The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD —+ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR oo All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor Henarp. een | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. BOOTH'S THEATRE, sree RE a closes ‘at 1030'P. doh eo Cami ais P Mes closes at 10308, ed 5 std'Miss K. Rogers Randoiph. Woop’s MUSEUM, corner of Thirtieth street—DICK WHIT- GTON AND HIS CAT. at 2 P. M.; closes at 4. M. PROUD OF NEW YORK, at 8 P. M.; closes . Louts Aldrich and Miss Sophie Miles. NIBLO'S GARDEN, rince and Houston streets — amie as at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Joseph Wheelock and Miss Henrietta Irving. THEATRE COMIQUE, ‘Wo. S14 Brosdway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes.at 10:30 ?.M. MPIC THEATRE, No, O04 Broadway VARIETY, at 8 P. M,; closes at 1070 P.M. Tony Pastor's troap . LOBE THEATRE, Mo. 18 Broadway ~VARIETY, at P. M.; clowee at 10 PM. OPOLITAN THEATRE, Bo. meanedtin Palace Cancan Dancers, at8 P. M. A R's OPERA HOUSE, Bowery. <TiRETY EXTEDTAINMENT, ats Pp. M.; closes at 10:50 P. M. | ROBINSON HALL, det n Broadway and ~ Pema’ Migetrehy’ ato Pat cloves at Sixteenth stree: ‘The Caucan, ai 0:0P. M. TERRACE GARDEN. Opera ana Concert, at8 P. M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ninth street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAB’ CON. CERT, até P.M. , closes at 10:30 P.M. roaawa: 1 Thicy tith street LONDON BY : corner ol x =I 5 Br ‘Open trom WAM. thi dusk. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Monday, August 10, 1874. THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To NewspraLERs aND THE PrBiic:— The New York Henarp will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M, for the purpose of supplying the Suspar Hunatp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hznaxp office as early as possible, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear, with Aigher barometer. Durmoeumsep Pzprsrauxs.—We publish in our news columns an account of an inter- esting pedestrian trip made by two of Presi- dent Grant’s sons, accompanied by two young friends. These gentlemen found the pleasure to be derived from this kind of amusement much greater than they had hoped for. It ‘would be a great advantage to the young men of America if they could be induced to spend 8 portion of their summer vacations in ram- bles through their own country. Their health would be benefited and they would learn that this country possesses many beau- ‘ties well worthy of attention. American TraveL In Encuaxp.—Our Lon- don correspondent furnishes some invaluable hints to Americans desiring to see the pleas- aut side ot outdoor English life. How sweet and pleasant that life is may be guessed from the graphic sketch furnished by our corre- spondent. The bustle and ceaseless activity of London life, the whirl of society as it ruskes on its giddy rounds, are likely to at- tract so strongly the attention of the foreign visitor that he would never expect to find the quiet of a country life combined with the charm of city society within a few miles of the crowded metropolis. And yet it is there i if he will only seek it out. Smauipox iv THE Crry.—We learn that there is an increase in the number of cases of smallpox at present as compared with last summer. There appears no reason whatever for @ positive scare in the public mind, as this dreaded disease is always more or less preva- lent in large cities, and New York has been singularly fortunate in its partial immunity from the scourge. The report, however, should spur our health authorities to a greater degree of vigilance and urge them to adopt immediate, strict measures in regard to vac- tination in those districts which have been Uaitherto overlooked. Over Evrorzan Corresponpence will be found full of interesting gossip about men and events. There is an account of the Prince of ‘Wales’ fancy ball for the benefit of such as NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST J0, 1874,— Den Carlos and the Spsnish Preb- lem=Our Interest im the German Alliance. Onur despatch from Elorrio in Spain, recit- ing the important points of a recent conver- sation between Don Carlos and a Hznaup cor- respondent, is of interest in view of the pres- ent noteworthy attitude of Germany toward the Spanish government, and also in view of the unpleasant possibilities there was reason to anticipate for newspaper correspondents in | that part of the world. Our correspondent has been, in his time, in warmer places than most men care to go in in their cooler moments; but he bas never been in any that seemed less promising for comfort and a safe issue than the country within the Carlist lines, just on the heels of suca an event as the execution of the correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, for that occurrence seemed to be the result of a mot ordre and the beginning of a resentful war on the press, so far as it was within reach. Happily, however, these anticipations were all wrong, and our correspondent was not only warmly welcomed by the putative king, but when he ventured somewhat hardily in the circumstances to express the hope that he might not meet with such an accident as occurred to Captain Schmidt, he received every possible assurance and drew an expres- sion of royal regret at that event. Don Carlos presents cogently his own view of the Spanish problem and seems sanguine of eventual success. He does not attach to the attitude of Germany the importance which it seems to deserve. Indeed, the relations be- tween Berlin and Madrid now suddenly bruited are likely to appear the more impor- tant the more they are understood; and the alliance between the Powers, whatever its conditions and limits, is the most notable event of recent occurrence for Spain, and for France as well, If there are any Frenchmen whose eyes have not been opened by the rude events of the recent war to the difference be- tween the France of our day and the France of other days this diplomatic event will assist to enlighten them ; for they must necessarily be of that order of men which glories in the fine points of national quality and heeds as little as it may those triumphs of open force which it chooses to contemn as the pre-emi- nence of brutality. If war may be called the athletic trial of the nations, diplomacy is essentially their game of whist; and while, with a fair opportunity given, we should naturaily expect just what we have recently seen in Europe—the constant triumph of the most robust race of men on the face of the earth over their physical inferiors—we should, on the other hand, see the giants of middle Europe tangled like lions in the nets of diplomacy if events are to sustain the notion that the French are better men than the Germans on other fields than those of force. In their acute perceptions,.in comprehensions of the operations of others that were almost intui- tive, in their logical habit and their intellec- tual adroitness generally, the French seemed always especially fitted for success in this field, and in this field they have gained great successes. Indeed, the greater part of what are chronicled as the military glories of France were due strictly to the diplomacy that divided and otherwise crippled her enemies. All Germany under one flag never was arrayed upon what island or islands or foreign terri- tory did she given mortgage? And our in- terest is to know whether by such an opera- tion there have arisen any complications in the ownership of territory which, from its proximity to us and from its important rela- tion to our interests, should fall only into our hands from the hands of Spain. Are we to contemplate the possible early advent into the waters of this hemisphere of the most am- bitious and aggressive of all the armed Powers ? l Germany has all that Spain wants, Spain is rich in kind of property that Germany covets and has been curiously peering around the world to find. And this property has nearly lost its value to Spain, but is priceless | toa Power in the position and with the am- | bitions of the new Empire. Germany's most pronounced aspiration now is to cut a figure in the world as a great naval Power. And with her customary prescience she operates at the same time on all the points that are implicated in her scheme. She builds ships, she constructs havens, she mounts dockyards and arsenals and she neg- lects no opportunity to secure points of sup- port for foreign stations or to cultivate and encourage by colonial or other foreign estab- lishments the great commercial enterprises in which may grow up the commercial marine that. is the only sure support of schemes for naval greatness. It is not the fashion of the German government to neglect any of the pos- sible points of advantage to itself that are pre- sented in the complications of its dealings with other Powers; and in treating with Spain for support, the importance of which it is hardly possible to exaggerate, the Germans have not overlooked the Spanish possessions in our neighborhood. All Spanish governments have very loudly declared their indisposition to alienate the remnant of the Spanish possessions in our hemisphere, and the retention of these posses- sions has become with all governments a sort of point of honor—very ridiculous, no doubt, like nearly all the other points of Spanish honor—but very effective against ministerial experiments for putting territory in the mar- ket. But thero are circumstances in which any vigorous government would venture the delicate step of putting a colony or a piece of colonial territory in such a position that in certain contingencies it would pass into other hands. What Spaniard, for in- stance, would weigh colonial possessions against the integrity of Spain itself? Serrano can fairly say that with the Carlist rebellion continued indefinitely and encouraged and as- sisted by France, Spain was menaced with the loss of the Basque provinces, at least, and with 8 chronic civil war that might eventually carry away in addition all the country north of the Ebro. What Spaniard would regard a strip of Cuba given to Germany as too high a price to pay for the moral and material sid which enabled Spain to avert such threatening disintegration of the Spanish soil? If France bad owned Cuba would it not have given it ten times over to have saved Alsace and Lorraine ? It is not impossible that the same train of ideas which led the Emperor of the French to dream of the foundation of dependent em- pire in Mexico may trouble some brains in Berlin; and if it does it is obvious that a solid Nelson, of the New York Book Concern, dilated on the fearful exigency in which the human race was placed by sin. Owing to the vacation season the attendance at the various churches yesterday wes gensteliy stight. The Recent Southern Elections and Their Bearing Upon the Presiden- tial Succession. The general results of the recent elections in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and most notably in North Carolina, indicate an ex- tensive popular reaction against the party in possession of the national government. The same general causes which, from the Ohio election of October last, have been operating in the North to the prejudice of the republi- cans, from the New England to the North- western States inclusive, are evidently at work throughout the South, notwithstanding the apparent diversity of opinions and purposes between the opposition elements of the two sections, The republicans charged their de- feat in Ohio last fall to a short vote, to general apathy in their ranks and to the interposition of such side issues as the temperance question, which carried off the balance of power. To general apathy and the new disturbing faction of the grangers they charged their November losses in the Northwest, and their narrow escape from a complete overthrow in New York to too much confidence in their fifty thousand majority of 1872. The results in all these cases were held by the republicans as of no material importance, inasmuch ss no national candidates or issues were directly involved. In short, 1872 was that “‘off year” in our party politics, the year immediately following the exhausting strain and excitements of the Presidential contest, which, in the resulta of its State elections, signified nothing, because the suc- cessful party of 1872 had nothing to lose or to fear from these elections of 1873, and could therefore well afford to rest a season from their labors. But, the republican organs argued, our reserves, which remained at home in 1873, will be brought out to the Congressional elec- tions’ of 1874, and it will then be made mani- fest that the integrity of the republican party has not been shaken, and that the apparent political reaction of 1873, like that of 1867, really signifies nothing. But the elections, so far, of 1874 teach us a different lesson. From New Hampshire and Connecticut, from Oregon, Kentucky, Tennes- see, Mississippi and North Carolina, we have the suggestive record of republican defeats and opposition successes or of opposition gains and republican losses, Disturbing local divisions and factions are still pleaded as the explanation of these republican reverses; but if these disturbing forces exist from New Hampshire to Oregon and from Oregon to North Carolina, is not the general outlook for the year to the republican party unusually dark and discouraging? The truth is that that spirit of unity, harmony and active co- operation which has heretofore existed be- tween the party and the national administra- tion exists no longer. The objects of the party are no longer the purposes of the administration. The compact between the President and the party entered into in 1868 has expired. The engagements of the party were fulfilled in his election for a second foothold in the Gulf of Mexico, a point from against France until in our own time, when the race of French diplomatists seems to be run out. And what can be thought of the genera- tion of ambassadors that the French Republic- has scattered at the various capitals as its rep- resentatives? As in the war only the German generals seemed to be conscious that such a man as the First Napoleon had ever lived, and seemed alone to have studied his cam- paigns, must it be also acknowledged that only the Germans have comprehended Talley- rand and perceived how to apply his processes to new facts? As there was little left of the French army but the feathers and the gold lace, is there also nothing left of the great French diplomacy but the cookery and the | grimaces ? All this understanding between Germany and Spain has that appearance. French rep- resentatives in Berlin, in Madrid, in Rome and in Washington never smelt out this ne- gotiation, and it has been under all their noses for perhaps six months. France has, moreover, played into the hands of her enemy all that time in her spirit of inexhaustible vanity and self-sufficiency and indifference to the thoughts of others. Her course has been such as to outrage the Madrid government by her assistance.to the Carlists, and yet she has not given such aid to the Carlists as might secure her against the enmity excited at Madrid. She was in @ position to obtain, with the consent and even the applause of Europe, the friendship and close alliance of Spain by easy operations that would have been instructive exercises for herarmy. In- stead of that she drove Spain into the arms of Germany, and she discovers the propriety of treating her neighbor fairly and generously only when that neighbor no longer needs her and has even made terms against her. But what is the condition of our own diplo- macy In regard to this case? What does Mr. take an interest in such matters. The story of the famous attempt to shoot Bismarck is | not quite told yet, and as there are some racy | end amusing incidents connected with that fodlish and criminal attempt our correspond- ents have hastened to let the American public know all about it. Some unpleasant rumors are afloat in London as to the probability of a mew Ashantee war; but it is to be hoped that these are only club canards, manufactured . after dinner. The great questions of suprem- acy and progress in Asia and India are also treated in an instractive manner. Tracy AGITATED BY TRE INTERNATIONALISTS.— The democracy of Italy is becoming uneasy under the influence of the International. There is a popular excitement in Rome, Florence and other cities of the Kingdom. Hight leaders of the International have been arrested in the capital, and other arrests have been made elsewhere. Papers have been seized the contents of which go to prove | windows of the Vatican? Fish know of the terms agreed upon between Germany and Spain? Mr. Bancroft was so fondly loved in Berlin that the Foreign Office | probably had no secrets from him, and Mr. Cushing is such a miracle of astuteness that he has doubtless sent from Madrid the later chapters of the story; so our State De- partment is doubtless in possession of all the | facts, and has even made its protests and ob- | jections where any seemed necessary. It would be very proper for the people to know if any | were necessary and what they were. Our in- terest in the alliance between Germany and Spain can only be second to that of France, for Spain is an American Power. Did the price of Germany's support of Spain involve any territory in this hemisphere ? Months have already passed since we were told somewhat vociferously that Spain had refused to give Germany ‘a mortgage” on | | some of her outlying possessions in the Pacific. | It is very apt to be the case in matters of this sort that the first we hear of great successes is that they are failures. The reported refusal of Spain may be false or true, but it wasa significant scrap of news. It indicated | what sort of collateral or equivalent Germany desired in consideration of ad- | vances of men or money to Spain; and | the species of property being thus pointed out it should at least pique the curiosity of maritime nations to know if Spain did not that the International has been making | great progress of late within the territory of the Italien royalty. King | Victor Emmanuel must become watchful and | a little more attentive to business. He may | soon require the possession of all that quality of vigilance which distinguished his famons ancestor, Humbert of the Hundred Eyes. Why did the Pope show himself to the people on Sunday, the 2ist of June, at one of the which to await near at hand the possibilities of the fature, would be esteemed worth to the German Empire all the force that Spain can possibly need in her present troubles. It is to be hoped that our government knows whether Cubs is in any way involvedin the negotiation between the two Powers; and it cannot need to be told that they are too much interested in that piece of property to be in- different to any ‘‘mortgages’’ that may have been given to Germany. Sunday in the Pulpit. The month of August, it seems, is particu- larly unfavorable for pulpit eloquence. The majority of the regular divines are out of town, and their substitutes are more rhetori- cal than convincing. They are diffuse with- out being at all times logical. But there are exceptions, and these are all the more promi- nent on account of the atmosphere of dulness that surrounds them. In our résumé of ser- mons published to-day many interesting par- ticulars may be found. The life of the Be- deemer seems to be a favorite topic. Dr. Deems, in the Church of the Strangers, speaks of the raison d'étre of Christianity on logical and moral grounds, and refers liberally to the work and acts and words of the Messiah as set forth in the Bible. Mr. Gallagher, a Jersey divine, dwells eloquently on the char- acter of Christ and objects to the use of the word priest in the religion of the Gospel. Mr. Brigham, of All Souls’ church, goes into an elaborate disquisition on the Saviour and the Divine Spirit. Catholic Brooklyn is repre- sented by the Rev. Eugene Cassidy, who gives a liberal interpretation of the sacrament of baptism, showing that it may be efficacious, either by faith or by martyrdom, withont the actual ceremony being performed. He says that Luther made a terrible mistake in mak- ing the rule of faith the reading of the Bible and the judging for one’s self. The Catholic Church, he maintains, is the only sure anchorage in religion, as may be seen from the doubt and blasphemy that prevail outside her fold at the present day. Dr. Ormiston, in the Fifth Avenue Re- formed church, labors hard with a simile of a broken cistern and a life-giving fountain as applied to the spiritual wants of his hearers.’ He remarks, naively, in regard to music as @ means of praising God, ‘‘Let all sing who can sing, and those who cannot sing let them do the best they can.” Mr. Hartzell, of Con- necticut, ina church up town, shows what elasticity of treatment the text, ‘“Wateh- man, what of the night?’' is susceptible of, illustrating it with the fact that a certain per- son of transcendent genius, nay, electrifying genius, has been’ lately visited with the | blight of death, and that he was stricken down in moment. He con- eludes bis sermon with a qnotation from Tennyson. Dr. Cornell says one good | thing in his sermon to the effect that “the | loud brawler of the market, telling what he | did and said, is very unlike Christ.” Mr. Adams, in Brooklyn, illustrates human help- lessness and divine competency in a forcible manner, referring in one place to the words of | the fond mother, ‘My little Johnny shall be- come the President of the United States,’ | and, again, to the trials and triumph of | @ive a mortgage on the Pacific islands named, Moses, At the Bea Clif Camp meeting Dy. term, and the reciprocal duties of General Grant have been discharged in the completion of the republican programme of Southern reconstruction and restotation. Grant is no longer bound as an agent of the party, aud the party is no longer bound to his administra- tion. But with this release as an agent can Gen- eral Grant rightfully claim the employment of the patronage of his agency in a new de- parture for still another term in opposition to the party from which he holds this agency? Whatever may be the moral law or obligation upon this subject it is sufficient for our pres- ent argument that General Grant considers bis Executive patronage his personal property, and that he has so disposed of it from the nomination of his first Cabinet to this day. Here the trouble begins which threatens the | party electing him; the deadweight of another Tyler or Fillmore or Johnson. Here we reach the solution of our State elections since last October. No reasoning man can doubt that General Grant is aiming for a third term; no man believes that the republican party out- side the intrenched camp of the office-holders desires or expects his nomination as the party candidate for 1876, and no republican feels sure of the continued support of the party by the President in the nomination of any other | man in his place for the succession. Nor since last autumn has General Grant shown any feeling but that of indifference in regard to the results of the State elections. The administration did nothing for the repub- lican ticket last spring in New Hampshire or | Connecticut, and did nothing to save the | party from its recent heavy defeat in North Carolina. On the other hand, in 1872 no stone was left unturned by the administration to carry these States, and they all were car- ried. The conclusion inevitably follows that General Grant now desires to prove to the re- publican party that he is necessary to its suc- cess and upon his own terms, or that he de- | sires a new party in its place and under the | flag of General Grant for a third term. For either of these designs his reticence | upon this third term mystery is working well in the demoralization of the republican party, | and there is no third proposition which will | fit the case. Returning, then, to these recent | Southern elections, their bearing upon the Presidential succession may be readily de- | fined. They do not point to General Grant as the republican candidate; they have not turned upon Grant as the probable opposition candi- date, They point to the overthrow of the re- publican party and the administration. In | short, the opposition argument against the | | sphere in which nature placed her. dominant party is its argument against the continuance of Grant's administration. How, | then, the Southern opposition elements are to | detach the administration from the despotic | acts, usurpations and corruptions of the re- publican party in the nomination of General Grant fora third term we cannot tell. We | see, however, that this difficulty of a third / term is breaking down the republican organi- zation, and that the continued silence of Gen- eral Grant will result, first, in an opposition | majority in the next House of Representatives, and next, perhaps, in another message to the | two houses congratulating them upon the ex- | tinction in our recent elections of those party | lines which have heretofore divided the people and determined in advance the reanlts of our political elections. WITH SUPPLEMENT, Sex in Education. One of the most important questions arising curbstone gang can throttle a hundredtold it number of citizens and compel them to vots out of the struggle after progress which dis- | for unworthy men or throw away their votes.” tinguishes the present age has been how to obtain equality ot education for both sexes. Many of the most di: ed minds have dealt with the subject from opposite points of view and reached conclusions widely differ- ent. The cause’ was not far to seek. The supporters of the existing state of society and those who proposed to discover something bet- ter entered the discussion, not so much as phi- losophers seeking the solution of a difficult problem as advocates and partisans. Each side pleaded its case under the influence of passion or prejudice, and the result was an ever- widening breach between the disputants, while little real light was thrown on the question at issue. On the one hand it is argued that there exist certain well defined differences of organization between the male and female which render it impossible for the woman ever to perform efficiently man’s work. On thé other, the manifest superiority of many women to the mass of men in special fields of intellectual labor is adduced as proof of what all women may achieve when they obtain facilities of education similar to those enjoyed by men. Each of these views deserves attention, but neither deals with the whole truth upon which the value of a decision must rest. Dr. Ed- ward H. Clarke, in his speech at Detroit at the Educational Convention, took this con- troversy out of the field of vague speculation. He dealt with it ably and dispassionately as a purely scientific question capable of solution by laws whose workings are subject to ob- servation and direct examination. This mode of treatment sweeps away effectively the theories of those who teach that woman has a higher mission than that given her by nature. Few men of intelligence will deny that it is desirable to cul- tivate as fplly as possible the intellectual power of women as well as of men. But when this admission has been made the question still remains—How must woman be educated so as best to fulfil her destiny in the social economy? Her first and noblest duty is to the race, and any scheme of intellectual culture which fails to recognize this fact can- not be accepted as tending to the benefit or elevation of mankind. First we must pre- serve the race; afterwards we can elevate it. The weakness of what we may call the woman's emancipation movement has been due to the ignoring of this fundamental law, upon which the very existence of the human race depends. ‘We want cultured womanhood, but with the womanhood not weakened or eliminated by the culture. In both sexes the brain is evolved from the organization and is favorably or un- favorably affected by the normal or abnormal performance of the functions. So much science teaches us, and its lessons cannot be safely ignored. It is quite possible to obtain a high development of a part or parts of the human system at the expense of the remaining parts, but the result is a marked deterioration in the organi- zation. The best results are given when all the faculties are developed in due proportion, and this can only be done by following the laws of our physical conformation. It is evi- dent that for both sexes the same mode of training will not give equally good results. The differences of organization are funda- mental and radical. They cannot be disre- garded without serious injury to those who refuse to submit to the laws imposed by na- tare. They necessitate a difference in educa- tion between the sexes, but do not necessarily prevent women aspiring to the highest cui- ture. But she must do so in accordance with the higher law of being to which every human creature is subject. Brain exercise is good for woman as for man—it not only de- velops the brain but exerts a healthfal and conservative influence on the inferior organs. But in order that it may exert this healthful influence cerebral architecture re- quires that every function and organ of the system shall have appropriate develop- ment. Nature has placed an insurmountable barrier between the sexes, and those levellers who would undo nature's work by turning women into indifferent men are enemies of the human race. Men and women differ most widely in their highest types. The qualities which excite the highest admiration are those which are most distinct, and which could never become common to the sexes under any possible state of society. In view of these facts it might be well for those who seek to | give woman more importance in the world to recognize that her highest intellectual and moral development must take place in the Once she passes beyond the limits laid down in the eternal laws, her usefulness comes to an end. She vacates the honorable position assigned to her in the scheme of humanity. King Caucus, King Caucus is a very powerful potentate, whom nobody likes, but whom everybody en- dures. He is to a very great extent that source of power which is supposed to reside in the people. When a nomination is to be made, whether it be for President of the United States or a town constable, it is the caucus which dictates the nomination. How the caucus came into existence or how it is composed nobody seems to know nor very much to care. Indifferent people take no part in the primary political work of a campaign, and the ‘active’ politicians, of whom there are never more than two or three in each party in the same election district, manipulate matters to suit themselves. It is not difficult to understand that a system based upon the will of a few men among the many sgould be asham, and that its operations, whether in a county, State or national convention, should be very far from expressive of the real will of the people. The caucus system is an irre- sponsible tyranny, which is corrupt as well as arbitrary. All this is admitted even by its friends ; but in the practical workings of oar politics it seems impossible to find anything better. The press occasionally takes up the subject, and while the corruption and wrong , and tyranny of the system are made plain | enough, the way out of the evil does not so clearly appear. Now and then we hear a suggestion which is valuable. For in- stance, the Taunton Gazelle in discussing this subject remarks that ‘it is as easy to register party voters for s primary as for a | regular election, aud the party which first adopts this plan will certainly save itself from the imputation that a grocery store clique or But before any system like this can come into general use the caucus must consent, through county and State conventions organized under the dictation of the caucus, Aud even then we are not sure that the results would ‘be found to differ in any great degree from what they are at present. The indifference of the best men in both parties would still continue, Political expenses would be largely increased, and corruption is always increased by the profuse use of money even for legitimate poe litical ends, There would still be plenty of opportunity for wire-pulling and manipulation, and so we almost despair of King Caucus be- ing near the end of his reign. The Earth Amid the August Meteos Streams. The earth is now rapidly nearing the mare gin of the great August meteor stream which has of late years excited so much astronomic inquiry. On the 10th inst. we approach a belt of meteors which exceed in number and splendor those of the November period, but, unlike the latter, is not directly crossed. The harbinger of tho August stream was seen on the night of the 2d, as @ magnificent meteor of dazzling brilliance, and, no doubt, the present phenomenon will attract much atten- tion, In 1867 one of the most astonishing meteoric displays was connected with the first comet of 1866, and since that time the scien. tific minds of the day have settled down upon the conviction that the comets belong to the meteor systems. The established identity of some cometary orbits snd meteors appears to entitle this to the nity of actual discovery. If this be admitted the August meteors are of surpassing number and beauty. The Novem. ber showers, brilliant as they are, have been associated with a comet of insignificant di- mensions, while those of the present month have been referred to a comet of extraordinary size. The inference drawn by astronomers, therefore, is that during the autumnal display we are passing through a small meteoric sys tem, but in August we verge only on the bore der of a very much larger system and only see its outliers. During the present recurrence of this phenomenon it may prove that the comet lately visible was the nucleus of the August system, and a new clew may be furnished by which to identify the, seemingly different and digconnected wonders, The popular apprehension felt in former ages from the approach of the brighter comets has not been entirely lacking, when it was known the earth was about to intersect tho grent meteoric streams. The enormous size of some aérolites, shot from space into the earth's atmosphere and penetrating occasion- ally to its crust, has invested the meteorio shower with an interest sometimes coupled with alarm. The celestial rocket may be very ene gaging to the eye, but it is not pleasant to think of the blazing mass, sometimes of almost asteroidal size and of several tons weight, within a few miles, falling earthward with a velocity fifty times that of a railway train, There is no doubt, however, that the resistance of our atmosphere develops suffi-, cient heat by friction to fuse and vaporize the shooting star, so that it reaches the earth in a dissipated form. The number of solid aérolites actually striking the earth with violence and peril to man is very small In England only twenty are recorded, and this is a verysmall proportion, considering that every year our planet intersects or grazss more than a hundred of these densely crowded meteor streams. Outof the twenty British aérolites only four fell during the month of August, their descent occurring between the 4th and 9th days. The only cause for apprehension has been the earth's attraction, and it has been supposed this was influential in drawing these flying masses towardus. But astronomers have con- clusively disposed of such a hypothesis, since the solar attraction is proved all-control- ling within the vast domain of the solar sys- tem. The meteoric families sweeping through space in obedience to solar attraction rush by the points where their track is closest to the earth’s orbit as unchecked as the express train by a village station. Asa great astrono- mer tells us, such a meteoric body coming from the stellar depths toward the sun could no more be turned aside by the earth’s attrac- tion than a railway train could be caused to leave the rails by the attraction of a toy mag- net. The forthcoming display of meteoric fire- works may, therefore, be composedly studied, and, it is to be hoped, with new disclosures to our attentive star gazers and scientists. Ovr Commerctan Revarroxs.—According to the annual report on the commercial rela- tions between the United States and foreign nations, which has just been issued, our im- portation and exportation may be considered as in a favorable condition. Canada has benefited considerably by the withdrawal of the Reciprocity Treaty, to judge from the vast business she has been enabled to do with the mother country, and the stupidity of our na- tional legislation still gives the balance of power to England in the commercial carrying trade, Still, the exhibit is not bad for America. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. New England has two average earthquakes @ year. Beecher’s heart is heavy, as his Ledger letter shows. Johuny Green was the feilow who put pussy in the well. Dr. H. M. Wells, United States Navy, 1s regis tered at the New York Hotel. General S. W. Crawford, United States Army, is quartered at the Glenham Hotel. General Thomas L. Rosser, of Minnesota, ts so- Journing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Chief Justice Waite was im the city of Montreal yesterday. He is stopping at St. Albans. Attorney General Stephen H. Phillips, of the Sandwich Islands, is residing at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. B. G. Jayne, formerly Special Agent of the | Treasury Department, is scaying at the Fifth Ave. nue Hotel. Priests are writing to Ireiand to warn emigrants not to come to this country. What shall we do without them ? Edwin James and John Mitchell will run for Par- Hament. Fine opportunities over there. Won't some more of that sort go home ? All the old Bourbons of Naples and Parma and the other places are at Vautercts. So if Carlos does get a country they have only to step over, Who will build @ house higher than the Western Union Telegraph Building, and who wil! moaity the human neck 40 that that house can be comfortably looked av?