has been drying up the earth for the last twoor three months has extended over an immense stretch of country on our Continent, and its effect has been dis- astrously marked in many spots by great forest fires. The burning woods of Wiscon- sin and Michizan, with the millions of pro- perty and hundreds of lives destroyed, the ravages of the fiames among the woody mountains of California and of Virginia and Maryland, and the threatening fires in the wooded ranges of Northern and Westera New York, as valuable in their ancient beauty and grandeur as an old English demesne, and as thrifty and bustling with human life as a New England village—these dot out over a wide range the points where the drought has been most severe. The tinder-like dryneas of the earth and grass and forest trees haa been the one compelling cause of the groat destructiveness of these fires. We hope that the rains of October, from the promising opening of last night, will be so ex- tensive and liberal as to extinguish all these forest fires frum the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Tre Presog has vot yet arrived, He may come to-day or to-morrow, aud some old men of the sea think that he may not arrive for several days. The committee suggest that on his arrival the city be given as fine a gala ap- pearance as possible; that flags and bunting be lavishly displayed along the route of march and on the shipping in the har- bor, The suggestion is one that will cor- dially commend itself to our citizens. Whatever the bond of sympathy between us and Russia may have sprung from, it is a strong one, and our people are willing to pay hearty honors to a son of the Czar, which they would not accord to any other Prince in Europe. Besides, a good first impression is everything in matters of this sort, and as he will have to encounter the dreary outlines of Castle Garden and our rotten docks on bis ar- rival it is highly desirable that the unhappy depression of spirits sure to ensue therefrom be at gage overcome by the gore and more imposing display on Broadway. Tue RosENZWEIG Case was called on yesters” day, and the Inevitable difficulty of finding citizens enough who had never heard of the case to forma jury was encountered at the outset, When we get a Legislature willing to take leisure enough from jobbing to rectify so palpable an infraction of the spirit of free institutions as our present jary system the law will, doabtless, be so arranged that a notorious case may be tried on its merits by intelligent citizens conversant with the facts. Until then we shall have the usual law's delay lengthened out by this tedious duty of packing juries with the ignorant men of the community. In the present case the delay commenced on Monday, but was rather unexpectedly ended yesterday, the counsel for defendant having a right to only five per- emptory challenges, and Recorder Hackett having ruled in favor of a more intelligent jury than the notoriety of the case might have suggested, The trial proper will commence to-day. THE NEW YORK HERALD IN PENNSYLVANIA, (From the Germantown (Pa) Telegraph, Oct, 25.) ‘the New YORK HERALD 1s clearly a@ great ne was paper, So far as news from every quarter of the world is eoncerned it has no competitor. Its core respondence, telegraphic and otherwise, ts without @ paraile: in journalistic history, Its numerous editorial writers, too, meet every question that arises promptly and ably. Tho Hekaty may have its peculiarities, but it has its exceilences in a greater degree, Ita advertising custom 1s alioad of ali other journals in this country. Tt issues daily a supplement filled with solid advertisements whea te does not issue @ double shest of sixteen pages, wich 1s usually the case once a week, cignt of which pages are filied in like manner, It secucra this Custom Without headings as big aw a tat, OC Sup epecial headings at all