The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ats Volume XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Back Croox, GRAND OPERA HOUS st.—Mipsumaer Nigut’s BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st— @ir Van Wink. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Borraro Bri—Onszcr INTEREST. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Dick, Tux Cakvalier, Afternoon and evening. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Uszp Ur—Kexry. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Orera Bourrk—La Finite px Mapane ANGor, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, ‘between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Mxruisto. ‘ THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadwav.—Vanirty ENTERTAINMENT. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, Broadway.—Yun ia Foo-Mitay Waste, Core | Beat ACADEMY OF MUSIC, lth street and Irving place.-- Covor Guan. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner 6th av.—Nxcno Minsreetsy, &c. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— San Francisco MINSTRELS. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Suswgr Nicurs’ exers. NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘Way.—SCIENCE AND ART. ighth ay. and Twenty-third Con- DR, KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scrence axp Arr. TRIPLE SHEFT. New York, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “CESARISM AS KNOWN BY ITS FRUITS! REPRESENTATIVE STATESMANSHIP!— EDITORIAL LEADER—SIXxTH PaGE. SPANISH WARFARE! THE CARLISTS CARRY OFF A NUMBER.OF WOMEN FROM VERA! A NEW CAPTAIN GENERAL FOR MADRID! THE DEERHOUND SEIZURE — SEVENTH PAGE. SPANISH VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT OF PUB- LIO ASSEMBLAGE DEFENDED BY THE DIARIO, OF HAVANA—SEVENTH PaGe. CAPTURED FRENCH FORTS RENAMED AFTER PROMINENT GERMAN GENERALS—MORE PRIZES FROM VIENNA—SEVENTH PAGE, THE POEBERGS ! THE CRUISE OF THE JNIATA IN SEARCH OF THE POLARIS! | A FASCINATIN NARRATIVE OF LIFE IN THE LAND OF ETERN ; Is THE MISSING Ke TRANSATLANTIC HURRICA MENT MIS IPS IN A TERRIFIC FAITHFULL’S EMPLOY- SEVENTH PAGE. WARWI NGLAND) SEPTEMBER RACES—THE AUSTRIAN CAPITAL FREE FROM CHOLERA—SEVENTH PaGE. RACING NEWS! THREE FINE EVENTS AT GOSHE) PARK Y ERDAY—JERSEY @ AQUATICS—SEVENTH PaGE. EX-MAYOR GASTON NOMINATED FOR GOV- ERNOR BY THE MASSACHUSEITS DEMO- CRATS—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— TENTH PAGE. MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC “STRAIGHT. | OUT” STATE COMMITTEE! THE LIBERALS GIVEN THE “COLD SHOULDER”—KINGS COUNTY POLITICS—SEVENTH Pads. RUDMAN, THE DEFAULTING DEPUTY, FAILS TO SECURE BAIL—FIRE RAVAGES—THinp PaGE. KELSEY'S “T/ ABOUT THE ICES POSTED! KEi ENTH PAGE. JEFF DAVIS’ “CHEATED RATHER THAN CON- | THE '! THE LATEST N' gi URRILOUS POETRY—SEv- QUERED” SPEECH! A MEMPHIS EDITOR ENDEAVORS TO PLACE HIM RIGHT UPON | THE RECORD! THE “CAUSE’—Focxrn | Pace. IVES ON THE | TORS! BROWN | THE FORGED BONDS! DETE! TRACK OF THE OP COMMITTED! ALARM RUMORS OF | OTHER COUN > PAPER—Firra “Pace. | DR. KENEALY’S TWENTY: IN THE TICHBORNE C4 PERORATION—Firte Pac GREEN AGAIN MANDAMUSE COSTS FOR STREET OPED COURT SUMMARIES—A FINE BALL—FouRTH Page. AN IMPORTANT MISSION FROM GUATEMALA TO THE U ATES! CENTRAL AMER- ICAN FILIBUSTE! \DE TION OF THE STARS AND CASARISM IN COSTA RICA—FOURTH Pag THE STORM SIGNAL INDIES! CROP PROS j DEATH p? A VETERAN OF WATERLOO— | ITALIAN OPERA—FOURTH Pack. FINANCIAL MOVEMENTS ! MONEY GOLD AND STOCKS GOTH PaGR. REAL ESTATE AND MD ROADWAYS THE FALLEN 1 -EDUCATIONAL | MATTERS—Firtn Pace. ‘E DAYS’ SPEECH TEXT OF THE SUITS AND GENERAL | STRIPES! RATES! = . Tue San Francisco Execrions Yesterpay were cenducted with much asperity. The railroad monopoly party were opposed by the people's parly. In the local offices a petty sectarian spirit appears to have lent its bitter- ness to the contest. “Fuston’’ Was Derratep py tre SraTEe Democratic Committer ye sterday. The democ- racy will remain “straight out,” and the libe- | rals of last year, if there are any left, must come into the democratic fold as true Jeffer- sonians. The Convention will meet at Utica on the Ist of October, when the leaders prom- ise a united party. Tae Massacuvserrs Democrats Mer Yzs- ‘rerpay at Worcester ,and nominated a fall State ticket of unmixed political complexion. Ex-Mayor Gaston, of Boston, was nominated for the place which Mr. Adams, the younger, has so frequently and fruitlessly contested hitherto. Beyond some faint hopes growing out of the republican fight in the State there was little calling for comment. Ohio and Pennsylvania left nothing for the ‘‘conven- iently small’ Bay State democracy to do but acquiesce in the return to unadulterated Jefferson. Tue Mexican Cow Tureves are again ma- feuding in Texas. We want more cavalry theve and something of the spirit of Colonel Mackenzie, who brought back the thieving Kickapoos, We owe no courtesy to Mexico or any other power when the lives and prop- erties of our citizens are taken through its in- §ilereuce or vowerlesanana, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET, Coosarism as Known by Its Fruits— Repysentative Statesmanship. An era is generally shown by its men. The tree no more surely shows its sweetness by its fruit than the generation by the men it pro- duces, We are more or less types of our ‘| time, its fruition, and in all classes there are family resemblances. History is marked with this phenomena. There was the generation 4 of cant and piety under Cromwell, and the generation of license and infidelity under Charles. There was the time of the nabobs— the time of the dandies—the time when every gentleman carried his sword ready for a duel— owned a main of cocks and dined with his favorite prize fighter. France had, almost in the same generation, the brilliant vices of the Regency and the austere virtues of the Republic. There was the gilded butterfly period, when men only lived to prey on vir tue, and the time of fire and flame, when young men cultivated their hair and called themselves Regulus and Brutus and discussed assassination as a patriotic duty. In our Revolutionary era we had whig and tory struggles. One generation yearned for a court like Hamilton, another despised all kings like Jefferson. One genera- tion worshipped the slaveholder, the next worshipped the abolitionist. We had the generation of simplicity, say in the time of Quincy Adams; the generation of display that came with the war and war fortunes, There are men living who remember when our merchant princes lived on Maiden lane and walked to church on Sundays; who remember also the flashing eminence of quacks and ad- venturers, and the gambling kings of Long Branch and Saratoga. If we might select a phrase that will give some idea of our meaning we should call this generation the era of false pretence and mediocrity. We noticed recently in the ac- count of an interview befween an American traveller and Mr. Carlyle that the venerable and illustrious thinker.cried out, ‘‘We are all going to the devil together-—-we here in England—we have nobody to rule but this Gladstone, who is a bagman, or he they call Dizzy, who is a pedler.”” We do not venture to say how far Mr. Carlyle speaks truly of England, and some allowance must be made for the vehe- mence of after-dinner fireside rhetoric. But the germ of Mr. Carlyle’s expression cor- responds with our thought about America. We do not recall a time in our history when there was so much false pretence and mediocrity in public life as we see now. It is one of the surest, as itis one of the most painful, evi_ dences of the growth of Cesarism. We do not remember a time when our public life did not have men of conspicuous renown—known to all men—what we might call promontories and peaks—peaks shining at times and seen over the world. ‘There is only a dead Sandy Hook level, and marshy odors in the air, breathing poison and disease. A striking and at the same time hopeful evidence of this is that we only see this barrenness in public life. In other branches of art and science and industry the time is rich in men ot gifts. At the Bar we have O’Conon Evarts, Hoar—in oratory and eloquence, Phillips and Beecher—in literature, Whittier, Longfellow, Boker—younger men, of rare promise coming up, whose works are already read in many tongues. [In business achievements we see what is done by Vanderbilt and A. T. Stewart and Thomas A. Scott and Cyrus W. Field. The genius of individual enterprise was never more alive. The country knows the men who have fought her battles by land and sea. Wherever we turn there is life, energy, hon- esty, the creative spirit, the impulse to inquire and know the truth. It is only when we con- template public’ life that we see the barren, sandy reaches—here and there a scrubby plant sending out rankness, and over all floating miasmas of Crédit Mobilier and corruption, and the absence of any high, generous, refresh- ing manhood. Let us make our meaning clearer by an illus- tration. The highest level this political generation has reached is Schuyler Colfax. Until within a short time Mr. Colfax was the most popular man in the United States—Vice President and candidate for the Presidency, the envied, the successful, the darling states- man, the model of all virtues, the example to youth, A day came when the truth was known, and in an hour the worshipped of all j men became the despised of all men. The Crédit Mobilier investigation did not damage Mr. Colfax in his character. He was as good a man when it ended; he is as good a man to- | day and as deserving of popular approval as at any time in his career. The wolf that falls ' | or is wounded in the hunt is at once rended asunder by other wolves, and how swiftly And yet how much fitter he is now to be President than he was last year, when his friends were seriously thinking of running him against Grant! We say that he is a better man now than he has ever been, and more fitted for the Presidency. He is a creation of this time, an embodiment of false pretence. There are not nine in‘ ten of the men who carefully nourished Mr. Colfax, and led him from place to place until the tips of his fingers touched the diadem of the Presi- dency, who did not know his true value from the beginning. They knew him to be false, insi e, limited im capacity, absolutely selfish; seeing no aim, exd or principle but his personal advancement; wearing his friends like gloves, only to be thrown off when it pleased him; industrious, shrewd, untiring ; who drank no wine and prayed in public, and, calling these qualities virtues, wore them on his forehead like a plume; in his states-, mauship seeking the highest places by the smallest ways, never contributing an idea, a thought, an aspiration or a generous | Sentiment to his time; always lagging in his | party rank when it was taking new ground; ready to desert if disaster came; only too ready to hurry to the front and hurrah and claim the honors of victory after the battle was won; never so much of a republican that he was not quite willing to be a democrat— simply a business politician in active business life, There are not, we repeat, nine in ten of his followers who did not know him all the time as the world knows him now. Why is it, then, that this man, who is sim- ply the incarnation of the franking privilege, and who could only escape pleading guilty to perjury by admitting he had been bribed, should rise to the highest political levol of the generation? Simply because the spirit of Covorisw bay vermosted our politieg ond | othge than Wat of bebe lacked ak and. poor Colfax was torn limb from limb ! | finds expression in a creation like Schuyler Colfax. The robes of our Senators are enseamed and foul, and Mr. Colfax only looked white by comparison. It is the ten- dency of Cwsarism to encourage insincerity. ‘The augurs never laughed over their incanta- tions and auspices in the highways, So while all Washington knew Colfax thoroughly—his slippery ways, his skill in skipping novel and dangerous issues ; how he shook hands with everybody and never forgot a face, and wrote letters from morning to night, and dropped an old friend as soon as he found anew one, and never, never, never did a service beyond giving a Patent Office report to any human being— while all knew that he could smile on an op- ponent or a rival and wound him with a dex- terity that Richard III. would have envied no one ever breathed a word of this to his dis- paragement. He was an augur like the rest, and, since he wanted to be President of the United States and wore his two-feathered plume of temperance and religion in public, let him be nominated and let the people be cajoled into his election. It was not so in other days—in the period of simplicity and homely virtue. Aaron Burr, like Mr. Colfax, was a candidate for the Pres- idency and: Vice President of the United States. Unlike his successor, he was a man of unusual gifts—the peer intellectually of any man of his day—excelled by Hamilton alone. We are not aware that Mr. Burr was suspected of perjury or a confessed bribe taker while Vice President of the United States. ‘The de- velopment of his worst qualities came afterwards. He was simply an unscrupulous politician—like two-thirds of the Senators and Representatives in the present Congress. Yet because of this he was despised by Washing- ton, driven from public life by Jefferson, and lived in exile, penury, contempt, pity, toa dishonored and unloved old age. Mr. Colfax was shown by his own admission to have com- mitted an offence against public morality more flagrant than any attributed to Burr be- fore leaving the Vice Presidency. He was shown to have sold his honor for money. And yet the simple-minded Grant—the honest soldier—writes him o letter of congratulation and endorsement, and he claims to be a leader and teacher in our politics. How low have we fallen when the fruit of our generation is Schuyler Colfax! and when even the pure-minded and honest Grant can endorse him as aman worthy of honor! And not only endorse him, but send another of the unholy combination, Mr. Bing- ham, to Japan as an American Minister! How. low have we fallen—from the President who spurned the marvellously gifted Burr to the President who cherishes and endorses the mediocre, pretentious Colfax! The times have changed; Cssarism has given its color to the age, and it is not surprising that the spirit has affected Grant and shows the domi- nance of mediocrity and false pretence. The Frippery of Female Education— What Is the Remedy? Let us return to this educational question again. It is peculiarly befitting to consider in what respect the new educational year will benefit the girls and young women who throng our female boarding schools and colleges. The discussion of the comparative advantages and disadvantages under which our male collegians labor may be dropped for the present. Such evils as are associated with wrong courses and methods of study on the part of male students often meet in after life with a corrective not vouchsafed to girls and young women who have been unwiscly disciplined. At any rate, the evil is not so glaring as the one to which we refer to-day—namely, the frippery of female education, the frills and furbelows which with such fatuous industry are crowded upon the gaudy gown of feminine culture, forgetful of the fact that the very gaudiness is offensive to good taste and common sense, without the jostling embroidery and the puckered fancy work. It is true that improvement has been made in these respects. It would be possible to name more than one female college or board- ing school in which the useful and substan- tial in education bear the palm and the orna- mental holds its proper place as an exquisite accessory. We should not have to hesitate long in order to recall two or three instances of female seminaries whose principals not only have sound ideas of what a sterling and solid female education demands, but likewise know how to work the physical machinery by which such ideas are put into complete and harmonious action. The difficulty is that ~ mired. It is because of this flimsy policy | able for his violent outbursts of tenga | that 806 many parents, who yet have no sym-| quarrels betwoen Chief Justice Cockburn,~ pathy with Roman Catholicism, place their | who wrote the amiable ‘‘paper’’ on the Geneva young daughters in convents, which, whatever | arbitration, and Dr. Kenealy have not only else they may be thought by some to lack, are | been disgraceful, but the strong language very strong in two grand essentials—the incul- | which they have employed in their high words cation of moral purity and the instruction in | gives us anything but a cheerful view of ‘‘the those practical domestic details in which every | time-honored British Bar.” We publish this mistress of a family must be an adept ifshe | morning the peroration of Dr. Kenealy, a would make that family’s home s happy | masterpiece in its way, and the strongest case one. We are not advocating the average | wahave yet seen made out for the “Wapping female ignorance of a hundred years | butcher’ or the scion of a noble house. ago, when @ woman held her husband's | my. gearch for the Polaris—The United these ideas are not ‘appreciated and enter- | tained in all their height, length and breadth by a sufficient number of principals, and that even those principals who do co-ordinate with such theories do not+know how to de- duce from facts a practical synthesis for ac- tion. Home and woman ought to be correla- tive terms. The elements which compose them intertwine their initials and build up a spiritual monogram. The best part of any home education comes from a good mother—good in that wide sense which in- eludes moral strength not less than mental culture—and the most valuable education a girl can acquire is that which makes it im- possible that she should not become such a mother, provided she becomes one at all. Now this is precisely the kind of education that most of our female schools fail to give. In this respect the majority of our boarding schools are deplorable negatives. The stu- ; dents who leave them pronounced ‘‘finished” are like new houses, with the parlors frescoed and furnished, but without any roofs put on. We admire the elegance of the trimmings and the gloss of the upholstery. Possibly it might be safe to eat an ice-cream there or holda conversazione, but the more cautious among us would be wishing fora roof tree, and he would be a maniac who should make his home in such quarters without providing them a shelter and stocking them with comforts. Now every girl ought to carry the “comforts of a home’’ atthe end of her fingers as well as in her heart. This potentiality is not to be acquired in a round of studies whose only effect is to adorn. When Victor Hugo de- clares that the beautiful is as usefal as the usefuk he is merely stating half a truth in that sententious, epigrammatic style which is with him an idiosyncrasy, Too many teachers of female schools, however, seem to proceed upon this principle. Their tuition is a sort of men- tal floriculture, in the course of which the Virgin soil is sowed with plants bearing blos- soms fair to sight, but of no discoverable use heart in proportion as she held her tongue, and an accomplished housewife was consid- ered a perfect helpmate. We do not belong to the low-bred mob who think, or affect to think, that a woman’s foot was made for the rocker of a cradle, and that her hand is never better occupied than when moulding pastry; but we insist upon the beauty not less than the necessity of a girl’s being so educated at school or college as for it to be impossible for her not to be an adept in that practical knowl- edge by means of which the average ideal of home is realized—an ideal not extravagant, not absurd, but simply embracing the ideas of affection, comfort, health and purity. Until this kind of education is given we shall still see the same sad spectacle of young girls en- tering married life ignorant of the very first principles upon which domestic happiness is based, and in their turn becoming mothers of daughters who pass through a similar retro- - gressive stage. Cuban Affairs—The Insurgents and the Carlists. Our latest advices from Cuba represent the insurgents as actively resuming offensive operations. Their latest reported achievement is their descent upon and occupation of the port of Nuevitas, from which it appears that, after swarming over the town during the night and after sacking stores and setting fire to some of the buildings, they retired at six in the morn- ing, having had their own way generally, the Spanish deienders of the place having sought refuge in the Custom House meantime as their citadel. Occasional captures of govern- ment army supplies en route from one post to another, with the burning of the buildings of a sugar plantation here and there, are also re- ported among the current events of this pro- tracted war in the island. The essential fact thus established is that the insurgent Cubans, or liberals, still maintain their ground for in- dependence, and that they are beginning to comprehend the opportunity now offered them from the embarrassments of poor Spain. -In this view, ‘it having come to the knowledge of the President (Cespedes) that some of the officers of the Republic (of Cuba) are abusing their positions abroad,’’ it is ordered that they return immediately to the island and re- port to his headquarters. These officers, we believe, are mostly now in this city, and if their patriotism holds good they will at once obey this order; for never heretofore have the Cubans had so many advantages for their cause of independence as they now possess, They should not depend too much upon the idea that Spain six months hence will be pow- erless against them, for should the Carlists supplant the Republic and recover the govern- ment at Madrid there can be no doubt that, with an immediate recognition from England, France and Germany, they will at once be put in a position for the reinforcement of the now depleted Spanish army in Cuba. There is reason to believe that the reports from Spain are true that the Carlists are receiving contri- butions of money from friends in Cuba; for the sugar planters of the island, as a body, adhere to their institution of negro slavery as better for them than that independence with emancipation for which the insurgents are fighting. The present opportunity should, then, be improved to its fullest extent by those Cubans who are contending for the great causes of national independence and universal liberty; and the Island of Cuba, and not the city of New York, is the field in which they should display their patriotism. The of Color Schools, The Brooklyn Board of Education may be considered now as between the horns: of a dilemma. The vexatious question, ‘‘Shall colored children be allowed to sit in class with white scholars?’’ has been submitted to their decision in a stern, logical way that admits of nothing short of a plain, straightforward re- ply. The petition, in which this question is brought up, deplores the exclusion of colored children from the common enjoyment of the privilege of attending any of the public schools, designating it as an act of great in- justice and tending to perpetuate the humilia- tion and degradation of the race. A member of the Board, in support of this petition, as- serted that there was no longer a distinction between whites and blacks, and that all the public schools should be conducted with that principle in view. The object, then, is the abolition of educational institutions especially devoted to colored children, This would be a great wrong against the very portion of the community whom it pretends to assist. Our colored citizens, with very few exceptions, prefer the present system of separate schools to one that would, undoubtedly, revive antago- nism on account of color in its worst form. The colored schools have done and are doing a vast amount of good, and there is not the shadow of reason for abolishing them. The ex- periment in question, to say the least, will bea doubtful one, and it is quite unnecessary, too, Colored parents prefer sending their children to schools where there can be no opportunity of reviving disagreeable questions, over which men of education, experience and talent have | quarrelled, This attempt to force the Civil Rights bill beyond the limits which should be reasonably accorded to it looks too much like political trickery to attract the serious atten- tion of any right thinking person in the com- munity. Still, according to the letter of the law the petitioners may demand, and in such a case must obtain, the privileges conveyed in their communication to the Board. Already, in Poughkeepsie, this vexed question has been set at rest by the admission of two colored pupils into the public schools, and their classification the same as the white children, Tue Ticusorne Oxamant’s Trrar.—If “J endless proceedings in the Tichborne claim- ant’s trial for perjury are fruitful in anything Question in Public States Sloop-of-War Juniata on Her Way to: Disco and Upernavik. When Hermann Melville wrote ““Typoe” he opened to the reading public a strangely new, if imaginary world, sensuously peopled and enriched with voluptuous landscapes. The realm which is described in to-day’s Henanp by our correspondent on board the United States sloop-of-war Juniata is equally new and equally strange, and has the additional adyantage of being neither voluptuous nor imaginary. ‘The descrip- tion is a powerful and conscientious picture of a region about which: little has hitherto been said and less is known. Beneath the humor and sympathy of our correspond- ent’s style flows the still and solemn current of tragedy and omen. You can detect the | grave import of the expedition upon which captain and crew are bound as directly and unerringly as you can scent the coming rain in summer air. The search for the Polaris is’ the proper sequel to hey loss. You picture to yourself the lonely Juniata proceeding on her perilous voyage, conscious of her prowess and nursing a noble scorn of fog and iceberg and all the elemental enemies that join hands against her. You see the crew made one by unity of purpose, their heroic duties contrasting with the rugged and grotesque wildness of the Esquimaux, among whom they find themselves at Holstein- borg and Sukkertoppen. While you listen to a violin’s scraping in a Greenlander’s hut you perceive in the distance the darkness and the blackness of the rain storms of the sea. While you bargain for ice dogs and assume the coat of seal-skin a ghastly tableau unfolds itself to fancy and the green mould of the Polar Ocean tints with the supernatural the pinched features of a starved and frozen crew. But pictures like this have not weighed too heavily on the heart of the Juniata’s company. From Commander Braine down they are prac- tical men, not given to dreaming, or, if so, their dreams are of that instantaneous order which rank as conceptions passing into imme- diate action. The letter which we print to-day was completed only a few moments before the Juniata was expected to set sail for Disco, thence probably. to proceed to Upernavik, at which point the search for the Polaris would become a matter near at hand. It seems that the Juniata’s crew have been behaving like men who can play all the harder because of their capability for very serious work. They shot eider ducks on Hamborg Island and did battle with mosquitoes at Holsteinborg. They gave right cordial welcome to the Esquimaur who came swarming around them in the native kyacks, and some of the officers, as in duty bound, called upon the Danish Governor at Sukkertoppen. They attended a hop, at which Esquimau Brummels were radiant in seal-skin breeches, and they enjoyed the in- estimable privilege of, contemplating the Arctic Aphrodite beneath the glamour of blubber and bulbousness. They imbibed coffee sweetened with succulent Danish candy. They felt their spirits swell beneath the desolate and icy grandeur of the Greenland landscapes, and when they saw the native at his worship they bowed their heads and ac- knowledged that he performed that act in an honester spirit than their friends in the tem- perate zone. It is pleasant to see the grave and gay trifles of social and domestic life weaving themselves among the sombre warp and woof of this hazardous expedition. We have been pecu- liarly fortunate in our selection of corre- spondents, who could go into danger with that cheery patience, that bright equability which both proceed from courage and sustain it. Our Greenland letter is the latest evidence of this, and the promptness with which if bas come to hand and the avidity with which it will be read are the best reward which the Herap could desire for its indetatigability and enter- prise. Ina voyage of this description there is plenty to attract an adventurous, not to say heroic, nature. The constant presence of danger, the contact. with unfamiliar customs and institutions, the unfoldment of gigantic landscapes at once weird and splendid, the strange and superb natural phenomena new to the eyes of the explorer, the dread secret to the clew of which hope asserts every hour is bringing him near, the solicitudes he leaves behind him to be counterbalanced by the ex- ultation to be created by a triumphant return, the knowledge that his purpose is a noble one, whatever may be the end achieved—all these considerations spur the imagination and carry even the fainter-hearted glowingly into the | land where ice is king. If, in addition to all | these, the romantic sentiment steps in and represents the Polar Continent as a sort of | frozen consciousness, holding in its dreadful abysms the very secrets which we burn. to know, the spell is almost completed, and to the inducements which evolve the enthusiastic explorer is only wanted that final and perfect- ing one which comes from a desire to serve an enterprising and independent newspaper that would wrest information from the open Polar Sea itself. Treasurer Spinner on Back Pay. The amiable old gentleman whose signature is at the lower right hand corner of our cur- rency stated to a Congressman, when giving an opinion on the back-pay ‘covering’ busi- ness, that he was no lawyer. But he volun- teers an opinion asa layman that the only sure way for a Congressman to fimally and beyond revocation ‘‘cover” his back pay into the Treasury is to do it “by a last will and testament, stating, as a @¢onsideration, the love and affection you bore your native land.” There may be great trath in this, but it will bear a melancholic tinge, no matter how we may look at it. The good Congress. ; man is invited, like the ill-used good Sunday school child, to sit down and contem- they have brought forth a barrister whose | plate his tombstone while the naughty Con- ability and persistency have rarely been ex- | grossmen are gleefully eating their “butcher's celled in a court of justice and » Bench whose | meat.’’ That it must be saddled with ‘a con- Wan een ohiede somask: " ja fauships. Tha qpiging Cops. ee ee greseman may solace himself with thd gn! that his patriotic shuffling off the mortal aif et decorum. Even Congressmen must pay ‘he debt of nature, and why not now when thé chances of future fame are 90 good. Generations would weep over any man of whom it could be said or written, “Died of back pay.’ Let them all make their wills, those who voted for the bill particularly, for The only way back pay to “cover,’” ‘To hide a sham from ev'ry ¢yo, To prove yourself your country’s lover And touch tts heart, is but to die. “The Lost Cause’—Mr. Jefferson Davis is Rises to Explain. ‘The unhappy Jefferson Davis is the Prophet Jeremiah of the “lost cause.” ‘His lamenta~ tions are not so vivid in their colorings of the sufferings and sorrows of his unfortunate people as are those of the heart-broken and elo- quent Israelite, but the intractable Mississip- pian sticks to his text with the same tenacity. The unconquerable Southern rights man of Arkansas precisely defines the position of the fallen chief of his fallen confederacy in the emphatic declaration that— Aregular, straight-out rebel I was, and still | am, And I won't be reconstructed, And I don’t care a—hem! We fear, nevertheless, that in the publie judgment the character in which Mr. Davis: _ lately presented himself before the Southerm Historical Convention, and in which he makes the explanation that we publish to-day, will be held as less heroic than the réle of the maid of all work in which he appeared ‘‘once upon a time” in a sundown and calico wrapper, bearing from a crystal spring away down in Georgia a pail of sparkling water. There he tried as fair a trick of warlike strategy as that of King Alfred in the cowherd’s cabin; but in dis unseasonable rigmaroles on the Southern Confederacy and what ‘might have been,” bad Mr. Davis only knowh what to do, we have the senseless and purposeless vaperings of a weak and foolish old man. ‘What does he mean in his declarations that he has a hope in the future founded on the fact that he has not yet seen a recon- structed Southern woman, and that while the men of thejpresent day might yield the principles for which they struggled, yet he hopes the children who , succeed them will grow up to maintain and per- . petuate those principles and redeem all that we have lost? He must mean that his ‘lost cause’’ is to be Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son by the unreconstructed women of the South, and thatat,some time in the dim future we shall have another Southern rebellion, So we interpret his incendiary White Sulphur speech, and such is substantially his explana- tion of that wild harangue. We appre- hend that silence, instead of such fire- brands as these from Mr. Davis at this time, would have been cheaply purchased by the Southern people in the outlay of o million of money ; and we entirely concur in the opinion of a Charleston contemporary, which is to the effect that if Mr. Davis cannot open his mouth without putting his foot in it he will best serve the cause and the interests of the South by keeping it shut. During the war his zeal too often outran his discretion in his public appeals; but since the war he has been nothing but a dead weight upon the South, and a decisive argument in ‘favor of the Northern radical policy of coercion when all other arguments have failed. In this view, then, abridle upon the tongue of Jefferson Davis Would be better for the South than the extinction of all the Ku-Klux Klans. In the War Office at Washington there is a valuable collection of historical papers and official documents relating to the war between the United States and the ‘so-called Confed- erate States,” as defined by Lord John Rus- sell, and among these papers, we believe, are the precious Southern archives of those five black tranks sent up to Canada for safe keep- ing when clouds and darkness were settling over the Southern Confederacy, but which were brought back some twelve months since or more and turned over to cur War Office for the pitiful sum of seventy-five thousand dol- lars, or at the rate of fifteen’ thousand dollars per trunk. Doubtless more than fifty tranks of Confederate archives, with many oI loads of sertp, wore destroyed in the Rich- mond fire, which lighted Mr. Breckenridge, the Confederate Secretary of War, in his bur- ried departure en rowe for Appomattox Court House. But still there must be a rich maga- zine of historical materials in the possessien and within reach of Mr. Jefferson Davis, which, for the enlightenment of the future historian, should be collected, compiled and published to the world. Here is field in which Mr. Davis, if he can divest himself of his personal grievances, may still appear in a commanding position among the patriots and heroes of the South. At present, with his vain tears, sighs and groans ond seditious nonsense, he stands before the people of the South as a stumbling- block in the way of their restoration to politi- cal harmony, union, law, order and pros- perity, and the best thing that his immediate friends can now do for him, for themselves and the South, is to keep him quiet. YACHTING NOTES. Sloop yacht Genta, B.Y.C., Mr. Haight, from the eastward for Gowanus, passed Whitestone yes- terday. The yacht Dreadnanght, N.Y.¥.C., Mr. Stockwell, also from the castward, is at anchor of HERALD telegraph station at Whitestone. Steam yacht Fearless, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Lorillard, from Ovster Bay for New + passed Whitestone yesterday. x Yacht Clio, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Thomas B, Asten, is anchored off Stapletot L Mr. R. Stuyvesant, is anchored off Stapleto} Yacht Tarolinta, } Yacht Rambler, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. W. H. Thomas, is anchored off Bay Ridge, L. he x ‘acht Palmer, N.Y. , Messrs, Kent, is an- chored off Bay Ridge, L. THE BROWN-BIGLIN RACE. + Hatirax, N. 8., Sept. 8, 1873, Brown has agreed to Biglin’s proposal for a race at Halifax three days after the St. John regatta, and has signed articles and forwarded them, with the necessary money for deposit, to New York to bind the agreement. The race will probably take place on the 20th inst. THE OHOLERA IN KENTUCKY. CrncrnnaTt, Ohio, Sept. 3, 1873, There were four fatal cases of cholera in Millers- burg, Ky., yesterday, and two in Paris, OBITUARY, Judge Reed, formerly Judge of the Circuit Court of Boston, Mass., died on the evening of the 2@ inst, at vry Creek, neat the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, His romaine wilh BO LAAOR A BOR ft WAMAXINADL to-day