The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1873, Page 8

5 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, 273 Volume XXXVIII.. = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, 14th street and 6th ay.— jorme Dax. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vantery ‘Eovantainacey, . BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lire; Its Monn and Bonset. e BROADWAY THEATEE, 728 and 790 Broadway.—Azour own. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts. —Mabaue Ancor’s CaiLp. THEATRE COMIQUB, No. 514 Broad no, TRE COMIQUE, No. 51 Broadway.—Vantery NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Brack Caoox. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadwa: nth atreet.—Barwise’s Cuitp, a ame raison GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third st.—Hauntxp Houses, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th street and Irving place.— Bauurr, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THSATRE,— Tax New Macpauen, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad . corner Thirtieth st.— Sain Fane, Atternoon and evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st— Rir Vaw Winacs. GERMANIA THEATRE, léth street and 34 avenue.— mR Prauaen VON KIRCcHYELD. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner ixth ave—NxGnO MinstRELsY, ACs . TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanistr Enteetarnmxnt, Matinee at 235. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Bomgo anv JULIET. kd Re is . ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth Manionxrres, Matinee at 3 STEINWAY HALL, 4th st., between 3d ay. and Irving plaee,—PRestiDiGiTATION. street.—Tux Rovar HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— Gan Francisco MinstreLs. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 3d ay, between 634 and 64th sts, Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘way.—ScieNce any Ant. DR, KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scizncr anv Arr. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE POLITICAL REFORMERS IN THE AP- PROACHING ELECTION! A FEW WORDS OF ADVICE TO THE PEOPLE”—LEADING* ARTICLE—EIGHTH PacE.' THE INSURGENT FRIGATES UN THE WAY FROM ALICANTE TO CARTAGENA! SERI- OUS LOSS OF LIFE! PROBABLE SUR- RENDER OF CARTAGENA! CARLIST: DIs- ORGANIZATION—NINTH PAGE. CUBAN INSURGENT ATTACK UPON A RAIL- WAY TRAIN! A BLOCKADE RUNNER IN SIGHT—Nintn Pace. FINANCIAL FAILURES IN LONDON AND HAM- BURG! MORE EXPECTED! SPECIE SHIP- MENTS—THE PANIC IN AMERICA—NINTH PaGE. 4 CHOLERA-SMITTEN VESSEL AT LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND—THE NEW LORD MAYUK OF LONDON—IRELAND AND THE FENIANS— ANOTHER OCEAN CABLE BREAK—PERE HYACINTHE LEAVES THE CHURCH—NiNTH Pace. THE BRITISA WAR UPON THE ASHANTE STARVING THE BLACKS! AN AMER VESSEL SEIZED—NINTH PAGE. ANOTHER BANK CASHIER USES THE MONEY OF OTHER PEOPLE FOR STOCK-GAM- BLING! ONLY $41,000 THIS TIME! THE BANK CLOSED—Firrit Pace. TARRED HUNTINGTON! STARTLING CRIMI- NATORY EVIDENCE! THE SECRET SES- SION! MORE PEXKJURY—Firra Pace. THE DIRE WORK OF “YELLOW JACK” IN THE SOUTHWEST! AN APPEAL TO THE COUN- TRY FOR AID—Nixtu Pace, 4 BITTER FIGHT IN PROGRESS BETWEEN TOM SCOTT AND JOHN W. GARRETT FOR THE CONTROL OF SOUTHERN TRAFFIC! SCOTT AHEAD! A NEW AND SHORTER ROAD SEVENTH PAGE. FINANCIAL SKIRMISHING! PUOR PROSPECT OF A SERIOUS STRUGGLE! FOREIGN EX- CHANGE! THE BRITISH LION PLACES HIS PAW UPON HIS PRECIOUS BULLION—Szy- ENTH Page. POSSIBLE RESULTS OF THE OPENING OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE T0-DAY! THE STATE OF THE VARIOUS MARKETS YESTERDAY AND BUSINESS DONE—METHODISM—JEW- ISH ATONEMENT—ELEVENTH PAGE. AN EXCELLENT YACHT RACE! TIE W. T. LEE DEFEATS THE BROOKLYN—A NEW- PORT CATBOAT STRUGGLE—SixTH Pace. HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS IN TRAN- SIT—TENNESSEE BRIGANDS—THE NAVAL ACADEMY AND THE POLARIS SEARCHES— SgventH PaGs. PROMINENT YENNSYLVANIA JURISTS ON THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP! LAW BEFORE POL- ITICS—SEVENTH PaGs. AMERICA’S CENTENARY! PLANS AND COST OF THE IMMENSE STRUCTURE—LEGAL NEWS—BROOKLYN AND KINGS COUNTY FRAUDS—TENTH Pace. FRANCE AFTER THE GERMAN EVACUATION! A HERALD “CHIEL” IN THE CHAMPAGNE DISTRICT! FRENCH VIEWS OF THE KAISER AND BISMARCK AND THEIR SOLDIERS! WIDOW CLICQUOT'’S SHRINE— THIRTEENTH PaGE. THE FRENCH LABORING CLASSES INFECTED WITH THE PREVAILING FERVOR OF PIL- GRIMAGES! THE LATEST GREAT RE- LIGIOUS MOVEM ! 3,000,000 FKENCH PILGRIMS—Sixru Pace. CONDUCT AND PROSPECTS OF THE VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN! THEISSUES AND CANDIDATES—Sixtu Pace, Brrrsax Wan News yRroM ree Asnanter Counrry.—A London telegram by cable reports that the latest news from the Ashantee country to the War Office is ‘‘ satisfactory,” The natives are in a state of semi-starvation and shivering through the rainy season. Such is the satisfactory news which is being read this morning at every breakfast table in Lon- don! An American vessel has been seized by the British naval commander on a charge of illicit trade with the Ashantees, and the coast has been declared in a state of blockade. Ex-Governon Wiss 1x tax Two Honses- Act.--It appears that ex-Governor Wise has bean writing too many letters. One has been produced pledging his support to Hughes, the republican candidate, for Governor ot Virginia, and affidavit has been made of another pledging his support to Kemper, the democratic candidate, Of course the vener- able ex-Governor can explain this thing ; but to think of # man at his time of life trying to ride two horses for Governor! Woe are dis- tressed by the ridiculous spectacle, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMB The Political Reformers in the Ap- Preaching Election—A Few Words of Advice to the People. ‘Two years ago the city of New York was thoroughly aroused against the democratic leaders who for some time previously had held control of the municipal government and of the Tammany organization. The arbitrary manner in which these leaders had ruled their party, packing conventions, subsidizing legis- latures, setting their heels upon all who de- clined to become their instruments and be- stowing nominations and patronage only upon those who rendered them homage, had in- censed a very large portion of the rank and file of the democracy against them and had made some powerful leaders their enemies. Their position had been too strongly en- trenched to afford much hope of a successful attack prior to the fall of 1871. The preceding year a vigorous and at one time a promis- ing attempt to overthrow them had been made by the young democracy, but it was eventually defeated through the power ot pat- ronage and money. The struggle was, never- theless, severe, and the bitterness it left behind led to the disasters which finally over- took the Tammany Ring. The exposure of the criminal acts in which.some of its mem- bers had involved themselves in their official capacity, brought about through the dissen- sions in their own household, awoke the tax- payers to a sense of the necessity of a reform in the administration of the. municipal gov- ernment. The people generally were resolved to expel the dishonest public officers from power. The democratic politicians op- posed to the ‘Tammany rulers, or who had been ignored by them, seized the opportunity to advance their own inter- ests. The republicans, numbering less than one-third of the electors of the city, shrewdly recognizing in the disruption of the democracy a chance of securing a share in the municipal spoils, took up, as a party, the ery of reform, and demanded the overthrow of Tammany. They would have been power- less to accomplish anything alone; but, pre- senting the most compact organization out- side Tammany Hall, they drew to them the Apollo Hall leaders and all the disaffected Tammany politicians who had identified them- selves with the previous winter's movement of the young democracy. The independent citizens, who were more anxious to secure honest government than to ad- vance any party interest, were unable to put a ticket of their own into the field through the lack of organization, and were willing to support any candidates whose suc- cess would secure them an escape from the corrupt régime. They met and organized a committee of municipal reform—the famous Committee of Seventy—but the politicians had adroitly managed to gain control of the popu- Jar movement, and the committee was packed with aspirants for office. The press, almost without exception, favored the new de- parture, recognizing the immediate neces- sity of rescuing the city government from dishonest hands. It was no new thing for the Heraxp to be found denouncing the Tammany managers, It had denounced them while they were buying up republican legislatures and sharing their plunder with republican leaders. It had exposed the new Court House job when partisan journals were suborned to cover up the monstrous fraud. The partisan papers now joined in the anti- Tammany raid; the republican organs, because they saw an opportunity tomake more out of the total overthrow of the Tammany democracy in the city than they could hope to realize out of the old rule; the democratic organs, because they feared the consequences of popular indignation. The result was the downfall of the Tammany managers and their expulsion from the positions they held in the city government. In the heat of the excitement attendant upon the disclosures of official corruption the Herap cautioned the people of New York against the danger of electing to office men equally as unscrupulous, if not as bold, as those who were to be displaced; of simply ex- changing one set of politioal adventurers for another. We saw that a number of notorious office-seekers were striving to force themselves into notice by their loud professions of sym- pathy with the reform movement, and that the party nominations were not such as promised any more substantial public benefit than that which would inure from the imme- diate overthrow of the Tweed and Con- nolly rule. They did not hold out a prospect of pure and efficient administration in the future. Two years have now passed away and the result has justified our sus- picions and proved the wisdom of our warn- ing. We have had two State Legislatures elected under the cry of reform, and both have been as corrupt and incompetent as any that have disgraced the State. The members of the Committee of Seventy have mainly secured good offices or profitable jobs growing out of reform. Nota single individual im- plicated in the criminal acts committed under the old city administration has been brought to justice ; scarcely a dollar stolen from the city treasury has been recovered. The reform agitation has been traded on by the politicians at every election, and under its cloak selfish bargains and merce- nary combinations have been made. To-day the city government is distracted, inharmo- nious and inefficient. Our finances are in such confusion that no person can tell in what position the city stands. The Comptroller's office is not entitled to public confidence. The principal employés are the same men who served under Connolly and who were his closest advisers, while some of Tweed's old clerks, discharged from the reformed Depart- ment of Publie Works, have found favor and employment with the Comptroller. With incompetency, obstinacy and narrow-minded- ness at the head of the Finance Department; with accounts all mixed and muddled, and with men educated under the old Tammany régime in charge of the books and papers, the people cannot feel secure against disaster. Onur debt is rapidly increasing, our taxes are heavier than ever, while the public creditors remain unpaid and all works of public im- provement are at a standstill. The compre- hensive plans of the late efficient Dock Com. mission, contemplating @ magnificent system of piers and slips along our entire water front, and all other enterprises which were calcu- lated to increase the commerce of the city and enrich its business men, have been checked. We have a Mayor, first elected by the political reformers and then repudiated and abused by them because he could not be used as they desired to use him, but had plans and objects of his own to carry out. In all quarters the self-styled champions of honest government are squabbling and fighting among themselves. These are the fruits wo have gathered from political reform. Another election is close upon us, and the reform cry is again raised. The Committee of Seventy crops out anew, with a fresh yield of expectant office-holders. The almost for- gotten demand for ‘‘a vigorous prosecution of the Tammany thieves” is revived. The striking reform associations lift up their heads, which since the last election have been buried in beer barrels and whiskey jugs, and the pestiferous breath of political hucksters once more taints the air, The party managers are holding their conventions and naming candidates for whom the people are to be allowed to vote next November, and laying down platforms de- signed to cover up their past rascality by meaningless promises for the future. The republicans have already put into the field a ticket of flat mediocrity, composed of men but little known except among political cliques, and adopted a platform which thunders loudly against legislative corruptions for which republicans are responsible, and against Congressional plunder permitted by a repub- lican Congress. The democrats meet to-mor- row in convention, and will probably imitate the example of the republicans both in the character of their nominations and in their expressions of virtuous indignation against corruptions in which democrats have willingly shared. So far as the State offices are con- -cerned it will matter but little by which party they may happen to be filled. But in the selection ot legislative, judicial and county officers, the people of New York have a deep interest, and they should refuse to be used any longer by the political jugglers who have for the last two years cheated them into the support of dishonest and incompetent can- didates under the false pretence of re- form. Commitfees framed for the pre- tended purpose of securing good nominations are generally frauds. They should be avoided and their action should be unheeded, for the reason that their object is almost invariably to promote personal objects, and not to guard the public interests. The independent voters of the city are the only proper and honest reform committee. They should take no part in either political organization or in any. side show that may be opened by adventurers and speculators in the political cir¢us, Their busi- ness is to scrutinize carefully the character of the candidates for the Senate, the Assembly, the judiciary and the county offices, and to select such as are the most‘unquestionably hopest and competent, no matter by whom they may have been put in nomination. If notoriously improper nominees are put forward by all parties it will require but little money and little exertion in every such dis- trict to run a people’s candidate. Whe suc- cess, two years ago, of candidates who had never been thought of two ar three days before the election proves that this is not an impossible, not even a difficult task where the sound, honest, and inde- pendent voters of a district are resolved upon securing real reform. We commend the suggestion to the consideration of our citizens. Fortwo years they have been defrauded out of their votes by a bogus and fraudulent reform. Now let them distrust and discard all unions and combinations between self-styled ‘‘reform’’ organizations and political parties, for they are only so many rotten trades and bargains, and let them act as their own committee in selecting such can- didates as will give us in reality an honest, efficient and liberal government. The people can trust themselves, and they have common sense enough to act for themselves without the intermeddling of self-constituted commit- tees or political wirepullers. The Par of Exchange Question. The Secretary of the Treasury appears to be intent on abolishing that nominal, absurd and fictitious par of exchange between this country and England, which the English have persist- ently maintained. The difference between the real value of exchange and the nominal ficti- tious quotations is about nine per cent. We say about nine because the rate fluctuates some fractions according to the balance of trade and state of the money market on both sides of the Atlantic. To make it plain to the ordinary reader it is only necessary to say that when United States bonds are quoted in the London market at ninety they are really worth ninety-nine in American gold. It is true financial transactions are adjusted upon the American, coin values, and this is very well understood by bankers and business men generally. Still, to the mass of people who do not understand the matter, such @ fictitious quotation makes it appear that the credit of the United States, as far as its quoted securities go, stands at ninety when it is really at ninety-nine. This anomalous state of things is based upon a very old mode of reck- oning, when the coin of thé two countries had a different relative value. There were other disadvantages, and even some loss to us, by assumed but fictitious par. An act was passed by Congress prescribing the discontinuance of this old working of exchange at the close of the present year. But the Secretary properly says the change might and should be com- menced at once, and recommends some action to reach the desired object as soon as practic- able. Why should not values and the rate of percentage be quoted according to the actual relative value of English and American coin, as they were between that of the coin of other countries and our own? It is time this absurd anomaly should be abolished. We Horr Not.—A report is going the round of the newspapers that ex-President Andrew Johnson had all, or pretty nearly all, his money in the First National Bank of Wash- ington, amounting to some sixty thousand dollars. We hope this is not true, or, if true, that the bank may be able to pay in full when its affairs are adjusted. Whatever may be said of Mr. Johnson, or however much he may have been denounced by the politicians who differed with him, every one will give him credit for being an honest, economical and in- dustrious man. When in office he spurned all offers of gifts, and after a long public life he had but a very small fortune to live upon. It would be hard, indeed, for this little prop- erty to be swept away, We hope the report is Rot true, The Impudence of Buchu “Rip! Flip! Set "Em Up Again!’ One of the natural characteristics of buchu- ism is brazenness. When a quack doctor has failed in one fraud he speedily turns up in another. He does not suffer his light to re- main long hidden under the bushel measure of popular contempt. When it is discovered that his magical pills are made of putty he offers to the public a treacle plaster as a uni- versal remedy. Exposure does not lessen his impudence; his object isto make money out of a gullible people, and he cares nothing for the kicks so long as he secures the coppers. The lawyer in ‘London Assurance’ tempt- ingly invites violence to his person in the anticipation of a suit for assault and battery and its attendant damages. The hide of the buchu professor is of similar toughness. No matter how vigorously he may to-day be lashed as an impostor, to-morrow he covers his stripes with a new coat and coolly requests you to allow yourself to be imposed upon again. It is as impossible to keep him down as it is to knock Punch on the head. He is up again the next minute, piping as pertly and noisily as ever, and prepared to operate on the next victim who may happen to come along. If we could believe that.all people were pru- dent enough to wash their hands of exploded quacks and to have nothing more to do with them or their wares we should not deem it necessary to caution our readers against the impudence of buchu banking. But, unfortu- nately, experience proves that dupes are always to be picked up, no matter how gross may be the imposition. Even the ‘drop pocketbook game” and the ‘‘safe game,’’ although they should be as familiar to every sane man as the light of day, are constantly making their appearance with a crop of new victims, The recent financial complications commenced with the operations of the char- latans who have of late years elbowed them- selves impudently into the front rank of our financial community, and the failures were confined almost exclusively to the buchu banks and to those who learned their lessons of finance in the buchu school. The peo- ple ‘are now invited to reinflate these con- cerns; to give them new power for mis- chief; to revive the financial policy which has led to our present disasters. ‘‘We have | disposed of one batch of customers,” says finan- cial buchuism. ‘Their deposits are already very securely locked up by us. We have sus- pended payment and will settle up those old affairs as soon as convenient, if we are ever able to settle them at all. Now let a new batch come along and trust us with more money, so as to enable us to resume our wonderful opera- tions, Here we are, gentlemen, with » new quack remedy. Try us once more. Give us another chance to gull the dear public. Our famous cure-all plaster has failed; now buy our infallible pills, warranted to restore health and vigor.. Rip! flip! Set us up again!” ‘The impudence of these financial quacks is strikingly illustrated in the disclosure just made by the cashier of the Fourth National Bank. When one of these famous buchu establishments fell to pieces a sympathiz- ing journal uttered a doleful whine over the refusal of the Fourth National Bank to prop up the tottering concern. The cashier now states the reasons for this refusal. He says the buchu bank borrowed one hundred thousand dollars of the Fourth National and did not repay the amount. On the day before its suspension, he farther says, it borrowed one hundred and sixty thousand dollars more to keep buchu afloat. On the follow- ing day the buchu bank did not send ‘a dollar of its mail remittances’’ to the Fourth National, says the cashier, but again came, an impudent and sturdy beggar, to the doors of the latter institution asking for one hundred and fifly thousand dollars more. This was refused ; for ‘‘the question with us,’’ says the cashier, ‘‘was not whether we would loan them one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to carry them through this day—we knew there were a number of such days to come.’’ There is an old play, in which one of the characters is an inveterate borrower. His importunity and effrontery disgust every person, until at last his principal victim, irri- tated beyond endurance, angrily bids him go and hang himself. ‘Send me the price of the rope!” promptly responds the persistent per- secutor, and he obtains the loan. If the cashier could have believed that the last one hundred and fifty thousand dollars would have relieved them of the importunities of the bankrupt buchu concern he would, no doubt, have relented; but he knew the character of buchu too well for that. It is to be hoped that the people will do nothing to assist in a renewal of the system of buchu banking and finance. Mrs, Amanda Brown will no doubt regard with grief and amazement any protest against the new uni- versal remedy offered to the dear public by her favorite professor of buchu ; but the only substantial benefit to be gained from the recent convulsion is the final destruction of quackery and charlatanism in our financial business and a return to sound principles. Now that the balloon of inflation has been pricked it is to be hoped that it will be heard of no more. Now that buchu banking is down in the dirt, where it belongs, it is to be hoped that no one will be foolish enough to assist in setting it on its feet again. If it is done the victims of the future will not receive the sympathy now accorded to the victims of the past. text of a humane and acceptable law which was passed at the last session of Congresa and which goes into effect to-morrow. It seeks to put a stop to the cruel practice of carrying cattle long distances and detaining them on roads for days, shut up in closely packed cars or boats, without food, water or rest. The law provides that when cattle, sheep, swine or other animals are carried from ono State to another ip vessels, boats or cars, where they cannot and do not have proper food, space and opportunity for rest, they shall not be kept inconYitiement for a longer period than twenty-eight hours, including all stoppages and transfers from road to road, at the end of which time they shall be released for five hours for rest, feeding and watering. The expense of food, care and custody is made alien on the animals, and every violation of the law is punishable by a fine of from one to five. hundred dollars, its enforcement being placed in the hands of United States marshals and their deputies. The law will evidently be @ difficult one te carry out, but it is to be ER 30, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Banking— | Roped that the officers will find some way to de¥ect its violation and to rigidly enforce its penaxties. @he Opera Season Began. The season of Italian opera in this city began last night with the production of “La Traviata” at the\Academy of Music, and the re-entrance of Mme. Nilsson in one of the réles in which she is most familiar to us, A full description of the performance will be found elsewhere, It will be seen that the entertain- ment, taken as a whole, was o satisfactory one; that the flaws discoverable were neither numerous nor important enough to detract very greatly from the general sccpe of the merit, and that, therefore, the impresario may not unexaggeratedly be said to have made a strong and honest start. -We are inter- ested in this attempt, not because it is made by one impresario rather than another, and not because of the popularity of certain singers who gppeared, but because any intelli- gent and hearty effort to put Italian opera upon a respectable footing here deserves earnest sup- port. Itis too late in the day to rehearse all the objections which Puritans and formalists allege against opera in general and Italian opera in particular. It were a waste of time to take up these objections one by one and seriously refute them. We prefer not answer- ing a fool according to his folly; and since there are two contradictory scrip- tural injunctions on this head we beg leave to observe that which comes easiest tous. Itis enough to remember that Italian opera .has taken a strong root in the United States, and since we are undoubtedly to have more of it wtth every succeeding year it is better the material should be good and that our fastidious taste should increase. What we now clamor for are operas which are either new or which are so seldom produced here that they have the effect of newness. ‘‘Aida’’ and ‘Lohengrin’ come within this category, and of course Mr. Strakosch is not going to ignore the brilliant intentions vouchsafed in his glow- ing prospectus. Asa matter of course “La Traviata’’ afforded little scope for any judg- ment as to the strength of his company, and while we shall hold him strictly to the condi- tion that a prima donna does not make an Italian opera company, the début of the young baritone Del Puente last night is in the nature of a promise that*he has brought us most ex- cellent artists. ¢ f Produce Them ! For the past month there has been a vast deal of talk at Huntington concerning the money that is to be spent in progressing the ends of justice, and the detective skill that is to be manifested in the apprehension of the parties concerned in the outrage inflicted on Charles C. Kelsey. It is now high time that something should be done and that this puerilo and fatuous palaver should cease. All respectable and humane citizens at Huntington owe it to themselves to associate together and devise the speediest means, at whatever cost and self-sacrifice, of detecting the guilty parties and seeing that due punishment is meted to them. It was hoped that numerous and important facts pointing in this direction would be elicited yesterday, and our corre- spondént at Huntington has sent us as inter- esting a letter as was possible under the circumstances. Buta whole field of valuable facts is necessary, and not a solitary sheaf or two, Itis quite time that legal dillydallying and social seesawing should come to an end. A blot is upon Huntington which nothing but a speedy detection, arrest and punishment of the criminals can wipe out. Tae Preswency or THE Spanish REPUBLIC. —- One of the latest rumors from Spain is to the effect that the Cortes, on reassembling, will proceed to the election of a President of the Republic. Castelar and Salmeron are, for the moment, it is said, the prominent candidates. Would it not be better for the Spaniards to go on as they are, leaving the power in the hands of Castelar, who really is doing well, until the country isin some sense composed and the people united? Castelar has come to the front as the prominent man. In Castelar the republican hope is centred. But, now that Castelar has found his opportunity, Spain must needs raise a new difficulty as to the Presidency of the Republic. The latest tele- grams from Madrid, under date of yesterday evening, go to show that the Carlist cause is dissolving rapidly from sight. The royalists in the north are demoralized in the field and disunited in council. Republicanism is gain- ing daily in the minds of the people. Berga, lately tireatened by the Bourbonists, has been reinforced with government troops and am- munition. Now is the moment for the exer- cise of a vigorous and non-gelfish patriotism in the Spanish capital. Tae New Exporapo—Tus Story Oven- ponz.—A despatch from Denver announces that a certain land purchase from the Ute In- dians, made by one Brunot, on behalf of the government, on the San Juan River (and, as we judge from the cloudy report, in the north- western corner of New Mexico), is said to em- brace 400,000 acres of the richest mineral lands in the world—in gold, silver, copper, lead, iron and coal. One gold mine, rudely worked, is reported as yielding $1,000 a day, and other gold ores are said to yield from $2,000 to $8,000 per ton. Immense veins of iron, copper and coal crop out of the moun- tain sides, and one vein of lead six feet in thickness has been found. So they say. We fear, however, that there is some salting here, that the story is overdone and that the trap Is too clumsily baited to catch the gulls this time. M. Taurens anp tae Lert.—M. Thiers, it is said, since his return home from his summer wanderings, has tnade up his mind to assume the leddership of the Left. This looks bad for the Bourbons, no matter how they succeed in effecting a fusione Bad it cannot but be if M. Gambetta and M. Thiers can work together. M. Thiers may, however, be as much a source of trouble to the Left as he can be to the Right. The tendency in France, for the pres- ent, isin favor of the monarchy. It remains to be seen how far M. Thiers, by leading the Left, can check this tendency. M. Thiers is ® great man, but he has one radical weakness— he worships M. Thiers too much. that the terrible storms of Angust would re- lieve us of our usual heavy September equi- noctials was right, We have not had for many years a milder autumnal equinoctial period than that which is pow passing away. The Reopening of the Stock fixchange, The Stock Exchange reopens to-day, but the panic which for a time threatened to grow into a financial crisis seems sufficiently allayed _ to make the event without danger. Still we must not be over-confident or careless of the real interests of the country. Ouly the same_ cautious and conservative policy, the same * moderation in all things pertaining to the delicate condition of the market can entirely prevent 4 reaction now. If the young brokers go down to Wall street to-day deter- mined to rush into speculation without considering whether they are acting wisely or unwisely they may do harm which they do not intend Insane specula- tion may readily give birth to another panic at the very moment the real danger of the panic has passed away. This must be avoided. It is due from the business men of Wall street to the people of the country that calm judgment and cool and considerate coun- sels shall prevail. This is a day of prepara- tion for business rather than a day of business. We hear of an occasional. flurry in distant cities, and the speculators in the street are only too apt to catch up idle stories and. magnify them into events of genuine significance. These speculators must be carefully watched, and the great good of the great public be guarded against their insidious attacks upon public and private credit. Indeed, there ought to be nothing like speculation at this time—no gambling in gold or stocks so as to imperil the general good. The people look to the members of the Stock Exchange this day for Wisdom in counsel and calmness and consid- eration in action. If the reputable men in Wall street expect to prosper they can only do- so by promoting the prosperity of the whole country. Moderation and co-operation, at the reopening of the Board, as in the midst of the panic, must be the watchwords of husinesa men of ali kin ds. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge A. C, Parks, of Missouri, is at the Grane Central Hotel, Judge Charles Tarner, of Alabama, is at the West- moreland Hotel. General S. K, Marvin, of Albany, is staying at the New York Hotel. Duke Nerden-Henn, of Austria, is among the late arrivafs at the Windsor. Ex-Congressman F, E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, ° is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General George L, Hartsuff, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Lieutenant Commander William C. Wise, of the United States Navy, 1s registered at the Hoffman House, Rev. George Putnam, D. D., pastor of the First Religious Sdciety, in Roxbury, for forty-three years, has tendered his resignation on account of impaired health, Mr. Alfred Walton, of the London Masons’ Soci- ety, has been selected tobe the workingmen’s and trade’ societies’ candidate for Parliament in the borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, England. M. Thiers is at Ouchy, in Switzerland. The suit of the city of Paris against him for the cost of cer- tain improvements to some unoccupied land in the Municipality owned by the “Littie Dictator,” is now being tried. Mr. Charles J. MacDermott, the Prince of Cool- avin, is dead, in Ireland. He is known from hig association with Daniel O'Connell. All through his iife the people of his clan paid him deference as their chieftain. Mr. Thomas Brassey, M. P., who was at this port last tall with his large steam yacht Eothen, has passed an examination before the Marine Board of the Port of London, and obtained his ‘certificate aa a master in the mercantile marine. Mr. Brassey ts the first amatear sailor who nas received the cer- tificate. Archbishop Manning, at a banquet after a recent church dedication in London, closed a speech with, “I hope, aad I think 1 may reasonably be- lieve, that the life of the Holy Father prolonged thus long bas been prolonged for a purpose, and that he will not see hia rest until he has seen the dayspring of returning peace and the triumph of the Church,’? Pascal Grousset, Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Paris Commune, has resumed, in New Caledonia, his trade of agitation. He recently organized a strike among the exiled Communists, who are employed tn a factory at Numbo, of which Assi, who was notorious in France as an organizer of strikes, is the manager. Assi, however, caught Grousset advising the maicontents, arrested him, and the Governor of the penal settlement pat am end to the pleasant life of leisure he had enjoyed since his arrival in New Caledonia, “Every one to his trade’ is a trite adage, and it has, it seems, been fully exemplified durjng the past ten or tweive years in two prominent /amilies in this country, the fighting McCooks and the office- holding Washburns, as will be seen by the foilow- ing lists :—~ Inthe army. In Office, Major Dante! McOook, Sr. Elihu B. Washburn, Col. George W. McVook. Cadwal'der U, Washbura, Gen. Edwin L. McCook. William B. Washburn, Gen. Rovert L. McCook. Peter T. Wasabura, Gen. Daniel McCook, Jr. Isracl Washburn, Gen, A. McD, McCook, W. D. Washburn. Capt. John McCook. Henry D. Washburn. Charles McCook. Charles A, Washburn, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Tae Atheneum announces that Mr. H. M. Stan- ley’s new book, entitled “My Kalulu; Prince, King, Slave: a Story from Central Africa,” is to be pub- lished immediately. A YouNG Garman savant, Dr. Strack, at present at St. Petersburg,-has been charged by the Russian government to collate the valuabie manuscripts of the Old Testament preserved in the library of that city. He has the intention of photographing and publishing, with annotations, the most interesting one of those documents, Tur Pal Mali Gazette praises Mr. E. D. Fenton's new book, ‘‘Eve’s Daughters,” asa very clever and very lively production. A WORK FULL of interesting personal details has appeared at Florerice, from the pen of General La Marmora, under the title ‘of “A Little More Light on the Events of 1866” I¢ gives not only the author’s own part in the war in which Italy hom- bled Austria, but also. many singular revelations as to Prussian and Austrian politics of the period. Mr. JoHN CORDY JEAFFRESON 18 Correcting for the press @ new novel, which will have for its titia the name of its heroine, “Lottie Darling.” Tue ENGLisHh Diatect SOcIBTY will print @ glossary of Hampshire words, by the late Sir Frederick Madden; ® glossary of Swaledale words, by Captain Harland, of Reeth, and glossary of Nidderdale words, by Mr. 0, G. Robinson, Much progress has been made with the glossaries of Devonshire, of Essex, of Shropshire and of the Isle of Wight. ‘Tue ENGLISH JOURNALS are still quarreling over their crack school at Eton. It seems that the insti tution has become frightiully expensive, and, be- sides, that. it opens its doors only to the sons of rich men. It is a bad school even for rich men’s sons. Tae Journal de Bruxelles asserts that in 1848,, when there were 40,000 lay teachers in France, M. Thiers said of them, in the National Assembly :— “They are 40,000 priests of atheism and socialism.’? Mr. McDONALD, President of the National Miners® Association, is preparing a history of English, Scotch and Welsh coal miners, which will contain @ mass of curious information reiating to the iegis- jation in England with regard to coal mines and coal miners, A CurtosiTy in shorthand writing is shown at the Vienna Exhibition by Herr Scnreider, Professer of Stenography at Vienna, It consists of the whole iad of Homer, written in so small a space as to be enclosed 12 & Butsh¢lle