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8 NEW YORK HERALD ——— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_-—— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henavp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will net be re- turned. —— THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the vear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription No, 252 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth stree!.—Contaxn Bawn. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Orena Bourru--La Fite pe MADAME Axcor. OLYMPIC THEATER! and Bleecker streets.—- way, between Houston THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway. —Vaniry Enremrainwxnt. 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MUSEUM, No, 638 Broadway.—Scrunce QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “FRANCE AND SPAIN! TWO IMPORTANT IIIS- TORICAL EVENTS"—EDITORIAL LEADER— SixTH Pace, SPAIN AND CARLISM! @ AL ESPARTERO, THE EMINENT REPUBLICAN CHIEFTAIN, TELLS A HERALD REPRE ATIVE WHAT HE THINKS OF THE PROGRESS AND PRINCIPLES OF DESPOTISM AND LIBERALL CARLIST LEVIES, BONDS AND CHAN SIXTH PAGE. AN ENGLISH OPT VY OF THE GRADUAL IN- CREASE IN THE POLITICAL POWER WIELDED BY THE AMERICAN EXECUTIVE | CHIEF AND THE FROM CASARISM PAYING THE DAMAG FE ND HANDS OVER THE GENEVA AWARD—FirtTu Pace, DEPREDATIO: BY OUTLAWS ON THE RIO GRAND ORDER! ANOTHER CHANCE FOR MACKENZIE—NEWS FROM THE WEST INDIES—NINTH PAGE. ‘INA DILEMMA! THE MASSACIIUSETTS REPUB- LICAN MUDDLE THREATENING—GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS—NisTH Pace. CASTELAR CONFIRMED IN THE SPANISH MIN- ISTERIAL PRESIDENCY AND PI PARATIONS TO SQUELCH THE REDS— NINTH Pace, THE LEGAL LIGHTS OF THE KEYSTONE ON CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE'S SUCCESSOR! WHAT IS NEEDED, AN INCORKUPTIBLE MAN—FirTH PAGE. ‘DAMNING EVIDENCE IN THE HAMILL MURDER AND ARSON CASE! WHAT TH! MAN SAYS WHD DISCOVERED THE CHARRED RE- MAINS—FirtTH Page. ENGLISH SSATISFACTION WITH THE ANGLO- AN CLAIMS COMMISSION— RAL NEWS—NINTH PAGE. SARATOGA’S COMING BOATING CARNIVAL! PROGRAMS o¥ THE RACES—Firru Pace. A QUIET ELECTION IN MAINE! THK FIGURES AND ACTS SO FAR AS OBTAINABLE! REPUBLICAN MAJORITY, 11,000—Nintu Paar. THE WIFE OF JOHN T. IRVING FURNISHES SOME IMPORTANT CLEWS IN THE NATHAN MUKDER CAS TANGIBLE PROOFS OF “SOMEBODY ILT! THAT DOG! WHAT MR. JOURDAN ‘SEVENTH PAGE. OR ETERNITY! PROFESSOR UENT PERILS GE. 6 BALLOON EXPERIMENT! THE ATIONS = MAL INADEQUATE! MAY REASONABLY BE EX- mm THRE “BEARS” nv FAILURES OF PROMI- * FIRMS! GOLD AND eT PAGE. PWR Page AY! THE WARE- ROME at 7 yo Ww Vaareen Pac. NEW YORK'S Sew © MON- TREAL PADDING TRADE OF THE NORTHWEST: HER IMPROVED DOCKS AND BASIN’ THE ST. LAWRENCE AS A HIGHWAY—THinreentn Pace. SEA BATHING AND THE PLEASURES OF sUM- MER LIFE ON THE NORMAN ( OF LA BELLE FRANCE—WAN AMONG THE WHITE MOU TEENTH Paces. Tax Sveemer is Over, and the hopes of the watering places of a ‘heated term’’ for Septem- ber, we apprehend, will not be realized. Tae Hexrmcton Horror comes up again for investigation to-day; and the authorities concerned should not forget that in this busi- ness the eyes of the whole country are now | upon them. ‘ ‘Tue St. Louis Republican (snti-administra- tion, has lost faith in the democracy. Last year it was hand in glove with the party in support of State and national nominations— now it affirms that it has dwindled to such feeble proportions that, in some States, it is invisible, and in others insignificant. And the trouble of it is, it proves that its averments are true. The Republican is now patting the {osmers’ movement very kindly on the back. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. France and Spain—Two Important Historical Hivents. 4 It is now four years since the world was startled by the announcement that o revolu- tion had taken place in Madrid and that Queen Isabella and some of her more imme- diate friends and advisers had found it con- venient to leave Spain and take refuge on French soil. These four years have been marked by great events and they have been fruitful of great results. There were many who thought that the flight of the Spanish + Queen, while it implied rich blessings to Spain, marked the commencement of a new and happier era for all the old nations of Europe. Events of the most startling kind have certainly followed each other in rhpid succession, but we have yet to learn that Spain has been made happier or that the general condition of Europe has been im- | proved, Spain has had time to make many and curious experiments and to taste the bitterness of intensified national sorrow. France has had time to measure swords with her ancient enemy, to fall as she never fell before, and to give such evidence of recuperative strength as to make the world wonder why she did not put forth her strength in time and convert her defeat into a victory. Companions in tribulation for the last three years, yet never in sympathy with each other, France and Spain, after their strange expe- riences, again, in a very emphatic manner, command the attention of the world. Their pathways are not the same; but in some mys- terious manner their destinies seem to be linked. a A crisis, or what may prove to be a crisis, has arrived in France. She has paid to the German government the last franc of the five milliards of the war indemnity, and for the last few days the exulting sounds of on eman- cipated people fall upon the ears of the retir- ing foe. Once again, after two and a half years’ occupation, France finds herself free to decide upon her own destiny and to fix the character of her own future. France is re- stored to herself—the nation is emancipated, and the factions are no longer bound by any “Pact of Bordeaux.’’ The time so long waited for has at last arrived; the truce is ended, and the nations look on anxiously, eager to know whether France is to go back and seek peace ard prosperity under mo- narchical forms of government, or whether the Republic, which has done so much for her in her days of darkness and sorrow, is to be firmly and securely established. What the surrounding nations ask France earnestly asks herself. The struggle is imminent, but the result is doubtful. In her continuous, though we cannot say progressive, struggle, Spain finds herself in a condition not dissimilar, in certain respects, to that of France. The provisional government of Prim failed; the government of Amadeus, which tried and tested all the factions in turn, failed ; the Republic, after having exhausted the skill and patience of the best republicans of the land, has all but failed ; and if success does not attend the experiment about to be made under the auspices of Castelar the pros- pects of the Republic must be regarded as buried, and the restoration of the monarchy pronounced at once a necessity and a relief. After all the efforts, sacrifices, experiments, failures and lessons of the last three or four years Spain has apparently gained nothing by dismissing Isabella, and it would seem to the hard, worldly mind that the French people might have done better than urge Napoleon to war and then spurn him in the hour of his and their mis- fortune. When we think of the great English revolution which began in the days of Charles the First and ended with the flight of James and the accession of William and Mary; of the revolution in the Netherlands, which re- sulted so disastrously to Spain and so gloriously to Holland, and even to Germany ; of the com- paratively recent struggles which have respec- tively brought about unity in Italy and unity in Germany and won back unity in the United States, and then look at those barren efforis in France and Spain, we feel as if we had no choice but to attribute failure to some radical defect in the French and Spanish character. With the example of Italy before us, we cannot, as has become so much the custom of late, get rid of the difficulty by a wholesale condemnation of the Latin races. We are unwilling to be rash in our utterances or too sweeping in our judgments. Better times may be in store for France and Spain, and it may be these times are not far distant ; but the many opportunities which have been enjoyed and lost by the one nation and the other, as well as the many failures which have rewarded grand and promising experiments, almost forbid us to hope. A fresh crisis, rich with opportunity, has, as we have said, ar- rived in the history of both nations, and it remains to be seen whether the crisis is to be marked by fresh bungling and defeat or by skill, courage and success, It is impossible not to feel convinced that republican institutions are, so far at least as the Old World is concerned, to a large extent on their trial. That the example of the United States has powerfully told in favor of the Republic as compared with monarchy in all the nations of Europe is not for a moment to be doubted. No such example was ever given to the world before. Not yet one hundred years old, the young Republic of the West is already in the front rank of the nations. We have battled with our difficulties and won our successes under the banner of the Republic. Of our institutions we are proud, and to our institutions we are not unwilling largely to give the praise. Our example is cheering and full of encouragement to the friends of repub- lican institutions in Europe.’ But our ex- ample is not enough. What is wanted in Europe is a successful copy of the great American original. The Kepublic a success in France, it could hardly fail to commend itself to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, and even to England. The Republic well established in Spain, France could not lag behind. It is | this which lends so much interest to the events which are now taking place in those two centres of monarchy.in Europe. If we have any faith in the excellence of ofr own institutions we cannot but wish suceess to those men who are now seeking to establish the Republic in Madrid andin Paris. All we can say with confidence in regard to the chances of snccess or failure of the Republic is that at Madrid and at Ver- sailles the question must soon be solved. If the men now in power in France proceed to the definitive establishment of the govern- ment without first consulting the wishes of the people at the ballot box, it is not to be denied that they have the power to restore the monarchy. If the wishes of the people are consulted, and if no barriers are set up against the free expression of opinion, there are many good reasons for believing that Franco would cast her vote in favor of the Republic. But the mon now in power do not wish the Republic; and hence it ié our opinion that they will do their best to establish the monarchy, and, if that is found impossible from dynastic or other difficulties, to prolong the present uncertainty. They will not aid the Republic. In Spain the case, we think, is different. A plébiscile can do wondrous things; but it is not our opinion that a plébiscite in Spain would make the Republic a certainty. The Republic is in favor only in the large cities; but even in the large cities the repub- licans are divided. In the rural districts the peasantry are devotedly attached to the Church, and attachment to the Church means attachment to the monarchy. Then, again, the great mass of the intelligent middle class and of the wealthy proprietors of the soil are devoted to the interests of the Princo of the Asturias. The advent of Castelar to power, vested as he is to be with extraordinary powers, and assisted as we are told he is to be by.Espartaro and Serrano, does not inspire us with hope. The presumption is that so soon asthe army is in the hands of those veteran leaders the one or the other, or both, will play the réle of General Monk and place the Prince of the Asturias on the throne of his ancestors. In the hands of the old soldiers Castelar would be dhother Lamartine. What Spain now wants at the helm of affairs is not a poetical dreamer, but a man of energy and action, France has found her liberty, and Spain has found her Castelar. We are willing to wait to see what France will do with her liberty, and whether Castelar in council will be equal to Castelar in the forum. In another part of the Henanp an interview with Espar- tero will be found. His views on the condi- tion of Spanish affairs will throw some light on his purposes. The Maine Election and the Late Con- test in Calitornia, The general results of the annual State eleo- tion in Maine, which was held yesterday, may be summed up as a republican victory, of re- duced majorities upon a greatly reduced popu- lar vote, as usual when there are no national candidates or issues involved, and no local questions of sufficient importance to bring out the full strength of the people. The State elec- tion of the year immediutely succeeding that of the Presidential year has always exhibited in Maine a heavy falling off in the popular vote, as the following figures will serve to show: — In tho Presidential year 1868 the test vote of Maine on the Governor was— For Chamberlain, republican. For Pillsbury, democrat + 75,834 55,431 Republican majority.. + 20,403 In the State election of 1869—a purely local contest—the popular vote for Governor (omit- ting 4,743 votes for the temperance man) was thus divided— For Chamberlain, republican. For Smith, democrat,, Republican majority. This heavy reduction in the republican majority in a single year was accepted and proclaimed by the demoeratic journals asa great gain by their party, which, if followed up, would give them the State in one or two more battles; but, with the return of the Presidential contest in 1872, we find the test election on national issues in Maine, the Sep- tember election for Governor, resulting as follows :— For Perham, republican + 71,917 For Kimball, democrat. « 54,701 Republican majority..........sssceeeeseesee 17,216 —or some three thousand short of the majority of 1868, the loss indicating, perhaps, the liberal or anti-Grant republican strength in Maine in 1872, and that it was about fifteen hundred votes. No doubt this year the de- ficiency in the popular vote will be equal to that of 1869, if not greater, and from the same causes. The general results this year, there- fore, signify nothing but general apathy in Maine, there being no political issues before the people to prevent the State going by default. This Maine election, accordingly, may be set down as an event of no political conse- quence beyond showing that tho two parties in the State stand substantially as they have stood for the last fifteen years in tho division of the popular suffrages. The results, ind word, are only the old story over again of reduced republican majorities on a short yote, and signify “only this and nothing more.” The results of the late contests in California, on the other hand, are very significant and important, as making a break by a large body of independent men from both old parties, and the creation thereby of a new party—the anti- railroad monopoly party, which in the Legis- lature elected will hold the balance of power against the Central Pacific Railway, notwith- standing the support this monopoly is said to have received at the late California canvass from the national administration. From this beginning, this new departure in California, we look for results next year, especially in the elections to Congress on the railway question, which will change the existing complexion of things very materially, even in Maine. The Proposed Balioon Voyage, We publish elsewhere in the Henap to-day an interesting and well considered communi- cation on the subject of the proposed trans- atlantic trip in a balloon, in which two gentle- men wish to risk their lives. According to the logical statement of our correspondent there is a strong probability that this aerial excursion in search of an easterly current will terminate in a sad tragedy. Whether the enterprise -has its origin in a mere advertising spirit, or some hare-brained idea possessing no true scientific foundation, it is manifestly wrong to risk the lives of the men who make the experiment. Even if they are willing and eager to start in search of the desired aerial current, there is a law against suicide which might be enforced in this case should scien- tific men disapprove of the undertaking. ‘The pursuit of science is laudable, as long as that is the sole object of an explorer, but merce- nary motives cannot be considered as satisfac- tory when human life is endangered to a degree beyond reasonable grounds. There- fore some action should be taken by the proper authorities to examine into this ynder- . unscrupulous and greedy as any that has pro- taking, in order to avert what may prove a | fearfal tragedy. The Danger of the Republic—Cosarism from an English Point of View. An article from the Pall Mall Gazelle, which we reproduce in the Hzraup to-day, discusses the question of the future of the American Presidency with more discrimination and in- telligence than are usually displayed by Eng- lish writers on American politics. The opinions of a well informed and reputable foreign journal on a subject of such grave importance deserve especial consideration. They are views taken from a standpoint above the prejudices of party and the natural jealousy of repub- licanism, and hence are likely to be free on the one side from self-deception and on the other from exaggerated alarm. When the Hexarp sounded the first note of warning and exposed the stealthy approach of the insidious enemy of our republican institutions one set of politicians declared that we were assailing the republican party with the design of aiding to restore the democracy to power, and another set insisted that we were secretly laboring to elect President Grant for a third- term. A large and influential portion of the American press has followed us faithfully in tho effort to arouse the nation toa sense of its peril; but too many journals have been found bold enough to pronounce openly in favor of ignor- ing the teachings of Washington, Jefferson and Jackson, and of taking the first stop in the imperial path of Cwsarism. The masses of the people, as we have reason to know, have carefully and thoughtfully studied our words of warning;- but there are still too many who continue apathetic or incredulous; too many disposed to regard the crusade we have initiated against Cwsarism in the light of political strategy; too many who aro will- ing to leave the outworks undefended while the enemy is stealing his way into the citadel. These latter will probably find food for reflec- tion in the remarks of the English journal. The Pall Mall Gazette has no love fora republican government—no profound admiration for our institutions or our people. When sucha paper, looking dispassionately over the situation, foresees that the abandonment of those prin- ciples laid down by Washington and endorsed by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson, and the infraction of that custom which limits the ambition of a President toa second term of office, will very possibly open the way for “a crafty and unscrupulous Executive to im- pose himself formally upon the Republic as a personal ruler for his lifetime,” it is well for Americans to recognize and guard against the danger. There is, no doubt, truth in the suggestion of the English journal thatthe enormous patron- age of the Presidential offico is a great and growing peril to the Republic. President Grant has from the first shown himself desir- ous of securing a better class of public employés than we have usually had in the civil service of the country. This is one of the many reasons that-have induced us to give his administration encouragement and support. Nevertheless, his army of office-holders is as ceded it, anda very large majority of those who are to be found in its ranks would be willing to perpetuate the rule of their chief, whoever he might be, if by so doing they could insure a prolongation of their own official life. It is not that they appreciate and admire the valuable services, the strong man- hood, the high-toned integrity of General Grant ; they regard him from the low level of their own natures as simply the dispenser of offices which enable them to live an ensy life and enjoy an income which they could never secure by business application; and they would clamor as noisily for a third term for a Pierce ora Buchanan under like circumstances as for a third election of the great leader of the Union army. We may judge from this of the danger that would threaten the country if the large patronage now wielded by President Grant should fall into the hands of a less scrupulous and less patriotic Executive after the hitherto sacred barriers against ‘the per- petuation of a personal rule erected by the purest patriots of the Republic had been un- wisely broken down. It is not from President Grant, who has served his country so well, both as a soldier and as. civilian, that danger threatens our republican government,: but from the small and selfish men who hang on to bis adminis- | tration, and who endeavor to persuade him that attacks upon them and their unwortlty objects are assaults upon himself. ‘The advo- cates of a third term have put forward the pre- tence that the President is simply entrusted with the enforcement of the laws made by Congress, and hence can have no power to subvert the institutions of the country without the co-operation of Congress, short of the power of actual revolution. But the unscru- pulous army of office-holders and the men of mediocrity and false pretence, who now fill the places of political leaders, can as readily force upon constituencies their own” ‘is superheated Congressmen, and upon State Legislatures their own Senators, as they can impose upon the nation their own Executive, pro- vided the apathy or recklessness of the péople should afford them the opportunity to their cohesive strength and discipline prects. fully. It is not, then, the Executive arm of the government alone, but the legislative arm as well, that is in peril from the aggressive march of Cmsarism. The nation does not need to be protected against General Grant, but against that dangerous encroachment upon a sacred principle of our government, as bind- ing in all good men’s eyes as the written guar- antees of the constitution itself, which would prepare the way for “a crafty and unscrapu- lous chief of the American Executive to im- pose himself formally upon the Republic as a personal ruler for his lifetime.’’? We have never believed that General Grant, who helped so materially to save the Republic in its hour of trial, would willingly do an act that could imperil the life of the Republic; hence we have appealed to him to rebuke and defeat the spirit of Casarism by an absolate and ‘manly announcement of his determination to adhere tothe example of the purest men of the nation, and to retire from the Presidency at the close of his second term. If we could conceive that he entertained a thought or hope of life rule, our words, instead of being addressed kindly to him, would be thundered in the ears of the American people, But the weak, yet dan- gerous men who surround and advise the there is neither impropriety nor hazard in his acceptance of a third nomination. It is for him to examine his own conscience and to decide whether, after the honors he has so deservedly received from his countrymen, it would be wise and patriotic, for the sake of another four years of power, to risk the future danger to the Republic which so many reflect- ing, intelligent and honest men recognize in the threatened abandonment of the principles laid down by Washington and the great and pure men who were his early succexsors. Batler’s Bull Run—Puritanism Against "Pluck. It is announced with a loud flourish of trumpets in some quarters that General But- ler has met his Bull Run in the canvass for the control of the Massachusetts Convention, and that he is already a defeated candidate for Governor of his State. This may be the case, although the old political wazhorse who has gone through so many campaigus— from the time of his election to the State Legislature by the free-soil democrats, twenty years ago, taking in the Know Nothing raid two or three years afterwards ; the great set- to at Charleston and Baltimore, when he joined the democratic secessionists ; the im- peachment of President Johnson and the passage at arms with President Grant, down to the present rough-and-tumble with Gov- ernor Washburn and the Puritans—may yet have some strategic movement in store which may bring the rejoicings of his aristocratic and high-blooded antagonists to a close. The probability is, however, that, despite the bold and gallant struggle he has made, Massachusetts’ exclusivenoss has been too strong for him, and that ho has failed to secure a sufficient number of delegates ‘to give him the nomination he s0 eagerly covets. The quostion of interest to Massachusetts politicians will now be, How will the fighting aspirant accept his defeat? We are informed that he is now so far com= mitted to a fight before the people that he can- not and will not retreat. In doing this he will simply follow the example set by the support- ers of Governor Washburn and declare for vic- tory and rebellion. Certainly he has an ap- parent right to turn upon his opponents with the same threats they have used so freely against him; but he is original as well as bold in his ideas, and if he sees that he has been fairly beaten he may even yet accept his fate with a good grace and prepare his weapons of fence for another contest. Jn all probability there will be the rub. Has he been fairly treated and fairly beaten? The personal abuse that has been heaped upon him; the prejudices that have been raised against him by the cry of ‘federal dictation;’’ will he regard these and other assaults, which might have beon proper enough if directed against him by his political: enemies, as fair opposition on the part of his political friends? Tf he does not so regard them he certainly has the daring and probably the strength to make a good fight against the injustice. At all events he may have the power, with a large positive strength in the Convention, to effect a combination for the overthrow of Governor Washburn and the selection of a candidate capable of eradicating the bitter seeds that have been sown during the campaign and making the political field smile again with sweet-smelling flowers and remunerative corn and wheat. So faras outside barbarians are concerned, it may uppear to them that the blue blood of which so much boast is made has grown thin and weak in the modern politi- cian of the Massachusetts school, and would have been benefited by intermixture with the red and vigorous fluid that courses through the veins and casts its ruddy glow over the countenance of the native of the American Switzerland. But if the Bay State has thought fit to reject General Butler with all his life, strength and originality, it‘is her own business and the world can only look on in admiration of the very high respsctability and puritanical propriety which has been again vindicated by the refined statesmen of the Hub and its surroundings. The Early Autumn and the Cholera in the West. For several days we have had reports of very high barometer and cool weather areas passing over the country from the northwest eastwardly. The prevalonoe of these condi- tions at this juncture is so marked that it i actual arrival of the decided features of autumn. During August and the first part of September the Continent and its air expanded by the sun and the radiation from the terrestrial crust, so that the pressure is very light. But already, and somewhat prematurely, the cumulative heat of the earth is being thrown off from the exterior of the Continent and the cooler oceanic air is pressing inward to restore the summer deficiency. So cool is this inflowing mass of air on the Pacific side of the country, and eastward to the Upper Mississippi and the lakes, that we hear of morning tempera- tures near the freezing point in Minnesota, and the outspreading wave of very cool atmos- phere had covered on Sunday the whole trans-Alleghany country. Yesterday its front had moved over the Alleghanies and sub- merged the Middle States, while its rear, rest- ing on the upper lakes, gave them the tem- peratures of carly April, between forty and fifty degrees. The effect of these cool spells will be happily felt at the West in mitigating the cholera and driving it southward into the Gulf. It will also be of no little benefit to us in refreshing the sun-wilted vegetation and invigorating man and beast, and checking the eastward advance of the epidemic. We may thankfully indulge the hope that all danger from its spread in this country will shortly pass away and early frost once more nip the buds of the disease. The Season of State Fairs and Puab- Me Expositions. The annual season of State and county fairs and public exposition of articles of industry may be regarded as fairly commenced. In the Western States, especially in Ohio, they are fully under way, and as the month of Septem- ber proceeds and as we enter into October they will be kept up in other sections of the coun- try, the South taking @ prominent position among them. The State of New York will this year, judging by the preparations for the county as well as the State fairs, be unusually alive to this important subject, Theso annual expositions of our national resources, the pro- President will strive to persuade wim that | ducts of the industry and the mechanical in- — Genuity, as well as of the mining and enormous egricultural wealth of the country, are cal- culated to do much good when properly con- ducted. If this management, however, should happen to fall into bad or untrust- worthy hands they may do more harm than good. Hence it is absolutely necessary that those interested in their impartial and judi- cious conduct should see that the arrange- ments are placed in the hands of upright and intelligant men, those in whom the people of the several localities in which, the fairs may be held can repose confidence in regard to fair- ness in the distribution of premiums. There is occasionally so much partiality and trickey shown in the awards that honest contributors become disgusted and retire with anything but grateful or respectful feelings towards the com- mittees and directors. This, we repeat, can be obviated by the selection of good and true man for such positions, and this should be done in all cases. “Not a Citizen of the United States.” After the sulphureous speech of Mr. Jeffer- son Davis before the Richmond Historical Society and his subsequent nitrous explana- tion of the same, we aro prepared for any amount of harmless explosions in the same quarter. We are now treated to a statement mado by the-ex-rebel soldier, Joseph E. John- ston, which has also the defiantly unrecon- structed ring about it, that docs not care an objurgation for public opinion, outside the charmed circle where the ashes of the rebel- lion are still blown upon by the cracked lips of the Ku Klux, in the vain hope that there is some fire left. He writes toa Huraup corre- spondent:— Dear Srr—I have had the honor to receive the note of to-day, in which you ask me, on the part of the New YorRK HERALD, to reply to ceriain politi- cal questions, It Wwotid glve me pleasure to have the priv- ilege of doing so, but not being a citizen of the United States [do not publish my politica: opinions, Most respectfully yours, J. E, JOHNSTON. The position in which Mr. Johnston finds himself is one that, we think; when thus nakedly stated, will command the pity of the entire Union. A man who owed his military education to the United States, who turned that education against his country’s life, and who stands denationalized for that offence, is in no enviable position. He may endeavor to hide his shame under a show of oold haughtiness, but we cannot help think- ing that there must be a_ bitter undercurrent of regret in that savowal, “not being a citizen of the United States.” It teaches us that to be stripped of the pride of citizenship is a grievous thing, which no bril- liancy of battle records can cover. There are hopes forever surrendered, os well as broken swords in the story. The cry of pride in despair which Milton gave to Lucifer when the latter addresses the sun, shining from its “high dominion like a god on this new world,” is to tell it how he hates its beams. Is there nota touch of all this in the leaders of the lost cause when they proclaim them- selves naked of citizenship and address their sympathizers to say they have no part in the glory of the starry flag? It isa heavy punish- ment, greater indeed than loss of life, and it suggests the humanitarian thought that it should be as limited as possible in its bestowal. Let us have peace. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Wovernor Aiken, of South Carolina, is at the Spingler House. Mrs, General W. T. Sherman and her son, Thomas E., are in St. Louis. Ex-Secretary of State Homer A. Nelson is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. M. Halsted, of the Cincinnati Commercial, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ¥ Sir Patrick Grant, Governor of Jamaica, and lady are staying at the Brevoort House, King Victor Emmanuel is to visit the Vienna Ex- position in the course of this month. Father Hyacinthe celebrated mass in French for the first time, at Geneva, on Sunday, August 17. J. B. O, Drew has bgen appointed United States District Attorney for the Northern district of Florida, Colonel Thomas A. Scott, the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, when last heard from wag in Paris. Mrs. Edwin M. Stanton, widow of the late Secre- tory of War, is seriously ill at her home in German- town, Pa. ‘ Miss Minnie E. Sherman, daughter of General Sherman, has lately beon the guest ef Génerai and Mrs. Post in Vienna. It 1s stated that A. T. Stewart has, in a recent will, bequeathed a million dollars to the National Law School at Washington. Senator Conover has appointed a son of ex- Governor David S. Walker, of Florida, a cadet of the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Ex-Governor Seymour delivers the anuual ad- dress before the Susquehanna Valley Agricultural Society at Unadilla September 12, An African Prince named Jumbo, whose father ts the present King of Bonny, West Coast of Africa, is being educsted at the Middle school, in Liverpool, England, John E, Ashe has retired from the editorship ef the Amsterdam (N. Y.) Democrat, His successor is William J. Kline, of Faltonville, Mr, Ashe leaves the press to engage in other business. Arthur Hardy, a graduate of West Point, and son of Alpheus Hardy, of Boston, has been ap- pointed professor of civil engineering in the scien- tific department of Dartmouth College. Professor William Richardson, @ graduate or Dartmouth College, and recently Superintendent of Schools in Piqua, Ohio, has been elected Presi- dent of the Ohio Female College, at Delaware. “No Croton bugs” would be a good advertise. ment for those who have furnished dwellings or apartments to let. It would have as good an effect as “No cards’ at the end of a marriage notice, Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow, President of the International, Houston and Great Northern rail- roads in Texas, was in Philadeiphia last Sunday, visiting some friends. Texas does not seem to be avery healthy country just at this time for rail- road or any other kind of mea. . ARMY INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 1873, On the recommendation of the Chief of Ordnance the following changes are made in the stations and duties of the officers of that corps:—First Lieuten- ant William 8. Beebe is relieved from the Alle- gheny Arsenal, Pennsylvania, and ordered to the Rock Island Arsenal, lilinois; First Lieutenant Otho E. Michaelis ts relieved from the Watertows (Mass.) Arsenal, and ordered to the Allegheny Arsenal; First Lieutenant Cullen Bryant is re- leved from the Omaha Depot, Nebraska, and or- dered to the Watertown ‘Kessnal, The following named officers of the Corps of Engineers are assigned to duty with the Bir neers batallion at Willett’s Point, N. Y.; Second Lieutenants William H. Bixby, Henry 8. Taber, William J. Thomas N. Bailey. The officers apov uated at the head of the class last June. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. WasHInarTon, Sept. 8, i873. Lieutenant Commander Nicoll Ludiow is orderea to the Monongahela as executive officer ; Lieutenant Harry Knox, Ensigns G. A. Merriam, H. R. Tyler, Leach and Joseph B. Murdock; Midship- ro umuel O. Lunby;_Albert A. Michelson and Waiter O, Cowles, have been ordered to the Monon- ela. Lieutenant BE. F. D, Heald is ordered va he ip ds AY Office; Lieutenant Cyras W. Breed is detached from the Michigan and ordered the Mogouganela. ‘

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