The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1871, Page 6

W YORK HERAL ROADWAY AND ANN STREET. bi ou Cy oie UI JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI.......-++++++++ Ne. 319 Oe AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNON AND EVERING, 1BLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and = eqvets-OUN AMERICAW COUBIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. ane Mid st— EUgEN Oon. LINA EDWIN'’s THEATRE, No. 726 Broadway.—Orzna Bourrz—La GranpE ‘Ducmbess. FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tux New Drama oF Drrosce, at OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae BALLET - ‘ToMIME oF HUMPTY Dourrr. Matinee at a" os ST. JAMES THEATRI Tremere ith street Broad- way. FaNcRETTE” Hoek DE St. vison - WALLACK’S — ae THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- Bnces afternoon and evening—Tuk Bor DeTEzcrivs. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st, between 5ta and 6th ava, — ‘Dor; on, Tux CRIoKET ON THE Henri. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax OLr Stuaw Man— Roseet Macatne bis ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street—ITALiAN Orga—Loora Dt LAMMERMOOR. ‘ADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Brason—Tun Postion DE LoNJUMEAU. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Divorce. > att THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—Oorrr OPERA UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—NEGRO ACTS—BORLESQUE, BALLET, 40, Matinee. THEATRE COMI 514 Broadway. perRERTRE COMDQEE, B24: Broad way.—Oomzo Vooat, SAN FRANCISCO ‘MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— Tur Sax FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, oe BRYANT'S NEW OPERA WOUS: and Tih ave.—BRYaNr'e Minsvanca 7) 1? Owween 6th TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Ni Bowery.— NeE@Ro ECcENTRICITIEG, Bourtegurs, sor 7 NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—SoENES LX Tux RING, AcRosATS, 20. Matinee at 234. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUS! Ly road: — SCIENCE AND ART. stint ted TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, November 15, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PacE. 1—Advertisoments, 2—Advertisementa. oy. Complications: Organization of the Board of Supervisors a3 a Board of Canvassers; What Mr. Tweed Has to Say about Going Away; Crowing Congratulations of the Repub- licans—a_ Dying Tiger: The Americus Ciub and the Late Elections—brooklyn Keform— The Royal i—Movements of General Sherman—Congressmen in Council—The a of Modern Science—The Jackson Ye 4—The Ku Kiux: The Alieged Outrages in South Carolina: Absurd Stories Disproved; Effect of the President’s Proclamation; A Visit to the Ku Klux Prisoners; The Ku Kiux Not a Poltti- ca! but aSocial Organization ; Illegal Arrests; White and Black Radicals Assuming the Dis- ise of the Ku Klux. S—The Ku Kiux (Continued from Fourth Page)— Brooklyn's Burdens: What they Are Doing About It Over the River—The Kuster seme fa Forest Fire Fund—St. Nicholas Society. ie Central Dispensary—Fleetwood Park—Horse Notes—A Burglar Held forthe Grand Jury— Sad Demise of a Newark Clergyman. Article, “The Frauds, So- ganization and Political Troubles in the South’—Personal {ntelligence—Run- ning Notes—Obituary—Naval Intelligence— Suspected Incendiarism near Newark— Se poh q Const opie —Tel ms m Turkey, Spain, France, Helgium and Eng- land—Mexico: The Government Forces De- feated by the Rebels—News from Washing- ton—Ratllroad Collision in Jersey—Obituaries— Amusements—! Maneous Telegrams—Flag Presentation to Hawkins’ Zouaves—Local Items—Views of the Past—susiness age ire; tl Qeon's Letier Restrning ‘ills Seat in Corsiva: @ictor Hugo Again on the Kampage and Gari- baldi Cheering Him Oo—Look Abroad: Euro- pean Rivais of the New York Ring—American Association for the Cure of Inepriazes—Break- fast to the Bishop of Lichdeld, England—Al- most a Catastrophe—Fatal Accident on Board the Steamship Erino—Murder at Jamaica—The Late Mr. Herrick—The Strumfels Suicide. —A Scientific Afternoon: Reception of the Trus- tees of the Museam of Natural History—art Sale—The Alleged O’Brien Homicide Case— Douvily Euchred—The Westfield Disaster—Fi- nancial and Comm ‘Domestic Marketa— Marriages and Deaths, 10—Cholera: The Steamsnip Franklin’s Passengers and the Dead of Yesterday; No Danger of the Disease Spreading—Smulipox—The Storm of Yesterday—Election of Officers of the Atlantic Matl Steamship Company—Snipping Intelli- nce—Advertisements, 1-1 jings in the Courts—Advertisements, 19—Advertisements. Tae Mosne Register isof opinion ‘that New York was lost to the democracy through their own folly.” Very trae. And to the same cause may be attributed many disasters bo the Southern democracy heretofore, Toe Prixog is still at sea. The storm which prevailed all day yesterday may have compelled the remaining vessels of the fleet to put out to sea again, even when they were within only a few hours of land, and his long delay may be made even much longer. Tae Taxytor Wit Case was yesterday before the Supreme Court, General Term. According to agreement of counsel the papers were submitted without argument, the under- standing being that the Court will confirm the decree of the Surrogate and so allow the case to go to the Court of Appeals without delay. Wuat's THE MATTER with THE GAs?—The gaslights in our streets are like the expiring flickerings of a farthing candle. They do not afford light enough to prevent collisions between pedestrians on the sidewalks nor between vehicles in the streets. Is there no remedy for this abominable nuisance? The gas companies are not mixed up in the muni- cipal muddle, and have no excuse for the present lack of light. We hope these few words will bring the companies to a realizing sense of the darkness of the present situation, Smart tux Committez oF Seventy Be Perrervat?—The Boston Advertiser is of the opinion that the Committee of Seventy should not become a permanent institution, and argues if the people of New York city are in earnest in the work of reform they can in the fature labor more effectively by other means. “‘If they have simply passed through a brief season of virtue,” continues the Adver- tiser, “‘the committee will be powerless to keep them up to their good resolutions.” The Goings of the next Legislature will probably demonstrate whether the people of New York have or have not passed through only “‘a brief season of virtue.” By the acts of the re- formers ‘‘so ye shall know them.” Sel Tae Onto Statesman (democratic organ) announces that the Chillicothe Advertiser rejoota Tom Scott, wit emphasis, as a possl- ble candidate for the democratic nomination for President, and presenis the name of Sena- tor The Statesman thinks the nat- for had better be dropped, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET: Political Troubles im the South. The copious correspondence we publish in another part of the paper to-day from the South, on the Ku Klux, the frauds and the social and political troubles in that section of the country, presents a fearful picture of carpet-bag and negro rule, as well as of the disorganized condition of a portion of the Southern people. The statements of our cor- respondent, who was sent specially to inves- tigate the state of things in the South, agree, too, in the main with the information the Heratp and the press generally have been publishing lately from other sources, Hap- pily, the evils to which we refer extend over only ao portion of the South, including chiefly South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina, or parts of those States, In Virginia and other States where the negroes are relatively less numerous, the carpet-baggers fewer or not so influential, and the native white population have more power, there is a better state of things. In these the laws are obeyed, order prevails, and the disastrous effects of the war are passing away. It {s only in the former-mentioned States, or parts of them, where the negroes predominate, and where those unscrupulous Northern adventurers called carpet-baggers have the control of affairs, that gross frauds, social disorganization, Ku Klux, political cor- ruption and the pretended necessity for mar- tial law exist, Elsewhere the Southern white people have behaved so well and prudently that even the radical politicians cannot trump up a pretext for military intervention, We have witnessed an extraordinary excite- ment and political revolution in this city on account of the frauds of the Tammany Ring. The corruption existing here has been the theme of universal comment and condemna- tion. The press and political orators through- out the republic everywhere, and the press abroad, have been intently occupied with this subject. Party newspapers and public speak- ers have rung the changes on these New York city frauds so persistently and in such strong language that people have thought of little else—have been led to suppose, in fact, that all the corruption of the world was concen- trated here. They lost sight for the time of the frauds and outrages existing elsewhere. Undoubtedly our city government was fear- "fully corrupt, and we all have reason to rejoice over the uprising of the people in the late election to overthrow that government and the Tammany Ring upon which it rested, But let us not close our eyes to the frauds, misgovernment and dreadful social and political evils that arise from radi- cal republican rule in parts of the South. The frauds and extravagance in South Carolina, a thoroughly radical State, equal or excced those of New York, when we look at the com- parative population and revenue of the two, With a population less than the city of New. York, and with an expenditure amounting not to a fourth of this city, South Carolina, under its negro and carp¥t-bag government, rivals the Tammany Ring in the magnitude of the frauds it has practised and was preparing to commit by the issue of millions of State bonds not needed, and to enrich a radical political ring that has no interest in the State but to rob it. While we have no apology to offer for the Ku Klux or any other body organized outside of the law, and for purposes not sanctioned by the law, and hope to see that organization suppressed, we cannot lose sight of the fact that the people of some parts of the South, and of South Carolina in particular, have had great provocation for what they have done. We have known of vigilance committees in San Francisco and other places, and a vigi- lance committee has even been spoken of in New York to remedy great and glaring evils; bat we doubt if any community was ever goaded more to such a desperate course than the South Carolinians, Vigilance committees, Ku Klux or any other organizations to act above the law, and to be a law only to them- selves, can never be justified. Better to bear the ills of the time than to violate law; for that is anarchy, and a danger to the whole framework of society. Under our free republican institutions, especially, people should depend upon the ballot box and the current of public sentiment for the correction of evils. Even in South Carolina, where the vote of ignorant negroes and the power of unscrupulous carpet-baggers appear to be overwhelming, obedience to the laws and patient efforts on the part of the native whites will bring a remedy sooner than lawlessness, Ku Klux organizations or violent revolution- ary measures of any kind. Besides, the party in power, as well as a large portion of the Northern people, are apt to regard the unlaw- ful conduct of the Southerners, however much provoked, as springing from the same rebel- lious spirit which brought on and -maintained the rebellion, The people of any part of the North acting ina similar manner to the Ku Klux, under like provocation, might be tolerated. Not so with the Southerners, The late rebellion places them in a different light. They have to suffer for the errors of the past, and ought to submit patiently and act with more prudence, Time, and time only, can bring them a remedy. It is useless to resist the federal government and the party in power, to which the negroes and the carpet- baggers that oppress them belong. It is clear that a secret oath-bound or- ganization, commonly known as the Ku Klux, or Invisible Empire, exists. Our correspond- ent shows that, But its objects were or are local; partly political, no doubt, and partly to correct abuses or to punish crimes against society where the law proves inoperative, either by intimidation or by actual punish- ment. There is no evidence to show and no reason to think any rebellion or organized re- sistance to the federal government has been contemplated or likely to occur, Partisans of the federal government, or of the dominant radical party, have attempted to make it appear that the Ku Klux had ulterior rebellious views; but there is no reason to believe that. Indeed, such an idea would be so utterly absurd and impracticable that no sensible person will think it was ever entertained, The objects of the Ka Klux were local only and partly politi- cal, and all the résources of the local authori- ties should have been exhausted to suppress the evil before the federal government ought to have exercised its power and suspended the civil law. Even the carnet-bae Governor of South Carolina declared the laws of the State were equal to the emergency. After all, the lawless acts of the Ku Klux were confined chiefly to sparsely settled, small sections of the Carolinas and a part of Georgia bordering South Carolina, where there have always been & degraded and uneducated class of poor whites. Three-fourths or more of the crimes committed in these parts have been wrongly attributed to the Ku Klux. Many, in fact, have been committed by the nogroes and their radical carpot-bag allies who pretend to have such a horror of the Ku Klux. Apart from some outrages committed by the Ku Klux—by a few degraded and ignorant whites or misguided young white men of parts of the Carolinas and Georgia, the whole trouble is political, First, the radical party in power at Washington and their negro and carpet-bag allies in the South have combined to oppress the Southern whites and to hold the political power in that section. On the other hand, the native whites, who are for the most part democrats, have run into excep- tionable or even lawless means to overthrow radical role. It ts a dreadfal state of things, and both retards the peaceful development of the South and endangers the fundamental prin- ciples of liberty on which the republic rests. Are we to have a chronic Ireland or Poland on American soil? Is sectional animosity or trouble to be kept up for political ends? The dominant radical party is strong now, and there is every pros- pect that General Grant. will be re- elected. Why, then, cannot the disabilities of the Southerners be removed and a kindly hand be extended to them? Surely it is time to bury the sad memories of the war and to restore the South. Surely there should be some consideration for and some abatement of severity to the people of our own race and blood. Every right thinking Northerner must regret to see the intelligent people of his own race inthe South placed under the heel of ignorant and semi-barbarous negroes, We do not think General Grant and the radical party can make anything politically by their policy of repression and by attempting to make the negro rule the white man. If a broad and liberal policy be inaugarated we shall hear no more of Ku Klux, federal bayonets may be withdrawn, the civil law will be found sufficient enough, and the South will rise from the disasters of the war to a degree of prosperity it never attained before, The Cholera. It appears by our telegrams from London yesterday that the cholera is again on the.in- crease in Constantinople. Letters from the HERALD correspondent in that city, pub- lished some time ago, and information re- ceived from other sources, inform us that the disease was then on the decrease, and it was thought that the epidemic would soon alto- gether disappear. On or about the 16th of last month, however, another change took place. In the village of Hasskein the disease suddenly manifested itself in a rather serious form. In this village there are about one hundred English -families, and among them quite a number of deaths occurred; but the mortality of the natives was far greater. A lull then appears to have occurred, and from that time to the present we have had but little to cause alarm until the present announcement, stating that the cholera has again broken out and is spreading in the Turkish capital. As in pre- vious instances, the Turkish authorities may be able to neutralize the disease for the time being, but with the advent of spring weather and the approach of warm days it may break out again with increased violence. These facts call to mind the appearance in the lower bay of the steamship Franklin, a couple of days ago, with a number of passengers on board suffering with the cholera and choleraic diarrbes, The Quarantine authorities have acted with commendable promptness in the matter, and the disease-stricken passen- gers were removed from the ship to the. hospital on West Bank. Those not suffering were also taken in charge and placed on board the Delaware, there to be kept until the Health Officer deems them in a condition to come to the city. Without wishing to produce any unnecessary alarm, we desire to impress on the Health Officer and the Board of Health the necessity of exercising the closest vigilance regarding this terrible disease. The approach of winter should not cause them to be less stringent in all sanitary measures necesssary for the safety of our city. The cholera is at our very doors. The history of this terrible disease affords us an opportunity to study its ways and to guard against its encroachments, In past times it has been known to have made its appearance io the autumn months, and the cold breath of winter held it in check only that it might in late spring or early eummer break out and ravage all around. The appearance of the plague at this season is a warning which we trust will not be disregarded. Tue DeparTuRE oF THE Hon. CHARLES Francis ADAMS FOR GmgNEVA.—Yesterday the Hon. Charles Francis Adams sailed in the steamer Tripoli for Europe, to join the Geneva Conference. The selection of Charles Francis Adams as United States Commissioner to the Geneva Conference was as much a credit to the good sense and sound judgment of President Grant as it was a satisfaction to the American people. At a most critical time in our national history Mr. Adams represented the United States at the Court of St. James, and his conduct of affairs was such that, while he won the confidence of the British govern- ment and people, he disappointed no one at home. At the Geneva Conference, assisted as he isto be by gentlemen so learned and so accomplished as Mr. Evarts and Mr. Curtiss, we may rest aesured that Mr. Adams will not misrepresent the sentiment or neglect the interests of the American people, Tae War For THE Spoits.—The war for the spoils has already commenced among the republicens. The fizht for the Clerkship of the Assembly, it is stated by the Albany Times, will be especially lively, Fifty appli- cants are already in line, with face to the front, ready for the word, ‘‘Forward, march !” No doubt a good deal of bushwhacking is already going on for other offices, The re- form democrats are in danger of being out- flanked if they do not hurry up their rank and file, Companies 4, 11, 44, of the first brigade, should be on the gui vive, The Stace Legislature and the City Govern- ment. The partisan papers are already beginning to quarrel and fight over the distribution of the spoils won in the last election. The first , bone of contention is to be the Presidency of the new Board of Aldermen, and the next the Speakership of the Assembly. The former may turn out to be a most important position, in view of the probability that the President of the Board may become the acting Mayor of the city for the next twelve months, while on the latter will devolve the responsible duty of selecting the standing committees of the House. Among the newly elected Aldermen John Cochrane is pre-eminently qualified as a presiding officer, and is, morcover, peculiarly fitted for the position of Mayor at such a time as the present. He would bring into the latter office unusual executive capacity, broad political experience, unquestionable honesty and a valuable knowledge of municipal affairs. What his party views and principles may be is wholly immaterial. The revolution that recently swept over the city has disposed of all oavils as to a reformer’s political creed, and the people who accomplished it have declared by their emphatic verdict that our municipal rulers shall henceforth be chosen on the single test of honesty and capacity. The attempt of a clique or faction—Custom House or anti-Custom House, administration or anti- administration—to set up any other standard in the selection of city officers is a perversion of the popular judgment and a betrayal of the cause of reform. Not an intelligent citizen from the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil Creek can gainsay the pre-eminent qualifications of John Cochrane both for the presidency of the Board of Aldermen and the more responsible position of Mayor of the city, and no opposition can be made to his selection except of a partisan character and by those who seek under the specious pretence of reform to use the victory of the people for the advancement of their own narrow-minded, factional schemes. The organization of the State Legislature is important, inasmuch as the Speaker of the House usually wields considerable influence in shaping and controlling the legislation of the session. This year the position is of less consequence, since almost all the members of both chambers have been elected upon a dis- tinct pledge of reform, and no standing com- mittee would have the power to delay or cripple any measure for the reorganization of the New York city government. There will, however, be no lack of properly qualified candidates for the Speakership, and .no political considerations should control or in- fluence the Assembly in the selection it may make. It would be nothing but a just and wise concession to the great reform movement in New York if some member of the minority closely identified with the politi- cal revolution at this end of the State should be chosen for that position, At all events, no issue should be raised as to the political opin- ions of the man who may possess unquestion- able qualifications for the office of Speaker of the Assembly; and the indiscreet journalists who, in their zeal for the factions they support or for the factions that support them, are already arraying themselves against all mem- bers of an objectionable party complexion, are only opening the eyes of the people to the fact that the revolution they have accom- plished is in danger of being prostituted to the intrigues of party instead of being made the instrument of a solid reform in our municipal government, Toe Citizen—a spluttering little anti- improvement sheet in Washington, has sub- sided. A healthy system of local improve- ments is what every city like Washington needs; at the same time extravagance and corruption in jobbing contracts should be rigorously avoided. Tae REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN MexI- 0o.—A HeRarp special telegram, dated at Matamoros, Mexico, reports the progress of the revolntionary movement against the exist- ing government of the republic to the 4th inst. The exhibit is of a discouraging character, The country appears tobe still harassed by the military movements of insurgent chieftains, now in advance and againin retreat, at very important points of the national territory. Government cavalry ‘‘foraged” from Saltillo, They encountered a body of insurgent troops, aud were driven back with heavy loss, The garrison of the place was reinforced and the position fortified by Trevino, The predatory chieftains were still agitated for and against Juarez. New fights were anticipated. It was said that Carvajal—whose-ame is so well known inthe United States—was maturing another revolution, so that Mexico remained pretty much as it has been during years past ; and “‘the end is not” yet. Toe St. Louis Democrat facetiously calls the passive policy of the Republican the ’pos- sum policy—that is, that all the time it advo- cates the no-nomination dodge it is “playing ‘possum;” in other words, that at the proper time the democrats.will make a Presidential nomination that will sweep the country. Lrrtte Jzrsry Loomwse Ur.—The name of Joel Parker, Governor elect of New Jersey, is being taken up seriously by the democratic press as the next democratic candidate for President. The Memphis Avalanche says “the is the only candidate who has shown any ability for successful leadership against the republicans.” ‘‘Haviog worsted Walsh,” asks the Avalanche, ‘‘why can be not vanquish Grant? The St. Louis Republican has no candidate; the Pittsburg Post has Scott; why can’t we have Parker?” If nominated, no doubt the Southwestern democracy would go for him like an avalanche, A Conrroversy has arisen between the Memphis Avalanche and the Cincinnati Hn- quirer in regard to the nomination by the latter of Tom Scott for the Presidency. It is merely a question of Bourbonism simmered through the new departure to “‘passivism,” Tag Suiray’s Government has made 4 vigorous and generous effort for the further. ance of the work of industrial development in the empire by the constructioii of great publig works, and particularly by the extensloi of the railroad system in tho territory. This is really a movement in the right direction, as will be geen by our cable telegram to-day, The Peers and the Workingmen of Eng- land—Mr. Scott Russell’s Explanation. In the London papers of yesterday Mr. Scott Russell, the builder of the Great Eastern, ‘rives a history of the go-called social move- ment. The most important points made by Mr. Russell are these three—that the move- ment originated in proposals for a union between the peers and the workingmen ; that it was neither in its objects nor methods revo- lutionary, and that had Prince Albert been living he would have been its leader. It does not much matter now what were its objects or what were its methods, or whether or no Prince Albert would have led it; for the move- ment is for the present dead, if, indeed, it ever had any existence. From all we have been able to leara it does not appear that there ever was any agreement between the peers and the workingmen, Mr. Scott Russell, in some way or other, got some of the workir class politicians .to form themselves into @ board or council for the purpose of entering into communication with mem- bers of both houses who might bo desirous of Turthering their views. Some ten or a dozen peers and members of Parliament were commuficated with and favorable answers were recoived. A string of vague resolutions were: then published in the newspapers, and the signatures of both parties—of thé peers and members of Parlia- ment and of the Council of Workingmen— were attached. No sooner, however, were the resolutions published than most of the peers and members of Parliament denied that they had given their names for any such Purpose or that they had countenanced any such project, The workingmen not in the ring were equally indignant; and at a workingmen’s meeting held in London imme- diately after the publication of the resolutions one of the prominent speakers, after denounc- ing the whole thing as an unholy compact, said that if Lord Salisbury had approved of the resolutions he should have regarded it as “a plan onthe part of the aristocracy to sell to the State the worst railways in the country.” When the grand social reform moyement was first spoken of it was credited to the fertile and erratic genius of Mr. Disraeli. This, however, was a mistake, Mr. Disraeliis older and wiser than he was when he wrote “Coningsby” and the ‘‘Sybil,” as every one who has read ‘“Lothair” knows. To Mr. Scott Russell, and to him alone, must be credited this grand scheme; but the social reform movement, so far as we know it, promises to be quite as great 4 failure as was and is the Great Eastern steamship. There are some men who are inventive overmuch, Mr. Scott Russell seems to be one of them, Tue AssoctaTION FoR THe CURE oF Inz- BriatTzs held its second annual Convention yesterday, when some facts were adduced relative to drankenaess that are likely to serve the good purpose of temperance societies more completely than any sermons or comments, Dr. Parker, the President, stated that thirty- three and a third per cent of all deaths in this city were occasioned, directly or indirectly, by the use of alcoholic drinks, and that in the last thirty years one hundred and ninety thou- sand persons in New York city had thus come to their deaths. Dr. Harris, Inspector of Prisons, stated in his report that on visiting fifty-six prisons in-the State he had found that seventy-five per cent of all crimes com- mitted were traceable to the use of liquors. These statements are enough to startle order loving and philanthropic people from their propriety, especially when it is known that the Excise law, even modified as it was by the last Legislature, is simply a dead letter. Dr. Parker held that drunkenness was a disease like scarlatioa or sm: and therefore curable; but viewed in that light it is even more requisite than ever that the unrestrained sale of liquors in this city at all hours of the day and night and during every Sabbath should become the subject of strong aud carn- est legislation, “ Snioxs To Soorr.—The Cincinnati Zn- quirer, in an elaborate editorial, gives its reasons for sticking to Tom Scott as a proper candidate of the democracy for the Presidency, “We have,” it says, ‘after full consideration, come to the conclusion that Colonel Scott com- bines more of the elements of success before the people than any other democrat, and we have not, therefore, hesitated to abandon our personal favorite, and urge upon the democracy the nomination of this distinguished Pennsyl- vanian.” After this we suppose all the demo- cratic coons will have to do as an ancient one did when another Colonel Scott aimed his rifleathim, ‘‘Is that you, Colonel Scott?” asked the coon, “It ar no one else,” ‘‘Well, don’t shoot, Colonel Scott; I'll come down.” It remains to be seen whether the old coons in the democratic party will adopt this policy or act upon the Missouri ‘possum game and keep shy, Senator Sonurz, Spgaker BLAINE AND GENERAL BurteR are supposed to be con- cocting some political conspiracy at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they are all sojourning together, and it is ramored that Senator Conk- ling is expected to join them soon, If the consultation means anything at all—and it is hard if three such men cannot happen under the same roof without exciting apprehensions of a dire conspiracy among our patriotic peo- ple—it means that the friends of General Grant are taking the most reasonable and likely means of binding up the wounds that disable the republican majority in Congress, Tue Crry Orriciats iN Brooxiyn generally hold strongly to the opinion that no frauds have been committed in office. They do not deny that there have most likely been out- rageous repeating and ballot ‘stuffing at the election; but they believe that both parties are implicated in such rascality, and that the office-holders who compose the ‘‘Ring” are as innocent as lambs. That is a hopeful way to look at it; but it is discouraging to remember that Tweed and his fellows looked at their own case pretty much in the same way several months ago. A Horst Car Was Run Into by a railroad train in Jersey City yesterday and demol- ished. The car was crowded with passen- gers, ten of whom were severely injured and sevéral of whoni will die, The wonder seems to be that any of them escaped at all, The negligence of a gatekeeper was the cause of the disaster, Repeal of the Charter of Tammany, The Troy Whig (republican) declares that Tammany is not killed. It has only been beaten at a single election. The only way to destroy Tammany, according to the Whig, is to repeal its charter (which was granted in 1808 or 1805), “‘otherwise the Society will be the nucleus of a strong political faction.” Our rural friends seem to entertain the notion that Tammany possesses the eyes of Argus and the arms of Briareus, as well as the riches of Croesus. When the charter of the Tammany Society is repealed then it will be time for the sachems and braves to sell out their wampum and smoke their calumets of peace in peace and obscurity. It would not, however, be @ matter of much surprise to find that when the test touching the repeal of the charter ia made there are about ag many influential republicans who were original Tammany men 38 there are democrats now actively working in the organization. Tammany is something like s certain jointed snake they once had down South, Hit it a crack and it would fly into ahundred pieces, but let it alone a few minutes and it woold rejoint itself and become ‘as lively and cheerful as ever. ‘What will they do with it?” will bean interesting question for the next Legislature to decide when the subject of repealing the Tammany charter comes before it, Tue Amentous CLus Prarep Ovr.—The announcement that the Americus Club bas ceased to exist will bring mourning to many an individual who has revelled in the bounties of the defunct Ring in this city. The “Tiger's” welcome grow! will no longer be heard. ‘Big Six” will no longer invite ‘the boys” tothe groaning festive board, to the gorgeous ballroom, to the grand fétes cham- pétres at Indian Harbor, where a guest could keep jolly while thé season lasted, or as long ashe behaved himself. Well may the mom- bers of the Americus Club and their many friends exclaim, ‘Farewell! a long farewell to all our joys; farewell to champagne, to canvasbacks, to salmon, to speckled trout; there’s nothing left but eel soup and clam chowder for the boys.” Personal Intelligence. United States Senator Roscoe Conkling yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. United States Senator Wm. Windom, of Minne sota, is at the Gilsey House, State Senator E, M. Madden, of Middletown, ta stopping at the St. James Hotel. United States Senator Justin Morrill, of Vermont, 1s among yesterday's arrivals attne Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel John D. Wilkins, of the United States Army, 1s quartered at the Startevant House, General James McQuade, of Utica, 19 at the Gusey House, J Ex-Uongressman D, K. McCarthy, of Syracuse, id sojourning at the Filth Avenue Hotel, United States Senators Eugene Casserly, of Call- fornia, and John P. Stockton, of New Jersey, are at the St, James Hotel. Being both democrats it would seem asif they were debating together some plan of action to oppose that whose adoplion 1s said ta be the cause of the council of republican Congreas- men at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. 7 General George B. Williams, late of the Treasury Department at Washington, is at the-Gilsey House. General Williams has been chosen by the Minister from Japan to found a department of revenue for that country and to ar- range @ proper plan of proceeding for it He will soon leave for San Francisco, and thence for his ‘‘field of action.” Mr. E. P. Jacobson, formerly Chief of the “Immi- gration Bureau,” State Department, and now United States District Attorney for Mississippi, ts at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Jacobsohn has come North to consult the President and Attorney General with reference to the Ku Klux cases in his district, where there are 150 indictments now pending. “OBITUARY. Judge Morgan Carpenter. Jadge Morgan Carpenter, of the State of New York, died at Pougnkeepsie yesterday morning, The Judge, as he was familiarly called by his neighbors, was in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His hfe terminated after an illness of four aays’ duration, He was a iawyer of the old school, and anable, upright and honorable man. Judge Car- mnter Was one of the five judges Sey Mr. Wittam H. Seward, Governor of tne State of New York, to the bench for Dutchess county, under the constitution of the year 1821, Ree SET Poe 5, ae lor. Pi George Taylor, Jndge in the Twenty-fourth Judi. Cial district of Pennsylvania, died in Huntingdon, Pa., yesterday morning. The Juage was prostrated by a stroxe of paralysis while in the discharge of his duties in Court at Holidaysburg 24th of Oce tober, He never rallied, even under the most care- ful treatment, aud was carried bre loenng age day to the great regret of a very extensive of friends, both in private and pro hife, RUNNING NOTES—POLITICAL AND GENERAL, The Sunday Dawn is the name of an Independent paper just commenced in Philadelphia. Its friends hope that it may speedily reach the meridian of success and that the evening of its days may be long and pleasant. Wonder if itis true that the commander of thé Russian clipper Abreck replied to an invitation to take @ little of something, on hts arrival here, ‘1 Shantz.” More likely he said, “I Shantz refuse.” Mr. E. K. Smart, formerly member of Congress from Maine, has been taken to the irisane hospital for treatment, Softening of the brain is the disease, ‘The Kennebec Journal presente his neighbor of the Sandard with @ ‘Tweed coat,” on account of the vehemence with which the latter defended the “Boss” during the late campaign. The Mobile Register thinks that, after all, the old ‘New Haven theology and Washington Hotels may Not be so bad as they are supposed to be, Theodore Tilton abuses them botn. Forty-seven counties in Illinois give Beveridge, republican Congressman at large, 13,000 majority. There was no necessity for a temperance ticket where that Beveridge was in demand, The Albany Journal calls a certain ex-oMcial in this city “oly gammon,’’ and says he is “the most sanctimonious scoundrel in the State.” The foliowing 1s a list of names mentioned for the democratic nomination fur the Presidency, so far as heard from, according to the classification of the Cincinnau Jnquirer:—Thomas A, Scott, Thomas A. Hendricks, Charles O’Conor, Senator Thurman, Judge Thompson, of Pennsylvania; George 5 Pendleton, Governor Hoffman, Governor Parker, Mr. Groesbeck, ex-Judge Ramsey. What has be- come of General Hancock, Judge Davis, and sa forth, wnd so forth ? p+ OP NAVAL INTELLIGENOE, ‘The United States steam sloop of war Ticonderoga, Commander 0. C. Badger, arrived at Montevideo on September 16 from Rio Janeiro. All well on board, ‘Yhis vessel relieved the United States sloop Port mouth, which sailed recently on her return voyage to the United Staves, ‘the United States gunboat Wasp, Commander juackenbush, was still at Montevideo September 19, Micors and crew all well. SUSPECTED INOENDIARISM NEAR NEWARK. Early yesterday morning a well known hosteirie in Harrison township, on the turnptke road, called Craig's Hotel, was totally destroyed by fre. It was lately kept-by @ German named Woerner, The lose ig about 0,000; nearly fully insured. From eertaur circumstances attending the fire, coupled with the fact that Mr. Woerner, who is a powerful and cour- ageous constable, had become a terror to the dan- gerous classes of Harrison, it is considered quite probable that the piace was purgosoly tired. & Carelul lnyestization is Towanted,