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

iv 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. _ Rejected communications will aot be ra- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, CK's THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth wseeePronasion AND Gatatea, | GHEATRE COMIQUB, No. 514 Broadway.—Vaaimrr Byrsetamunt, Matiace at 2. > BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—ARRAE-NA-POGUK, Dix li BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ern; on, Barone Tue Abunpaente—CaLisoRs!. ko. roadway, corner Thirtieth st.— t mit as ae ‘Atternoon and Evening, K 0 °B, Broadway, between Thir-, |. t ets. AGNES. dad i ee te | ayy _ ves, Twenty-third st, and Eighth \s - OF MYSIC, Fourteenth street.—Itatray, sre 7c liad NAUM, 535 Broadway.—Necro Mix.) SHITE'S |ATHE! — , 40; Matinee at2);. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner 6th ov,—Nucno Rlatcnar, Rocernmar, 4." ST. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 28th st. and Broad Jway.—San Francisco Minstnuts in Farce, 40, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Gago Vanier Extentaisucsr, &v. SHAY’S OPERA ‘HOUSB, Thiriy-fourth st. and Third Av.—Vagrery ENTERTAINMENT. 7 BROADWAY. EMERSON’S MINSTRELS.—Granod Srmiortas Eccenraicirixs. BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot _ Of Houston street, East River. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 68d “baa Cth streets. 4, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Pounon ano Ant. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. ————— Pwenty-fourth atreet.— ee mer werner = THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. EDITORIAL LEADER: “WHO SHALL BE THE NEXT MAYOR OF NEW YORK ?—THE QUESTION SOLVED”’—Sixtn PaGE. A. T. STEWART ON GREELEY, BUUTWELL, TARIFF AND SPECIE PAYMENTS—STORMY MEETING OF THE TAMMANY HALL GEN- ERAL COMMITTEE—Tuirp Pace, GREELEY AGAIN IN PENNSYLVANIA, AMONG THE FARMERS—ENTHUSIASTIO LAERAL MEETING: SPEECH OF 8. 8. UOX—A REFORM PARLOR PARTY—Tuirp Page. ‘OARL 80HURZ’S ADDRESS TO THE GERMANS— SPEAKER BLAINE ON THE PACIFIC RAIL- ROAD SCANDAL—THE MAYORALTY—Turrp Page. YAORTING: THE REGATTA OF THE HARLEM YAOHT CLUB—AMUSEMENT=—NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—SEVENTH PAGE. FLEETWOOD PARK TROTTING MEETING—THE JEROME PARK AND NASHVILLE RACES— THE MISCONDUCT OF THE MORRISANIA MILITIA—SHIPPING—Tenta PaE, EUROPEAN CABLE NEWS—CUBA—LOILER EX- PLOSION—SEVENTH PAGE. WALL STREET: TRANSACTIONS AT THE VA- ; RIOUS BOARDS; MONEY RATE, 45 PER CENT—FirtH Pace. NEW YOKK ‘Whe Snell Se the Next Mayor of Now Vork!—The Quention Solved. No good citizen cam ‘be indifforent to the character of the national and State adminis- pends in @ great measure upon the honesty and efficiency of the goverament, aud national pride as well as self-interest rouders every in- telligent American anxious to soe our credit maintained, our progress assured and our po- sition ag one of the leading nations of the world securely established. But tho manage- ment of tho municipal affairs of a great city like New York comes yet more closely home to its residents, and ia, in reality, more im- portant to tho majority of thom than is the administration of any other publio trust. For this reason the Henarp has for tho laat two or three months been directing attention to the approaching Mayoralty oleotion, and urging upon the - political parties who general; jut candidates forward for office the necessity of nominating a thor- oughly acceptable citizen for that reaponaible Position, Wo have regretted, the, violence and personality of the Prasidédtiat ‘content beoause we. could foréaep that thoy. werd ‘oaloujated, to , divert the publo mind from ‘our homme affairs tions politicians ‘who are hopeful of using tho and forming combinations Looking te the con- trol of the mnnioipal government. ile moat of thé partisan journals have been drag- ging forward the dead records of mon who are not before the people for any office, and vili- fying and slandering every citizen who may happen to be found in the rauks of the oppo- site party, we have taken occasion to bring the charter election into prominence and to do our best to guard against the danger of an eleventh hour nomination, by whioh the electors would be left at the meroy of the poli- ticians, Ayear ago, when the people wore roused into indignation by the unfaithfulness of those whom they had honored and trusted, it was an easy matter for political echemers to take ad- ventage of the popular excitement, and, by joining in the cry of reform, to accomplish their own selfish purposes. By this means the infimous Legislature of last Winter was fas- teged upon the State, and the viotory won by the people was stripped of its choicest fruits. The misfortune could not then be averted. One of the great political parties was held in the hands of the corrupt men against whom the people were arrayed, and its nominations could not, therefore, ba acceptable. Indeed, the infatuated rulers, confident in their strength, made no effort to render them so, The people could therefore look only to the republican party for candidates, and as all the mombers of that organization, as a matter of policy if not from principle, joined in the ¢ry for reform, and as the ‘party-itself stood pledged to the thorough prosecution of the work of purifica- tion, the republican nominees were almost everywhere successful. The Legislature, which was justly regarded as the citadel of reform, was given wholly into the hands of that party, witha majority greater than evar before enjoyed by any political organization, Tu this city the powerful corruptionists were utterly routed, and the republicans, although in a hopeless political minority, gathered the substantial profits of the victory. The people cared nothing for the political RINE WINE VS. RELIGIOUS WISEACRES: | FALK VICTORIOUS—PROCEDI IN THE | COURTS—THE CUSTOM HOUSE—MUNICI- | PAL—Fovurri Pace. | SUPERVISORS OF ELECTION: THE CONTEST | ; BETWEEN TAMMANY AND APOLLO | HALLS—RETIREMENT OF CHIEF CLERK | VANDERVOORT—FourtH PAGE. | ‘THE SIEGFRIED TRIAL—EicuTn Pace, | Tae Arrarrs or THE East will receive still more attention from the Christian peoples in | consequence of the occurrence of a bloody | and fatal riot between Turks and Montene- | grins, in one of the towns of Montenegro, Tae Watt Srreer Fratesnrry ‘are at their Bpcculative antics once more, and a lively time was had among them yesterday. The ‘bulls’ in gold ‘‘squeezed’’ the ‘“‘bears,’’ reversing the origin of the hugging process, while the oppos- {ng forces in Pacific Mail fought bitterly over | that stock all daylong. Money was tightened, | ‘gold was run up and stocks were hammered in @ noisy din. Tae Contest ror Democratic ELEction Supervisors. began in the United States Cir- cuit Court before Judge Woodruff yesterday. Arguments were heard from both sides, the one being of Tammany and the other of Apollo Hall. Each one protests that it is the Simon Pure democracy. Apollo claims it because Tammany was beaten last Fall. Tam- many claims it because it is for Greeley and | Kernan, and Apollo Hall is for Grant or on | the fence. The decision may be given to-day ; | but Judge Woodruft’s oracular remarks are the essence of haziness as to which way it will Yneline, There,can surely be very small room for doubt to which side the appointments should be given. If the test of party can be confounded in the clamor of those unprepared to state which way they will vote on national and State politics and only agreed on pushing one of their number for a city office, it would place in position a number of men with every temptation to do wrong and no power where —The fall meet- ing of the American Jockey Club takes place to-day at Jerome Park. Such an event never fails to excite the world of fashion. Should the clerk of the weather keep his temper and smile upon the gallant turfites the beautiful country in the vicinity of Fordham will be brilliant and resplendent with gay equipages, bright toilets, fair faces and many pleasure- seekers, and hill and dale will resound with hat most delightful of all music, the laughing } voices of a thousand ladies and their attendant cavoliers. Year after year these races become | more popular, and now it is de rigueur | to “assist” at the equine contests and to mingle in the vast assemblage that fills the grand stand and club house of Je- | tome Park every Spriag and Autumn, The | events for to-day's race have already been pub- | lished in the Heratp and possess many | features of more than ordinary interest. The | invariable success of the meetings of the | American Jockey Club is owing in no small egree to the admirable management displayed by the public-spirited gentlemen in whose | bands the arrangeraonts are placed, | Opponents to office, | driven to accept its candidates on the strength | | of their professions. The situation is now | | day look to two great political parties for | acceptable nominations. Tammany has the | advantage in being the strongest, and hence | | the most likely to secure success, as well as in | being free from responsibility for the betraya] | earnestly to complexion of the candidates, and as they had but one party to choose from they voted cheerfully for its nominees. The honest democrats, who bad led the reform move- ment, and to whose efforts the result was mainly due, generously renounced all their former associations and proved. their sin- cerity in the cause by electing their political It was not the people's fault that in endeavoring to scatter one band of corruptionists they fastened another upon the State. It was because having only one organized party to rely upon they were changed. The democracy is under other and better leadership, The Tammany organization shared in the purification secured through the overthrow of the | old Ring, and passed into the hands of the champions of reform: The people can to- { | } | of the cause of reform by the Legislature elected as its especial guardian, But both will be interested now in selecting good men gitater’ issue aa'a'tcana’ of attiking bargaing | | lawyers and powerful friends to influence | a stay of proceedings or judgment and a new HERALD, WEDNESDAY, all political ties and independent of all politi- cians. He would harmonize all city depart- ments, and be, in fact aa well as in name, the head of the city government. There is no single point upon which the election of William Butler Duncan could be objected to, and Tam- many should tender him the nomination with- out a day’s delay, and thus close the door against all political bargains and personal in- triguea. The people have the right to demand such 8 nomination as th's at the hands of the regenerated and reformed democracy, and we warn Tammany that it will be fatal to hesitate ot refuse to make it, Last year tite democ- racy aa an organization waa the: enemy of roform, This year it must prove the thorough- nossa of ita purification by becoming its leader. With William Butler Duncan as the nominee of the most powerful political organization in the city, the, contest will’ be virtually ended. Tho Oommittee of Seventy and all reform bodies and men must necessarily accept and endorse such an excellent candidate, for he is one of the moat distinguished reformers in the city; and ia, moreover, of stainless record, un- impeachable integrity and eminent qualifioa- tions for the position. No shadow of quspicion of any dollusion,.bargain or intrigue could by powibility attach to the momination, ret the. ‘name ‘of’ ‘Mr. Duncau~ would honor tho canvass and raiso- the reputation of Now” York . all. ‘over | the Union and ia overy Europeay nation. It would he impossible for any reform parties to refuse to endorse such a candidate without branding thomaelves ag impostors and corrupt sohomers and traders. The essential spirit of reform is the support of good mem, indepen- dent of political considerations; Last year the honest demoorats, led by @'Gonor, Tilden and their associates, voted on this principle. This year the Oommittee of Seventy and all other reformers must do the game. We have heard time and agaim professions that o thoroughly honest amd capable candidate for Mayor should be supported without regard to politics, party or combina- tions ; that the reformers wanted only good nominations by any organization, and would give to such their loyal aid. Now let us have this pledge redeemed. We call. upon Tam- many to nominate William Butler Duncan, and we demand his eathusiastic endorsement and vigorous support by the Committee of Seventy and all other reform associations, The Acquitial of Mrs. Pair. The acquittal of Laura Fair on ‘the second trial for the murder of Crittenden by a Cali- fornia jury has hardly surprised any one. Everybody may be convinced of her guilt, and, in fact, there is no question of the killing with murderous intent, and few, we suppose, imagine that she was not sane; but the difficul- ties of convicting » woman, and especially a handsome woman, with ample means to defend herself, of such a crime and bringing her to the gallows, are so great that the last verdict in her case is mot a matter of surprise. If there were @ healthy fone of public morals anda conscientious regard of the solemn obligations of an oath among jurymen we might be astonished at the decision of the California jury. There is a general repug- nance in this country to bringing a-weman to the gallows, however clear her guilt may be, and jurymen are apt to torture their consciences in trying to find a way of escape for the criminal rather than to give an honest verdict according to the facts and the law. This is a great evil, | growing out of our social life and jury system. The question arises whether it would not be better to abolish the death penalty, at least in the case of women, than to have such farces of trials, which defeat the ends of justice and de- moralize the community. But it is not only in the case of women murderers that the law proves ineffective, when there is some love tragedy connected with the crime, or when there is plenty of money to employ skilful courts, juries and the public. Almost every criminal, man or woman, under these circum- stances, can prolong a trial, can obtain trial. We have many such cases in New York, and there are here at this time murderers with the clearest evidence against them apparently, whose cases are going through the same pro- cess of mystifying and quibbling delays with a prospect of the criminals ultimately escaping the penalty of their crimes. Of course such | uncertainty, or the final acquittal of mur- derers through the stupidity and weak con- sciences of jurors, is the fruitful source of | many of the terrible crimes we have to report almost daily. Surely there is a remedy for such a state of things. Though the public has | for office ; and if the Mayoralty.candidate of | the most powerful organization should be en- tirely acceptable it will, of course, be the pol- | icy of the sincere reformers to endorse and | support him. We have already suggested several persons for that position whose qualifications are of a | high character and whose identification with | | the good work of last November renders them | available candidates, Any one of them would | make an efficient and honest Mayor. We now | desire to place before the citizens of New York a name which cannot fail to commend itself | at once to their favor—the name of a gentle- | man whose high qualifications for the office will not be questioned, It is that of William Butler Duncan, of the well known banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co, There is | | such eminent fitness in this nomination that Tammany should make it at once and strive induce Mr. Duncan to ac- cept. We know of no other citizen who would be as acceptable from every point of view. Mr. William Butler Duncan’s name has been identified for years with the reform movement. He is not a reformer of yesterday, but a gentleman who has steadily and persistently striven to pro- mote the cause of pure and honest govern- ment. He is associated with one of the most successful banking houses in the world, and in this business it is well known that dili- gence, ability, a thorough knowledge of men, strict integrity‘and a character that can com- mand public confidence are the essentials of success. Mr. Duncan has travelled exten- sively abroad, and is familiar with the police of foreign capitals as well as with the wants and interests of New York. His enterprise and liberal views have been shown in the | management of his private business. He | would bring to the discharge of his public duties the qualities that havo given his house world-wide reputation and credit. He never held 9 political office in hig life, is free from | and jurors have necessarily become affected by become demoralized by a maudlin sentiment this demoralization, it is the duty of Legisla- | tures to make the law more certain in its | operation and punishment more speedy. This | is one of the reforms much needed at the | present time, and we hope our lawmakers will comprehend the responsibility that rests upon them. There is no good resgon why the criminal law should not be effective and that murderers, of whose crime there is no doubt, | should not be punished. The French Provincial Exodus in | the Tycoon retired and the Mikado emerged | | ancient prophecy—a nation had been born in OCTOBER 2, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, enooarages and stimulates the popular demon- stration by sympathetic expreasion, the jour- nals of Strasbourg having appeared in mourn- ing yesterday on account of the immigrant cause and its consequences.) This French mode of treatment of the result of a great disaster in war is, at a first glance, natural, perhaps reasonable, Whether it is prudent remains to be aceon, Tho Prussians will assure the world that it ia unreasoning and unreason- able, of which fact they have already given a pretty fair inkling in the statements which we append to our cable news telegram. Reform Movement ia Japan— ‘Signs ef a Reaction, In the Henaup of yesterday, in our Wasb- ington news columns, we published some most important intelligence regarding tho existing state of things in Japan. The nows is not encouraging to those who have hoped for the final success of the reform move- ment which, for somo years past, hag been going on.ju. that country, Redical ohaages, it seeme, have take: placo.at the headquarters of tho Japanese go sornment, and a number of conourring circumstances lead to the belief that’ the ‘reactionary party hag worked ite way | The to supreme power in the State. Croneral Horace { ‘Capron; Commissioner of Agricultinre,: has : eon discharged. Peshine Smith, taken from the Department of Slate at Washington to organize the Law Department of Japan, has also been dismissed. It is stated, om good au- thority, that the Timbassy to the Western Powers are stranded im Tondon for the want ot funds and even for the want of authority to carry out the mission with which they are en- trusted. Work on a vessel now being con- atracted in New York for the Japanese govern- ment and contracted for by Minister Mori, haa been stopped, for the reason that the money is not forthcoming according to contract. On account of these complications Mr. Birdseye G. Northrup, the Conneotiout State Commis- sioner of Education, has just declined a simi- lar position which had been tendered him by the Japanese government. Minister Mori, through to-day's Hxnatp, explains hopefully away the crisis by stating that it is the desire of the Mikado to preserve for Japan in permanent form the fruits of the progress already made by allowing the older party a share in the government. _ All this, it mugt be admitted, is dis- -gouraging. We had our fears—and wo have mors than once exprossed them—that Japan was reforming {oo rapidly, and that in marching at a ‘‘double-quick”’ into full tellow- ship with toreign States—as Minister De Long was pleased to put it—that country might be marching into serious though unforeseen trou- ble. We are glad to learn that the reaction is not so serious as it seemed at first accounts, that the good work of reform isnot abandoned, that this is nothing more than a temporary check, and that the hope may still be indulged that Japan, within a reasonably brief period, will be admitted within the family of civil- ized nations. Japan has been doing so well, and her progress has been conducted so much under our own tutelage, that we naturally feel interested in her future welfare. No country, in the whole history of the world, has ever made such rapid strides in an onward and upward direction. Of no country could it ever be said before that, in the march of progress, it had taken five cen- turies at a stride, and devoured, in a decade, all the space dividing feudalism and despotism from constitutional government, and the other developments, commercial and municipal, of modern life. By one leap Japan passed from a state of things represented by the civiliza- tion of the twelfth century in Europe to a state of things represented by, the Western civiliza- tion of the nineteenth céhtury. Before 1854, when Commodore Perry was successful in negotiating a treaty with Japan, that country had been isolated from the rest of the world for at least two hundred and sixteen years. Its civilization had nothing in common with the civilization of the Western nations, and all contact with the foreigner was visited with the severest penalties. For some years after the conclusion of that treaty, little perceptible change was noticeable in the conduct of affairs in Japan. Treaties were concluded with most of the | European Powers; but these treaties were ex- | torted from rather than courted by Japan, In 1869, however, the grand leap was made—the | entire framework of government was changed; | from obscurity; the great nobles, who were independent rulers in their respective prov- inces, voluntarily surrendered their authority and the nation became a unit; reform went rapidly on and railroads, telegraphs, schools, colleges and embassies to foreign States re- vealed the nature and extent of the revolution. It was a change which in its rapidity and ap- perent completeness was wholly unprecedented in history, and, not unnaturally, men and nations looked on with wonder and amaze- | ment. By some philosophers we were told | that it was a fresh and wondrous revela- | tion of the combined forces of tl» nine- teenth century, It was a fulfilment of aday. By others we were reminded of the danger of sudden changes, of the impossibility | Fiight from Prussian Authority. By a telegram from Strasbourg we are re- | called toa recollection of the fact that the | period of time which the Prussian conquerors conceded to the French inhabitants of the | provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to make | their selection of citizenship—to declare for | the national Republic or for the great military Empire—has just expired. The French people, true to the instinct of their race, or moved by some peculiar fixed and irresistible ethno- logical principle, have declared that they will remain French, and that they will not, or cannot, avail themselves of the Teutonic invi- | tation of entrance into the newly arranged | domicile, and become thus domesticated with | the stranger after the fashion prevailing in Berlin. The provincial French have conses quently undertaken an exodus, They are | | fleeing interiorly towards the heart of their | country, Men, women and children have seized | up their household goods, sighed farewell to | the hearth and roof-tree of their homes, and | gone forth, in face of the victors, to affiliate | more closely with their kith and kin, and, it may be, to keep the spirit of retaliation or revenge more active and warm by family combination, The scenes which are witnessed | at and in the neighborhood of Strasbourg are described to us as being of a peculiarly sad and melancholy character, The French yresy | nounced rashness which could not fail to re- | | that throngh that country the hopes of the world have been disappointed, Europe first heard of the existence of passing by one step from the feudal insti- tutions of the Middle Ages to the freedom of republicanism, and Japanese reform was pro- | sult in ruin, Our latest news justifies the latter verdict, not the former. As we have said already, we | shall be sorry to learn that the reform move- ment in Japan has proved a failure and that all our high hopes have been blasted. It must | beadmitted, however, that there is somethingin | the nature of things and something in the past history of Japan which give us just cause for | fear. This is not the first time that Japan has entered upon a promising career of reform; and if this, her latest reform movement, shall prove a failure it will not be the first time of Japan through Marco Polo, as far back as the commencement of the thirteenth century, It was not, however, until 1543, when Mendez | Pinto and two other Portuguese sailors found | their way, under the guidance of a Chinese pirate, into Japanese waters, that Europe began to have any dealings with the new land. A few years later, in 1649, Francis | Xavier reached Japan with band of mis- sionaries and laid the foundation of the Jesuit mission, Since the days of the Grat Apostles | money which has helped to build our railroads. | tion is conducive to health, | schoolfellows regard him as “a perfect muff.’’ | Shooting, hunting, cricket, skating, no such success had attended any missionary aa that which attended Francis Xavier and hia associates in Japan, Schools and churches wore built ; the missionaries were everywhere gladly received; noblos and peasants alike yielded to the power of the truth and to the eloquence of the preachers, and the Christian world rejoiced that “a nation of thirty mil- lions of oivilized and intelligent people had been wn from the beathon.'’ Subsequently a Japanese embanay, composed of three Princes, waa sent to Pope Grogory KIL. with lotters and valuable presenta. Their reception at Tome, wé are told, was magnificent, and thoir progresa through Spaim and Italy was one continued ovation, Ono old writer says, “Great was the joy and triumph, for this was the culminating point of the Ohuroh’s suc- ceas.”’ A later commentator adds :—‘‘And in that same hour, while the artillery of San Angelo was thundering a welcome to tho Japanese Ambassadors, whose progress through Ttaly had been ono continuod ova- tiow, au edict hed gone forth from the Sov- ereign, Lord of Japan banishing all, Christian misslonaries, ordering dll crosses to be thrown down: and, all churches’ to be raged to the ground.” . The harsh: law was mercilessly ox- -eontedy. there -hetng am: -almoat wholesale ‘masaapze'. of all: priests and :eonvorta. Ta. 1587,- and: in 1696 even, sterner measures were adopted, and what remained of Chris |” tians or Europeans wore swept away for good, Thus ended the Arst great reform movement in Japan. It would be hard, in- deed, if the present movement should have a similar ending. In these times such a result is scarcely possible; but Japan has experi- enced s0 many changes and so many reactions during the last fifty yoars that, when we think of her future, oar wishes and our hopes aro mixed with doubt and fear. Tho Short British Islands. John Bull is terribly afraid he soon will be hungry. In all parts of the United Kingdom butchers’ meat commands very high prices. Home-bred cattle are scarce and suffer from the foot and mouth disease, while the rinder- pest is dreaded in imported beeves. Scotland and parts of Ireland have been deluged with rains during harvest time, the grain uncut has been Yenten down and that in the, sheaf has dprouted, so that a very serious falling off has occurred both in the quantity and quality of thé corn. Added to all this the potato rot is worse this year than for a long time past. In Ireland little more than two-thirds of the usual amount of food can be secured from this staple. Various measures are proposed to make good the deficiency. Certain attenuated Aldermen suggest that turtle, to be imported from South America, would very well take the place of beef,. and May Fair thinks it unreasonable for people to lament the scarcity of bread, saying, ‘“Why don't they eat cake?’ Total abstinence people urge the impropriety of converting good grain into in- toxicating beverages, urging Ben Franklin's reasoning that it is better to eat corn than to drink it, Lord Napier and Ettrick desires a reform in land tenures. He says the two islands are owned by one hundred thousand persons, which he thinks not judicious, ap- parently believing that Albion is ‘rich |. enough to give every man a farm.” He would stop entail and suspend primogeniture, 80 as to encourage the cutting up of estates. Having been long im India he apparently thinks Great Britain reaches, like her drum- beat, round the world, with land enough for all. If the crops and herds are as deficient as they are represented none of these propositions will suffice to feed the British millions during the next twelve months. True, wages are | largely increased from the standard of a few years ago, and the toiling throngs have money enough to pay for food. Then there is full relief for them in the boundless productions of our pastures and grain fields. We have Texas, swarming with the best of beef cattle, and | through all the latitudes north of her up tothe northern bounds of Minnesota we have sur- plus maize and wheat by millions of bushels, Let not our British cousins give way to despondency over their prospective destitution of food. We are well able to send them almost limitless supplies, and shall be glad thereby to discharge our indebtedness for the It will be far better for Britons to import Ameri- can food than to rely upon uncertain turtle or indigestible sponge cake, or to wait till every roan can till his own acres. We can furnish abundant flour for Mr. Bull's loaf, and while his coal cellar is running low we have plenty of anthracite to bake it by. The Alabama dif- ficulty being adjusted we can do a brisk trade | together, with advantage to both sides. Should not the laborers be thus supplied there may be dangerous elements of disorder and possible insurrection or revolution in the threatened famine in the British islands, Athletics in America=The Superiority | of the British in Field Sports—Gym- nasia in Our Schools, | There can exist but little doubt in the mind | of any intellectual person that physical exer- The ancients | fully recognized the necessity for athletic { sports, and the Olympian games were insti- tuted for the purpose of invigorating the youth of Greece. To be a powerful man was one of | the primal inducements in those days to keep | young men from becoming dissolute and vicious, for regularity and self-denial in style of living are incumbent upon the athlete. In Europe most of the national and almost every one of the private schools possess gymnasiums, and unlucky is the boy who is unable to climb a rope, swarm @ straight pole or convert himself | into a sort of human aérolite on the ‘giant's stride’'—his life is one of misery, for his The effect of this system of training in early | youth shows itself very fully when young | Americans meet Englishmen upon equal terms in international friendly contests for superior- | ity in athletic sports, During the last few years we have had ample opportunity of adju- dicating upon this point, for most indisputable evidence has been adduced in these contests to convince even the greatest patriot or sceptic | that the British have beaten us badly, Among the jeunesse dorée of England it is very rarely that one can be found who is not an athlete. row- ing, rackets, fishing and all other outdoor recreations are as familiar to them as household” words, while in Amerion the young man whoge lines have fallen in puch ho will cheerfully sncrifice and much privation he will suffer to attain this end. A hotter example cannot be given of the utility athlotio sporta than that presented by present visitors, the “Gentlemen Eleven" England. They are all young men, many of, them barely out of thoir ‘‘toons,”’ yot theis, of our, they have devoted most of their leisure time to practising it, Tho record of their doings i old tale that haa beem annually told since Anglo-American contesta, of a social nature wore first it 2 the Englishmen have.carriod off the laurels of victory, The Harvard four struggled hard tay win, and deserve credit, for the pluck they ex, hibited ig crowing. tho Atlantig. to = against the Oxford crew. ‘The Atalantag showed mére: gonsumingte. \¢onfidonos “and) Ps ing owe jadgmont by match. ing themselves against such a powerful } rowing aasoolati as:tho London Rowing » Sadler won the single soul race at Saratogs,, and now at cricket wo find that the gentlemen whom we invited to come down aud be “well whipped’ have so completely turned the tables upon us that every Americaa cricketer feels inclined to hido his head in ab- ject despondency, and foobly ejaculate ‘peo cavi!’”’ In yachting America certainly leads the van; her wave-cleavers have no peers upon the seas; this, however, is principally, owing to the better modelling of the boatd they build. In gcientifio al Amerion tainly exceeds in excellence; a3 our Whee are longer and more severe here than they are in Europe, and consequently opportunities fox practice more frequently present themselved and a greater degree of proficiency is attained. In the most petty provincial town in every village and hamlet in England there aro ore ganizations among the upper, middle ang lower classes for the propagation of athletics’ Upon the cricket field all are upon an equality. Giles, the ploughboy, while bowling may whizz ball against hig Jordship’s legs and be abe impunity, ‘st ea ey catch his titod? lgndlord ‘‘on the fly’ without fear of his rent being raised in congequence, _ S) RS * Gymnastic exercises milifate in groat mead- ure against doctors’ bills; boys are naturally fond of them, and if our schools and public institutions only afforded facilities for practiog Young America would soon be able to compete with the stalwart sons of Albion upon moré equal terms, and the odds in international con- tests would not always be offered in favor of thet Bridate oer ~ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. a Albert Pike goes for Mexico. ‘ General Rosecranz goes for Greeley. General John A. Rawlins’ son goes for Greciey, Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, is sick at Kenosha, Minn. Judge C. Daniclls, of Buffalo, is at the Grand Cea- tral Hotel. General F. Price, of New Jersey, is stopping at the Astor House, Ex-Congressman D. McCarthy, of Syracuse, is at the Gilsey House. Judge E. H. Grandin, of Alabama, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Ex-Governor Odin Bowie, of Maryland, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. A. H, Wooster, “who built a mill’ at Jaccson, Minn., has fallen heir to $60,000, General ©. W. Serrell, of Fort Montgomery, has quarters at the St. James Hotel. United States Senator Roscoe Conkling yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor A. E. Burnside, of Rhode Island, is » staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain John M, Moody, ef the Royal Mail steam- ship Bermudas, is at the Gilsey House. Commodore J. R. Goldsborough, of the United States Navy, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Should ex-Governor Curtin be called a Mrs, Caudle because he curtain lectures the adminiw tration people ? Asad story briefly told—“‘An unknown woman jumped overboard from a ferryboat last night,’? [To be continued.)} Ex-Governor Newell, of New Jersey, goes for Grant for President and Dobbins for Congress. “Gee up, Dobbin!” Van Allen's Bourbon Straight Convéntion will be held in Albany to-morrow. W. H, Matteson de- clines to be considered “‘one of ‘em.’ The Pittsburg Chronicle wants the Presidential term confined to six years. Send some of the po- litical strikers before Judge Bedford, and he will send them up for ten. A stranger named James Phelan, about fifty years of age, said to have been connected with @ silk house in Washington street, this city, died sud- denly in Chestertown, Ind., recently. Everybody goes for Lucca—good luck-ali! Good Iuek to the hoof and the horn; Good Inck to the flock and the fleece; Good luck to the singers of song, ith blessings of plenty and peace, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Concord philosopher, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Emerson contemplates going to Europe to remain until his house in Concord, Which was lately burned, is rebuilt, Mark Twain will not call upon the Emperor Wil- Mam in Berlin during his proposed European toar,' fearing the similarity of his name to that of the Prussian Prime Minister might arouse the jealousy of the latter, Our Mark will simply attend to his little “bis and write a book about it, perhaps. ‘The Hon? Russell Gurney, the British member of the British-American Claims Commission, yester- day came to the city from Hastings-on-the-Hudson, where he has been visiting at the residence of Cyrus W. Field for some days. He remained at the Brevoort House a short time and then started for Washington. The French and Italian Ministers at Washington, the Marquis de Noailes and Count Corti, yesterday came on from Newport to the Brevoort House. They were escorted from Newport by Count Kowski, the step-son of the Marquis de Noailes, who will, to- day, return to the watering place, Both Ministers started for Washington last night. An extraordinary equine-noctial seems to have occurred in England. The London Morning Post says that “among other facts of an unpleasand nature which the general up-turn caused by tho preparation for the Autumn military mancuvres has revealed is the falling off of the supply ofhorsc# tn England, not only in number but in breed.” William Prescett Smith, Bastucore, Md, Oct. 1, 1872, William Prescott Smith died at five minutes ta eight o'clock P. M. to-day in this city. He was uni- versally loved and respected, and his death is the cause of general and J feenita sorrow. Mr. Smitts died of an attack of hemorrhage of the bowels, He was master of transportation of the Baltimore and Ohio Raliroad, and late manager of the througit line between Washington city and New York, Death of Joel F. Asper. Sr. Josern, Mo., Ock 1, 1872. * The Hon, Joel F. Asper, ex-member of Congréaq from this district, died at Olillicvite to-daq @ drovsy of the heart