The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1874, Page 4

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From our reports this morning the probabilities | are thal the weather to-day will be clear. Wau Stnezr Yesterpay.—Stocks were moderately active and firm up to the close. Gold closed at 109] Tre Cononrn’s Jury cannot fix the respon- sibility of the late railroad accident in Penn- sylvania. M, street.—PUSS IN | M. The Pennsylvania Convention and the Third Term. In the Pennsylvania Convention there were three distinct declarations on the subject of the third term; and all were not only firmly but emphatically and ener- gotically against it Before the resolu- tions were read a man ‘“‘supposed to be a postmaster” requested the Convention to | declare in general terms its approval of the | national administration and to pledge the | | support of the republicans of Pennsylvania to General Grant ‘in the event of his being a | candidate for o third term."’ This seemed sufficiently guarded. It contemplated the | “third term’’ only as a contingent possibility, and it asked the stanch countrymen of the | Keystone State to make one of those cheap | thought bind nobody, and may readily be quires, But the very subject incensed the mass and | excited an angry and violent opposition, which closed the case against the postmaster by a common impulse of hostility to the topic that postmasters and other office-holdera, But the subject came up again in a way in which it ne- cessarily commanded the attention of the meet- ing as part of its proper programme. In the reg- ular resolutions there is no direct reference to General Grant and no direct allusion to the opinion that Governor Hartrantft is “qualified to adorn’’ the Executive office and would be just what the Convention meant. It hesitated | to pronounce the straightforward words that might sound like an uncalled-for imputation, | and so assumed that Grant at the end of two | terms was necessarily out of the race, and that a candidate was to be chosen from the number of other prominent republicans. In Mr. Beecher in its caution. When that gen- tleman was asked what he thought of some recent statements as to the late scandal pub- lished in a Chicago paper he said he “thought that Jupiter wasa noble god."’ Soin Plu- tarch, when an eminent ancient was asked said, ‘‘Polysperchon is the best general.” Here, now, is all the Long Branch colony from Jones, of Nevada, to Murphy, of any place you collectors of the country wondering and wait- ing to hear what the Pennsylvania republi- cans have to say to Grant tora third term, | and, instead of satisfying this noble curiosity, the Convention answers Hartranft is a good man for '76. .By the adoption of this resolution the Con- vention pronounced distinctly against the enough, itso pronounced by a distinct vote | on the proposition to strike out the reference | to Hartrantt. In favor of the suppression of | this part of the resolutions there were only a | | dozen votes, and all the rest of the body were | in clear sympathy with the thoughts of the | | member who said that “the precedent of | | Washington was the common law of all par- \ | ties.’ Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania repub- licans are entitled to be heard on the subject \ of the third term. Their one hundred and | thirty-seven thousand majority for Grant in | | Gewenat Suzmman discredits the rumor of | 1872 may be regarded as a fair warrant for & battle between General Custer and four | the expression of an opinion. thousand Sioux, and his reasons for disbelief are convincing. Manstaz Bazarve in a letter to the French | government exonerates the officers and pris- | soners of his former jail from complicity in | bis escape, and takes all the credit to himself. He justities bis action on the ground that his | sentence was illegal. Any One in this free country can write for the newspapers over his own name, brt in in an official note. Such a restriction here would be hard on the innumerable Beecher Sonne ponents: ATTA at Cowes supplies the infockiation for an interesting letter from one of our English correspondents to-day. The Ameri y Enc tress has been again aving for the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup, and obliged to retire trom the contest. ys has thus far been un- ° niy a short time ago Gray Planet made the time on ord for a single mile, and now Felloweraft has ran four miles in seven minutes nineteen and a half Tue Rac usually brillia est seconds, surpassing in speed for that dis- tance anyth viously known, even Lex- ington’s gre Waar Means Tus Gnrear Commorroy ?— The British government has warned the news- papers not to print articles signed by persons deprived of civil and political rights. Does this mean John Mitchel, and is there a pos- sible tragedy behind this preliminary comedy ? After a quarter of a century such a warning is absurd, and it would be so regarded anywhere but in England. Germany anv Porro Rico.—An evening con- temporary, speaking of the probable deter mination of the German government to ac- quire a toothold in the West Indi “We feel by no means satisfied » the manner of Mr. Fish’s denials ; and although the present rumor rests on the nncorroborated assertions of a Papist and Carlist journal, yet those assertions are so positive and c cumstantial that in ordinary prudence the people of the United States should at least bear in mind what Porto Rico is and what are our relations to it.’’ Just so. says th Senator Scort knows very well how a poli- tician can ride two horses at once, but he is puzzled to see how two politicians can ride | one horse. This perplexity has been caused by the action of the Pennsylvania Convention in declaring for Hartrauft tor the Presidency after the electoral vote had been pledged to Blaine. How both were to receive the vote of Pennsylvania he could not understand, and “the more be thought of it the more impos- sible it seemed.’’ But suppose that after Hartrantt bas been used asa battering ram against the third term movernent ho is satisfied with the compliment of the Convention? Mr. Scott will then see that Pennsylvania por- featy understands her business, been disabled in the race | And if there is any Northern State where the wirepullers | and great office-holders may be supposed | | capable of controlling party action and of | forcing a political programme in defiance of | the people it is, perhaps, the Keystone State; for the people there depend upon the general | Congress for legislation in their favor, which | they know to be contrary to ‘he interests of | the people of the country at large. They de- | pend upon their party leaders to secure that | legislation, and they have been in the habit | Great Britain this is not a universal privilege, | as the government has reminded the journals | of assuming on national subjects any attitude that their party leaders told them they must assume as the price of continued protection to Pennsylvania industries. But they will protection. todo with it. Will this open the eyes of the President to | the position into which he has been drawn They will have nothing whatever spoils and plunder? for himself, and Pennsylvania has spoken to him in a manner which cannot be misunder- stood. evident when we remember that the American people have never insisted upon a third term, and the bankers, capitalists, manufacturers and business men generally, who are said to desire it, have never given it any support. Of a popular movement to re-elect General Grant there are no indications. If, therefore, he has contemplated the possibility of a renomi- | nation, his sole reliance must have been upon the politicians of his party. Now here is a politicians’ convention, controlled by the leading republicans of Pennsylvania, and it does not hesitate to treat the third | term movement with open contempt. To substiiute Hartranft for Grant is | to coolly dismiss the Jatter from the | | list of possible candidates; it is to assume bis political non-existence at the end of his pres- the politicians shut the door of this mvyention in his face and then bolt it, 1 he look for support? The char- influence of the men who controlled vvention must be remembered in judg- ing of the importance of its action. Mr, Strang, the Speaker of the Senate; Senators Rutan and Cooper, State Treasurer Mackey, Russell Errett, Chairman of the State Central Committee, and Messrs. Kemble, Bingham, Mann and others, are the political masters of Pennsylvania. Senator Cameron, who is the master of most of these politicians, was dlso present, and the course of the Convention is as plainly a proclamation that he will not sup- port Grant for a third term as if he had de- this Cor clared his opposition openly to the world. | The President, therefore, knows precisely where be stands; it ig on the bitak of politi- cal run. For of he should now persist in seeking » | reno on upon any pretence, or if—which awounts to the same thing—he should permit » third term movementto be organized by his | iollowers and dependents, he will concentrate upon bimselt the most terrible opposition. Pennsylvania has virtually notified him that | he must retire. and other States will follow ber and vapid declarations that it is generally | trampled under foot when the occasion re- | seems so sweet and pleasant in the nostrils of | third term; but the Convention declares its | the best imaginable candidate for 1876. Now | Hartranft is not Grant, and that, it seems, is | fact, the Convention is not unlike | which was the better of two flute players, he | please, and here are all the postmasters and | | third term, therefore; but as if this were not | not accept the third term, even as a price for | by an intrigue of mere hungry aspirants for | He has refused to speak | The significance of this utterance is | But if the people do not demand | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. a example. To persist, therefore, would compel the republican party to antagonize him in a way which it has hithertoavoided. Nor is this all. Even the silence which he has main- tained so long upon the question of a third term cannot now be continued without excit- ing still more the suspicions of his party. He cannot, with safety to himself, permit Mosby, Kemper, Gordon, and postmasters generally, to parade him before the country asa candi- date, and we think he is too prudent to allow any one toplace him in such an unpleasant | position as he held at Harrisburg. He surely | cannot wish any more resolutions indorsing | | him in the event of a third term nomination | to be ‘‘voted down with loud shouts of disap- proval."’ Silence is his worst possible policy, | and it was the cause of the rebuke just ad- | ministered to him. Now Pennsylvania has given him a good vpportunity to speak. Long ago he should have acted upon | the advice of the Heraup and have declared | that be would not be a candidate for the | Presidency in 1876; bat it is not too late. An announcement from General Grant to this effect would make the closing years of his administration peaceful and prosperous; it would give him an illustrious place in Ameri- can history; it would free the republican party from its present condition of restraint, and, finally, it would bid the approaching ghost of Cwsar to gather around him his spectral robes and fade again into the dark- ness from which he rose. Butif the President refases to speak these noble words for his own honor and his country’s good he will be- come inevitably a banished man. A new Coriolanus, he will go forth from his repub- | liean Rome to lead against his old friends the democratic Volsces of the West and South. If in such a conflict he should fail the loss would | be irreparable, while if he should win his ruin would be complete. Thou know’st, great son The end of war's uncertain ; but this ts certain, | ‘That if thou conquer Rome, the beneft | Which thou shait thereby reap is such a name Whose repetition will be doga'd with curses, | Whose cnronicie thus writ:—* pe man was Doble, But with his fast aitempt ne wiped it out, Destroyed his country, and his name remains | 'To the ensuing age dbhorred.” | How the Dutch Have Taken Holland. An astonishing change has taken place | within five or six years in the political rela- tions of Philadelphia to Pennsylvania, and an appreciation of it is necessary to @ proper un- derstanding of the Keystone State. When the war closed the two great republican factions of Cameron and Curtin closed for a final struggle, and at that time Philadelphia was a Curtin stronghold, in which General Came- ron’s influence was almost powerless, The strength of the ‘War Governor’ was with the people in times of excitement, and when “grim-visaged war had smoothed his wrinkled front’’ Mr. Curtin found his political influence, like Bob Acres’ cour- | age, ‘oozing out of the tips of his fingers.” General Cameron seized the opportunity to attempt to break down the Curtin combination in Philadelphia, but suc- ceeded only in breaking it up. This was | enougn, however; the combination which | had so long resisted all outside attacks be- came demoralized, and Curtin, himself dis- couraged, was glad to be exiled to Siberia. The Philadelphia politicians shrewdly saw the uselessness of resistance, and General Cam- eron saw the folly of unnecessary war. A | treaty of peace was signed between the con- tending parties, and the strongest opponents | of Cameron then are now his warmest friends, | all the Curtin men rallied around General Cameron—all but Colonel McClure— ‘whose | perate effort in the Greeley canvass to put | Curtin in his old position. Thus, as Napoleon marched into Vienna and took up his quarters at the imperial palace, General Cameron walked into Philadelphia and took equally good rooms at the Girard House. These 1acts put Philadelphia into an entirely new position. Five years ago she was arrayed against the greater portion of the State; now | she domineers over the greater part of the | State. Every annual Republican State Con- | vention has given evidence of her increasing power, and none more emphatically than the last one. The Philadelphia delegation, formal | and informal, went to Harrisburg determined to rule the Convention, and it did so. Its great object was to force the nomination of Paxson as Judge of the Supreme Court, and a bitter struggle took place on this point. According to custom the nomination for Lieutenant Goy- | ernor should have been first made, but if this | had been done the country members, who de- sired Butler, of Chester, for Judge, would have | voted for M. Hall Stanton, of Philadelphia, and | this would have forced the Philadelphians to | At least, | give that gentleman the nomination, | they could hardly have sacrificed one of their | own prominent citizens. But if the Lieuten- | ant Governor had been taken from the city | the country could have successfully demanded the Judge. The Philadelphia politicians, who seemed to have absorbed the smartness which | was once attributed to Philadelphia lawytrs, perceived that the only way to carry Paxson | was to require the nomination for Supreme Judge to be made first, and they carried the | motion to that effect by a majority of thirty, | | after a hard struggle and a good deal of | bad feeling in caucus. Five years ago Philadelphia conld never have forced o | convention to its knees before her. But this triumph conclusively shows that she practi- _ cally rules the State and has the power to dic- tate the republican norninations. This com- plete revolution must be remembered in judg- ing of the future course of the republican party in Pennsylvania, the leadership of | - ; : of | our diplomacy—that important part of our public affairs which is too prone to burrow in | which is now concentrated in the hands of heart was true to Poll,’’ and who made a des- | General Cameron and the Philadelphia politi- | cians. This league is invincible now, and none have better reason to know it than the one hun- dred and eight country delegates who voted against the reversal of the rules upon nomina- tions last Wednesday. We congratulate Phila- delphia upon her supremacy, in the hope that this newly achieved power will be used with wisdom and magnanimity. With a good local | government her influence would be for the good of the whole Commonwealth, Ex-Sexator Toomns, of Georgia, says that | “he hates the government of the United States and would give his life to overthrow | it.’ He had the qghance once to make the attempt, and why oe ad bi ow it ewes Tux Brooxiuyn Bots. believe they have a clew to the murderers of the Italian Torrina, and in any event have discovered a band of countesfeiters. Fishing in Troubled Waters. For o Foreign Secretary who entertains Don Hamilton Fish’s sublime estimate of the fas- tidions respectfulness to official persons and immaculate sense of propriety of men in the diplomatic service of all governments the amiable head of our State Department has had a» great deal to disturb his serenity. Poor Don Quixote’s rough treatment by the knights and princesses he met in his quest of adventures had no more effect in disenchant- ing him of his strange illusions than Don Hamilton Fish’s uncomfortable experience with diplomats has in convincing him that they do not all wear the laced suit of faultless breeding with which his imagination has clothed them. When we recollect that he was stung into exasperation by Catacazy, by Mot- ley, by Sickles, making accusations and in- dulging in quarrels which the world thought more remarkable for passion than dignity, it seems as odd as anything in the adventures of the Knight of La Mancha to find Mr. Fish denouncing the Abbé McMaster as “a damned fool’’ for believing that a per- son in the diplomatic service could possibly violate the nicest official eti- quette. Mr. Fish says that the very print- ers should have detected the absurdity and sent back the article to the editorial room. But what if the same printers had helped set up the Catacazy correspondence and the Mot- ley correspondence, and have got their ideas ot theimproprieties to which diplomats may descend from Mr. Fish's description and trouncing of those unfortanate ministers, one of them European and the other American? Why is it any more improbable from the nature of the diplomatic service that Admiral Polo disapproved the action of his govern- Diplomatic ment in the Virginius affair than General | Sickles, who is known to have differed from his? so long as he held his office, and each resigned to vindicate his patriotism and wash his bands of measures he disapproved. Mr. Fish has unconsciously furnished an argument against himself, like the woodman | fifty feet up in the air who unwittingly slashed his axe into the branch on which he stood and fell with it to the ground. Forif it be impossible that men in high diplomatic positions ever use indecorous language Mr. Fish binds us in strict logic to discredit his own denial. as it would be unbecoming, therefore impossible, for the Secretary of State to have called a public writer ‘a damned fool,”’ it follows on his own principle | that his passionate contradiction of the Abbé | McMaster is apochryphal. Considering that he is a believer in inviolable diplomatio pro- | priety his own practice is as singular as it is laughable. he said of Catacazy and Motley, as well as the epithets he so liberally applies to the Abbé McMaster, were meant in « Pickwickian sense, and he as fully believes in the virtue | and wisdom of all these geutlemen as Don Quixote did that the barber's brass basin was a veritable helmet of pure gold. But we fear the Abbé McMaster will not | consent to receive the Secretary’s language in | a Pickwickian sense. And if not we may e: pecta regular tilt between the two disti guished knights, Don Hamilton Fish on one side and Don Iago McMaster on the other. Compared with such an encounter the Cata- eazy fracas was the contest of a dwarf with a giant. It will be the first encounter in which Don Hamilton Fish has been placed at a dis- advantage. He has so frequently betrayed | symptoms of a sensitive, touchy, punctilious | nature that the Don Iago McMaster possesses the invaluable secret of knowing just where he | can wound him. A man ina public station, exposed to constant criticism, always makes a mistake when by wincing he discloses his sore spots. Don Hamilton Fish could not bear the criticism of Catacazy, so got him recalled from the country. In like manner he re- moved Motley trom his mission and compelled Sickles to resign. But over the Abbé McMas- ter he has no such power. The Abbé will remain in the country, with the advantage of speaking weekly through a journal which Mr. Fish has lifted into universal notice by show- ing how deeply he can be annoyed by it. The Abbé's European connections will put | him in possession of many secrets whose pub- lication will sting and exasperate the Secretary of State, who will bo compelled to endure from McMaster much heavier blows than those which he found intolerable from Cata- | eazy. Secretary Fish has suddenly made the | Freeman's Journal one of the conspicuous news- papers of the country. Until this tournament is over it will be more read and quoted trom | on toreign affairs than any other in the coun- try. A hundred active minds in Europe will be glad to furnish and surmises, and the Mr. Fish’s diplomatic tapestry to be fully exposed. Catacazy’s under- hand contributions to one or two Ameri- | can newspapers were as nothing to what the Abbé McMaster will be able to furnish, with a perfect security, which Catacazy did not — enjoy, from Mr. Fish’s vengeance. So let the country, tired of boat races and horse races, prepare for a new spectacle. Be- tween the contestants in this arena our sym- pathies will go entirely with Don Hamilton Fish, if it can be proved that he is a vigilant, and the strenuous asserter of American supremacy on this Continent and its islands. But we have also a courteons greeting for the other contestant, for it is always well to have secrecy—bronght into the light and thoroughly | sifted; and it the European interests which make the Abbé McMaster their confidant shall put us on the track of any new informa- tion the country will owe them its gratitude. So let the fight go on and all bystanders insist on “an open field and fair play.”’ Is Ir Consistency?—The third resolution of the Pennsylvania republican platform de- clares that ‘the movement for the formation of the new constitution was made and carried to completion under its anspices.’’ ‘Its’’ refers to no noun, but no doubt the repub- lican party is meant. But did the Convention forget how the republicans in Philadelphia tried to defeat the constitution, and how the | Mayor declined to be ‘‘put in a hole,” when the attempt to ‘“‘count it out” was made by aundry unknown persons? hardly consigtent with this record. Each was bound to obey instructions Inasmuch | and is | But doubtless all the harsh things | it with hints | wrong side of | is sure | The boast is | Experiments im Military Acronsautics. An expensive experiment, partly under gov- ernment auspices, was recently made in Eng- land to test an invention for steering balloons, The acknowledged importance of the balloon in military operations enlisted the interest of the War Office, and Mr. Coxwell, the veteran a@ronaut, accompanied the inventor, Mr. Bowdler, in his experimental ascensions. The contrivance to be tested was very simple, consisting of two.screw propellers, similar to those of a steamship, worked by hand and fixed on a frame attached to the car of the balloon. At the outset the great disproportion -be- tween the enormous airship, carrying, when inflated, sixty thousand feet of gus, and the tiny steering gear, only three feet in diameter, hardly possible that a propeller so small could at all affect the motions of the huge balloon, But the result proved that, while tho mechani- cal proportions were inadequate, the principle of the invention was correct, Under suitable conditions it was found that one of the propellers used by Mr. Bowdler to elevate or depress the balloon was quite effective, epa- bling the aéronauts to lift their -ship by revolving the fan. The other propeller used to steer to the right or loft, and thus give a the balloon, which disappointed the hopes of the designer. In this particular experiment the latter failure may have been due to the insufficiency of surface presented by the fan intended to guide the aégrostat from town to town. If s0, the failure is only apparent, and it would be an easy thing to construct another adjusted to the dimensions of the airship. The repre- | sentative of the government, participating in the experiment of which we speak, expresses the belicf that a fan capable of driving the same balloon eight miles an hour and requir- ing four or six men to work it could be easily made. That an apparatus useful in guiding aéro- nautic ascents, and giving the adventurer greater control over his machine than he now has, we doubt not will be designed. Tissan- dier and Fonvielle, the experienced French air travellers, thought as much. But, with all | others who know the practical difficulties of atrial navigation, they contend that no steer- ing apparatus can be made controlling amd the terrible winds that traverse the higher atmosphere. In one instance they rose from the Paris gas works and in thirty-five minutes were roughly landed at Neuilly St. Front, a distance of forty-eight miles, propelled at the rate of ninoty miles an hour. The only suc- cessful method of steering balloons would, therefore, appear to be that of elovating or | depressing them by some such apparatus as Mr. Bowdler's, so as to bring them succes- | sively, as occassion demands, into the high- speed upper currents or the gentler and more navigable surface currents of air. That any- thing more than this can be effected by me- \ | | | | | \ | | violence.the hurricane is mild and merciiul. The late experiments in military aéronautics, { which Mr. Bowdler’s are the most promis- ing, are not encouraging to the military en- | | gineer, who has ‘hoped to see constructed a | balloon which would obey ber helm and take him safely from point to point, above the | | clouds, at his option. { Tae Bartix or Esrerna.—The most im- | | portant battle yet fought between the Carlists and the republicans was undoubtedly that of Estella, at which General Concha was killed, and the full and picturesque letter which we publish to-day ‘will be read ‘with unusual interest. While we think our correspondent has exaggerated the significance of this victory to the Carlists, there is no question about the value of his | | analysis of the situation and his explanation of the reasons upon which Don Carlos bases | his faith in ultimate success. At the time he wrote the intention of Germany and the other great Powers to recognize the Republic was unknown, but their action has changed the entire aspect of Spanish affairs. Its effect is | not yet seen in the field, but soon will be, | The government Europe recognizes she will | i eet i Bee Mary, Pomznoy's Punznat, ‘The painfal | story of the last sad tribute to the” “memory of | poor Mary Pomeroy is told in our columns to-day. buried. The funeral sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Tunison, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is remarkable not only for its tender- \ ness, but for the bold indignation with which he alluded to the seducer of the unhappy young woman. Strong words only can describe such a heartless crime as public opinion attributes to the Rev. Mr. Glenden- ning, bat stronger language than Mr. Tuni- | which is to be held at Jersey City on Satur- day evening. That community is thoroughly aroused, and it is proper that it should give | such expression t to its feelings. | Tue Enciusu isu TURP. —The full details of the | London correspondent to-day. In the race for practice. But three horses ran, two of whom | belonged to the same owner, while the third was a cripple. ily on the faster of tho two horses; but Mr. Savile, the owner, just before starting, an- nounced officially his intention to win with | the slow one. odds laid against her, naively observes that this was justifiable, as the mare ‘might have broken her leg or a blood vessel," in which case Mr. Savile would should be « warning to those who have not read in the Bible that “tho race is not always to the swift.” Cana anv Jaran.—-Is it possible that the change in the Chinese policy with regard to | Formosa is due to intrigues among the foreign embassies? Russia wants an island in the East, just as Germany desires one in the West. ‘The Czar might become an excellent mediator for China and Japan, especially in his own behalf. Still everything ought to continue all right 6o long as Minister Bingham remains at | his post. He isa great and good man who never hacked a cherry tree, told’a lie or took stock in (he Crédit Mobilier, suggested the doubt of success. It seemed | definite course, failed to affect the motions of | chanical ingenuity seems incredible, and the | aégronaut must be prepared to become tho | sport of aérial elements compared with whose | A pathetic incident was the baptism | of the infant on the day the mother was : son could use on such asolemn occasion will | probably be heard at the indignation meeting | races at Brighton and Lewes are given by our | ‘ the Brighton Cup there w: | unflinching supporter of the Monroe doctrine | 8 he ahinhaeleae er? le The public naturally bet heav- , Of course he had accepted the | Our correspondent | have lost; but on any theory the clever trick | Political Conventions, The season of political conventions ang active campaigning follows close upon the summer fashionable season attthe seaside and the springs. ‘This year, as the will be applied to the Presidential prospect, we are promised lively times in most of our coming State elections, The democrats and conservatives of Tennessee held their State Convention at Nashville on Wednesday, and from tho reports received it appears that ex- President Johnson was not considered the right. kind of timber for an old line democratic Gov- ernor. However, as the democrats have sure possession of the State, they can do as they please in reference to Mr. Johnson, Tha Massachusetts republicans will hold their State Convention on the 7th of October, and then we shall doubtless have a statement from. General Butler of his case, Hoe has not yed settled his accounts with the fastidious Puri- tans. In Nebraska the liquor prohibitionists will hold their State Convention on the 2d of September, the republicans on the 8th, the independents on the 9th and the democrats on | the 10th, Coming in last, it is supposed that the democrats are manquvring for a coalition \ with the independents or grangers against the ' rapublicans, and they may get it. The New York Republican State Convention will be held at Utica on the 28d of September, when it is expected that from Senator Conkling and Senator Fenton the pipe of peace will be passed around to the liberal republicana, But General Cochrane and his convention will have a word or two to say upon this proposed coalition, and the efforts of the republicans te carry it throngh may signally fail. In Louisiana the republicans have held | their convention; but the terrible row therein | between Kellogg and Pinchback promises a good opening for the democrats in the State election. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ee Brooklyn has no mercy tor Jersey City. ‘The Spanish government wants 1,000,000 carve ridges. Judge E. E. Williams, of Australia, is at the Bre- voort House. Commander B, P. Smith, United States Navy, le at tne Irving House, Major Cocks, of the British Army, is quartered at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. Edwin L. Stanton, of Washington, is stop ping at the Gilsey House. Admiral J. R. Tucker, of the Peruvian Navy, is registered at the New York Hotel, Captato E. R, Moodle, of the steamship Bothata, has quarters at the Brevoort House. Ex-Senator Alexander G. Cattell, of New Jersey, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Zebulon B. Vance, of North Caro- lina, ts residing at the Brevoort House. Mr, Lawrence Barrett, the actor, arrived from Boston yesterday at tre New York Hotel, Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermont, is among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Fredenck W. Seward, formerly Assistant | Secretary 01 State, is sojourning at the Brevoort | House. Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of the Atlantio | and Great, Western Railway Company, ia at the St. Nicholas Hotel. | Generai B. R, Cowen, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, ariived from Wasuington yesterday at | the Hoffman Hou-e, The clergyman of the Church of England who so brutally assaulted his sister has been found guilty of “irritation of the brain.’ If those despatches prove to be genuine tt foe lows that Mr. Fish wili have called Admiral Polo “a d—d fool.’ This is dreadtul. Secretary Robeson, who has been spending hia vacation with his family at Rye Beach, arrived im this city yesterday, and is at the Fi/th Avenue | Hotel. General Cowan, Assistant Secretary of the Inte- rior, ig absent from Washington on a trip to North- ern New York, and will not return until three or four days. | Temple Bar, in London, now has to be propped | Up: so it will be formaily taken away from its present position, where it is an obstruction to \ tramc, and re-erected as an entrance to the new ! law courts near by. ‘The Pension of the Benchers of Gray’s Inn, ap- | potnted to investigate the case of Dr. Kenealy, vailed upon him for his defence; bat he declined | to appear, and leit the Benchers to “act as their | own sense of honor, right and justice may dic- tate,? ; Grant is charged with saying in one of his mes- | sages that the United States nave no disposition vo interfere with Spain in ‘her colonial posses- sions on this Continent," whicn ts kindly, consid- ering that “on this Continent’ Spain do.s not own @ square inch of territory. Sixty thousand dollars reward {s offered by the French Minister of Agriculture “or the discovery | of an eficactous and economichl means of destroy- ing the phylloxera or of preventing {ts ravages.’” ! This, it will oe remembered, ts the insect that ts devastating the Frencn vineyards. [tis reported by the funuy correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazete that at the Brussels conference General Von Voigts Rhetz, the German representa tive, proposed the avolition of navies; and sir Alexander Horsford, in response to an inquiry as to how England woold view sach @ proposition, sald that she would probably propose in turn the abolition of standing armies, , Baron Jomint thought Sir Alexander could not be serious, and Sir Alexander said he could if he tried, THE PRESIDENT TO VISIT NEW ENO LAND, BOSTON, August 20, 1874 President Grant will be the guest of the Rew Dr. Tiffany, at Oak Biutts, where he 1s expected on Tuesday next. The President will not visit the White Moune | tains. THE DUEL IN VIRGINIA. John 8. Mosby and Cap Captain Payne About to Fight—Arrest of Their Seconds. WARRENTON, August 20, 1874. On suspicion of 4n intention to fight a duel, Judge Keith, of the Circuit Court, to-day ordered the arrest of General W. H. Payne, Captain A. Oy Payne, Judge Thomas Smith, James Barbour and Colone! Jonn S, Mosby. General Payne, Barbour and Smith were arrested, Captain Payne an@ Colonei Mosby were not in town, and it 1s believed that if they can effect a meeting without interfer- ence of the police they wili fight. A DISLINGUISHED SUICLDE. A Brother of General Burnside Hangs Himself. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., AUgUSt 20, 1874 H. M, Burnside, a brother of General A. E, Bucos side, committed suicide by hanging himself, dur- ing ® temporary fit of insanity, at Fairland, Ind, to-uay. “A TRAGIO A AMOUR. Seduction and Suicide of a Young Lady in Good Society in Indianapolis—Her Betrayer Shot by Her Father. INDIANAPOLIS, Lnd., August 20, 1874. George C, Harding, editor and proprietor of the Indianapolis Herald, shot Sol, Moritz, a prom- inent Hebrew merchant of this city, this afternoon, for the seduction of his daughter, who was avout eighteen years otage. The young lady toniessed last evening to her father the fact of her dishonor, and afterward ttempted to commit suiciae by taking opium, and iis rif posed that she to-day renewed the dose, as sue ‘tea ‘at three o'clock this afternoon. Morits is severely Wounded, but may recover, Harding & eid under $10,000 balls