The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ——— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEWING. Opxzea—Fi.nun DETR. FIFTR AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street. Tux New Dnava oF Divorce, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux BALLET Paw. romime or Humpry Dow ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty. ya street and Broad- way.—PRima DONNA FOR 4 N1@) 0. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ani 18th streat.— Tur Busyuony. NEW Cabinet Councils and War Properations in | its scabbard. France, for many years her England—The Troubled Condition of Eu- | faithful ally, was crushed and dismem- bered, and England could only look on, take From a special cable despatch which we comfort from the words of her Prime Minister print this morning we learn that the English Cabinet during the last week have been in ses- sion not fewer than five times, that the foreign and bless the “‘sireak of silver sea.” It now begins to be seen, however, that this state of things has lasted long enough. Prussia, or, +++-No. 304 | policy of the government bas been the main | “ther, Germany, has become the bugbear of topic of discussion, that nothing is to be left Europe, and even Great Britain is no longer undone which Is likely to give force and effi- | #tisfled that she is safe. A little more suc- LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 730 Broadway.—Faencu | ciency to the army, that war material is being | °¢** for Prassia on the Continent, and the accumulated and that for the purpose of giving | British Isles may look out for aot s “threat- the proseat government a firmer hold upon the | ©74” but an actual invasion. Tt is quite country extensive ministerial changes are con- templated. ° manifest that in the early future Europe must pass through the agonies of another dreadful We are not disposed to attach too much im-| War. Germany is not yet « unit, and Bis. portance to this piece of news. Cabinet coun- cils in London are not uncommon at this sea- woos MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- | gon of the year. Grouse and deer shooting ances afternoon and evening—THE BOY DETECTIVE. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Orrea—Faust. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., between Sth and 6th ava, — Guy Man STADT THEATRE, Srason—Danr BLANC! Fourteenth street.—ITaLian Nos, 45 and 47 Bi *—OPE es jowery" BA BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Crtun—Tvgn Him UT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston strecis.—OUR AMRRICAN Cousin. GRAND OPERA HOUS EILEEN OGe. PARK IHEATRE, opposi ‘THE Track. corner ot Sth ay. ana 23d st— MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATSE.— Divorce. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth at. and Broad- way.—NFG EO ACTS—BURLESQUE, BALLET, &0, THEA’ COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Coutc Vooau- yeM8, NYG)O ACTS. &c. STEJNWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.--ORaTORIO OF ELuan. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL Ha: 585 Broadway.— Tar SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELA, spite ets BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSK, 33d 94, between 6th and 7th ave.—BRYant's MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NE@no EockNTRicI TBs, BURLESQUES, 40.—Matines 234. ° and gentlemen, having had their trips to the north and having enjoyed their shooting quar- marck is impatient to crown the edifice. Russia, rather than Ausiria, stands in the flict between Russia and Ger- ore or less involve the whole of Is England once again merely to The popular sentiment says ‘‘No.” tera, are now either in London or gradually | Bismarck may revise Poland if he will; Aus- gravitating thither. close at hand again. The theatres, ball- The London season is | ‘tia may retire to the Lower Danube if she pleases. But if « hand is laid on Turkey, or rooms and private parties begin to olaim and | Sweden, or on Denmark or on Holland to receive attention. The gossips, male and Britain must draw the sword. It is stated female, are busy ; and amid the buzz and hum | With some authority that in the event of any of conversation at the clubs and elsewhere alliance and that and the other grand social scandal, the ‘“#laneur” overhears iniorest- | take possession of Ezypt. further attempts being made to change the map “City Hai, Brookiya.ox | Tegarding this and the other coming family | Of Europe in the interest of any of the great Powers the British government will at once Egypt is necessary ing talk about politics, about the situation in | them as the highway to their Indian em- England, about the state of affairs in Europe, about Russia’s resolve and Bismarck’s next pire, and many of the statesmen of England are of the opinion that had Lord Palmerston move, and about the figure which Great Britain | 2°W been living and full of vigor the land of is now cutting in the general affairs of the world. Mr. Gladstone, we know, is now ma- turing his plans for his next campaign; all are anxious to know whether another session the Pharaohs would be under the control of an English Viceroy. It is quite possible, as we have said, that these Cabinet meetings have been held quite of Parliament is to be devoted to the court- | ®% much for the consideration of domestic as ship and conciliation of Ireland, and whether SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, 8 Fifth avenue.—Cat- | England, once so proud, so strong and so Lin's INDIAN CARTOONS. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth atreet.—SoENgs tN THE Ring, AcROBATS, 40. AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, [hurd and Sixty-third street.—Opea day and evening. sacs TRIPLE SH New York, Tuesday, Octever 31, 187L. EET. ee CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, ‘Paces, EW 1—Advertisements, ments. Jockey Club: Third Day of the An- eeting at the Pamlico Course—Ficet- Park—Kingston Races—City, Kin; and State Politics—Running Notes, Political and General—The National Game— The Last Legal Quibble: Charles O'Connor's Reply to the Opinion of Geor; Us—Lecal Matters. 4—The Resignation Canard: The “Boss'’ Still Head of the Department of Public Works; He Will Run for the Senate and Fight to the Bitter Kud—Around the City lalli—ingersoll, Garvey and Woodward—Ttie Swlen Voucn- ers: iargerty ana Baulch Indicted in the Court of General Sessions—The Sinking Fund: Meeting of the Board of Commis- sioners—The Other Side: A HERALD Com- missioner in the Banuer District of South Carolina; What He Saw and Heard; Ne- Have Full Swing and Whites No ow—All Hallow Eve—A Doctor Accused of Ontraging a Patient. S—Proceedings in the Courts—The Bonard Wil Case—Emptying Ludlow Street Jail—The Fisk- Mansfeid Seusation—Card Playing and Stab- bing—Funas for the Fire Victims—-Yeliow Fever in Charieston—Sports in the West: Fight with Notorious Gambiers and Des- peradoes—Donneily’s Laoings—Custom flouse Courage—Financial and Commercial Re- ports—Domestic Markets. G—Lditorials: Leading Article, “Cabinet Councils and War Preparations in England on whe Troubled Conditiun of Europe’—The Wea- ther—Aruscment Announcements, FeImportunt from Engiend—France and Eng- lund—Russia and Germany—ihe War on Poly- gamwy: The Great Work of Reiorimation Fairly Begun; Government Backing Up the — Judiciary—Niscellauious —Telegrams— Music aud the Drama—The New dersey Murders—A Victory jor boken— Personal intelligence—A Human 'gel—Ke- respected, is to be further humiliated by the of foreign affairs. But it is not to be denied that the unsettled and menacing state of things on the European Continent lends to wretched and niggardly economy of whigs and them an importance which is not to be lightly radicals; and so, things being as they are, five esteemed. We are willing to hope for peace, Gabinet councils in one week are not so much | but the war clouds are numerous and thregt- of a wonder, after all. At the same time it is not to be denied that when cabinet Councils are being held almost every night in the week, and that, too, when Par- ening. Bat Free Trade or Protection iu Earope—‘l. Thiers’ Ultimatum to Engtand. President Thiers is about to drive the ques- liament is uot in session, the gossips and idlers | tion of free trade or commercial protection to are not without excuse when they come to the conclusion that something is in the wind. For arriving at such conclusion they are the more | telegram to-day. excusable that questions for Cabinet con- sideration, both in regard to home and foreign affairs, are more than plentiful. demands the restoration of her native Parlia- ge Ticknor Cur | ment and refuses to be satisfied until she sees revived those proud days when Burke and Grattan and Flood thundered in the legislative halls of Dublin, Scotland demands that her Education bill be no longer trifled with, and to growl because of the neglect the nation is experiencing in the Parliament of the empire. loudly of the certain and early fall of the monarvhy, of thé esiablishment of 4 repunlte | and of ihe not distant day when the President of the British republic shall hold his recep- tions in the stately halls of Buckingham Palace. Mr. Gladstone, feeling the force of the popular sentiment—liking and yet not lik- ing it, yielding to it and resisting it at one and the same moment—finds himself in a dilemma from which all his eloquence and intellectual subtlety cannot extricate him. At Aberdeen and at Greenwich his language was equally strong in his denunciation of the home rule port of the Boara of Supervising luspectors of Steainboats—Local and Suburvay Matiers— Views of the Pasi—Business Notces, G—The Laie Moitis and Lesex Ratiro: jaughter— The t River Bridge—city Government— Marriages and Deaths—Ad vertisemenis, B—Advertiserents, 30—Europe: Emperor William's Speech at the Opening of the German Parilament: Popular Agttauious Turoughout Engiand—News from Waslington—stipping lu teuigence—Adver- usements. 41—Advertisements. 12—Adverusemeuts. “Sigu No More, Lapres, Srcw No Morx,”— The Prince is coming; but still we can’t exactly say when, because we don't exactly know where he is just now, you know. Tne Taxpayers who have Should remember if they wish a rebate of interest they must have their checks in at the after to-day no rebate will be allowed. —— Bort Sies.—Carl Schurz, it appears, has succeeded in starting a “new reform” party in Tennessee, which already bg been joined by ‘teeny mon who fora, on both sides dur- ing the Tap “Let Carl go-ahead. aN Coo. Huxprep Trovsanp Savkp ON Taat.”—Such was the cool remark of an old campaigner when informed yesterday that Tammany had abandoned the idea of a graad torcblight procession this fall, “because it would look like a funera! procession. Cacaco appeals for the destitute in Michi- gon and Wisconsin, From her own ruins she asks help for her destitute neighbors. Fifty thousand people are ruined in the world’s | 1,44 tenure system is no longer intolorable, to | objection urged on that point, but that goods, and mny are crippled and disabled by the great fires in the woods of the Northwest. Let not the appeal go unanswered. Taxry Srick To Ir.—The unreconstructed secesh leaders of Georgia and Alabama stick to it that the national democratic party, if they adopt negro civil equality and negro suffrage in 1872, will deserve to be defeated. With or without these amendments, we suspect the Grand Sachem of the Ring has settled the question. AN Orper ror tae Arrest of James Fisk, tr., has been granted on the suit of Josephine Mansfield-Lawlor. That energetic female seems determined to get those letters into Court and into public notice, and from the zeal and discretion with which she presses her case we are driven to the opinion that she not yet paid up | have referred. movement in Ireland, in his threats against the obstructive House of Lords and in his de- termination to carry the Ballot bill. Then again, Mr. Disraeli and his tory followers, im- patient of the continued popularity of the whigs and jealous of their great and growing power, are zealously courting an alliance with the workingmen. It will not surprise us to learn that this flank movement of the author of “Coningsby” and the ‘‘Sybil,” sup- ported, as it is, by many noble lords and not a few rich country squires, has quite as much to do with these frequent Cabinet meetings as any or all of the other causes to which we Cause, however, for Cabinet anxiety is not limited to home affairs alone. Since the death | Pre® Tax Office hefore two o’clock this afternoon, as of Lord Palmerston the foreign affairs of the British empire have been left very much to themselves. What Palmerston was fifteen, twenty and even thirty years ago, Bismarck is today. The glory of the Foreign Office bas departed. Downing street is no longer a {error to the nations. What Mr. Disraeli said some few yeats ago, very much to the disgust of proud and self-confident Englishmen, has become a literal truth. England has ceased to be a Buropean and has become an Asiatic Power. Mr. Gladstone has not by any means been an unsuccessful Minister. No Prime Minister of equal ability ever gave himself so heartily to the work of domestic reform. Ireland will long remember him aa one of her greatest benefactors. If it is no longer her privilege to curse an alien Church, and if her Mr. Gladstone must be given all the praise and allthe glory, If Scotland and England have not the same cause for grati- tude, it has to be said in Mr. Gladstone's favor that he has never been unwilling to lend a patient ear to those who suggested improvements, and that all the accumulated evils of centurles cannot be removed in a day. In his foreign policy Mr. Gladstone has been less fortunate. In history his name will live as the successor of Lord Palmerston; but the historian will have to confess that daring the six years which followed Lord Palmerston’s death England not only lost the proud place which she so long held in the front rank of the nations, but sank until she became contemptible, For at least balf a century her voice was all but omnipotent on the Continent is the most formidable adversary the Grand Opera House chief has yet encountered, expe- rienced as he is in litigation, Inpictments have been found against Hagerty and Baulch, the alleged voucher thieves, by the Grand Jury, charging them with burglary in the third degree. Among the great rascals of the Ring now undergoing the processes of the law these two are rather small game; but if a trial of them can deter- mine whose was the master mind that impelled of Europe. Now what nation on the Conti- nent is so poor as to do her reverence? Mr. Gladstone's fine phrases have not wholly reconciled the British people to his peace at any price policy, nor have they convinced men anywhere that the glory of England has not departed. What changes to Eogland’s burt have taken place within the last few years! Denmark was invaded and wronged, and England dared not or would not speak. Austria was humbled and driven out of the German Confederation, and England was si- Ireland | Bonaparte and Cobden. an absolute issue between France and England. as will be seen by a HeRatp special cable The French statesman adheres (o his recent ultimatum on the subject of the non-renewal of the trade treaty of This course of policy on the part of France may produce the most serious consequences to the existing industries of the Old World. It will primarily revolutionize the present money averages of the British manufacturing capitalists, and thus still more disturb the questions of wages, prominent Scotsmen in the great centres begin | house ronta and taxation in the United King- dom. To the French people it will bring an advance in the cost of many foreign textile Mr. Bradlaugh an@ his fellow agitators talk | fabrics and articles of hardware to the use of which they have become accustomed during the Yéars of the enforcement of the arrangement. It will, however, cause @ more profase con- sumption of home manufactured articles, and thus open employment for a larger number of hands in France—a consideration of first ne- cessity, it may be, for M, Thiers. The initial point of this great forthcoming international European agitation will be better understood by a perusal of the statement of England's position on the treaty renewal subject, which we append to our special news report to-day. Prince Gortchake® in Berlin. A Heracp special telegram from Berlin, dated in the German capital yesterday, reports that Prince Gortchakoff had audience of the Emperor William on Sunday. The intexpiew, which was strictly private, was of a very lengthened duration—unusually so as it ap- pears to us from the wording of ovr despatch. The Russian statesman was received by Prince Bismarck yesterday. The utmost privacy was maintained on this occasion also. Gortcha- koff arrived in the Prussian capital last Satur- day. The object of his mission permitted of no delay, evidently, as the hours of the Sab- bath were devoted to its fulfilment. What that object was it is impossible to say just at ent, in consequence of the manner in which it was presented to the German mon- arch, and subsequently to his trusted Premier, The rank of the men engaged in these personal conferences gives assurance that the subjects which were spoken of were of the very highest importance. The essen- tials will be developed in due time. When that period arrives it is probable, more thaa probable, perhaps, that Europe, the East, ay, even the great republic of America, will be astonished at the consequences of these im- perial audiences in Berlin. Cuantes O’Conor has replied to the opinion put forward by George Tickuor Curtis relative to the right of the Altorney General of the State to prosecute the Ring for crimes com- mitted against the people of the city and county. He admits that there may be a legal " | to existing circumstances, ‘The Philesephy of Oar Great Firce. Backle’s theory of moral and criminal epl- demics seems to find « new illustration in the large series of startling disasters which have jo this country within the present same calamities have revived the great question of the Middle Ages, as to was the destroying of ancient Hebrews. But as this is the time for absiract discussion we need no notice of those points than to thet with us Gre, in one form or an- other, has been the chief destroyer ; bat much } as it bas done, it is not so bad as an epidemic pestilence. This it were easy to show by referring to the devastalions of the plague, as described by the most reliable historians, ancient aed modern, The rain produced even ram, or cagnon. None will deay, on reflection, that it is better that one hundred and Gfty millions’ worth of property, or three hundred millions’ worth, should be destroyed, than that two-thirds, one- half, one-third or even one-tenth of the inhabi- tants of a populous city sbould be put to death in such @ manner as to render them loathsome to those to whom they are most dear, That 80 large & proportion aa the two-thirds of the population of a great city should be de- steoyed may well seem incredible; but we need not go beyond Florence for an example, and Florence was thus stricken down in the days of her greatest glory. Thea, as to the moral effect of those scourges on the sur- vivors, all the great fires of the world have not produced so much demoralization, It was in order to illustrate this, amd oot to make any exhibition of his courage or contempt of death, that Archimedes uttered his famous apothegm. When informed that Syracuse, the beloved city he had saved more than once by his learning and genius, was in flames, and that he would soon be consumed if he did not immediately seek refuge in flight, the only reply of the philosoper was, “That is true, | for it is the nature of fire to act in a circle,” There is much more science and philosophy in this brief remark of Archimedes than is ap- | parent at first view ; it is also more applicable Whatever may have been the immediate causes of our great j fires and great explosions, both the latter have occurred in accordance with laws which were as much in force in Sicily two thousand years ago as they are to-day in the United States. If there were not insurance com- panies then to be defrauded by means of the incendiary torch, a certain class of people coveted their neighbors’ share quite as much as the same class do now; and nothing— except perhaps high official positioa—atfords @ more favorable opportunity for peculation than a great fire in a wealthy city. If it be denied that incendiaries, like other malefactora, act in a circle on the Archi- medean principle; if the progress of science in our time requires that we go beyond the surface of things to discover the causes of so many great igneous catastrophes, is there not fire enough in the earth still to destroy dozens of cities? Precisely because we claim to be ® scientific and thoughtful people we ought to remember that extensive forests, and even monntains, in a state of conflagration are no new phenomena, If it is not proved that forests have taken fire spontaneously during unusually hot summers in Russia and other parts of the world, it is beyond dispute that the slightest accident has set them on fire. Upon the other hand, the intense cold and almost perpetual snow of Iceland cannot cool its boiling springs. It may be asked why should either the solar heat or the terrestrial heat become so much more intense and destructive this year in cer- tain parts of this country than it has ever been known to be before? But the simplest treatise on geology will answer the question. It is only necessary to bear in mind that the internal sea of liquid fire is constantly advanc- ing in one part and receding in the other ex- actly as the external ocean does, This may account for the increased or diminished tem- perature in any locality without assuming that the solar heat has undergone any change. It was in accordance with this law that Sir Charles Lyell found the temperature of the northern shore of Lake Superior considerably higher than that of the southern shore at midwinter. Then it seems the tendency of the igneous sea was towards the Canadian shore. If it now evinces more partiality for our Western country there is nothing in the fact that ought to overwhelm us with astonish- ment, True, this theory does not account for disasters like the explosion of the Staten Island ferryboat ; but, having explained that phenomenon on a former occasion, we need not allude to it any further now than to ob- serve that the Westfield catastrophe also was the result of natural causes, those causes assuming in this case the forms of avarice, greed, ignorance, dilapidation, rust, &c. is only the legal quibble which small lawyers with a hopeless case would be likely to entertain. The Attorney General and his assistants have studied that phase of the ques- tion before, and aro still prepared and anxious to prosecute all the cases to a conclusion, satisfied that in cases of such manifest im- portance such makeshift flaws and objections will be of no weight against the demand of the people for an honest and immediate inves- tigation. As E:ontgexta Warp Tarcet Company, Captain Dorlan, was on an excursion to Dutch Kills yesterday, and in firing at the target accidentally or carelessly killed a small boy who accompanied them and mortally in- jured another, These ‘‘striking” demonstra- tions, gotten up always on the eve of an elec- tion merely to rob the politicians and sell votes to the best advantage, are nuisances of the worst sort, and now that their reckless firing has resulted in o fatal accident it is to be hoped the authorities will find some means of abating them altogether, Governor Buiiocg, of Georgia, has re- signed, and Benjamin Conlay, President of the State Senate, was yesterday installed *| in his place. Bullock seems to have felt him. self unwelcome to the people of the State, them to their crime they will have been of | lent, Hanover, the home and the kingdom of | and has remained away from them as much more use to the community than otherwise they would ever have became her long line of sovereigns, was appropriated, as possible consistent with a strong inclina- end the sword of England remained in | tiga to hold om to hia office Since it is at least possible, according to the best scientific authorities, that the great fires in our Western country have thus been pro- duced without malice or any human agency, it ig ag well to regard them in that light as to attribute them to the love of plunder. If men have been hung from lampposts as incen- diaries at Chicago, that is no proof that they were such, In times of great public suffering and excitement the most innocent are liable to be made victims, Hundreds have been exe- cuted for poisoning wells in ‘ancient and modern times, when the only poison used was that of the pestilence. Accordingly, while the conflagration was raging in Chicago a man who was poor and unknown was in as much danger, if placed in circumstances that ex- cited suspicion against him, as a poor, old, wrinkled woman was in Salem in witch-burn- ing times. As it does not follow that, because certain persons were burned for witchcraft, they were witches, so it does not follow that, because certain persons have been hanged or otherwise maltreated at Chicago for incen- diarism, they were really incendiaries. Nor is it fair to accuse the Jews merely because they entertain certain views as to the propriety of Christians, or because they are supposed to have a stronger lust of gain and less principle than other sects or nationalities, The race, which has numbered its years by its captivities, have suffered so much in other parte of the world without any adequate gause that even thelr misfortunes should YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. shield them from indiscriminate accusations | Tweed Sticks co umco=Wil the Mayer in a country at once so enlightened and so fond of “fair play” as ours, If individuals be- longing to any sect or nationality are found to have taken any voluntary part in producing so much ruin and devastation, let them receive the most severe punishment which the law prescribes for so base and fiendish a crime. But the dogma of visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children, or those of the children upon the fathers, does not belong to our time or country, and it is the duty of every good, intelligent citizen to oppose it, as much more dangerous, as well as more illogi- cal, than that of Papal infallibility—the dogma which causes most noise and does least good at the present day, There have been much more destructive fires than even that of Chicago. Such have oc- curred at Constantinople, Copenhagen, Naples and London. Besides the almost incredible number of persons burned during one of the great fires of London (1212), three thousand were drowned in the Thames. If our limited space permitted we could present still more startling facts; but were it otherwise, were our fires the most destructive that have ever occurred, there would be no use in whining over them. The finest part of every great city is that built on the site of a great con- lagration. There is, however, one point of view in which the Chicago fire is distinguished above all others, of ancient or modern times. No other fire—indeed, no calamity of any kind—has created 40 noble and universal an outburst of substantial sympathy. This is one fact which the American historian of the present day may record with pride, not only as an honor to our civilization, but as an ex- ample to the good and generous of future ages. ‘The End ef the Debtors’ Prison. Judge Barnard yesterday let a fall flood of light in on the Ludlow Street Jail, the prison which, in our city and century, still remains to serve the purpose of the long-abolished Fleet of London, where poor old Pickwick pined for the damages he would not pay Mra. Bardell, Even a slender ray of light upon so barbarons a relic is enough to expose and condema it, and after the revelations made yesterday and those that are yet to be made officially through the Courts we may look to see the end of debtors’ prisons in free New York. Such an institution could have existed so long as it has only through the fact that it is not devoted alone toimprisonment for debt. There are men charged with real crimes and men who are real criminals incarcerated with- in its walls, as well as men charged only with poverty and misfortune, Judge Barnard, however, may be safely trusted to eliminate the poor from the rascally, and we shall have « highly desirable jail delivery. About forty prisoners—a motley crew—were taken from this den to the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, to have the wrongs they had so patiently endured investigated. Their very appearance pleaded more piteously for aid than words could have done. They were of all colors and ages. At least one of them was gray and palsied with age. Another was sick and pale, and physicians were on band to prove that the jail was no fit place to keep a sick man in, Jadge Barnard discharged the old man at once, and also let go a negro who had been imprisoned, it seema, because his wife had taken a dress which belonged to some one else, ‘he rest were remanded until Friday, when, doubtless, some more disclo- sures of legal barbariam will make the public ear tingle. Tug Governmest has begun, as will be seen by our Washingtion despatches, in earnest to solve the Utah difficulties, and with the same persistency that has ever charac- terized President Grant. The Mormons should not deceive themselves with any flattering hope that there will be some “patching up” of the controversy. Our despatches from Washington, as well as intelligence from other sources, exhibit a calm determination on the part of the government to sustain the judiciary in the settlement of polygamy and to bring murderers to justice. The instruc. tions of the government to the judiciary in Utab are free from every taint of persecution, The Chief Justice has been instructed to review the cases of reported murder, and whatever troops were necessary to protect the Court and carry into effect its judgments the government would supply on demand, It is well for the Mormons to know this, and not to deceive themselves to their injury. Tae Epwemio oy Fravp Down Sovrs.— It seems as if the whole country’ were being swept by a cyclone of official fraud and cor- raption. Besides the astounding developments in this city, we find that startling frauds have been discovered in relation to the Tennessee bounty claims, and that even one ofthe usually high-toned and honorable communities in Kentucky bas been similarly afflicted, resulting in the arrest of the Mayor aud many officials, When we take into consideratioa the enormous railroad swindles in Georgia and Alabama, and the notoriously corrupt practices of the Louisiana Legislature, we may well ask what is becoming of us as a civilized nation, But now that the knife has been applied to the municipal ulcers in the body corporate of New York city we trust the good work of cutting them out will not cease until we can congratu- late the people upon the restoration of the local as well as our national goverament to a sound and healthy condition. Muon Derexps on tia Countine.— “Do yoit iiipk the Boss will get bis twenty-five thousand for the Senate this ifme?® “Gan't say, Jobnny; the boys outside will do their share; bat much depends on the inside fellers and the counting, don't you see.” This brief conversation between two of “ihe boys” explains the mysteries of ‘‘the machine.” A Drunken Woman at the Tombs yester- day, in her frenzy and drunken delirium, stabbed Policeman Alstyne in the eye with « penknife, cuiting the eye completely out, and probably blinding the poor fellow for life, if, indeed, he survives the dangerous wound. It was a strange oversight that a prisoner so in- furiated as she should have been permiited to have # dangerous weapon in her possession. The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks this @ good time for Louiaville to retire from poll- tics and go into railroading. This is good ad- vice for many other Southwestern cities to fallow. to the State Senate, contradicts most flatly ia the columns of the Heratp to-day a rumer that prevailed yesterday afternoon to the effect that he had resigned his municipal office and withdrawn from the canvass for the Legis- lature. Not only does he give a denial to the report which a few hours ago startled the politicians and set the loungers of the City Hall Park crazy with excitement, but he states, in addition, that he has no intention of retiring voluntarily from the position that has Proved 80 remunerative to him under the city govern- ment, and that he intends to win his Senatorial fight, to goto Albany and to fight out the battle in which he is engaged to the bitter end. From present indications it would appear that Tweed’s boast ia regard to his Senatorial contest is not am empty one. The probability is that ho wilt carry his district with the aid of patronage, money and counting by an enormous majority. Indeed, it is evident that the opposition have regarded it as useless to make a serious fight against him, from the character of the candi- date they have put into the fleld againgt hing, KP Ne Take ae. ee be my th fo “person cau have a serious thought of electing O'Donovan Rossa to represent New York in the State Senate. But one office held by Tweed is at least within reach of the peo- ple who have been plundered by him and hia associates of millions of dollars. Mayor Hall can remove the unfaithful office? from the head of the Street Department and place such a man as General George B, McClellan there in his stead. The fact that Tweed shared in the profits of gontrgcts made with fhe city goveramen at least is well established by the fransactiona in the Broadway Bank, and this must be quite sufficient evidence of wrong to the people te induce Judge Barnard to follow up the rule he has laid down in his Court, and to “inventa remedy” whereby the citizens can be protected against fraud and robbery. Whatever may be the result of the Senatorial election in tho Fourth district Mayor Hall should at once re- move Tweed from his position under the mu- nicipal government. If the Mayor will do this before election he may even succeed ia defeat- ing Tweed for the Senate. Let a good demo- erat, of unimpeachable record, Tammany or anti-Tammany, be nominated in the Fourta district, and with Tweed thrown overboard and removed from the Department of Publio Works the district may yet be redeemed, New Gngland ou the Situation. The Boston Advertiser of the 30th October pubiishes an elaborate editorial article on “The Republican Party: Its Duties and Prospects.” The article was probably pre- pared under the supervision of Senator Sum- ner and Secretary Boutwell. It is more potent than an address from a republicag State committee, inasmuch as it takes the tack of journalism and sails with a brisk breese toward its objective point, and that point\ mainly isto remove the possibility of the or- ganization of a new opposition party of for- midable proportions, which might be chiefly composed of republicans. ‘‘It is the part of wisdom,” says the writer ia the Advertiser, “to make the organization of such a party im- possible by removing all reasonable pretexts for it.” These pretexts are briefly enumer- ated, and the conclusion arrived at is ex- pressed in the following words :— The necessity is upon the (republican) party to nominate and support for public officers men of approved integrity of character and wisdom in con- duct, broad in their statesmanship ana above tha Suspicion of ignoble aims. The work of the next quarter century, 80 far as it can now be forecast, ! will be pre-eminently the development of the re- sources and capacities of the country in an era of domestic security, and the conservation of the hap- piness of the people under the venedicent conditt of liberty regulated by law. ’ This is the general sentiment of the country, and when the proper time arrives it is the hope of a multitude of good republican citi- zens—democrats and otherwise—that electoral tickets for President will be formed in the several States—tickets composed of the wor thiest men of all parties, men who, properly elected, shall meet in the Electoral College, according to constitutional provision, and there cast their votes for President of the United States. It is about time this constitu- tional provision was observed, and the fiction of an Electoral Presidential College no longer be tolerated. The Boston Advertiser is awakening public sentiment in a proper direction. Fetoniovs Orriciats IN Kantuoxy.—The Mayor and other municipal officials of Lexing- ton, Ky., have been arrested on an indiot- meat from the United States Court, charged with felony in connection with certain disturk- ances in the last August election, They have not even yet fairly got the hang of the fifteenth amendment in Kentucky ; but they will begin to understand it after another election or two, Born Usper a CLovp—The ‘‘Boss” of the Mormons and the ‘‘Boss” of the Tammany Ring. The Mormon flies from the officers of the law when they want him, but “Big Six” faces the music and still puta the question, “What are you going to do about it?” Brig- ham Young is indicied for murder, Tweed ia cbarged with public robbery, and both, it is feared, are rather short of vouchers, Tie Day Is Beeaxwsc Over Brooxtry.— The ‘Honest Old Datchman” is in the fleld for Mayor agalast the “Ring,” and he ia armed and equipped accorded to law, and the whole German confederation aro with him, with stout old King Gambrinus in front, and they will sweep the oity if the republicaos have sense enough to know what to do. THE WEATHER. Orrtcr oF Tita CHIER SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasatxoron, D.C, Uel. 3L—1 A. Synopsis vor the Prat Twoonty-roar Hours. . Virginta, The highest baroweter continues over V with be winds on the East Atlantic coast, Ol a «has «spread «very = Won erally over the country west of es the Mountains The = rain ta x“ eal and to Missourt; the extends to Alebama lowest pressure being central in Arkansas, The temperature has very generally rive, xcept on Whe upper lakes, where & uigh oarometer and cold, cloudy weather prevatl, Probantines The barometer Will promably fall on tne Atlantic «coast, «with cloudy weather, aad northeasterly winds from Virginia to Flor + and = aoathwest winds § veortng 1h! porthwest in New Kngiaut:; Wurcatening Woathor, With Fait, Cx\end goneraily over (he OW vahey and southward, wi northorty winds 08 Lakes Miviigau aut brio,