The New York Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1872, Page 6

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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Bounce anv Arr. ‘TRIPLE § Now York, Saturday, Sept. 28, 1872, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘Lo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE: “THE PERSON- ALITIES OF THE CANVASS—THE DEGRA- DATION OF PARTY JOURNALISM’—SixTH Page. KAISER WILLIAM’S IMPERIAL RECEPTION: ROYAL FEASTS AND PAGEANTS; COUN- TERFEITING WAR—Fovrta Page. ‘GREELEY IN PENNSYLVANIA: THE PELION OF SPEECH UPON THE OSSA OF OVATION— THIRD PaGE. B. GRATZ BROWN: SAVAGE ONSLAUGHT UPON THE ADMINISTRATION AND ITS SUPPORT- ERS—TIPTON OF NEBRASKA ADDRESSES THE LIBERALS OF WILLIAMSPORT, PA,— TurRD PaGE. ENGLAND: SEVERE GALES AND CALAMITIES AT SEA—CABLE NEWS TELEGRAMS—MEX- ICAN NEWS: EXPLOITS OF THE ROB- BERS—SEVENTH PacE. PAULINE LUCCA: MEYERBEER'S SEARCH FOR A SELIKA—EDMUND YATES’ AMERICAN DEBUT—WASHINGTON—SEVENTH PGE, DETAILS OF THE RIOTING IN NEW JERSEY— YACHTING—THE CITY'S CHARITIES—SHIP- PING—TeNTH PaGE. ‘THE ROBBERS’ HAUNTS ON THE RIO GRANDE: OPERATIONS OF THE FRONTIER CON- TRABANDISTAS—LITERARY CHIT-CHAT— Fourtu Pace. THE KEYSTONE STATE: STRONG LIBERAL TEN- DENCY; SCH SU ; DOOLITTLE ON THE SITUATION; CURTIN’S LETTER— Firtu PaGe. MHE BIENVILLE: INTERESTING TESTIMONY— THE “RING” INDICTMENTS: MOTIONS TO TRANSFER THE CASES TO THE OYER AND TERMINER—FutH Page, TUE FINALE OF THE POINT BREEZE TROTTING MEETING—THE ALLEGED MISSION PLACE “APPROPRIATION’—LEGAL AND MUNICI- PAL MATTERS—MERCHANTS SWINDLED— Eicutn Pace. THE WALL STREET EXCHANGES: STRATEGY OF THE “BULLS” AND “BEARS” IN PACIFIC MAIL—THE ERIE RAILWAY AS A VEHICLE FOR FREIGHT—NintH PaGR. Tae AvabaMa Crate ARrprrRation §settle- ment in Geneva engages the anxious attention of the people and rulers of the British nation more and more directly momentarily as the @ay for the opening of the session of Parlia- ment approaches. The national sentiment is expressed, in its varying phases, in our cable despatches from London. The feeling appears 4o be a sort of compound impression, in which the principle of justice has to contend slightly Yor the mastery over the irritating promptings which flow from a sense of chastisement cor- xection and humiliation in equity. The com- mercial effort for « complete restoration of the entente with America appears to be of an ex- ceodingly healthy character. Tue Pennsyivanta SrratcHt-Ovr cnats, through their Executive Committee at Philadelphia, have resolved upon a State con- vention on the 16th of October, for the pur- pose of nominating an independent Presiden- | tial electoral ticket under the flag of O'Conor and Adams. Meantime in the Pennsylvania Btate election of the 8th of October these straight-out democrats will doubtless work with the liberal democrats and republicans—a decision which makes the October result in the old Keystone very doubtful and exceed- ingly interesting. Tas Frencumen or Merz continuo to flee | away from Prussian rule in the vanquished territory. The population of the city is already reduced to one-third of what it was before the commencement of the late war with Germany, Should the immigrant French movement con- tinue in the same ratio its consequences will inevitably embarrass the imperialism in Berlin vastly. Dewo- | WEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Person 1 Of the Canvass—The Degradation of Party Journalism. A fow days ago the Heranp took occasion to animadvert on the personal character of the warfare waged between tho rival political par- ties in.the present campaign. We pointed out that the organs of the several factions had abandoned the discussion of the principles in- volved in the contest, and substituted in its viduals. We abowed that the stump orators on both sides were falling into the bad habit of emulating in their speeches the scurrility of the partisan press, or were wearying their hearers with explanations and defences of their own conduct instead of arguing the issues of tho campaign. We endeavored to carry home to the convictions of the politicians the folly of such a course by holding up before their eyes the disgraceful condition in which their criminations and recriminations are calculated to place all the political organizations of thecountry. On one side we exhibited men of assumed truthfulness and honesty branding as @ corruptionist, a confirmed drunkard, an incompetent and unfaithful public officer a President for whom they claimed the support of the American people four years ago, whose competency, virtue and sterling integrity they could not extol too highly up to within the last twelve months. On the other side we presented to view the spectacle of a party that had for twelve years laid especial claim to purity, disinterestedness and virtue denounc- ing the leading and most constant members of that party as thieves, traitors, bribers, swindlers, slanderers, liars and idiots. We asked what the honest people of tho country could think of the honor and patrigtism of those who had advocated the election of Gen- eral Grant to the highest office in the gift of the nation, when, as thoy now declare, they knew him fo be unfit for the position? And what could be their opinion of a self-canonized organization made up of such men as républi- cans now paint each other to be? Senator Fenton has been time and again before the people of New York for thoir suffrages, and the career painted in such vile colors by the regular republican organs and orators was a3 well known to them then as now; yet not one of them, journalist or speaker, but has lnuded him to the skies and bogged votes for him as an able and honest man. Lither they are slandering him from malice now or were supporting a dishonest man for offico then. Groeloy, Sumner, Schurz, Banks, Trumbull, Blair, Sprague, Curtin, Farnsworth, Julian, Grow, were all‘extolled for years as pure and able men until their present defection sudden- ly opened the eyes of the party, that have so often boasted of their many virtues, to the fact that they have all along been knaves or fools, Conkling, Boutwell, Wilson, Colfax, Blair, Scofield, Bingham and others would have been praised and championed two years ago by the liberals who have left the republican ranks, and now in what colors are their portraits painted by their formerassociates? We warned the politicians in our former remarks that these facts were being noted by the people, who were becoming nauseated by the abuse bandied between the fighting factions and dis- posed to set down all political parties as cheats and frauds from beginning to end. For a time it appeared as if our advice had not been thrown away, but was likely to bring about some good results. Several journals of respectable standing took up the theme and united with the Heratp in deprecating the personalities of the canvass. One of our city contemporaries, the leading and politically able organ of the democracy, it is true, criti- cised our remarks and advanced the opinion that “personal discussions’’'—by which, we presume, is meant the discussion of the per- sonal character and habits of candidates—are not only excusable, but necessary, ina cam- paign. Political principles and issues, says our contemporary, must, of course, be dis- cussed ; but so also must the personal qualifi- cations and the personal conduct of candi- dates and officers, in order that the people may have the means of judging of the fitness of the one and of the fidelity of the other. So we are carried to the conclusion that per- sonal assaults upon the characters of pub- lic men never deserve censure merely because they are personal, but only when they exceed the limit of truth. We pass over the personal discourtesy of the allusion to the Herap as a “trimmer,”’ made apparently to point the argument, because we have long since dis- covered that no organ owing political service to a party can appreciate or even understand the true position of an independent journal which, like the Hrraxp, gives hearing to all sides, conceals nothing, perverts nothing, mis- represents nobody and praises or censures a8 honesty demands without regard to persons or parties. No one would be disposed to dispute that the “personal qualification’ of 4 candi- date for Publis. oft 4.2 Propet subject of discussion, or that the “persgnal conduct’ of & public officer, so far as his official life is concerned, may without impropriety be ex- amined. But the personalities that have dis- graced the present campaign, of which we have complained, are of a very different char- acter. The assaults upon President Grant, which commenced the objectionable warfare, had no bearing upon his qualifications or offi- cial conduct. They were brutal and indecent stories reflecting upon the private life and habits of an eminent man who had rendered invaluable service to his country, and were probably all as unfounded as the disgraceful | one started by a weekly paper last Sunday. The coarse personal abuse showered by one republican morning daily in this city upon Mr. Greeley and every gne of his prominent | supporters indiscriminately has no relation to | qualification or official conduct. This mode of warfare is, of: course, ridiculous, because every sensible person knows that it is only | necessary for the purest man in the community | to declare himself distinctly on one side or the other in the present campaign to become a “Grant corruptionist’’ or a “Tammaty thief.”’ A happy phrase is of great value to these pro- fessional abusers, for they can use it on every | occasion and on every person indiscriminately. | In this respect the Tammany corruptions have been of inestimable service to the worst speci- men of this sort of journalism, and have been | the ready means of filling its editorial columns. | The democratic apologist for personalities in a | canvass will, no doubt, plead that such as- | saults are not intended to be justified; but the defence is a defence of the porsonalitios of the present canvass, and they are mainly of this quality. \ The proposition that personal assaulis uoon public men do not deserve censure when they are true appears plausible enough, and yet it opens the door for the justification of much of the scandalous warfare of the pending cam- paign. We have seen how a grain of truth may be perverted and how much injustice may be done under its mask. One of the main evils of these assaults is that they deter good men from accepting nominations for office. Few persons choose to set up their private affairs and personal, characters and habits a6 marks to be pecked at by every journalistic daw who happens to have made his nest in an opposition bush. Let a candidate bo as pure as ice and as chaste as snow, he sliall not escape calumny, for your political libeller will find occasion for censure in the record of every man not of his own way of think- ing. No upright public officer can object to the closest scrutiny of his official qualifications and conduct; but scarcely one would wish his private life to be made the subject of criticism or would admit that his personal habits or affairs are fair themes of public discussion simply because ho happens to be before the people for their suffrages. The specimens of the last few days will show the depths of degradation into which this per- sonal warfare is dragging the partisan journals, Four or five days ago a liberal organ assailed Senator James O’Brien in a manner which would scarcely be regarded as a justifiable per- sonality, as a man— 1, Who cannot read and write. 2, Who has been convicted of rioting and petty ne 3, Who hag worn Penitentiary stripes as a thtof. 4 £ ee altered and falsified his accounts as 5 Who falsely swore that one bill against the Hee for $104,000 was true; thereby committing per- jury. 6. Who confided to the President of the United States o 8. Grant) that he had put 10,000 fraudu- lent ballots in New York ballot boxes to help elect him President, 1. Whom the records of Congress show to have been concerned with McCunn and Barnard in the immense naturalization frauds of 1868, 8. Who is an inveterate gambler, who sometimes gives fraudulent checks in payment of his losses. 9. Who is a proved blackinailer. Hereupon the regular republican journals take up the cudgels for Senator O’Brien and retort by bringing tho following list of charges against Senator Fenton :— 1, He was arrested for robbery. 2. He was committed to jail for the offence, 3. He is a thief by his own confession, rd 4, He was accused of arson in burning his own store to obtain the insurance. 5. It is inevidence that he took bribes as a mem- ber of Congress. 6. When Governor ho held back the Dill to “le- galize the Eric scrip,” and did not sign it until Jay Gould paid $20,000 to one of his Albany brokers, 1. He withheld his signature to the Dry Dock Railroad bill until one of his confidential men was paid $20,000. 8, He bargained with Tammany Hall to sign the dna ee tax levies, and for which he received his price. 9, He was @ partner with the lato Health Officer Swinburne, who shared the plunder of that ofice with him, The liberal organ comes back to the chargo with tho followmg indictment against Mr. Laflin, the Naval Officer of the Port: — We arraign A. H, Laflin, present Naval Oficer of this port, whose appointment Roscoe Conkling, with @ full knowiedge of the circumstances, pro- cured, and for whose sake President Grant re- moved from the ofice oue of New York’s oldest and most honored merchants, Moses H, Grinnell. We charge this present Naval Officer of the Port with being indicted for perjury in his own county, with having the false swearing clearly proved upon him, and with escaping conviction and the Penitentiary only on the legal technicality that the matter about which he swore falsely was not material to the immediate issue then on trial. We charge him with conniv- ance with a bank cashier, whereby Laflin defrauded the bank, was detected, sued, caught again in false swearing, and forced to refund. The cashier com- mitted suicide. The false swearer 1s Naval Ofticer of the Port of New York. To-day we charge these things. To-morrow we shall prove them. Now, these personalities may be justified, because some of them may havo a grain of truth. That is to say, Senator O’Brien, as a young man, may have been in trouble through a too hot temper and a too ready blow. Senator Fenton may have been involved in an awkward scrape at cightoen years of age, before the people who knew all about it elected him to the first of the many public offices he has filled to their apparent satisfac- tion. ‘hero is this grain of truth about the Laflin story, that the Naval Officer was charged with perjury, but was speedily and honorably released from the charge, while Judge Earl, of the Court of Appeals, made the following remarks upon the case: — A great wrong has been attempted against one of our public citizens, It is due to all that he should @ publicly congratulated on his vindication, Mr. Laflin and myself have been opposed to each other in politics. robably we always shali be, unless he changes his views. ButI believe in conducting litical battles on the principles of civilized war- re. I am ee to the use of the tomahawk and scalping-knife, But what can decent citizens think of a campaign carried on by such means? And what opinion can foreign nations have of our public men and our party press, when they find such charges bandied about and such unfair weapons used against political oppo- nents? It is time that such disgraceful ex- hibitions should cease. Mr. Greeley, in his admirable public speeches, has shown how the real issues of the campaign can be dis- cussed ably, tersely and courteously, and the example he has set should be followed at least by every American journal. The foulest flood of personal abuse has poured from a city ly ol English proclivities and English management. Tho well-known British error which attributes such a style of Journalism America may have been the cause of this; but American journalists, who have an inter- est in the honor and reputation of their coun- try, should see to it that the nation is no longer disgraced by such scurrilousness and indecency. Cuurcn anp State in Genmany—Tur Dmect Issvz.—Some time ago the Bishop of Ermeland deposed one of his priests because he refused to accept the decrees of the Inte Vatican Council. The Prussian government retained the priest in office and secured to him his emoluments, Since that time the Bishop has been at war with the government. By letter and by lec- ture ho has openly proclaimed that the Church is superior to the State, and that the State has no right to interfere with the decisions of the Church or with the emoluments of the clergy. Bismarck thinks differently, and has beon anxious to prosecute. Emperor William has been anxious to conciliate, At last the Em- peror has consented that matters must be brought to a direct issue, and proceedings are to be instituted forthwith against the Bishop of Ermeland. It is not difficult tc see how this matter must end. In North Germany the Church will not be allowed to override the State, Tae Sunray anv Tae Kagpive.—-The Sultan has at last made up his mind to grant his dangerously powerful vassal, the Khedive of Egypt, all that he wants. A trusted messen- ger has just left Constantinople for Egypt, bearing a firman to the Viceroy sanctioning his title of Khedive and making it hereditary in his family. Ismail Pacha is reported to be the wealthiest man in the world, Whether this is absolutely true wo know not; but no one can doubt that he is one of the most enter- prising rulers and most fortunate princes in this age. The Sultan has done well in acced- ing to the wishes of his vassal. Egypt becomes more and more the strong centre of Islamism, and it will not be wonderful if, when the Turk is driven from Europe, the Ottoman Empire should for a time find its headquarters in the ancient capital of the Egyptian Sultans. The Mayoralty—The Available Men and the Action Necessary. While our citizens are deeply interested in the Presidential election and the olection of Governor of the State, other officials, and Congressional representatives, they ought to give due attention to that which comes nearer home to them—to the election of Mayor of this great metropolis. Important as the other offices may be, both national and State, that of chief magistrate of our city concerns us more directly. We have here a population larger than in many of the States, interests far greater than those of any single State, and an expendituro approaching that of the federal government in its civil administration simply. The choice of a Mayor is really of more con- sequence to us than that of a President of the Republic, Both the people and the political managers should givo their attention first to this matter, looking only to tho interests of the city, and paying loss regard to the political or partisan bearing of tho Mayoralty election. ‘There are a numbor of capable and respect- able gentlemen belonging to different partics, or who are not political partisans at all, who would fill the office well and be an honor to the city. The troublo just now is that thero are so many rival factions and cliques working either for somo political or personal objects and with little regard to tho. interest of tho city. They are watching each others’ move- ments as intently as a chess player watches the moves of the pieces on a chess board, ready to take advantage of any change of position. Now the way to head off the schemes of the different organizations and their candidates, the reformed Tammany Society, which is the most powerful by far of all the organizations, should at once select the most suitable and available candidate for Mayor and proclaim its choice to the poople. Why should reform Tammany wait for the action of the Committee of Seventy or of any other body? The men who control Tammany were and are tho fore- most reformors and have at their back tho most powerful organization and largest number of voters. It should lead in movement to nominate the best man for chief magistrate and not wait for the action of others, The Committee of Seventy is com- posed of respectable and well-meaning men for the most part, but they are not very prac- tical and not likely to have much influence over the people. The fact is, the mission of that curious conglomeration—the Seventy— though embracing many respectable and un- selfish citizens, is about ended. We cannot see how the committee could refuse to support the nomination of Tammany for Mayor if the nominee were an unexceptionable man; and if it should refuse and make another nomina- tion the great body of our citizons would not fail to see through whatever protext might be urged, and abandon the Seventy and their fac- tious nomination. Reformed Tammany, under the lead of Tilden, Belmont, Schell and other reformers and good men, can be as safely de- pended upon, it is fair to presume, as the Sev- enty or any other body. Let Tammany, then, take the initiative and leave the responsibility of opposing or supporting a good nominee for Mayor to the different combinations or fac- tions. With a capable and unexcoptionable candidate there could be little fear of the result. But there must be no taint of the old rings or former corrupt political associations on such a candidate, no doubt about bis capa- bility and integrity, and then it will matter little whether he be called a democrat or should have no political bias whatever. There are, as we have said, a number of suitable men and reformers in both the great parties as well as some who belong to no party. We have mentioned heretofore several gentlemen, any one of whom would make a good Mayor, and it remains for Tammany to say which would bo most available or acceptable to the people. Others might be named, Take, for example, Mr. Edward Cooper, the son of the venerable Peter Cooper, Like his father, he is a pro- nounced reformer, and no one could object to him as lacking ability, respectability and honesty. We had montioned the present Comptroller, Mr. Green ; but latterly he has evinced a want of such large and liberal views regarding the needed improvements of the city and its institutions as we want in a Mayor. His ideas are too narrow and contracted for the chicf magistrate of this great metropolis. This outweighs tho good qualities he otherwise oommen, Fag, share. Ms. Ovvald Otten dorfer, an able man and a journalist, who was a leading reformer and who represents a large German population in this city. We cannot see what objection there could be to him. Again, Mr. Charles A Dana, another journalist, has undoubted ability, and has had groat experience in public affairs. Where could a more accomplished and capable gentleman be found than Mr. James 8. Thayer? An old whig, thoroughly national and conservative, deeply interested in the welfare of the city, anda man of high character, Mr. Thayer would fill the office with honor. Then there is the solid John Kelly, most reliable and practical, who it is known was an efficient Sheriff, who served the city and State well in Congress, and who would get a large Irish vote. Colonel Steb- bins, Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence, Senator James O'Brien, who might be induced to make peace with Tammany; Mr. Tilden, Mr. Schell, the Grand Sachem of Tammany; Mr. Commis- sioner Van Nort, Messrs. A. T. Stewart, R. B, Roosevelt, R. A. Withaus, Charles I. Loew, Dock Commissioner Kane, and even others might be named in the list capable, unexcop- tionable, or available, from which Tammany could choose a candidate. Prompt action is required, so as to prevent a host of candidates and confusion, and then in the end, perhaps, the election of the least competent or accopt- able man. If we have a general scrub race, some such candidate might slip in, Let Tam- many lay aside mere party preferences or con- siderations, choose a candidate entirely accep- table to our citizens, and name hin at once, and then the other organizations must either fall in with the movement or expect to be de- feated, The Late Equinoctial Gale. The great equinoctial storm, or part of it, may be fairly said to havo passed over the country. This gale originated apparently in the vast trane-Missouri plains, and progressed eastwardly with gathering force and accele- rated velocity, The government meteorolo- Gist discovered it on Sunday, the 22d instant, and telegraphed its threatening advance over the lakes fully two days ahead of its violent outburst upon those treacherous waters, On Monday its influence was felt over the whole country in front of it, as far east as tho Atlantic seaboard, whero the return of the almost August heat preannounced the coming storm. On Tuesday its full force was felt on Lake Michigan in torrents of rain and winds fifty miles an hour, and thence, with unabated violence, over southern Lake Huron, it took its fiery course to the northeastward, but not leaving the United States without involving the lake region and tho Middle and Eastern States in its rain and atorm clouds, The facts brought to light by these immense meteors, which traverse the country from west to east, seem to sustain the view that has recently been propounded by meteorolo- gists, that the falling barometers, high tempera- tures and heavy rains on the east side of storms are not actually translated, but that the southerly winds, which always prevail on tho east side, bring in moisture which is condensed by the cold of expansion, as the air over the region swept by the warm southerly winds ascends. According to the unquestionably accurate estimates of Espy and Tyndall tho fall of an inch of rain over fifty square miles— @ mero speck on the map—would evolve force enough to raiso from the mines 100,000,000 tons of coal—the total production of Great Britain, The immense extent of this country, from ocean to ocean, givesit unexampled facilities for telegraphing and studying the march of storms and the progress of all atmospheric conditions. That those facilities are being improved ‘to the utmost by the Weather Bureau is evident from the timely warning and display of cautionary signals on the stormy waters of the great lakes during the last week. The dangers to lake navigation will be greatest during the two coming months, and call for special vigilanco, Outrage by Westchester Militiamen, The free fight in which two of the West- chester militia companies indulged, in the cars of the Harlem Railroad on Thursday, calls for special attention from the authorities. It is not too much to ask that the travelling public shall be protected from the violence of men armed by the community for the national de- fence. For the sake of the reputation of tho militia force prompt and exemplary punish- ment must be meted out to those men who disgraced their soldiers’ uniform by acting like a band of brigands. Indeed, we fear we are doing the brigands injustice in comparing them to the drunken brawlers who caused consternation to a number of peaceable pas- sengers and turned a public conveyance into a slaughterhouse. The offenders in this case are a couple of German companies of the Home Guard belonging to Morrisania, and as the elections are approaching no doubt efforts will be made by the politicians to shield them from punishment. Tho public, and especially tho members of the militia, aro, however, deeply interested in teaching ruffians of this class a lesson. When men put on the uniform of the State they place themselves under the obligation of being the supporters of the law. It is to our militia that we must look in times of trouble and excitement for the preservation of order and the execution of the law, and, therefore, whatever tends to in- troduce habits of insubordination must be sternly repressed. Not alone shall we demand that the guilty parties in this stabbing busi- ness shall be brought to trial by the civil law, but we call on the Governor of the State to order an investigation and proceed to tho dis- armament of the ruffians who dared to use the arms of the State for mutual slaughter. Such men are unworthy of wearing the national, uniform, and it is due to the militia of this State, who have always set an example of order and obedience to the laws, to free them from the companionship of those worth- less rioters. One of the party is said to have been cut down by the commanding officer. If this be soit redounds to the officer's credit, and our only regret is that he did not cut down some more of the gang. Both the rail- way company and the civil authorities must proceed against the guilty parties, It will not be enough to make one or two men scapegoats for the company, but every man who can be proved to have drawn a weapon must be placed in the dock and receive the punishment of the law. Things have come to a pretty pass if citizens cannot travel on the public convey- ances without danger of being made specta- tors or victims of gladiatorial combats. A sharp example made of this gang of rowdies in uniform will hayg the effect gf preventing the occurrence of such scenes in future, Wuvter’s Frast Warnmyas To Sartors AND Surrowners.—The first storm puffs admoni- tary of the approach of the Winter gules are exceedingly severe off and around the Gdasly ! of Great Britain. The shipping interests have already suffered heavily, and with fatal consequences, in some instances, to the crews. We have news to-day of the wreck of a vessel bound to an American port from England, by which thirty sailors are said to have been drowned. Disasters of a very distressing character to the mercantile marine interests had ocotirred previously. The shore line of the United Kingdom was again swept by a gale during the day on Thursday, and the storm continued through the night and yes+ terday. Many vessels ran back to port from sea, and quitea number of them remained | wind bound. Old Boreas has commenced to bluster early in the season, and, apparently, with an unusual degree of vigor and rude- ness. Proparations should be made at once to meet his recurrent attacks, which will be- come still more violent as the season advances, The life-saving institutions should be on the alert, and the governments in Washington and in Europe see that proper means are now made ready in order to succor poor Jack in his moments of peril and distress off shore, Mr. Greerey’s Proaress.—It was 9 maxim of “our earlier Franklin” that if you want a job well done you must do it or sge to it your- self, and ‘our later Franklin’ is acting upon this rule in canvassing Pennsylvania, and with the zeal. to9. of a man who mequs business, a PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. * iat a General L. T. Smith, of Kansas, ia in quarters a6 the Fifth Avenue Hotel, c Ex-Governor-Jehn B. Page, of Vermont, 1s staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Ex-Governor Ooburn, of Maine, who has beem, | dangerously ill, ts convalescent. General A. VonSteinwehr, of the United States. Army, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-State Senator James M. Marvin, of Saratoga, 1s stopping at the New York Hotel. State Auditor Henry Musgrove, of Mississipps,, yesterday arrived at the Grand Central Hotet, United States Senator A. G. Cattell, of New Jersey, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Madame la Comtesse de Houzhoevden, of Bor dentown, N. J., salied for Hamburg yesterday te. the Holsatia. Dangerously ill-Mr. John Davidson, & ae ees | candidate ior the republican nomination for Go ernor of New Jersey. * The “greatest man on the atump,”’ not excepting’ Greeley, ta stated by a Boston paper to be the celer’ brated dentist, Dr. Jerkemout, Willis B, Machen, of Lyon county, has been ap pointed United States Senator from Kentucky 1a place of Garrett Davis, deceased. A flash in the pan—The recent attempt of @ couple of hot bloods to transfer the theatre of the war in Cuba to the city of New York. Attorney General Schaleh, of Jamaica, W. L., yoa- terday resumed his tour of tais country. He will return to the Brevoort House early next month, Professor Francis Bowen, of Harvard College, are rived recently from Germany, and is staying at the’ Hotel du Palais Royal. Professor Bowen spends alk his Summer vacations in Europe, Miss Lottie Grant, who weighs 482 pounds, fa o& exhibition at a Western fair, and an cnvious para- graphist says that, though she doesn’t hold office her situation is a fat one. The Commercial ts informed that since the report that Brigham Young was dying of heart disease ba came current a company of New Yorkers have con= cluded to start a crape foundry tn Salt Lake City. The pewholders of the Old South Church, Boston. have voted $3,000 per annum to Rev. Dr. Blagdem' during his life, His age is seventy. He will preach his farewell sermon to the Old South Soci#y nex Sunday. David A, Wells, of Connecticut, formerly the Com» missioner of Internal Revenue, is at the Astor House. He ts a free trader and fiercely attacks Greeley, though he has no great liking for Preai- dent Grant, The President, Mrs. Grant and General Porter re- turned to Washington yesterday evening from Long. Branch, During the Summer the Executive Maa- sion has been thoroughly renovated and the roof. copperfastened, ‘Twenty years ago,a man who wanted to buy a farm arrived at Shelby Church, Ind,, but disap- peared almost immediately. A fow days ago # skeleton with a fractured skull was accidentally, exhumed at that place. . Colonel Jerome N. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, is at the New York Hotel. Colonel Bonaparte is the grandson of Jerome, the brother of the first Napos leon, and Miss Patterson-Bonaparte of Baltimoree Ho was an officer in the French Army during the, late war, Lyman Tremain, of Albany, the ropublican candl-’ date for Congressman at large, is at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel, He hopes to be elected; but there are those who say he will shortly see the “sunset” of his hopes, At all events the democratic Cox will’ fight hard for the victory. A musical German has made a will and sot it to music. There is frequently a good deal of musia about last wills and tcstaments, especially if the testator leaves: his property to charitable institu tions and beggars his own family. , The Chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee announces the substitution of A.’ G. Curtin for ex-Governor Bigler as the liberal and democratic candidate at large for the Constita- tional Convention. A sop for the liberals. E. P. Kimball, late democratic candidate for Gov- ernor of Maine, has declined an invitation to pre- side at a temperance reform convention, and ex presses the earnest hope that the temperance ques- tion may be entirely separated from party politica. A New Jersey paper thinks the following notice of a death in the columns of a contemporary is sus- ceptible of two meanings :—“ Maria B,, wife ot Henry B., Esq., aged 80 years. She lived with her husband fifty years, and died, in the confident hope of a better life.” c The new colored cadet at Annapolis, James Henry Conyers, was free born. He was educated at the Avery Normal Institate in Charleston, and was afterwards employed in Columbia as a mea- senger in the office of the Secretary of State. He is a memper of the Baptist Church, No wonder, then, he should take to water as a prosession. Michael Butin and Alexis de Lomonossoff, before mentioned as Russian tourists at St. Louis, are members of the Imperial Society of Mineralogy of Russia, and are here for the purpose of gaining in- formation about the resources and development of the iron and commercial interests of the West. THIRD RUBINSTEIN CONCERT. Whatever doubts may be entertained of the popular appreciation of the great talents of Rubin- stein and Wieniawski, those twin genii of instru- mental music, were effectually dispelled at the third concert last night. Sceptics will smile whep they hear that the pianist was called out four times after the performance of the A minor con- certo of Schumann, and audience and orchestra cheered to the echo the concluding piece in the programme, the A flat Polonaise of Chopin, Schu- mann’s concerto in A minor, with which the New York public have become familiarized through the efforts of some of our own pianists, had the first place among Rubinstetn’s selections last evening, and he played it superbly. It 18 a work diMcult to make effective, as the piana part is so interwoven with the orchestra that to in- dividualize it and carry it through the mass of iny strumentation unscathed in its beauty of melody, light and shade of treatment and variety of idea, is a gigantic task. The natural impetuosity of the pianist was not quite en rapport with the majestic measures of the Beethoven sonata, and it was the least effective to us of all the works he has so far essayed, Bectovee gonatas demand a re] Prete Ne Dk a ae and easy flow of sity! ie ce A WHE FF fe reign to the Nature o1 the Russian pianist, Yet there were occasional flashes of the rare cs that inspires him, particular! in the beant o themé phat fomupens 3 the i Biovement. He ed & Suite O! 4) Oak. pande, Passe Pied, Courante and Gavotte”), whic seemed hayg the true Bach or Handelian flavor about * Sat which was ootter adapted for @ cham ber recttal than a large concert hail. ~~ “Heald There was a perceptible air of slovenlinag about the interpretation of Chopin’s nm turne in C minor, caused Lins I) the nervousness and chagrin evinced by the pianist when a gust of wind slammed the windows of the hail and an obtrusive dog made himself heard from an pajotn ing yard, ut the polonaise was something to be remembered. It is one of those battle pictares which none but Chopin ever could limn on the keyboard of a plano, The clash of op- posing armies, all the pomp and circumstance of war and its allttering anoply found a Vernet as an illustrator in Rubinstein. You heard tramp of ge ag the martial music that calle them to the field, the struggle, victory and the plaints of the wourded. ‘hese immortal polo- nalses, created by the poet of the piano, should be introduced in ail tho Rubinstein concerts, since the Rassian pianist has demonstrated his ability to grasp them in all their grandeur. Fully equal to the success of Rubinstein was the triumph achieved by the Polish violinist. nini’s eccentric and fantastic transcription of the “Oarnival of Venice” has veen played frequently, here before by violinists whose names rank high om the roll of fame, but we will venture to say that Wientewski 18 the only artist living, save, aie ned Joachim, who can biegel SA master aud make effective its eccentric treatment, Mr. Wienlawskt played it with such a brio and clear, crisp finish that even the orchestra rose to a man and ap- plauded, He also two ornate works of his own in first part with grace, brilliancy and bo rere His Gh fe is the climax of art, easy, finished and intelligible in every particular, and his tone reflects every p! of expression asin a mirror. The name ot Wie- niawski as an executant is worthy of being placed beside that of Rubinstein. Miles. Liebhart and Ormeny sung a couple of their selections and united their voices in a duet from “Don Giovanni.” A matinee will be given to-day, commencing at two o'clock, with the best programme of the week, and concerts are announced for Tuesday and Friday evonings of next week. Such artists as Rubinatem and Wienlawski may be heard only once in a@ life~ time, for they unite (ue periection of art to the Are of gonius