The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1872, Page 8

~ 8 NEW YORK HERALD ea BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. cial tae JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. a al A Sc Rejected communications will not be re- turned. seereeesNOe SOL AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 4 Broadway. —Ixt0n : on, Tus Man at Tox Wert, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— ‘ux Roap to Ruin. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—PYGMALION aD Galatea. Volume XXXVEL. seeaeseeeeee ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ITauiaN Orerna—I TuovatorE, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Anzan Na Pocux. BOWERY THEATRE, Gow Map—Tuutix Doves. Bowery.—AURAMANIA; OR, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Rot Carorrs. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets.—AGNEs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. peeween Houston and Bleecker sts.—Gaxxvigve DY Buapanr. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner ude st— ANGEL or Mipnigut, “Aiternoon and Evenil cere STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Maaicat Rerre- BENTATIONS. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE. Twenty- thing st. corner 6th av.—Nxcro Mixsterisy, Eccentaicity, &c. 72) BROADWAY, EMEESON’S MINSTRELS.—Granp Ermorian Eccxnthicitixs. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 585 Broadway.—Nzcro Min- STRELSY, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hovan, No. 201 Bowery.— Granp Variety EnrxrtainMeEnt, &C. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, St. James ‘Theatre, eorner of 28th st. and Broadway.—EtHiorian MINSTRELSY. BAILEY'S GREAT cunpue AND MENAGERIE, foot of Houston street, East Ri DEN STONE'S CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of Thirty-fourth street and East Ri STEINWAY te fourteenth street.—Lecrure on “Princes or tux P, Peis stye ool rg INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 634 NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, Oct. 27, 1872. THE ‘NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION! THE CANDIDATES BEFORE THE PEOPLE’—LEADING EDITO- RIAL ARTICLE—E1cutH Pace. AN ENSANGUINED BANNER! ONE MAN KILLED AND SEVERAL WOUNDED IN THE FOURTH WARD! MORE BLOODSHED ANTICIPATED— Firra Page. CUBAN ASSAULT UPON GUISA! RUMORED REPULSE BY THE SPANIARDS! FIFTY HOUSES BURNED—NINTH PacE. A STEAMSHIP WRECKED ON SANALA BAR, MEXICO! TWENTY-THREE LIVES LOST!— Ninta Pace. THE OLIM¢X OF THE EQUINE DISTEMPER! HOPE AND RELIEF! STATISTICS OF THB MORTALITY AND THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE ANIMALS: SCENES IN THE STREETS—Tentu Pace. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! OCEAN AND RIVER DISASTERS: THE SUEZ CANAL: THE SAN JUAN BOUNDARY DECISION— NINTH PaGE. THE COLOSSUS OF SWINDLERS! LAGRAVE CORNERED IN THE PYRENEES: HIS EVENTFUL CAREER ON TWO CONTI- NENTS—SHIPPING—TWELFTH PaGE. MORE REVELATIONS OF THE PLOT TO ROB THE JERSEY CITY BANK! McWILLIAMS’ TESTIMONY: THE DESPATCHES—Tenta PaGE. HIS OWN BANKER! A PHILADELPHIA INSUR- ANCE CLERK ISSUES FRAUDULENT SCRIP: $43,000 GONE: RESULTS OF FAST NO- TIONS: LITERARY—SEVENTH Pace. THE DEFALCATION IN THE VIRGINIA STATE BANK! INVESTIGATING THE TELLER’S ACCOUNTS: DETECTIVES LOOKING UP THE NON-SUICIDE—Ninta Pagar THE CHURCH ON THE ROCK! FIFTY THOUSAND FRENCH CATHOLICS ON A PILGRIMAGE! SUPERNATURAL APPEARANCES, A MIRAC- ULOUS SPRING AND EXTRAORDINARY SCENES BENEATH THE PYRENEES—Sgv- ENTH PAGE. GRAND LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ENDORSEMENT MEETING AT TAMMANY HALL! ENTHUSI- ASTIC RATIFICATION OF THE TICKET: DENUNCIATION OF FEDERAL USURKPA- TIONS—FirTH Pace. THEODORE TILTON’'S TIRADE UPON THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTIUN—THE REGIS- TRATION—LATEST FRUM LIVINGSTONE— FIrTH PacE. SCANNING THE LOCAL POLITICAL HURIZON! SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS AND PROS- PECTS OF RIVAL ASPIRANTS TO CANDI- DACY—FirTH Pace. THE LOG OF THE EOTHEN! DETAILS OF THE RUN OF THE ENGLISH STEAM YACHT: A TERRIBLE STORM—LEAP FROM A BAL- LOON—SIXTH PAGE. THE WALL STREET EXCHANGES! MONEY AND STOCKS ACTIVE, GOLD STEADY: THE BANK RESERVE LOWERED: RUMORED “CORNER!—ELEVENTH PaGE. CHRONICLES OF THE DEVOUT! SERVICES TO- DAY: CATHOLIC DEDICATION: CONFIRMA- TIONS: FAREWELL OF A RABBI: CLERICAL NEWS—MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL—SixTH Pace. TAX IMPOSITIONS IN JERSEY CITY! THE PROP- ERTY HOLDERS’ DISTRESS: CORPORATE DEBT—OBITUARY ~— BROOKLYN COURTS— THIRTEENTH Pace. Tae Weer w Wart Srreer closed with continued activity in the stock market and a quiet and steady speculation in gold. The outgo of specie by yesterday's steamers was about a million and a half of dollars—a rather rare movement for this time of year. Trade in Great Britain is represented asso depressed by the activity of money that our merchandise is not furnished the ready market it usually has been at this season. Hence gold, cotton, wheat and petroleum are all on or near the level of exportable availability. Money was easy most of the week, but closed with a better demand. A Sreamsmp Disaster of terrible magnitude fias taken place in Mexican waters. The steamer Guatemala, of the Panama and Aca- pulco line, has been wrecked on the bar of Sanala, tn the State of Chiapas, the most southern State of Mexico. According to the account telegraphed by the United States Ohargé d’ Affaires at the City of Mexico to the American Consul at Matamoros twenty-three lives have been engulfed in the treacherous deep. The remainder of the passengers are reported to be safe at Tehuantepec, a river Port town in the State of Oaxaca, NEW YORK HERALD, The Manicipal Election—The Candi- dates Befere the People. ‘The readers of the Hznaxp will remember . that we commenced, four or five months-ago, to direct the attention of the citizens of New York to the importance of the interests in- volved in the approaching municipal election, and to discuss in our columns freely and impartially the qualifications of the several persons indicated by popular sentiment or canvassed in political circles as probable candi- dates for the position of Chief Magistrate of the metropolis. In pursuing this course we were simply discharging what we conceive to be the duty of an independent journal, to which the people have a right to look for cor- rect information and honest and fearless opinions. Untrammelled by party tics, we have been enabled to take an unprejudiced view of tho whole field and to discuss. the various strategic movements without prejudice or passion; to approve wherever we found good nominations foreshadowed; to condemn whenever bad men threatened to loom up into prominence. It was natural that personal and partisan organs should regard the municipal offices only as a portion of the coveted spoils of November, or should seek to use them as baits to aid in securing the richer prize of tho Presi- dency through bargains, trades and combina- tions. It is not surprising, therefore, that while we were thus fairly discussing the issues we should have seen on the one side the regu- lar republicans dickering for an open or secret support of a Mayor in exchange for votes for Grant and Dix, or insisting that municipal reform means only reform that will aid the administration party, and on the other side the regenerated Tammany democracy beating about for a respectable candidate only among the supporters of Greeley and Kernan. Neither is it astonishing that the so-called Reform Association, represented by a portion of the old Committee of Seventy, should have been found coquetting with their first love— the republican party—to secure the Mayoralty for themselves. With one and all municipal reform has been subservient to political and personal considerations; and if fair nomina- tions have been made all round it has rather been in the hope of thereby helping forward their several schemes than in pure regard for efficient and honest local government. If, however, the people can be hoodwinked into the belief that either one of the candidates is the only orthodox representative of reform, the object of the supporters of the fortunate nominee will have been achieved. Having thoroughly discussed the merits of the prominent candidates, awakened the public mind to the importance of the election, and defeated the conspiracy to crowd the nominations into the last hours of the canvass, so as to leave no time for an examination of their character or of the means by which they might be brought about, we have been contented to let the political wire- workers manoeuvre, squabble and confer, and to await the completion of the tickets before taking further share in the contest. In this we also claim to have discharged the dtty of a journal independent of political parties—de- pendent only upon the people and pre- pared always to do battle for their interests. The time for argument had passed; the hour of action had arrived. The Heratp had argued the cause in behalf of its clients—the people—and it remained for the political and other organizations which take upon them- selves the business of placing candidates in the field to show how far they were prepared to be guided by our advice and to study the interests of the city in their selections. So far as individuals or parties are concerned we have been indifferent as to who the candidates might be or from what source they might comp We are neither in the position of the republican politicians, who persist in regarding every opponent as a corruptionist, a felon or a fool, nor of the Schurzes, Trumbulls and Sumners, who set themselves up as the censors of the politica, world and arrogate to themselves the right to dictate to the rest of mankind who shall and whoshall not be their rulers. If we have en- deavored to direct popular sentiment and to guide the public judgment on the Mayoralty question or in other matters, we have done so for the public good, and not in the further- ance of any political or selfish ends. If we have felt little faith in the sincerity of a few blatant and self-glorified reformers, it has been because we have seen that their object was to turn reform to their own advantage and to humbug the people into the belief that their action was honest and disinterested. We have, nevertheless, been prepared to support good men for all our local offices—for Mayor, Judges, Aldermen, Assemblymen and other positions—whether they might come from Tammany, from the regular republican organ- ization, from Apollo Hall, from the remnant of the Committee of Seventy or from any other source. All that we have insisted upon has been that the Chief Magistrate of New York shall be a citizen, not only of strict integrity and personal honesty, but of broad, liberal views, capable of . appre- ciating the future destiny of the metropolis, vigorous in action, free from petty spites and jealousies, firm in purpose, and willing to assume, the responsibility of ruling in reality as well as in name, of subordinating the several departments to their proper head, and of pushing forward those great works of improvement upon which the progress of the city and the prosperity of all its inhabitants so materially depend. Three candidates for Mayor have now been placed in the field, and all of them prove the deference shown by tlie politicians to the views of the real reformers of the city. While Tam- many eschewed all aspirants not of its own political faith; while republicanism uttered the usual cant phrases to prevent the nomina- tion of any but a supporter of the present national administration; while Apollo Hall was from the first bold in its independence, none of them would have ventured to place before the people for Mayor a name not in some way or another identified with the reform movement of last year. It is fortunate for the taxpayers that each of the nominees is by his antecedents pledged to the cause of honest government, and that in their choice between the three they can be guided by other considerations than the mere protection of the public purse. Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence has been nominated by Tammany, an organiza- tion that has won many brilliant victories and suffered some severe defeats; that has enjoyed great honor in the community and borne deep disgrace. The name of its candidate is a guarantee that the ld Wigwam has been puri- fied and is desirous of regaining the reputation sacrificed by corrupt men. Mr. Lawrence has been a steady opponent of the old official cor- ruptionista, an enemy of Tammany under its deposed leaders and a reformer whose ser- vices date further back than the creation of the Committee of Seventy, of which he was an original and useful member. Apollo Hall has, of course, put forward the name of James O’Brien, who is the master spirit of the organ- ization, and controlsall its members and all its movements, Tho administration republicans, both in their regular convention and in the remnant of the Committee of Seventy, have named William F. Havemeyer, » warm sup- porter of the national administration and a member of the famous committee. Mr. Have- meyer took a prominent part in last year’s reform movement, and as an intimate friend and adviser of ex-Comptroller Connolly sus- ceeded in forcing upon him the appointment of Comptroller Green, whosé policy would be warmly seconded by the Mayor in case of Mr. Havemeyer's olection. The name. of Mr. Havemeyer was the last in the field, and but for his acceptance the contest would have been narrowed down between Mr, Lawrence, who is admitted to be-s satisfactory reform candi- date, and James O'Brien, as the reform organ- izations desired the use of Mr. Lawrence's name for another position, and, in case Mr. Havemeyer had not reconsidered his refusal to run, would have endorsed him for Mayor. As it is, Mr. Hayemoyer has made the fight a triangular one. It is, however, rumored and generally credited that a secret bargain exists between the republican leaders and James O'Brien, by which the latter is to be “run out’’ of the Dix boxes, in return for the sup- port of Grant and Dix in a similar manner by O'Brien. As the Mayor is voted for on the same ticket with the State officers this arrangement will be comparatively easy of accomplishment, and thus, whother Havomeyer should be cheated and O’Brien elected, or vice versa, exe Collector Thomas Murphy would be the next Warwick of city politics, As Mr. Murphy manipulated Mr. Havemeyer’s nomination, and is the hope of O’Brien in the proposed trade, he would, in either event, stand as the power behind the throne, and wield the political power in the city once enjoyed by Mr. Tweed. We shall examine hereafter the qualifi- cations of the several nominees and shall endeavor to present the points impartially, candidly and fully for the consideration of the people of New York, so that they may be guided to an intelligent judgment in the selection of the next Chief Magistrate of their city: The Ireland of To-Day—Mr. Froude’s Views of the Future. Mr. Froude has finished his series of dis- courses on Ireland, his last lecture summing up the lesson he came to teach. Wis a terri- ble picture which he paints of the Ireland of to-day, and he does not attempt to conceal the fact that it is not the fault of the Irish that it is truthful. His story, as well as the most im- passioned appeals of Celtic orators, points to a sad history of bad legislation and petty, but grinding tyranny. English landowners and the priests of the Established Church have been the oppressors of Ireland. Mr. Glad- stone has swept one of these evils into oblivion. If Mr. Froude’s mission has dhe significance we are disposed to attach to it, the great Pre- mier meditates the ameliomtion of the other. The land laws in Ireland are criminal even now, and they have been still more unjust and obnoxious, This champion of England not even attempts to apologize for them, and the acts of many landlcrds under them he char- acterizes as robbery. In all that he has to say on this subject he is worthy of honor as well as respectful consideration. But he fails to go far enough, and, judging from the policy he foreshadows, Mr. Gladstone is not prepared to go further. Nothing short of home rule can satisfy a country anxiously looking toward independence; and this, quite as much as the independence of Ireland, Mr. Froude stren- uously opposes. Home rule must follow the rectification of the tenant system as certainly as a new land law will follow the disestablishment of the Trish Church; but we have no quarrel with Mr. Froude for not seeing a necessity that in the end will become so patent, especially when an American like Dr. Hitchcock fails to see any other than the English view of the ques- tion. No answer could have been more illog- ical or less in harmony with the American feeling than the answer which he chooses to make—‘Britons, stand by your fiag.”’ It is an answer which justifies the Stamp Act and the American War—an answer made in disregard of the fact that the union of the States is central authority with home rule for thirty-seven distinct Commonwealths. Eng- land recognized the theory in establishing the Dominion of Canada, and she is ready to re- cognize it still farther by federating her West India and tropical possessions; and Mr. Froude’s opposition to home rule is based on grounds quite as illogical as the position as- sumed by Dr. Hitchcock. If the American Republic has taught any lesson to mankind it is that Protestant ascendancy or Catholic ascendancy may be made alike impossible. America has never suffered from Mr. Glad- stone’s upas tree of poisons, and never can suffer from it. This much at least Mr. Froude might have learned from his American experi- ences; and we are all the more astonished | at this im @ lectarer who could supplement the remark of a radical writer to the effect that the best way of infusing sound practical atheism is by an education by priests, with a sarcasm sueh as his in calling it ‘a beautiful result.’ Home rule for Ireland necessarily means that neither the English nor the Irish Parliament shall legislate about religious dif- ferences. When men are free to worship God as their consciences dictate and there is no legislative authority to compel a particular worship, a ’s religion is not longer a mat- ter for anybally but himself, and ceases to be a disturbing element in public affairs. In re- fusing to recognize this and in his failure to see that the Irishman may become something better than, according to his own showing, the English have made him, are the sources of all that is erroneous and iltogical in Mr. Froude’s views. His errors are pardonable, but on ac- count of them his mission will have little effect in shaping American opinion. lt is noteworthy that Mr. Froude feels en- couraged by his success in this city. When he came here, like Falstaff, he was disposed to wish it were evening and all was well. Now he evidently thinks he hag done excellent battle. He certainly has created an interest in Ire- land's condition which must prove beneficial to the Irish people and end in giving them some things that he would deny them. Whether or not he is paving the way for the proposed reforms of Mr. Gladstone, he is cer- Gladstone does not contemplate. His lectures have not touched the heart of the Irish ques- tion ; but they have opened an artery which leads to the heart of the Irish Americans who 80 vehemently found fault with his to this country, and who may yet have reason to congratulate Ireland on the resulta’ of ' his’ mission. Pacific Mail and Its Wonderful Lamp—The Arabian Nights of Wall Street. The mysteries and the wonders of Pacific Mail belong to the romances of Wall street. Now a beggar, all in rags and tatters, and now a monarch in purple and gold, that mystic stock has by turns excited the con- tempt and won the admiration of the specula- tive world. Only a year ago forty and a quarter marked tho insignificant value of Pacific Mail on that anxiously scrutinized publication known as the New York Stock List, while within the past week the quotation of one hundred and three has gladdened the hearts of ita friends and dazzled the eyes of the envious spectators gathered around the bull ring of “the street.” For many years past changes and convulsions, in comparison to which this fluctuation has been insignificant, have marked the tempestuous course of Pacific Mail, warning those not deeply versed in Wall street lore to avoid its threatening rocks and shoals. It has been by turns, and sudden ones at that, the Austerlitz and Waterloo of many a financial Napoleon—the beginning and the end of many an ambitious broker. It has been a craft difficult to manage, now carrying its freight swiftly through smooth waters into the port of Fortune, and now beating about with- out rudder or compass, dashing against the rocks and burying thousands in the waves of destruction. The questions of interest at the present moment are whether history is again going to repeat itself, and whether the happy speculators who are now sailing beneath golden skies in Pacific Mail are not likely to be soon overtaken by storm and wreck. As a general rule Wall street operators pay little attention to the substantial value of a stock, A railroad or a steamship line may be a steadily profitable investment, fut it it is not susceptible of great fluctuations, if it can- not be tossed up dnd dragged down by bulls and bears, if, it is not liable to a ‘‘corner,” it is of #0 value to “the street.” Your bawling, struggling devotee of the stock market hears of some shrewd speculator making millions out of a certain venture, and he does not stop to inquire whether the scheme is sound or unsound, genuine or fraudulent, but instantly endeavors to seize upon the coattails of the envied party and to follow his footsteps to fortune. While an operator is successful and the tide runs with him he is the demigod of the street; but should his plans fail and the current set against him he becomes a thing of clay, with- out a worshipper, and subject only to reviling and denunciation. For the regular Wall street speculator, therefore, we have no advice in regard to Pacific Mail or any other stock, for he will pursue his own feverish policy in his own way, heedless of counsel. If he gets “hit’’ on Pacific Mail it is his own business, and We kite that falls to-day will be floated by some other favorable breeze to-morrow. But, as a public journal, the Hzraup seeks to advise bona fide speculators for their good, and to furnish such information as will enable trustees and others who seek investments for a legitimate profit, and not at the risk of sudden fortune or sudden bank- ruptcy, to make their choice intelligently and wisely. It was with this object in view that we yesterday supplied our readers with a glance at each side of the Pacific Mail ques- tion—at the statements of the company show- ing their affairs in a brilliant and satisfactory light, and at the arguments of those who be- lieve that the stock is destined to a serious de- cline. We even presented to the public the opinions and corroborations of the President of the company, uttered in the brilliant corri- dors of the Academy of Music, with the voice of the fascinating Lucca still ringing in his ears. From these it will have been seen that on one side the company and its Presi- dent claim that they have large funds on hand, have materially increased their pro- perty, have made valuable purchases and are earning more than eleven per cent per annum, exclusive of the Congressional sub- sidy. They also promise to pay dividends of three per cent quarterly, or twelve per cent annually, on their gross capital from January lof next year; although how they can make certain of this in advance, and how, with only eleven per cent earnings now and an increased capital stock, they intend to accomplish it does not clearly appear to a plain, practical mind. On the other hand, the statements of the suc- cess of rival routes and the advantages of op- position companies are made use of to show that the earnings of Pacific Mail are certain to fall off and its stock to deteriorate seriously in value. We give the conflicting storieg to our readers as they are, and must leave thom to be guided by prudence and intelligence in forming their judgment of the character of Pacific Mail as a bona fide investment. In 1864-65 this remarkable stock reached three hundred and fifty; but then the com- pany enjoyed a valuable monopoly of mails, transportation, freight, &c., without rivals of consequence, and free from s railroad across the Continent. Now the Pacific Railroad is built, the opposition lines and routes are all being pressed with vigor, and are said to be a success. The company claim as a set-off the natural increase of trade, their contemplated through line, and the increase of facilities upon which to build their expectations of increased pros- perity in the future. For ourselves, we should hail with satisfaction the success of this or any other American steamship line that would carry our flag once more over the ocean and make it again a familiar visitor in every port in the world. We believe, how- ever, that a great drawback to the Pacific Mail Company asa steady pecuniary success will be found in the expensive character of their sidewheel steamers and the enormous amount of coal they are compelled to carry, They cannot compete with the compact iron pro- SUNDAY, OCTUBER 27, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHKET. © peller, cheaply built, cheaply run, and offerto.; superior facilities for freight, Again, ander { dog-in-the-manger policy of our governme American steamship companies find the fir cost of their steamers the great obstruction successful competition. If we could buy vessels in the cheapest market no doubt should have good paying lines, and Pac: Mail might be legitimately worth two or th hundred. As it is we seek by petty subsidies ‘to keep afloat American lines that must fail in the end unless we have a reversal of our stupid and self-eacrificing policy. It seems somewhat inconsistent that the Pacific Mail Com- pany, with’ such brilliant prospects before it as ite directors represent; and as their Presi- dent, within the sacred precincts of the Opera House, solemnly affirms, should be found year after year in the Washington lobby a sturdy beggar at the public treasury. If the vigorous efforts now directed towards securing sub- sidies should be used to effect a change in our laws that would suffer our steamship lines to build their vessels in the cheapest market the Pacific MaifCompany might accomplish a de- sirable reform, and then their dividends would be based upon legitimate profits, and they might bid defiance to the Frama Soo of the world. French Pilgrimage Lourdes. M. Thiers, in a late session of the Assembly, with considerable warmth called attention to the contumelious treatment which certain pilgrims received at the hands of the French populace on their way to a shrine in the South of France. He resented it as an insult to the national religion. Tho pilgrims to whom he referred were those on their way to Lourdes, a quaint old village in a lovely spot under the shadow of the snow-clad Pyrenees. Hard by this village are the grot- toes or caverns of Massabielle, scooped by nature's hand out of the solid rock, and in one of these grottoes, they say, a young peas- ant girl, named Bernadette Soubirous, in 1858, saw time and again the vision of a beautiful lady, clad in pure white. They say, too, that this girl of fourteen, when once en- tranced before the mystic vision, commenced digging with her hands upon the earth that covered the rock before the grotto, and that thereupon a stream burst forth which has flowed ever since, with the ugual rej utation, of working miraculoug a” hes The Great to Cuires. been a great ‘rosort for pilgrims, but until this ‘year it has never reached the @ dignity of a national movement, that is, so far og Catholicism there is national. Fifty thousand people of both sexes and ail ages | and stations have journeyed thither from the most remote districts of France, to pray before the shrine of Mary of Lourdes for the salva- tion, peace and prosperity of France. The terrible visitation that humbled France has already produced such extraordinary manifes- tations of faith and hope in the rehabilitation of the nation as the world in its most heroic ages has never surpassed. This great religious movement of faith in Divine assistance is really one of them, although unique in its character. Even those who sneer at what they will call superstition, as well as those who only smile at a childlike faith, will not fail to be impressed by the lesson of pure patriotism which it teaches. The jeers that met them on their way did not intimidate them. It was scepticism laughing at credulity; both, doubt- less, burning with the same yearning to exalt France and each ignorant that the other could be anything but a stumbling-block in the way. In another portion of the Hzraxp we give an interesting description of the origin of the pilgrimage and this its latest manifestation. Bogus Reformers and the Nomination for City Judge. A concerted effort is to be made to defeat the re-election of Judge Gunning S. Bedford to the office of City Judge, for which he has been nominated by the reformed democratic organization. William M. Tweed and his as- sociates in crime, who were indicted by the Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions mainly through the fidelity and firmness of Judge Bedford, are parties to the attempt ; the friends of the murderers, burglars and thieves who have been severely dealt with by the City Judge in his sentences are the allies of the in- dicted conspirators in the work, and they are aided by city journals whose opposition to the Judge is incited by a silly jealousy and malice, growing out of the erroneous idea that the Henatp is his especial advocate. The enmity of Tweed, Woodward, Garvey, Ingersoll and their companions, and of the cutthroats and robbers who infest the metropolis, is natural enough against a Judge from whom they are all certain to receive the punishment due to crime. But the idea that the Heraup cares any more about Judge Bedford’s election than about that of any other public officer who has discharged his duty faithfully and well is as erroneous as it is absurd. A little over a year ago Tweed and his asso- ciates were flaunting about the city in defiance of popular indignation. The Reform Associa- tions had commenced civil suits for the re- covery of the stolen moneys, but nothing had been done towards bringing the plunderers to the bar of a court of justice to answer the criminal charges made against them. Bold in their power and their wealth, they laughed at civil proceedings, and the city was disgraced by the spectacle of Tweed sitting at the head of one of the most important of our municipal departments. The reform commit- tees and all the public authorities seemed unable or afraid to move in criminal proceed- ings against the offenders. The people knew they had been shamefully robbed, but saw their plunderers as arrogant and insolent as ever, with no prospect of their punishment. The famous jury of the General Sessions was empanelled, and Judge Bedford charged the jury that these alleged crimes against the peo- ple should be thoroughly investigated by them ; that they should present any one found to have been guilty of public fraud or robbery, regardless of persons and fearless of conse- quences; that the non-indictment of the sus- pected parties, if the evidence was found to substantiate the charges made against them, was a public shame and scandal. The history of that jury session is well known. Every obstruction was thrown in the way of the investigation; the testimony was hard to reach; the crimes had been committed by experienced rogues, who knew the importance of covering up their tracks. The jury were compelled to ask for time, Judge Bedford granted them extension | oftor extension, resolyed to. afford them every|- | ‘ocllity «do justice between the people and th dplunderers. Every citizen is fami-. "witht the result. The evidence was at last ; the mysteries were unearthed; the is aud robberies were brought practically nents were found against them. The ¥~-y@ and the press were loud in their lauda- tion of the Judge and the jury through whose firmness and fidelity this act of public justice was accomplished. The Legislature, by a special law, endorsed and legalized Judge Bed- ford's action, so as to place it beyond the possibility .of technical objection. The public robbers paled and trem- bled before the shadow of their coming fate; many fled the city, and others resigned the positions they still disgraced. The pri- son stripes were more terrible to them than civil suits, and their insolent defiance gave place to abject fear. But for the criminal in-_ dictments found against them by the Grand Jury of the General Sessions, through Judge Bedford's effective co-operation, Tweed would have been to-day at the head of the Depart- ment of Public Works, and the conspirators would still have been displaying their dis- honestly acquired wealth before the eyes of the people they had plundered. For these reasons, and for none other, the Henatp demanded Judge Bedford's nomi~ nation by all honest reformers, and now in- sists that he should receive all honest reform votes. The arguments used against him only strengthen his claims upon the sup- port of good citizens by their weakness and evident malice. Before the Bar Associa- tion a member rises and charges that Judge Bedford is unfit to sit upon the Bench because he granted the unopposed motion of the Dis- trict Attorney to commit the most notorious of the public robbers without bail. A political English-edited organ, fraudulently claiming to favor reform while willing to sacrifice the cause of good government for party and personal objects, urges the people of New York to op- pose Judge Bedford because Recorder Hackett refused a motion to transfer the case of Mayor Hall from the General Sessions to the Oyer and Terminer. These are the arguments used to induce intelligent men and honest reformers to vote against a Judge to whom the city is in- debted for the criminal prosecution of the pub- lig plunderers, and who yas sg alles 9 year.ago, by the people, the press and th ra ture as the most useful ally the reform move- ment had ever secured, The Hzzaup has advocated Judge Bedford's nomination and election on public grounds alone. Apart from this it cares for no parties and for no individuals. But it is beginning to be well understood by the people that the reform movement carried by them to a suc- cessful issue last Fall is being perverted from’ its legitimate object by politicians and parti- san journals for the accomplishment of their own corrupt and selfish purposes. The mask can yet be stripped from the faces of these’ bogus reformers and selfish patriots, who are ready to cover up any amount of rascality on the part of their own friends. and whose fingers are soiled with foul bargains. It is not alone in opposition to Judge Bedford that they are doing the work of Tweed and his fellow plun- derers, and the intelligent. citizens of New York are well aware of the fact. Imagine the political allies of Senator James Wood and of the whole infamous Legislature of last Winter prating of reform and denouncing a Judge as unfit to sit upon the Bench because he sent Tweed to jail without bail ! British Moral Exhibitions—The maid Show. The fine, healthy picture which is presented in the comparison between the Pharisee and the publican is one that always suggests itself when that complacent entity, John Bull, rolls his eyes to the London clouds and unctuously thanks Heaven that he is not as is Brother Jonathan ; he has no “rings,”’ no Tweeds, no Reddy the Blacksmiths, and—O Lord!—ha has no baby shows; but he has a barmaid show, and is rejoiced through all the fibres of his snobbery and not scandalized in his morals therewithal. Now, therefore, let us ask, What is a barmaid show and what are barmaids? It would perhaps be more convenient to look at the barmaids first. The barmaid is the agent of the British publican in dispensing beer to Britons. She (for the sex is female) is a bedizened creature, a frivolous creature, a hard-worked creature, whose duty it is to stand behind the bars of English liquor stores - and pump beer for the multitude, receiving im exchange the pennies for the landlord and all the maudlin stuff which men are capable of uttering in a woman’s ears for her own share. How shocking this must be at times can be caloulated by the ratio in which i induces immoralities to bubble filthily from lewd lips. This is her lot year in and year out; and what wonder if she is ger.-- rally weak in the end and something to t » hidden away from the eye of day? It is, in fact, a huge school of gradual debauchery for women, from whose depths but a favored few, a very tew, can escape. Amid the blaze of the tawdry gin palace she drinks in the infection in the air; perhaps she assists the process by draughts from the brandy keg, at first to put a flash in her eyes, at last as a necessity of her feverish existence. The barmaid is generally a physical attraction, chosen for her points by the landlord as one would choose a horse. She must keep "up this appearance and‘culti- vate slang as another portion of her stock in trade. The refined taste which in England demands this sad exhibition of woman- hood has, however, of late gone a step further, and got together an exhibition of this very class. Fifty flashy girls were set behind fifty bars ina place on the suburbs of London, and the British public were invited to come and guzzle beer, and in guzzling to note their admiration of the bar- maid to their fancy by dropping 4 ballot in her favor. A prize of a gold watch was to be the guerdon of her who took the most money and received the largest number of votes. And the British public came in its thousands to swill, to talk slang, to guzzle and to vote that fitty girls might be booked as surely for perdi- tion as their nonsense could inspire. But, then, to look beyond and observe the thou- sands of barmaids in London longing for and enjoying the fame of Miss Some- body, who could pump so much more beer, look so much prettier, or so much faster, and talk so much slang! It is safe to say that nothing more demoraliz- ing than this system exists in any