The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1873, Page 6

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PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE ILLINOIS BAR ON THE QUALIFICATIONS AND CANDIDATES FOR THE VACANT CHIEF JUSTICESHIP—Fourta PaGE. MASTARDLY ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL E. a McCOUK! SHOT BY A BANKER AT A PUBLIC MEETING IN DAKOTA—SevENTH Pace. QN INTRANSIGENTE SORTIE FROM CARTAGENA (8PaIN) REPULSED! REPUBLICAN AND CARLIST ARMY STRENGTH! WAR MUNI- TIONS FOR THE CARLISTS LANDED ON THE COAST OF BISCAY! RAILWAY DIS- ASTRBR—SEVENTH PAGE, @ARTAGENA’S SIEGE HISTORY, FROM A HERALD CORRESPONDENT’S DIARY! CONTRERAS IN DISGRACE! A STERN COM- MODORE! THE PETROLEURS AT WORK! EXCITING SCENES—FovurTH PagE. WHE ERIE RAILWAY PRESIDENT TO BE HONORED BY THE CITY OF LONDON— THE GERMAN EVACUATION OF FRANCE— SEVENTH PAGE. RNATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE SESSION BELGIUM! ARBITRATION AND THE ‘ASHINGTON TREATY DISCUSSED—Szv- ENTH PaGB. GREAT HAVOC OF THE VINE DISEASE IN POR- TUGAL—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— SEVENTH PAGE. SPLENDID CONTINUATION OF THE BOATING CARNIVAL AT SARATOGA! KEATOR VIC- TOR IN THE SINGLE-SCULL RACE! THE TORONTO ARGDNAUTS SCORE ANOTHER VICTORY! THE FOUR-OARED STRUGGLE WON BY THE DUQUESNES—TuIRD Pace. BAVAGES OF “YELLOW JACK” IN LOUISIANA— SEVENTH PaGE. UST AS EVERY ONE EXPECTED! TRE PRO- FESSORS’ BIG BALLOON AGAIN “SUF- FERS!” HOW IT WAS DONE—Tuirp Pages. THE WILLIAMSBURG HORROR! MRS. MER- RIGAN IN JAIL CHARGED WITH STRAN- GLING MARGARET HAMILL TO DEATH TENTH Pace. @OW TRE POLARIS MYSTERY MAY BE CLEARED UP! SUGGESTIONS OF A SAVANT! WHERE THE BUDDINGTON PARTY PROBABLY ARE—SEVENTH PAGE. LOWER FREIGHT CHARGES AND THE MOVE- MENT OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE SOIL! THE SENATE COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE CANAL DISTRICT! RAILROAD PROFITS AND POWER—FovrtH Pace. THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH TROUBLES! THE ROW IN THE SULLIVAN STREET BETHEL LIKELY TO EXTEND TO OTHER CHURCHES! A SUIT FOR SLAN- DER—Firtn Pace. FINALE OF THE DONCASTER (ENGLAND) SFP- TEMBER MEETING! UHLAN CARRIES OFF THE CUP—Srventu Pag! EQUINE SPORT IN WeSTCAR 2R 1! LOOKOUT, LADY POWELL, BRO PRINCE AND HATTIE O'NEIL THE VICTORS—Frera PaGE. Ay, Tue New Yorr Livena, Repvupiicans, hay- ing been thrown out of the democratic taber- nacle and having had the door of the ortho- dox republican church closed against them, have resolved to be no longer mere make- weights or hangers-on to either of the old parties, but to take the field for our November election as a new and independent reform or- ganization. To this end their State Central Committee, headed by Genéral John Cochrane, having mét, deliberated and determined what to do, have issued a call for a Liberal State Convention at Elmira, on the 8th day of Octo- ‘ ., NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. The Vacaney im the Supreme Court of the Wnited States—Hew shall It Be Fulead - A No duty pertaining to the office of Chief Magistrate of the Republic requires more grave’and prudent consideration than that of the selection of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. The power and authority of that exalted tribunal are greater than those wielded either by the President or Congress; for the Supreme Court is the recognized and final interpreter of the laws of the nation and of the constitution upon which they are based, and stands virtually in the position of arbiter between the co-ordinate branches of the gov- ernment and the people. Resistance may be offered to the laws of Congress or to the acts of the President .within the limits of loyalty and good citizenship, for the spirit of our government recognizes an appeal from both; but resistance to the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States cannot be made short of revolution. To those deci- sions all our authorities and all individuals must submit, and the right of appeal to that tribunal is justly regarded as the great bul- wark of the liberties of the people. In the most heated political campaigns the momen- tous character of the powers and duties of the high appellate court have been recognized, and but few of the boldest partisans have dared to cast o stain upon its ermine. The most dangerous and incendiary senti- ment ever put forth by a politician was that uttered by Mr. Seward, when he urged the success of the republican candidate, pending Mr. Lincoln’s first elec- tion, on the ground that within their Prosi- dent's four years’ term of office, through an increase of judges and the probable workings of nature, they would doubtless be empowered to so remodel the Supreme Court Bench as to insure the interpretation of the constitution from a republican point of view. Subsequent history has proved that the indiscreet remark was a mere rhetorical flight, for Mr. Lincoln’s nominations to the Supreme Court, aided as they fortunately were by Mr. Seward’s coun- sel, were such as the nation approved and as time has justified. But the mere proclama- tion of such a doctrine was alarming enough. The masses of the people have never lost sight of the wisdom of pre- serving the purity and efficiency of this important tribunal, and, however intensely political feeling may have been excited ina campaign, no party has been found reckless enough to openly assail or threaten inter- ference with the judicial arm of the govern- ment. , Our respect for law, our conservative readiness to acquiesce in the decisions of the court of final resort, is the safety valve of the political engine which whirls us along with such reckless velocity. In this we differ from the spasmodic republics and communes of the Old World. The nation is powerful, and the permanency of our form of government is assured so long as we bow as a people to the supremacy of the law and yield a loyal obedience to its decrees. A special Providence seems hitherto to have watched over us and to have kept pure and undefiled this fountain-head of our republican institutions. There have been times when the public mind has been shaken by the fear that partisanship was about to lay its polluting touch upon the yet unsullied ermine; but happily the danger has passed away, and the honor of the Supreme Court has remained unimpaired. It may be that the overshadowing sense of the heavy responsibility attached toa seat on the Supreme Court bench, united with the knowl- edge that the office is life-lasting and re- moved from the ordinary vicissitudes’ of public positions, has a tendency to arouse conservative sentiments, to alfty passions and prejudices, and to clear and strengthen the judgment. At all events, it is certain that through all administrations this high tribunal has retained the confidence and respect of the people. Mr. Lincoln’s appointments were watched with jealousy, and not without some apprehension; yet, as we have said, they. were happily such as a calm, impartial judg- ment could approve. Even the pure and able Chief Justice whom death has recently removed, was regarded by many as unfitted, by his strong political opinions, for the position to which he was assigned, although his judicial action speedily dispelled that‘ error. His decisions have not only been distinguished for their clearness, breadth and legal keenness, but have been remarkable for their display of political indifference. In the famous legal tender cases Chief Justice Chase did not hestitate to pronounce a judgment adverse to the views and the policy that he had himself maintained@ so stoutly in his former position as Secretary of the Treasury. In the well- known Milligan case, in which Milligan, a member of a secret political society, who had been tried before a military tribunal for an alleged offence committed within the State of Indiana and convicted, appealed to the Su- preme Court of the United States, Chief Jus- tice Chase decided that no citizen could be tried before a military tribunal in a State not in rebellion. This decision settled the Vallan- digham case and all others of 4 similar character, and puta stop to the attempt to sup- plant the civil by military courts. Yet as a poli- tician and a member of the Cabinet, Secretary Chase had again and again maintained and justified the use of the war power, which, as an impartial judge, he denied and destroyed. As a proof of the impartiality of his judgment, in a case argued at the same term of the Court with the Milligan case, e parte Garland, we find the Chief Justice sustaining the con- stitutionality of another political measure— the iron-clad oath. In this case, Garland, lawyer, refused to take the oath on admission to practice at the Bar. The majority of the. Court, in an opinion delivered by Justice Field, pronounced the enforcement of the oath unconstitutional; but Chief Justice Chase ber. They have selected Elmira because No pent-up Utica contracts their powers, and because they wish to bo free from the contagious influences of the republican and democratic conventions. Very good. Too Jong have the liberals hidden their light unde™ bushel Let them bring it forth and illumi- nate the State, for light is still wanted, even in reference to our city affairs, and there is every- where a broad field open for a new and enter- Prising party on reform. No Starz Coxvewriox for the Iowa demo- ate this year. It wan't pay. opinion. We cite these cases only as striking instances to prove the priceless value of up- rightness, impartiality and ability on the Bench of the highest tribunal in the nation, and to show how dangerous would be the elevation of a mere politician to a posi- tion where so many temptations are offered to prejudice and passion. Better a corrupt Con- gress or an unscrupulous Exccutive than a polluted judiciary. The lamented death of Judge Chase has left a vacancy in the Chief Justiceship, and the Henatp commenced some time ago to direct public attention to the importance of the united with three other judges in a dissenting + siderations involved in the selection of his successor. Ip order to afford our readers an opportunity to learn the opinions of well known lawyers and others ow the subject we obtained and published the views of several prominent citizens in the form of interviews with our reporters, and thus presented a wide field of information, embracing all shades of political sentiment, for the study of the sdmin- istration. With the broad area of the whole United States spread out before him, and with his choice untrammelled, we had hoped that President Grant would have been enabled to call to the position, before this time, some’ distinguished man—distinguished, not for po- litical skill, but for his unblemished ‘character and superior attainments—whose appointment would have commanded the approval of all good citizens. This hope has been disap- pointed; the vacancy still exists, and there are rumors that the politicians are anxious that it shall continue to exist and that no selection shall be announced by the President until the next Congress assembles. There can be no worthy object in this delay. It can be desired only for one of two things—to afford an oppor- tunity for political barter, or in order that some personal consideration may be gratified in the appointment which it is expedient to keep from the knowledge of the country until the confirmation of the Senate shall be secured. The points involved in this move- ment of the politicians are thoroughly under- stood by thepeople. Ifthe President appoints the Chief Justice at once the choice he makes will be known nearly three months before Congress meets, and public sentiment can demand its confirmation or rejection by the Senate. If the appointment is withheld until the Senate is in session it can be sent in to that body and confirmed before public senti- ment can be heard against it or in its favor. The pretence in justification of delay has been that it would be unfair to make public an ap- pointment which might be rejected by the Senate ; but the choice of the President for such an office should be one which the Senate, despite its indifference to popular sentiment, would not dare to reject. Whenever the vacancy may be filled it will be unfortunate for the nation and fatal to the administration if it should be found that either political or personal considerations have influenced the choice. It was a shock to the public mind when appointments were made to the Supreme Court for aspecial object of the financial interests; it would be a still, greater shock if the Chief Justice, who pre- sides over the Senate in case of the impeach- ment of the Executive, should be a man noto- riously selected by the President on personal or political grounds. We cannot believe that such will be the case; but while the public mind is keenly and sensitively alive to the threatening approach of Oesarism it would be dangerous to arouse the suspicions that must inevitably attach to'a purely personal or political selection for the presiding head of the High Court of Impeachment. President Grant, with his conservative views and his nice appreciation of official in- tegrity, must well know the importance of keeping the head of the judiciary above sus- Ppicion, The Chief Justice of the United | States has no greater power or authority than his associate justices, except inasmuch as he presides over the High Court of Impeachment on the trial of the President of the United States. This, it is true, is an important duty, although so rarely exercised. The world will not soon forget the scenes enacted in tho Senate when Chief Justice Chase presided over the High Court of Impeachment on the trial of Andrew Johnson; when he sat as the bul- wark against partisan rage and insolence, and imparted a character of judicial dignity and fairness to a body which, without his pres- ence, would have been a political bear garden. Except in this one duty, however, as we have said, the Chief Justice has but the same voice anf vote with any other Justice of the Supreme Court. He is not like the Chief Justice of the English Court of Queen’s Bench, for instance,- who possesses some political functions distinct from his judicial functions. Nevertheless, as the presiding head of the Court, he is the representative of its character and dignity, and his selection is more important on that account than the selection of any other of the Justices. The succes- sor of Marshall, Taney and Chase, not only great lawyers, but great publicists, must not be a second rate lawyer or a politician. The highest judicial position in the United States must not be made a post of political barter or a stepping stone for a Cesar. The man who fills it should be one who can impart to it a dignity as distinguished as the honor it confers upon him. A keen, clear-headed and experienced lawyer; ®@ consummate publicist and logician; a man of broad intellect, of cool, impar- tial judgment; even tempered, unexcitable, courteous, firm; one who is free from political prejudices, and whose mind has not been cor- rupted by political favors or embittered by political enmities. Such is the man who may be, who ought to be the successor of Chief Justice Chase, the head of the judicial power of the United States. Will President Grant give the nation such a man, or must the most important office in the Republic—not second even to the Presidency—afford a new and startling evidence that the era of mediocrity in public men is but a prelude to the era of Coesarism ? Yexrow Fever iv tax Sovrn.—The report that the yellow fever had broken ont in Gal- veston is contradicted. The order for quar- antine at Boston is to be revoked; still it is rather hazardous for those Southerners who are now in the North to return to their homes just at this time. Shreveport is suffering from the pestilence, railroad traffic is eus- pended, the telegraph office is closed, all the operators there being sick with the fever, and, in fact, the city is isolated. The month of September is the month in which “Yellow Jack” enjoys his carnival in the South, and it is only when his foe, the other Jack, “Jack Frost,’ comes with his hoary legions that his reign ceases. We therefore advise our Southern friends to tarry a little while longer among us, and await further accounts from those South- ern sections in which the terrible scourge is said to have broken out. Tary Have a ‘Potato-Bue" Panty in Iowa. There is a fine opening for a ‘Croton bug” party in New York. Material to be had in abundance, and guaranteed to out-swarmn the African Opera Bouffe in a Methodist * churen. While the white Christians of Huntington, Long Island, have turned two churches into hostile camps~on the question of the tarring and feathering and the probable murder of Kelsey, it will be well not to burl too heavy @ brick at the colored communicants of the African Methodist Episcopal Bethel church of Sullivan street. The brothren have had trouble, and, according to the bubbling natures of these tawny children of the Land of the Moon, they have let the world know it. They are religious, and it is a com- forting thought that they can proclaim their enthusiastic reliance on the Gospel in tones not to be mistaken for anything but high- pressure Christianity. As with other people religion cost them money. If there had been no filthy lucre necessary, life had been one long hallelujah and glory shout ot blessings to the Lamb. Wherever there is room for money to enter His Satanic Excellency (who is not so “colored” as he is painted) can slip in also. The offerings of the colored faithful of Betnel were kept in an iron safe in the church cellar. This iron safe it was that played Old Harry with the peace of the colored breth- ren. In the nine years past tHere entered its iron jaws $65,562 88. There is no doubt about the way the money went in, but the pious children of Africa are puzzled and con- founded as to how it got out. We have our own opinions aboutit, founded on our belief in the ‘cussedness” of the Old Gentleman who sat there chuckling over the fun he would have when the good people came to’ look after their money. The trustees kept putting money in there and taking money out until all of a sudden the Old Gentleman whispered fo the congregation just to ask the trustees how much of the root of evil they could account for. Then they cast up ac- counts, and could only show expenditures in the sum of $53,730 35. That was a bad day for Bethel. The horrified trustees, eleven in number, rolled up their eyes, swayed their bodies and stretched out their arms in agony, while fifteen hundred accusing spirits glaréd through nearly three thousand blazing optics upon them, and one thousand five hundred hallelujah voices shouted in chorus:—‘“Where’s dem twelf tousan’ dollahs?” The accounts of the church do not seem to have been kept on any very worldly plan, and matters generally became mixed in that par- ticular. Now it must bo admitted that religious colored people have their feelings as well as other folks, and they were resolved to have some satisfaction. Highly colored rumors were circulated, to the effect that, what- ever hand Old Harry had in_ the matter, the trustees had put the money in their pockets. The mystic word **Poko’moke’’ was bandied about; and “dat’s deir policy’ became its echo. What the ter- rible word may really signify we cannot say; but ‘Poke’ is a corruption of pocket, and the remaining syllables would indicate that the whole word meant the pocket of a colored gentleman, whither it might be supposed the money had gone. But we leave this point with the word-splitters, and return to our colored sheep to say that the eleven trustees were brought to trial before an ecclesiastical court holden in the sacred edifice. "There was a full jury of fifteen hundred, male and female, and the pastor presided. Counsel were employed, but to no good purpose that we can see. Although the verdict, when it was reached, was simply a declaration: of the guilt of the prisoners, its spirit may be gathered from the proposition of dn ecstatic brother to “bounce dem out o’ window.” Whitewash was at a discount while the alleged crime was being beaten on the carpet. Weak- minded people would find. fault with the clever manner in which the worthy pastor ruled out everything, applause and all, which supported the accused, but in his own words, when the propriety of his action was questioned by the perspiring counsel for the defenee, he settled the point. He said:—“I'm President in dis church ; if I ain't, jes’ tell me 8o.”” So well supported was this view by the jury,,that it was immediately proposed to “boutice dat lawyer out of de window.” The counse! said something about leaping into his saddle, but omitted to state what he would do next. <A sadder story remains to be told. The trustees be- lieve themselves outraged in character in sums varying from fifteen thousand dollars down- ward, and suits in the Supreme Court for slander are threatened. They have refused, one and all, to “open their heads” to report- ers, and one of them thinks that the fif- teen hundred will be ‘warmed de worst way you ever saw” when all the truth is told. We suppose he means in the next world, if not in this. The moral of the story is thi the Bethelites should never have kept the money in the iron safe in the cellar; for, between Satan, the Trustees and the mystic’ ‘Poko’moke,” it seems to have been all but impossible to keep it there. It would have saved the peace of mind of the colored brethren if they had put it into the bank; for if the bank had burst, as banks will, they could have solaced themselves with thg thought that white men were the swind- lers. They could have chosen several insti- tations within nine years that would have fulfilled these conditions. ‘Tue Assassination or Generar, E. §. McCoox in Yankton, Dakota, on Wednesday evening, by a banker who aspired to the position held by the deceased, is a story that brings us back to a state of things in the Far West which wo wero beginning to hope was buried in the past. The “border ruffian”’ still exists, we see; but the punishment’ in this case should be meted out as promptly as men hasten to disinfect place visited by the cholera. Our special despatches give the particulars of the cowardly affair. The deceased belonged to one of the most respected families in the Union—the “fighting McCooks”—whose manliness, loy- alty and ability have been proved from gener- ation to generation. His untimely end will be deplored wherever in America manhood is worthy the name. ‘Tux Srrvation mw Spam remains without any positive change. There is sieging and sorties, a guerilla Carlist campaign, the grant- ing of military commissions, and the expression of dire resolve for the punishment of maloon- tents. This is all pretty mach as we have had it during ® considerable period of time just peat, The weight of now facts gow to slightly it may be, bat improving, notwith- standing. The army reserves have responded to the government call in large numbers. ‘The men are being equipped for duty. The Madrid Cabinet states that it is able to place three hundred and thirty thousand. effective men in the field. Pity that a country pos- sessing such resources should be so exceed- ingly unhappy in its everyday condition. 5, Forty Thousand Six Hundred Dollars for a Cow. The highest prices for cattle ever obtained in the New World or the Old were brought by the leading specimens of the improved short-horn herd, sold near Utica, in this State, the other day, at auction. We give the list of the choice cows of this lot of choice high bloods in another part of this paper, with their pedigrees and the prices at which they were sold to the highest bidder. The sum of two hundred and sixty odd thousand dollars, paid or to be paid, for fifteen cows appears al. most incredible. But as some of the most noted breeders of fine stock from England and from. all the most famous cattle-raising districts of the United States were the bidders and purchasers at this sale the prices obtained were, doubtless, bond fide, puzzled as practical farmers of the old school may be to account for the outlay of forty thousand six hundred dollars, or of even thirty-five thousand, or twenty-five thousand, or ten thousand for a single cow. But we see that the time has come when fancy cattle bring fancy prices, and that the picture dealers, with their ‘old masters,"’ are no longer to have the monopoly of fancy prices. These high sums obtained for improved stock, however, in encouraging our stock raisers to procure and improvo the choicest breeds, will have a good effect in pro- moting generally the production of the finest cows and the best beef, milk and butter that can be obtained from the choicest stocks and the best attention to this important branch of the necessaries of life. It appears that one of the fortunate cattle raisers, upon one hundred and eleven of his blooded cattle disposed of at this sale, realized a ‘clear profit of one hundred’ and fifty thousand dollars. Here .is an ‘| example which cannot fail to inspire a host of other cattle raisers to go and do like- wise. Here are premiumg worth contending for, and here is a line business for sure profits which cannot be exhausted. Doubt- less the cattle breeders of our State fairs now being held or soon to come on will appreciate the advantages of their position from this Utica sale, and we shall have this season throughout the country finer displays of im- proved stock of all kinds than at any season heretofore. Thirty thousand dollars is con- sidered a fancy price for a blooded horse of the best pedigree; but when a choice cow brings forty thousand six hundred dollars, and at this price is purchased to be carried over to England, our American cattle raisers may well be proud of the high distinction they have won and of the boundless fields they com- mand for producing the finest cattle in the world. Have Jones Avy Ricats Watce Jupces Fext Bounp to Resrzcr? —What is the use of @ jury when we find, ina recent suit for in- juries received in consequence of a railroad accident tried in Massachusetts, the verdicts of three distinct juries in favor of the plain- tiff were set aside by the judges on the ground of excessive damages? On the first trial the jury awarded four thousand dollars damages ; on the second, over five thousand dollars, and on the third nearly seven thousand dollars. The case went tothe Supreme”Oourt on ex- ceptions, but they were overruled, and there- fore the plaintiff will receive the last-named sum.; It is evident that the people of Mas- sachusetts have rights which the railroad com- panies are bound to respect, even if juries have none which the judges feel called upon to acknowledge. Onotzna 1x Evrorz.—Official advices frem British consuls in various sections of France, Rassia, Italy and Germany are to the effect that cholera is on the increase in these coun- tries. We are unwilling to encourage the feel- ing that we are in any danger of a visit from the dreadful scourge. It is very possible that in some portions of the Continent of Europe the plague has of late been making serious ravages. It is quite manifest, how- ever, that what is called Asiatic cholera is now under the control of science. In the great cities there is less danger than in tho country villages, for the reason that the neces- sary appliances are at hand in the one case and not in the other. Wesee no cause for fear, but there is every reason why all needed precautions should be taken. ‘Tue Axsany Journal is of opinion that the "people think ‘five thousand dollays a year quite enough for the average member of Congress."” Average them carefully and their value will be found considerably less. The same paper be- lieves ‘the first duty of the Forty-third Con- gress to be to repeal the Salary law, and there- by bury out of sight a great scandal.” Here is a fine chance for some enthusiastic radical or easy-going democrat to stultify himself if he has taken the back-pay grab, or to glorify himself if he has not, SatMERON AND CastELar.—Salmeron in his address to the Cortes advises the Deputies to give their undivided support to the administra- tion of Sefior Castelar. This is right and proper. Agreed, Salmeron and Castelar may do something for the good of their common country; divided, they could only work mis- chief. The republicans havo a fresh oppor- tunity. Itremains to beseon whether they will be able to turn it to any account. Spain needs a man like Bismarck or Cavour. We do not think that such a man has been found in Castelar., Still, we are willing to wait to see. Tue Croton Bua Pxst.—Our remarks on this domestic pest have attracted the attention of many of our contemporaries, and corre- spondents continue te pour in communica- tions—a sample of which we gave yosterday— on this subject, Woe are glad the public are ; taking an interest in the matter, for an inter- change of experiences in regard to the mode of gotting rid of the nuisance may lead to some practical results which will be of general benefit. PUSS eM Sov A Weerzan Parzn says if the big balloon will only take the democracy on board it can go up without gas, But what will it do for ballast? ~ “Lona Isuann's Sra-Grer Suonw’ Gerrma Very Navoury.—The market for tar and feathers must be going,up on Long Island. Besides the Huntington barbarity wo have accounts of a similar occurrence in the fash- ionable precinct of Glen Cove, where a white woman was involuntarily donned with the Long Island uniform on suspicion of cohabi- tation with a negro. What with prize fights, tarring and feathering, sensation murders, love scrapes, pulpit scandals and other mat tars of the kind, Long Island far outstrips her older and larger sister of Manhattan Island, and will soon be able to bear the palm from every other section of the country of similar extent, for lawlessness and immorality. Verily, the “City of Churches” is backsliding from its former high and virtuous standing. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Major General J. B. Eaton, United States Army, ig at the St. Nicholas, . Major General N. A. Miles, United States Army, is at the Metropolitan. Paymaster D. B, Batione, United States Navy, is at the Hoffman House. Victor Emmanuel has given 1,000 francs towards the erection of a monument to M. Ratazal. Mr. John Lemoine, of the Paris Journal des Débats, is said to have again become a monarchist. State Senators Baker and Winslow and Assem- blyman Weed are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Edmund About thinks the French Academy sia majority made up of “estimable littlenesses.”’ ‘The ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is going to Bou- logne-sur-mer, France, to reside until October. The Rev. Canon Wilson, of Winchester Oathe- dral, England, died on the 224 ult., aged ninety- two years, Mr. Disraeli will deliver his inaugural address as Lord Rector of the Glasgow University about the middle of November. Bismarck will be at the next meeting of the Em- perors of Germany and Austria, whether it occura at Vienna or Salzbarg. Grace Grepnwood’s house in Manitou is said to be nearly completed anda very charming. Whata pity there could not be 9 man or two in it! The Italian prefects are everywhere issuing or- ders forbidding pilgrimages. Melancholy sort of work, both for the prefects and the pilgrims. A Missouri farmer has raised from the same vine two sweet potatoes of the white and red varieties, ‘This in border parlance might be called a regular half breed. . Jules Janin has retired from the Journal des Débats, aiter having for several years only followed the affairs of the theatrical world, being unable to leave his room, Another claimant for the authorship of “Betay and I Are Out” appears out West. It seems that he frightened an old squire’s horse, which ran away and spilled the old man and his wife Betsy from the buggy. Miss Fanny Gray, of Harrison county, Ind., haa gone crazy. Sensational novel reading is the sup- posed cause. The’ presumption is that she was crazy, or “loony,” before she commenced reading the vile trash. A Manchester milliner has obtained £200 dam- ages against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, of England, for injuries caused by a col- lision on their line. Her ‘‘duck of a hat,” the very latest style, was “ruined” by the disaster. ¢ In Ireland, with less than 5,400,000 inhabitants, the two shillings license duty was paid in 18720m 290,796 dogs. The British government will not ob- ject to the continuance of this grievous tale so long as the Treasury is benefited by this tax on a nation of wags. eit Archdeacon Denison believes in the confessional, and thinks, in opposition to the Bishop of Gloucester, England, that “the salt of the Church of England is the Catholic element, which the Reformation secured to its community alone,” and which the Bishop, with his allies, wishes to exterminate. Adeline Louise Maria, Countess of Cardigan, daughter of the late Mr. Spencer and Lady Louise de Horsey, and widow of Ijeutenant General the Ear! of Cardigan, who died March 27, 1868, has been married at the French chapel, Portman square, London, to Antonio Manuelo, Compte de Lan- castre, Envo! Extraordinaire and Ministre Plent- potengiaire en Disponibilité of His Majesty the King of Portugal at the Court of Queen Victoria. Sir Henry Holland, who is now over eighty-five years of age, has started from England on his an- nual tour of two months. This time he goes to Nini-Novgorod. Sir Henry has made eight voyages to the United States and Canada and one to Ja- maica. He has four times travelled over the East; has made three tours to Algeria, two in Russia, and has several times visited Sweden and Norway; yet he says he has never lost a patient by his wanderings. * NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. * WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 1878, Lieutenant Commander Bartlett J. Cromwell has been ordered to the Powhatan as executive ofl- cer; Commander ©, M. Schoonmaker to duty im charge of the Navigation Department, New York Navy Yard; Lieutenant Commander Charles F. Schmitz to the Powhatan; Lieutenant Comman- der George F. F. Wilde to ordnance duty at the Boston Navy Yard; Lieutenant L. G. Palmer to the Naval Observatory; Licutenant Henry W. Lyon to ordnance duty at the Washington Navy Yard; Medicai Director Robert T. Maccoun to duty as member of the Board of Inspectors of Shipa; Commander Henry Erban has been detached from the New York Navy Yard and tothe naval rendezvous at New York and ° ordered jaced on waiting orders; Lieutenant Com! Ritved T. Snell, from navigation duty at the New York Navy Yardand ordered to the command of the Frolic; Lieutenant Uommander James 0. Kane from the Powhatan and placed on waiting orders. The orders of Commander Ralph Chandler have been so far modified that he is to remain on dut till the 31st of December next. Oaptain Cyt Robinson, of the Tenth cavairy, has been from duty in the mounted recruiting service ordered to rejoin his regiment. . Fortress Monnos, Sept. 12, 1873. The United States steamer Worcester, flagship of the North Atlantic squadron, arrived here yester- day from Bermuda. All wel ARMY ORDERS. Wasninatox, Sept. 12, 1873. ‘The Secretary of War to-day issued the following General Orders:—In accordance with the views expressed by the Postmaster General, General Order No. 80, August 1, 1873, from this ofmice, in re- lation to sending mail matter by express, is here revoked. Genoral Order No. 7, Headquarters of e Army, Adjutant General's ‘omce, Washington, January -%. 70, 18 oad so amended as to re- quire ail oficial commun! ications, such as bi endorsements. &c.. to be signed or authentical in the manner therein prescribed for vouchers, &c., with the pen, and not by stamps, fac-similes, ac. j OBITUARY. Prince Charles Esterhazy. A telegram from Vienna, dated in the Austrian capital yesterday, reports that Princo Charles Esterhazy, the eminent Austrian statesman, has committed suicide. The causes which impeied him to the commission of the dreadful act are not stated, nor are we as yet informed of the circnm- stances Which attended the melancholy death of & hitherto promising scion of a noble house, A Pleasant Time at Greenfield and @ Gush of Brotherly Love. * SPRINOVIELD, Mass., Sept. 12, 1678. Several hundred citizens of Greenfield cated upon Governor Washburn at his home last evening to congratulate him upon his renomination. 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