The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. oe NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Echos (cas JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —— All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hasna. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the vear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. : JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing ana Engraving, neatly and prompily exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volume XXXVIL........ccsceeseeeeee Mo, 246 2 ta AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Ixion; on, Tam Maw ar tHe Wien, GRAND OPERA MOUSE, Twenty-third at. and Bighth ay.—Ror Cannore. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-thied street, corner Sixth avenue,—Tux Buiis; on, Tux Pouisu Jew, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tavurs—Oon Netan- BORS, SUITH 4ND BROWN. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, ee Page. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Livingstone in Canada: Interview with the Brother of the Great Explorer; How He Dis- poe of the Doubting Brigade; ‘tne Question ttled at Last; History of the Li ne Family in America—The English Livingstone Expedition—Zanzibar: Arrival of the Bark Mary A. way from the East Coast of Africa; What Captain Russell Knows About Stanley; The Triumphal Return of the Herald E: t- tion from the Interior: iavinasanes Letters to Kirk; Facts About the Eng! Expedition and Livingstone’s Son Oswell—News from Washington—Murder in Hudson Street— Miscellaneous Telegraph. 4—Religious: The Summer of Dissipation Fenda Into a Season of Glorious Zeal for the Conver- sion of Mankind; Opening of the Autumnal Christian Campaign; Professor Greene on the Laborers and the Harvest; Dr. Starrs Urges the Necessity of Being Prepared to Die; Christian’s Strength Described by Dr. Armi- aes Paul's Defence Before Agrippa Philoso- phized by Mr. Pullman; New York and Athens Contrasted by the Rev. ©. B, Smyth; A Ser- mon on_ Livingstone in the Mariners’ Church—Father Burke—New York City Items—Collision at Harlem Bridge—Children Burned at Hoboken, S—Schoeppe’s Second Trial: A Day of Close Over- hauling by the Defence; Professor Wood's Statement; Conrad’s Elaborate Experience; Probable Cause of Miss Stei- necke’s Death; Uremic Poisoning; Professor Aiken ef ome His Prussic Acid Statement; His Tests Perfect and Colors Unmistakable— The American Institute Fatr—Fires im Brook- lyn—A Victim of the Kerosene Fiend—Sunday p the Hudson—The First Day of Autumn— Sunday at Prospect Park, Brooklyn—Music and the Drama. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Approach- ing State Elections and Their Bearing Upon the Presidential Contest,”—Amusement An- nouncements, ee Gey stl Sixth whicept exico: Report from beter ty rom Spain and Anes sEWY font Cuba—The Bourbon Gathering at Lowsville—The Metis: Twenty- two Dead Bodies Found; Twenty-six Yet Missing—Another Steamer Burned—Business Notices, 8—Local Politics: The Willing Martyrs of the Me- tropolis; Cliques, Candidates and Combina- tions; bomp! ications in the Various Dis- tricts; Tweed's Followers as Grantites; Poll- tics at Long Branch; Political Campaign Notes—A Day with Stanley—Gossipy Conver- sation Regarding His Travels in Africa and the Search After robber @—A Day With Stanley (Continued from Eighth Page) —Livingstone's Handwriting—The Stan- ley-Noe Letters—Lynch Law in Kansas—News from the Pacific Coast—A Horse Thief in Cus- tody in Brooklyn— Finanetal and Commercial: The Week in Wall Street in Trade and What It Promises; Speculations as to the Cotton Crop; Private Banking and Foreign Capital— Brooklyn Affairs—Meetings of the Inter- nationals—Deaths, 10—The Three Owsars: The Visit of the Emperors of Russia and Austria to the Emperor of Germany; Will It Be Peace or War; Antago- uistic Interests of the Three Powers; Diver- sity of Opinion on the Meeting of the Em- rors—The German Taxpayers and the Comp- bd Intolligence-Advertise. Ql—Jefferson Market Police Court—School War on Long Isiand—The California Prize Fight— Court Calendars—Advertisements, I2—Advertisements. ‘heories and Tae Loss oy Lirz Turovcn tae Mens Duuusres has now been figured down to forty- eight souls, One hundred and fifty-five per- sons were known to have been on board. Of these one hundred and seven have been saved. Twenty-two. bodies have been recov- ered, and this would leave twenty-six yet buried in the deep. On the heels of this shocking disaster comes the news of a vessel, the Nevada, being burned to the water's edge at the mouth of the Thames River in the Sound, fortunately without loss of life. No new additional particulars have been received of the burning of the Bienville at sea. The cable between Key West and Havana being out of order will account for this. The selfish and cowardly record of some of the officers of the Metis at the time of the disaster becomes more apparent and appears all the darker in contrast with the heroism of others, A Crry Po.rrictan Murverrp by an- other is one of the Eighth ward outcomings of the Sabbath yesterday. The murderer is what is called a ‘well-known politician,” and, having been at a funeral in the afternoon, returned to send another hhuman being on the same road by a sanguin- ary short-cut. Ashort quarrel over money lent by the politician to a corpulent gambler with an alias ended by the former drawing a pistol and shooting the latter dead, This is according to the brutal code of Eighth ward ethics, which is encouraged by the manner in which these ‘well known poli- ticians’’ escape justice so often. To be “a well known politician’ or a high-toned faro ‘bank owner or dealer is supposed up there to be # passport out of any prison in the State, Is there no way of undeceiving these low- rqwed sufians ? wne Approaching Stato Elections and | usual from 20,000 to 30,000 Their Bearing Upon the Presidential Contest. The next move on the political chessboard will be the State elections in Vermont and Maine—the first to-morrow, September 3, and the second on Monday, September 9. As both of these States are as decisively republican as Maryland and Kentucky are democratic the result of their local elections will not have any marked effect on the Presidential contest, un- less in the event of either of them showing « large increase or a marked decrease in the strength of the dominant party. Vermont has beenJeft in a great measure to itself, no very active efforts having been made on either side to stirup the enthusiasm of the electors; hence wo may conclude that in that State the vote will be cast in aocordance with the honest con- victions of the citizens, based upon their own judgment of the merits of the case. In Maine an active canvass has been going on for some time, The candidate of the liberal republicans has been on a_ pilgrimage through the State—now eating clams, now attending tea parties, now talking to the farmers or the school children, and now making well-timed and happy political address, All the arts that he could use to induce the people to vote in such a manner as would aid his cause have, no doubt, been re- sorted to, and it is not likely that his work has been without effect. His opponents have been equally active. General Grant has not been in Maine in person, itis true; but his representatives have been active in the State. His best orators have been on the stump; his shrewdest political managers have been en- gaged in pulling the wires, and a liberal supply of material aid has been forthcoming to second the efforts of his local friends. It is thought, therefore, that the contest in Maine may have some influence on the Presidential question, and the liberals are looking to a result in that State which will materially aid them in Indiana and Pennsylvania, while the administration party declare that their largely increased majority both in Vermont and Maine will show the hopelessness of the liberal movement, and finally dispose of Mr. Greeley’s chance in November without waiting for the October tests. While a large increase ora marked decrease in the customary republican majorities in either of these States would, as we have said, be likely to have its influence on the Presiden- tial issue, the result will not otherwise be material. In the event of a republican victory that eenidses Cif fonay ashe Into the shade it would be concluded that the repub- lican organization is still intact, and that the secession of so many of its prominent leaders has not shaken the fidelity of the rank and file. On the other hand, an important falling off in the old republican vote would be ac- cepted as an indication that the power of republicanism is broken, and would induce the conviction that the republican defection will be enough to turn all close and doubtful States over to the Greeley side, But a repub- lican victory in both States by an ordinary majority would leave the situation unchanged, and compel us to await the October elec- tions in Indiana and Pennsylvania be- fore being in a condition to form an intelligent estimate of the real strength of the Cincinnati movement and of the prospects of its candidates in November, ‘The North Carolina election may fairly be called o drawn battle, although its result was more favorable to the liberals than to the administration, for the reason thata large republican majority had been so confidently predicted there and so gen- erally anticipated, The doubtful success of Caldwell, despite the democratic victory in the State Legislature and in the Congressional districts, served to save the adminictpoti-- party from wis agit Have been a blow; yet there is no doubt that the failure to keep up the vote of the republican side operated as at least a temporary check upon the Presiden- tial prospects of that organization. Since the North Carolina contest there has been no op- portunity to test the sentiments of the people, for the West Virginia election was of course all democratic; but the Greeley side has appa- rently been latterly losing ground, and hence the trials in Vermont and Maine are probably regarded with more anxiety than they are legitimately entitled to occasion. In view of the growing feeling that the financial and com- mercial interests are preparing to make up their minds that the country is prosperous enough and that a change of administration is not desirable at this time, it may well be the earnest hope of the friends of the opposition that Maine, and even Vermont, may come to the rescue and by a decreased majority show that the sterling republicans of those States have lost confidence in the present manage- ment of their party. A glance at the vote in the steadfast State of Vermont ever since the republican party was first organized is sufficient to show what is to be expected of the Green Mountain boys at this time, when General Grant is again at the head of that party for re-election. In 1866 the majority for Fremont was 29,000. In 1860 Lincoln received 23,000 majority. In 1864, Lincoln’s majority was in- ereased to the old standard, 29,000. In 1868 General Grant's majority wos still larger, being nearly 32,000. In 1869 the republican Governor obtained over 20,000 ma- jority, and in 1870 and 1871 over 21,000. We cannot, therefore, expect from Vermont to- morrow less than 20,000 majority for the re- publican ticket, and as the Presidential ques- tion is before the people, it should properly range from that to 30,000. President Grant should be more powerful now in Vermont than he was four years ago, when he received the splendid majority of 32,000, and should there be any wavering from the steady, reliable republican vote to- morrow, it will be accepted as an indication that the policy of those who support the ad- ministration is not wholly acceptable to the Vermonters. There is nothing, however, to warrant the belief that such will be the case. The Vermont voters are not apt to change their political views, and the issues on which the strongest fight has been made against the republican affect them but little. There has been no active campaign in the State, and nothing has transpired to stir up any material division in the dominant party. The electors will pro- bably go to the polls and vote as they have been accustomed to vote ever since Fremont’s candidacy, and the republicans can confi- dently reckon an @ gmaiority ranging 99 in their favor. To suppose that Vermont could go backwards, or that any important decrease from the republican strength could be shown on the eve of a Presidential election, would be to concede that the republican mission was indeed ended, and that the organimtion might already be numbered with the federalists, whigs and Know Nothings among the things of the past. We expect no such verdict from the Green Mountain State, and shall look to her quietly retaining her steady position in the republican column by a ma- jority ranging from 20,000 to 30,000, and leav- ing the Presidential situation unaffected by her vote. In Maine there has been some effort at a diversion in favor of the liberal republican movement, and, as we have said, the pilgrim- age of the clam-eating Philosopher may have made some impression on the regular republi- can strength. Nevertheless, the task of shak- ing tho steady fidelity of the party in that State is, we believe, almost as hopeless as it would be in Vermont. Fremont’s majority in Maine in 1856 was 26,000 ; Lincoln's majority in 1860 was 24,000 and in 1864 was 21,000. In 1868 General Grant received 26,000 majority. In 1869 the republican vote for Governor was di- vided between Chamberlain, the regular repub- ican; and Hichborn, the temperance repub- lican, and, although Chamberlain only got twelve thousand majority over the democratic candidate, the two republicans together ob- tained over seventeen thousand majority; and this was claimed by the party organs at the time as their true vote. Last year the repub- lican majority on Perham for Governor over Kimball was between ten and eleven thousand. We may, therefore, caloulate that the repub- lican majority on next Monday will rango from ten to fifteen thousand, if the election is to be an ordinary one, and to havo little or no effect upon the more important canvass of November; but if it should fall below the smaller figuro or rise above the larger, the result may have considerable influence on the October elections, and through them upon the Presidential contest. In the one case it will be taken to indicate a coming disruption of the republican party, and in the other to prove that, despite the secession of some of the most prominent leaders of the party, its columns are still solid and unshaken. The hopes of both sides have been excited in regard to the Maine trial, and the exertions that have been put forth have been little less seyere than thoge made jn North, Caro- ina. ei it ital bs itaabae “that né very prominent republican leader has de- clared for Greeley in Maine, and that some of the strongest administration advocates are to be found in that State. If there should be any defection there at all it would come from the masses of the party, and would be not the legs threatening on that account. We are no more inclined to believe that Maine will show any falling off from General Grant than we are to suspect a political revolution in Ver- mont, and we predict that both those States will take their stand, as usual, in the republican column, and by about their cus- tomary majorities, so that the politicians will still have their work before them, and will have to use their best efforts upon the October elections in Indiana and Pennsylvania as the States whose votes will, in all probability, in- dicate with some degree of certainty the grand result that may be expected in No- vember. The snxicty felt dver these preliminary trials of strength and the importance placed upon deviations from the ordinary re- sults, which would scarcely be deemed worthy of note in other campaigns, are evidences of the unsettled condition of the reblic. mind ut vi tne conviction of the politicians that the people are even yet undecided how to vote, and may be led in numbers over to one side or the other by the impulse of tho me- ment. This may in some measure be ac- counted for by the mixed condition of par- ties and the breaking down of the old divid- ing lines; but it is also an indication of the errors committed by those who have controlled the policy of the republican administration for the past four years. If Congress had enacted wise and popular measures of reconstruction; if the well-known personal sentiments of General Grant had been suffered to control the admin- istration policy over the ex-rebel States; if the well-timed words, ‘‘Let us have peace,’ had been something more than a mere phrase; if our foreign policy had been such as a soldier would have made it, instead of such as an inexperienced and incapable politician has made it; if the republican leaders had recog- nized that they had some more exalted and more praiseworthy mission to fulfil than that of wrangling over the division of the spoils of office and intriguing for their retention, the great republican party would have been stronger to-day than it was when Abraham Lincoln led it to victory, or when it placed General Grant at the head of the nation to complete in peace the restoration of the Union he had saved on the field of battle. If tho struggle is uncertain to-day it is be- cause the people are dissatisfied with the policy of the dominant party, and not because a few individuals are displeased with ita dis- pensation of patronage. It is idle to deny the fact. There would have been no such struggle as now shakes the country from end to end unless a widespread disaffection existed among the honest, thinking people. The ad- visers of the President and the politicians who shape the course of the majority in Congress should take this lesson of the election to heart, and if the sober sense of the business men of the country induces them to entrust the government again to the hands of General Grant there should be an immediate change of policy on the part of the administra- tion, It will not do to try the patience and in- dulgence of the people too severely; and who- ever may win in the approaching election will be ‘expected to give us a pure civil govern- ment, # firm and dignified foreign policy and, above all, a united country—united by the obliteration of the memories of the war, and the extension of equal civil rights under the constitution to every State in the Union, “Awar Down 1x Marxz,’’ where a very active political fight is in progress, they have just had a lively little mill—yea, two of them, each between two knights of the P, R.—to vary the excitement, and all went off harmoniously. “Behold how good a thing it is for men and brethren to dwell together in unity!’ though they do meet to batter each other to jelly. The Approaching Meeting of the Three Bmperors. We publish to-day on another page of the Heaatp a lengthy article relative to the com- ing conference of the Emperors of Russia, Austria and Germany in Berlin. A press deapatch from Vienna, which reached us last night, reports that the statement which came from the same source on Saturday con- cerning a ciroular by Count Audrassy, and its alleged official exposition of tho views of Aus- tria with respect to France and Turkey, was somewhat more than doubtful in relation to fact, In truth, we are assured its contents are “by authority” pronounced to be false. We know, however, that the Emperor of Germany has returned to Berlin to make pre- parations for the reception of the Emperors of Russia and Austria, Agsin, it isalleged in trustworthy political circles in London and Paris that a European conference will be pro- posed at this imperial council with the three- fold object of giving sanction to the territorial changes in France and Germany and to the occupation of Rome by Italy, and of revising the Treaty of Paris of 1856, In con- sidering the several propositions which may be suggested for the pacification of Enu- rope it would be consoling to know that this imperial meeting at Berlin is not directed against the interests of France. To be sure, the peace of France, and, to some extent, the peace of Europe, hang upon the life or the action of that heroic old man, President Thiers. In the order of nature he cannot sur- vive many years more and still retain the ca- pabilities or the desire to continue in his pres- ent position. In short, from the age of Presi- dent Thiers it is simply impossible that the present transitional government of France, of which he is the head and the only reliance, can last, under the happiest circumstances, more than a few years longer. And what then? The Republic, in a more radical form, or the Bourbons or the Bonapartes? Perhaps the Republic in a more radical form, and with it a general rising of France for the recovery of Alsace and Lorraine and a settlement by arms of the unpaid balances of the German indemnity. This idea prevails ong F'rench- men of all parties. =“ ‘ Hence, perhaps, this proposition which it is said is to be considered by this council of the three Emperors, the recog- nition of the territorial changes made in France and Germany, which means the recog- nition of the cossion to Germany of Alsace and Lorraine, or a compact between the three Emperors that this cession shall stand asa necessity to the peace of France and of Europe. No more satisfactory object or ex- planation than this can at present be given of this imperial conference at Berlin. France is to be bound over to keep the peace while yet her government is of a character which is open to reason. She isto be brought to an agreement which will hold her, that this trans- fer of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany is a settlement which is not to be disturbed, and 80 far this meeting of the three Emperors has a definite object in view of the firstimportance to Germany and of considerable moment to Austria and Russia in their escape from the warlike complications and revolutionary out- breaks which otherwise might follow. Next it appears that the second object of this conference of the three Emperors is the ratification and confirmation of the occupa- tion of Rome by ltaly—a delicate and impor- tant question, which can hardly be satisfacto- rily settled short of a European conference, embracing England, France and Italy and the Papé, onthe head of the Roman Catholic Church. Next, the revision of the Treaty of Paris of 1856 being simply s matter upon which these three Emperors can settle nothing as the law of the Continent, » European con- ference will be necessary to make any changes that may be deemed éxpedient in the inter- est of Bussia, or as an agreement between Russia, Austria and Germany. However, apart from the question of Alsace and Lor- raine, the propdsitions suggested as the mat- ters which will be considered by the three Emperors are of that comprehensive character which indicates the call of a European con- ference, ‘ The Reported Arapahoe Massacre in Colorado, A despatch, received on Saturday night from Topeka, Kansas, announced a terrible Indian massacre in Colorado Territory by the Arapahoes, whose details are sufficiently hor- rible, but which, from‘ various points in the recital, we hope may prove untrue. A gov- ernment train of thirty-six mule teams, on its way to Fort Lyon from Carson City, became mired in the sandy bottom of Dry Creck. While thus detained, the story runs, two hun- dred Arapahoe warriors, under ‘Little Raven,’’ swooped down, and, after murdering or wounding fifteen men belonging to the train, ran off the mules, having in the meantime skinned alive Mr. Bryan, the wagon master, from head to foot. What encourages us not to put a hasty confidence in this terrible affair is the unlikelihood of the at- tack while the ‘escort’ of one hundred cavalry was known to be, even as the despatch states, ‘nine miles in the rear.” The Arapahoe is a foe the more dangerous because of the sagacity with which he counts the odds, and will seldom attack unless these are twenty to one in his favor. Perhaps the first that he counts on is his ability to carry off his plunder; and even with the start of a few miles it seems odd that the savages could not be trailed and captured, or at least the property recovered. If the report be confirmed it will go to prove an increase of audacity on the part of this blood-thirsty tribe which augurs badly for the future of the peace policy—in their regard, at any rate. This band of ‘Little Raven’s’’ should be turned over to the care of Little Phil and dealt with after his most approved method. What should be done to the officer in command of the escort who allowed a slow-moving mule train to bo nine miles ahead of him in» hostile country ‘we would leavo in the hands of a court-martial. If found guilty of the criminal negligence alleged he should be visited in » manner to waken up all escort officers in fature. Tar Exousn Streamer Dover Castiz, as ‘weare informed by a despatch from Valpa- raiso, was recently burned to the water's edgo off the Chilean coast, the loss involving a large cargo of cotton, but no human lives, Thus it seems, again, that misfortunes, whether by flood og fire. never come singly. John Livingstone om the Explorer’s Handwriting—An Interesting Story from Zanzibar. It will be one of the curiosities of history, when Livingstone’s life becomes a part of it, that the American expedition which rescued him from actual want and possible death should be doubted so persistently and so base- lessly in America. If these doubts had arisen at Zanzibar or in London, or among the fam- ily of the great explorer, they would be looked on as the natural suspicions which would enter the minds of those most interested be- fore accepting as genuine the startling news which brought to life, as it were, one long given up for dead. Yet at Zanzibar, where the means of judging the truth of the story were tenfold greater than anywhere else, it was ac- cepted as genuine by Dr. Kirk; and so con- vinced was Licutenant Dawson of the com- pleteness of the Heranp expedition’s success that the English search expedition under his command was abandoned. We have referred hitherto to the family’s acceptance of the truth and their grateful feelings for tho welcome news, and we have now the pleasure to add to those already published the recognition and thanks of John Livingstone, the distinguished traveller's brother, now residing at Listowell, Canada, as set forth in another column of the Hzpatp, in an interview with a correspondent of this journal. Astonishment of the sturdiest kind was his first feeling, and an expression of the utter absurdity of any scepticism upon the subject. He had no doubts—none whatever. The letter forwarded to him by Mr. Stanley was undoubtedly the handwriting of his brother, and contained such private family matter as could only be known to a brother, and which was partly in response to the last letter forwarded to Africa by him. This was naturally omitted in the letter as pubhshed, and was couched in the genial, trifling tone which the world is beginning to admit to be one of the characteristics of Livingstone in his intimacy. For his use of ‘Americanisms’ he is, according to John Livingstone, indebted vastly to hig brother Charles, now Consul at Fernando Po, who had resided at Rox- bury, Mass., for several years, and would not be likely to need very much assistance in the matter, although we have no doubt that it was supplied him. Evidence of this kind we hold to be unimpeachable and to prove by the shortest possible induction that all incredulity on the point is, in John Livingstone's language, ‘‘utter absurdity.” Our enterprising contemporary, the Sun, in treating the matter editorially, after ex- hausting the unclean fountain of Noe, falls to reasoning and so falls into error. This is often done unconsciously. When the mind is bent on proving a point flying leap from weak Fron kcad Torso isdtasion ig fre- quently taken in the enthusiasm of the mo- ment. Its premises, based on alleged pre- vious acts of Mr. Stanley and his alleged skil- fal penmanship, are certainly not strong enough to reach the conclusion, in the face of all proof to the contrary, that Stanley did not find Livingstone. Yet, arguing from these premises, it writes as follows:—‘“For this reason no certificate affirming the resemblance or even the identity of the handwriting in the Herap letters with that found in unquestion- able manuscripts of Dr. Livingstone can settle the controversy.” On the point of “resem- blance’’ it may have right on its side; but how proof of the “identity” of the letter to the Heratp cannot be eat isfactory and conclusive is an argument to be accounted for only on the supposition of enthusiasm in the cause it has taken up so vig- orously. With Noe’s story we have nothing to do; in settling for ourselves the authen- ticity of Doctor Livingstone’s letters to the Hegatp our attention has been turned to mat- ters bearing thereon, and with the declaration of John Livingstone ye hold the ‘identity’ established and tho “controversy seltied”—a concluston with which we are sure all whose aim is the truth will coincide. Tho American bark Mary A. Way artived in this port yesterday, one hundred days from Zanzibar, carrying personal communications to the Hera from our correspondent. Cap- tain Russell, her commander, in an interview published elsewhere, gives some interesting information regarding the arrival of our expe- dition at the coast, which happened two days after his coming into port. The picture of perfect confidence reposed at Zanzibar in the narrative of Mr. Stanley which he gives seems only to have been elicited from the worthy son of Neptune after he had been abso- lutely astounded by the announcement that doubting Thomases bloomed here in tropical abundance. He was indignant, was Captain Russell, and the actual measure of his indig- nation can only be surmised in the emphasis with which he describes the honors and com- pliments showered upon our correspondent. After all it will be admitted that this absurd chirographic tempest, raised by a puny indi- vidual on Long Island, will not be without its interesting and even comic points, illustrating rather aptly the well known fact that those who spend their energies on warning others against credulity aro very easily imposed upon themselves. Tax Lovisviiz Convention of ‘straight out’’ democrats for the nomination of a regu- lar old-line democratic Presidential titket, and on a platform of the ‘time-honored principles of the democratic party,’’ meets to-morrow, and Colonel Blanton Duncan, we suppose, as the engineer who has “put this ball in mo- tion,’’ will call the meeting to order. The delegates from different places are beginning to drop in, and doubtless by to-morrow Louis- ville will present a considerable gathering of unreconstructed democratic Bourbons who never can support the liberal ticket of Greeley and Brown—never, never! And it appears that the nomination of, our distinguished fellow citizen of this metropolis, Charles O'Conor, as the candidate of these democratic inflexibles, is still talked of, although he bas, it is said, prohibited the use of his name by the concern. Anticipating, at all events, a straight democratic ticket as now inevitable, what will the inflexibles do with it? All the democratic journals of the country, with an exception or two, have enlisted in the canse of Greeley and Brown, and with them the whole democratic organization—national, State, county, city, town, township—and clubs and associations of all sorts, great and small. The question thus persistently thrusts itself upon us, What will or can Colonel Duncan and his little outside pasty do with their outside third party Presidential ticket at this late day? The answer, too, still suggests itself—they oan do nothing; not even to assist the unless by voting for them directly. Within the next forty-eight hours we shall have a flood of the ground. The Fall Religious Campaign Opened.’ Yesterday was day in several of our city churches. They had been closed— some two, four and six weeks—for repairs and brightening up, so that the worshippers on their return might find the house swept and garnished and looking cheer- ful and inviting occupancy. Trinity Metho- dist Episcopal church, which had been shut up for a mouth, was reopened yesterday, and alargoand fashionable congregation, we are told, gathered there to listen to. the eloquent pastor, Iov. John E. Cookman, demonstrate to * them how ‘the mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills righteousness;"* or, in other words, how strength and security, such as can be found only in the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, brings peace. A weak nation can never be said to be a peaceful one. . It is through death agonies that liberty is born, and through continual battles we trang- mit it to our children. Ohristianity is a roe bust religion, and the peace which its Founder gives was obtained by self-denial. It pro- claims laws to which men must sub- mit and before which kings must bow, and obedience to those laws brings peace and assurance forever. Yesterday was reopening day also in the Fifth avenue Baptist church, and singularly enough, too, Dr, Armitage, its pastor, had some good words to say on Chrig- tian endurance. The true Christian, he said, never faints. He might fret and worry, but faint or succumb, never! And herein con- sists the great difference between the man of faith and the man of the world. The Obris- tian might fail, but he would not faint, for God can take care of him, and He will sus tain him. Life is, indeed, as the Doctor de- clared, as much a history of failures as of triumphs, and failures sometimes producd good effects, The lesson of Dr, Armitage'’s Gincorited Was that our strsagh mes oomg directly from God, in whom is our trust, Though the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church has been partially opened during the summer there was, nevertheless, a reopening there yes- terday, but its pastor, Rev. Dr. Hall, was not in his accustomed place. Professor Greene, of Princeton College, set before the congre- gation the extentand the importance of the great harvest of the Almighty and the few- ness of the laborers to gather it. No other event in this world or in the great hereafter gan compare in magnitude and importance with the ingathering of this harvest of human souls, Geographical discoveries, the accumu- lation of wealth and the increase of knowl- edge are, by its gide, of comparatively little. value. And this harvesting must be done by men, and by men who will mot receive a new revelation or a new command to do it. The command is oa standing one for all time and for all men, “Go work. to-day in my vineyard;’’ and it is the duty of all to pray and to preach and to spread the Gospel, and this duty Dr. Greene enforced upon his hearers by precept and illustration. In the reopening services in Dr. Ormiston’s Reformed church in Fifth avenue yesterday a subject very much akin to that chosen by the preceding preachers was taken also by the Doctor, It wag 9 rural gubject—sowing and « reaping—and its application was made to the’ spiritual sowing and harvest time. The Docs tor gcknowledged that for three months he had been walking among the fields of a most magnificent harvest, and it was therefore’ natural that he should come home with his mind fall of agricultural illustrations, And then, running rapidly backward, he led thé congregation back to Eden, where the Lord: Himself taught Adam the first lessons in plant- ing and reaping. Spiritually this is our sow- ing time; let us, as the Doctor urged, pre-, pare our fields, so that the dews from heaven may not fall upon wasted and barren land, but may bring forth fruit in abundance to’ His ry When y le, Feaping time comes and by. The an discourse of fev. z Pallman int the Church of Our Saviour yes! terday was fuil of practical suggestions to’ those who stand waiting all their days for al revelation from God to them like that made to Paul long, long ago, while all around us the woes and sorrows and prayers, the countlesa passions and emotions of hearts that have looked through the starry skics, have been’ revelations and visions from God. Every day such revelations are made to each and all us—to men as blinded and benighted as Pat was; but they will not read them aright.| Hence they continue in their blindness’ and in their sins, False pride is what keeps, men thus in ignorance and in sin, as was. illustrated by Rev. Mr. Snyder in St. Mark’s, Protestant Episcopal church, by a comparison. of the characters of the Pharisee and the publican portrayed in the Gospel. The former, with all the self-satisfaction imagi- nable, thanked God that he was such a good man, and especially so much better publican neighbor. But the. latter fessed that he was a sinner and begged. for mercy, and he received it and went down to his house justified by faith. newspapers, whereas Athens had none. And we may add, also, in this, that it has a sensa-. tionalist parson like this reverend, which Athens probably had not. Rev. Dr. Bidwell, talked in the Mariners’ church last night om the great discovery of Livingstone by the Henatp Search Expedition and the trials and endurance of Mr. Stanley. In St. Patrick’s Cathedral Dr. Starrs exe pounded the miracle of the restoration to life of the widow's son at Nain, and revealed, in touching words, the keen compassion and great sympathy of the Saviour. The great lesson of the incident, as impressed by Dr. Starrs, was the certainty of death and the’ uncertainty of its advent, and hence the im- portance of being always prepared to meet it,, ' for death is the greatest event of human ex~' istence and human experience. Dr. Porter,; of Brooklyn, demonstrated the fact that the’ Christian life is not a failure, since Christ is’ in it. Rev. James M. Brown, at Long Branch, retold the story of Paul's conversion, and tried hard to get some of the politicians “syn there to take to the mourner's bench,