The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches. must be addressed New Yous Hgracp. be Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. —-—_—_ LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. PIPTH AVENUE THEATRE. WHAT SHOULD sHE DOF OR, JEALOUSY, at 8 P. u. Miss Fanny Omvenport, Miss Sara Jewett Mr. 0. disher and Mr. James Lewis, BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third sireet and Sixth ayenue.— BELLE LAMAR, ats P. ML; closes at 10:30 P.M. John McCullough and Miss K. Rogers Randolph. NIBLO'S GARDEN, broadway, between Prince and Honston streets.— Tuk BRIDES OF ABYDOS, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:45. M. 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To NewspEaLEEs AND THE Punric:— The New York Heraxp 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 Sunpay Heraxp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hzraun office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear or parily cloudy, Wart Sraeer Yxarerpar.—Stocks opened firm, were strong during the earlier part of the day, went. off slightly in the afternoon, and closed heavy. Gold was steady—109} a 110. Srorrep Tam, declines to remove further north, and desires to make further trouble. If this tail were well pulled it would do the body of the tribe much good. Swepen has recognized the Republic in Spain—another moral obstacle to the progress, of the Carlist insurrection. Vinrvz Exsrs, and we are rejoiced to an- nounce that the chaste icicle still hangs on Diana’s temple. Miss Susan B. Anthony, who is in Rochester, denies that she ever sat on Tilton’s knee. Her denial was hardly needed, for, reckless as Mr. Tilton may be, we are con- fident that this was a liberty he would never have allowed. In a Sevate Dax Exctanp has met with three great calamities—the explosion in a coal mine, near Hanley, Staffordshire; an exten- sive fire at the Southampton Docks, and an- other at Nottingham, by which fivé hundred persons are thrown out of employment. A tourth loss is the emigration of five hundred laborers to Canada. Tue Srcutar Aspuction of a white girl, nine years of age, who had been adopted by Indians, is detailed in our Newport corre- spondence. It is probable that the gentieman who removed the child from the tent in the absence of her guardians was her father or other near relative. If the kidnapper only took what was his own perhaps he will be kinder to little Charlotte in the future. Tux Surr against ex-Assistant Treasurer Butterfield, and his sureties has been decided in their favor by Judge Blatchford. Although in law they were responsible on their bond for the money lost, two or three thousand dol- lars, Judge Blatchford holds that the liability cannot be recovered, because General Butter- field is entitled to a much larger sum from the government which has not yet been paid. Thus ends a case which seems to have been little more than an effort to settle the question whether an officer can extinguish his responsi- bility for loss by deducting the amount from that which is owed to him by the govern- tment. Lower Quarantine is neither unusual nor alarming. Itis like the distant sight of the enemy by o picket guard. The bark Evange- line arrived from Cuba on Sunday, and though ‘heroism o brave sailor may have without . of it He buried the victims with Greeley was an example by which Mr. Tilden own hands, and’ but two men to help | might profitably take warning. So long as -him brought his pica ‘iiter bard labor, ' gifely into port.” Yellow Jack appears every proper precautions, there is no reason he should cause us anv fear, | both. The Appresching State Canvass in New York. has just issued its call for » nominate candidates Yor | cers, bas [betrayed symptoms of conscious party weak- ness which contradict the boasts and vaporing predictions of its newspaper organs. It is the customary tactics of all’ political parties to affect an assurance of triumph, but this kind of swagger has long ceased to have the weight of a feather. The Democratic State Committee have done one thing which bears the seal of sincerity and attests their opinion the doubtful chances of their party. We refer to their open appeal to the handful of liberal republicans to come to their rescue. A party which publicly leans for support on so slender a staff has no real, confidence in its own strength, If the democratic leaders be- lieved the assertions of their journals that their ranks are daily swelled by recruits which render the organization invincible they would never congent to adulterate their organization by an amalgamation with so small a body of voters as the liberal republicans. they now invoke. The votes of this small fac- tion do not amount to more than six or seven thousand in a voting population of between four hundred and five hundred thousand. Last year it happened to hold the balance of power between the two regular parties, and the democracy virtually confess that they are not perceptibly stronger than they were last year by inviting this insignificant faction to come to their rescue. In 1873 the liberal republicans voted for Willers, the democratic candidate’ for Secretary of State, and for Hopkins, the republican candidate for Comptroller, and secured the election of The democratic candidate (Willers), supported by the tiberals, received 341,001 votes, and the democratic candidate (Nichols), opposed by the liberals, received 333,927 votes, a difference of 7,074.due to the liberal vote. So, on the other hand, the republican candidate (Hopkins),' supported by the liberals, received 337,992 votes, and the republican candidate (Thayer), opposed by the liberals, received only $31,128, making a difference of 6,864 due te the liberal vote It thus appears that the liberal | repub- licans coftrolled “last year about seven thousand votes, and the democratic party is this year so doubtful of success that it vir- tually confesses its chances to be staked on the action of this ‘small body of voters. If the republicans had courted them in this public and official.manner they would have been thought to hang outi.a..fag of distress, and would have been so represented in all the democratic organs. The cativass of the New York democracy thus opens with 4 confession which contradicts all their professions of triumphant strength. According to present indications they are likely to perpetrate a blunder in their selection of a ‘candidate to run against Governor Dix. Judge Church, by far their strongest man, is understood to be inflexibly out of the field, which, consider- ing the splendid political future which would open before him if he were to be elected, is a pretty conclusive proof that he has no confi- dence in the success of ‘the party. The very talk about risking the Chief Judgeship of the Court of Appeals is a symptom of weakness, for if the party is strong enough to elect a Governor 1t could also elect. with certainty a new democratic Chief Judge. All of which shows that the democratic professions of con- fidence are bancombe. Judge Church hav- img taken himself peremptorily out of this canvass, it seems to be conceded in dem- oeratic circles that Mr. Samuel J. Tilden will be the democratic nominee for the Governorship. Against Mr. Tilden’s character as a private gentleman there is nothing to be said. He is one of our first citizens and shrewdest busi- ness men, and his standing in the democratic party in the State entitles him tosspire to this or any other honor it can confer. Bnt he should not covet the idle compliment of a nomination which is certain to result in defeat. Agfinst Governor Dix his defeat would be as certain as Horatio Seymour's was from the day he was nominated to run against General Grant. Mr. Tilden ig not popular with the democratic masses, and he never had the slightest hold on popular favor outside of his own.party. Hiszeal against the old Tam- many Ring did no more to make him an idol of the multitude than it did to make his abler and equally upright aesociate, Mr. O’ Conor, suchan idol If Mr. O’Conor were taken as the democratic candidate for Governor everybody sees that, in spite of pre-eminent abilities, spotless purity and the lustre of his private virtues, he would be one of the worst beaten men that ever ran for a public of- fice in this State. His passionate hostility to the old Tammany Ring, which was even more fiery, resolute and disinterested than Mr. Tiiden’s, would not give him a single vote. There are men, whom everybody pronounces estimable so long a8 they keep in their own sphere, who could never be elected to a contested office by a popular vote, and Mr. Tilden belongs as clearly to this class as Mr. O’'Conor, Mr. Tilden has been active in politics ever since the administration of Pres- ident Van Buren, but the only political Member of Assembly two years ago, not by his own party, but by the reformers. After Dean Richmond died at his house Mr. Tilden was made his successor as chairman of the Demo- eractic State Committee, a position of honor and influence, due in part to liberal contribu- tions of money for election expenses and partly to a feeling that the incumbent desired no office for himself, and was, therefore, im- partial and disinterested as between compet- ing candidates. For well understood reasons Dean Richmond would never permit himself Tax Arrxarance oy Yetzow Faven at | to bea candidate for any office, although he if and bloff, was personally very popular, his successor, who lacks his hearty, attractive qualities, runs Governor, he will not estimate of their own strength. Poor Mr. sphere as an editor he ranked qi guided ambition and personal vanity pushed him forward as a candidate for hich office ha The Demecratic; State Committee, which i office to which he was ever elected was that of for only fail of three of the crew died of the yellow fever on | an election, but forfeit the legitimate influence -the voyage there are no indications that the | in the patty which he has for some years * diiease will spread. The straightforward, plain | enjoyed. It is astonishing how often the story of Captain Kinney shows how much | vanity of sable mon seduces them into a false the summer on our Northern coasts; but, with | strongest men of the country, but when mis- | discovered his mistake and died of a broken heart. It by no means follows that because a man is prominent in politics he will ran well for office, Therg ss a certain indofina- ble personal magnetism that markg some men tor popular favorites, but no trace of this is found in the character of Mr, Tilden. Tammany Hall, with its O'Kellys, O’Mor- risseys, and other leaders of the great organ- ization of O's, finds it consistent enough with its interests to favor Mr, Tilden’s aspira- tions. If it cam sueceed in the city it cares little what becomes of the party in the State, and ‘Mr. Tilden is candidate well suited to the exigencies of Tammany Hall, whose sole aim is to get pogsession of the city offices. In theelections of recent years the democracy of the city have been foiled by the so-called reformers, whose favor Mr. Tilden has taken such! great pains to court, What reorganized Tammany, or, as it calls itself, “reformed Tammany,’ fancies that it most needs. isto convince the people of the city ‘thas its professed reform is real, and in this view it: thinks Mr.:Tilden a good card to play by making him the democratic candidate for Governor. ‘It'is'a selfish intrigue of the Tam- ™many organization to recover its lost ascend- ancy in the city with little regard to the in- terests of the party in the State. Mr. Tilden is to be made a cat’s-paw to pall the Tam- many chestnuts out of the fire, and then he will be openly laughed at, as he is now secret- ly derided, by many of his present supporters. If the republicans were to run a weak can- didate the Tammany tactics might be attended with less peril. But to pit Tilden against so popular a man as Dix is preposterous, Two years ago General Dix ran some thousands ahead of the republican Presidential ticket, and was elected by a majority of more than fifty-five thousand. Governor Dix has done no act. to forfeit or weaken the great popu- larity by which he was brought into office. Qur able democratic contemporary, the World, has indeed tried to make political cap- ital against Governor Dix in consequence of his signing the bill giving the Mayor power to make appointments without confirmation by the Aldermen; bat, although the power has been grossly abused by Havemeyer, the ar- raignment will not ‘hold. Previous to the passage of that act Havemeyer had been mak- ing excellent appointments, which the Alder- men rejected, keeping important offices vacant to the detriment of the public service. When Police Commissioner Henry Smith died Mayor Havemeyer’s first appointment to the vacancy was George H. Andrews, whose superior fit- ness and admirable qualifications the World warmly indorsed, although Mr. Andrews has always been @ republican. When he with- drew on finding that the Aldermen would not confirm ‘him another equally good name was sent in, which found just as little favor. This was the state of things sought to be remedied by the act Governor Dix is accused of signing, and he is to be judged by the conduct of the Mayor up to that period. Neither Governor Dix nor anybody else could have foreseen the preposterous uses to which Havemeyer would pervert his power. The views of Governor Dix are sound, and have been admirably ex- pressed on every national question which deeply interests the public mind, and in his admunistration of the State government there is everything to. appgove and nothing for rea- sonable men to,gomplain of. As against such a. candidate as Mr. Tilden his re-election is next'to certain. The Noble Dog-Catcher, or Why is This Thus? Another faithful public servant has gone— out of the business—in s manner which will cause deep regret to everybody excepting his successor. The Hon. Charles F. Mathias has resigned. On Saturday he addressed the fol- lowing letter to Mayor Havemeyer, which His Honor read with surprise, as no similar in- stance had occurred in his personal knowledge since 1789. Mr. Mathias said: — Sir—The severe criticism of the New York press on my being sppotnced @ dog-catcher for tne Twenty-secopd Assembly district causes me to ad- dregs you. I did not accept the appommtment with the intention of creating @ sensation; but neces- sity compelled me to seek some position to make ap honest hving, snd as 1 could find no employ. ment! sought and accepted your appointment with such intention; but seeing that, ag 1 think, [ was sppotnted merely to furnish substafice for the press, {do hereby most respectiully tender my Dog-catchers are not supposed to be men of extreme sensibility, but rather to be stern and cold, like the first Napoleon ; but here is one whose spirit is not, ‘dike the dyer’s hand, subdued to what it works in.’’ Pursuing the unmuzzled dog, Mr. Mathias thinks he has been pursued himsel? by the unmuzzled press, and this is a punishment he cannot bear. But why was he pursued?’ Of his early history we know nothing. We know only that a few days ago Mr. Mathias informed the Mayor that in expectation of getting the appointment of dog-catcher of the Twenty-sec- ond Assembly district he had captured sixty dogs; that he had not received the sppoint- ment; that he could not afford to support these dogs in luxury and idleness, and that unless he was appointed at once he would be obliged to turn them loose upon the public. Then Mr. Mathias added that a number of these dogs already showed symptoms of hydropho- bia. With great presonce of mind the Mayor commissioned him at once. These were the facts upon which the press commented with a severity which we did not approve and in which we had no share. Such solicitude for the public good only the heartless or the ma- lignant could censure. We honored Mr. Ma- thias and resolved to beware of his dogs. Bat we wish to say to the Hon. Mr. Mathias that he is entirely too sensitive, and that as a public man his action is almost with- out precedent. Public men who would sue- ceed must not mind the severe criticism of the New York press, and they don’t, Bid they did, then there would be mo public men. Everybody wonld be & private citizen, Look at General Butler— spoons. Look st Mr. Williams—landau- let. Look at Mr. Murphy—Custom House. ‘These are gentlemen who have beon severely criticised by the New York press, Yet they never resign, dhoagh Tay ateekaad “Then there is Mr. Beecher. Let Mr. Mathias look upon this eminent clergyman and consider what he has to endure, Has Mr. Mathias been accused of adultery, of lying, of perfidy and hypocrisy? There are Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton, gentlemen whom the New York press has severely criticised for black- mailing, perjury and conspiracy. Then we have Miss Susan B. Anthony, who has been accused of one of the most awful offences known ontaide of the dacaloana and how NEW £0KK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, calmly she bears itt Did any one ever accuse Mr. Mathias of sitting down in Theodore Til- ton's lap? ‘Wehope not’ He is a dog- catcher, it is true, yet no one can say he is Uietly destitute of moral principles, Jf Yheve examples aré hot enough let Mr. Mathias raise his eyes higher and behold the President himself, Who has been more savagely attacked than General Grant? Usurpation, greed, ignorance and nepotism are only some of the offences with which he has been charged, and even we have been constrained to speak of him asa possible Cesar. Yet the President does not resign. The delicate sentiment of a dog-catcher does not appear to prevail in Washington, and that is fortunate, for if it did the country would be left without a gov- ernment, We therefore assure the Hon. Mr. Mathias that he has been altogether too sensitive to the criticism of the press, and that if he keeps on in this way he will never rise. He must learn, as other statesmen have done, to bear such wrongs with patience and to assume & -proud superiority to all that news- papers may say. Let him read them in private, and pretend ignorance of their con- tents in ‘public. Above all, let him never again resign if fortune should give him an opportunity. As it is, he has introduced a dangerous innovation in public life, and even. Mr. Havemeyer must have shuddered when he read his letter, and saw what s terri- ble example the dog-catcher had set the Mayor. The Withdrawal of Judge Church from the Canvass. It is to be regretted that Judge Church de- clines being a candidate on the democratic ticket this year for Governor of the State of New York. With such a nominee on the democratic side and with Governor Dix on the republican side the people would have been assured of a high-toned, honorable State ad- ministration on whichever political banner victory might alight. The evident decay of the,republican party in other States and the blunders made in our city government under the name of reform have created, the belief that the democracy would, in all probability, carry New York in November by a small ma- jority. But this opinion has been modified | by the provision that, to secure such a result, the democratic nominations must not only be of unquestionable character, but must be such as to give assurance of the determination of the party to cast off its old sits and take a new departure. Judge Church isa standard bearer whose name would have been a guarantee of good faith in the professed desire of the new leaders to purify the party. There are, no doubt, other honorable and worthy men in the democratic ranks who would dis- charge the duties of Chief Executive of the State with satisfaction to the people and credit to themselves; but they would not be available candidates at this time. Judge Allen is a respectable citizen ot fair ability. Mr. Beach is a good lawyer and a ie man, except in localities where the lack River Canal claims are understood. Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, who is said to be Mr. John O' Kelly’s candidate, is also a fair lawyer and has been s very successful railroad specu- lator. Mr, John Ganson occupies o similar position. But we do not think that any per- sop who. possesses a knowledge of State poli- tics will pretend that either of these gentle- men would stand a chance of election, not- withstanding the undoubted respectability of their characters. ‘The mixed and singular general election of 1872 left the successful republican party with two victories on their hands; the one in the State and the other in the city of New York. The, first was won by General Dix, whose record had already been written in the history of his country, and whose political principles are well defined. The city was carried by a politician of a past age, who had been Isid on the shelf and forgotten for ao quarter of a century or thereabouts, and of whom very little was known except that in days long gone by, when the city was an overgrown village, he had acted as its Mayor without discredit, if not with any marked ability. In the State leader the republican party found a statesman in earnest sympathy with its principles. In the city chief it accepted a man for availability who was an acknowledged democrat, while willing to receive office at the hands of any party or combination. The result might have been anticipated. The State has been creditably governed by Governor Dix; the corruption of the Legislature has received from him a wholesome check ; his nominations to office have been of a character to win popular ap- proval, and his entire official course has been marked by a sense of the dignity and respon- sibility of his high position, and by a simple desire to discharge his public duties in ac- cordance with his official oath. On the other hand, the government of the city has been inefficient and disreputable. The appoint- tents made by Mayor Havemeyer have been dictated by personal motives, without regard to the interests of the city. Dilapi- dated old chums, obscure individuals, whose names were never heard before in decent society; broken-down political hacks and men of questionable antecedents have been promoted by Mr. Haventeyer to offices of responsibility in the municipal gov- ernment. The Mayor’s course has been one of bargaining and deception from first to last. The city haa been plunged deeper and deeper into debt, taxation has increased, public ‘works have been paralyzed, and the ‘“‘reform” administration, after less than two years’ trial, has already been dragged into the Grand Jury room, tried and convicted in a court of justice, and bids fair to end in the Penitentiary. Now, the people do not fail to draw a proper distinction between the State and city gov- ernments, and while they admit that reform in the city under Havemeyer and his mixed followers has been a deplorable and disgrace- fal failure they know that republican govern- ment in the State under John A. Dix has been “honorable and successful. They have not been disappointed in the straightforward hon- esty of the man whose ringing words sounded the keynote of the nation’s victory over re- bellion:—‘If any one hauls down the American flog, shoot him on the spot!” ‘They have found in Governor Dix the same earnestness of purpose he displayed in those dark hours of the nation’s history, and they know that his administration has Dix again in nomination, they will feel dis- posed to try the experiment of » return to Tammany tactics in the State government. ~ The Negro Question in the Sowth> Out Monigomery (Ala.) Perabo whose letter we elsewhere publish, does the Henawp no more-than justice in crediting it with friendly sentiments to the South and a zealous wish to promote the tranquillity and prosperity of that great section of our common country. Whether the Southern whites owe any gratitude to the negroes for their peaceful demeanor during the civil war is a minor question of what we may call sentimental politics ; it may be decided either way with- out impairing the strength of the Hznaip’s main position in the article our correspondent criticises, We incline to a slighting estimate of all sorts of sentimental politica, Our correspondent concedes that our practical ad- vice to Southern white men was ‘‘in the main excellent,” We are pleased with a Southern indorsement of the only part of the article on which we laid any stress, which was a recom- mendation to facilitate the scquisition of property, and especially landed property, by edlored citizens, and thus give them # com- mon interest with the great body of South- ern taxpayers, If the most energetic and thrifty portion of the negroes were to become property holders not only might their votes be relied on for the protection of property against exorbitant taxation, but their influence would be considerable in influencing the votes of their less thrifty colored neighbors. Besides the nataral weight which belongs to character and intelligence the colored owners of property would hold an ascendancy over the inferior negroes of their acqaintance by the loans, credit or other assistance which the poor crave of thé prosperous, and which embarrassed negroes would be most likely to apply for to people of their own race. The abundance of the recent cotton crops attests [ the industry of the blacks, and their frugality is proved by the amount of money in the freedmen’s savings banks. As soon as there is a large body of negro freshoiders in the South the political prospect will brighten. Both a sense of interest as taxpayers and the pride of belonging to the property owning class will array the well-to-do negroes on the side of economy in the State governments. As our Southern correspondent docs not im- pugn this part of our advice we are willing he should shold any opinion he pleases re- specting the conduct of the negroes during the civil war. If be denies that. they have any claim to Southern gratitude he must st least admit that’ their submissive industry during that trying period-and since is a proper subject of congratulation, It has agreeably falsified volumes of the most appalling Southern pre- dictions. President Buchanan was not, in- deed, a Southerner, but at the time of his last ennual message he was very much under Southern influence. He said in that mes- sage:—‘Many a matfon throughout the South retires at night in dread of what may befall herself and her children before the morning.” The war followed six months afterward, and there is no record of these apprehended dan- gers coming to any Southern matron, although her natural protectors were drawn away to the army and she was left to the mercy of her slaves, Mr. Calhoun predicted that slavery could not be subverted ‘without drenching the country in blood and extirpating one or the other of the races;’’ and on another occa- sion he said that to ‘destroy slavery ‘‘was to involve a whole region in slaughter, carnage and desolation.” Mr. Olay was equally emphatic. He predicted, as the conse- quence of abolition, that ‘a’ contest would inevitably ensue between the two races—civil war, carnage, pillage, con- flagration, devastation and the ultimate exter- mination or expulsion of the blacks. Noth- ing is more certain.'' This was the general strain of Southern warnings on this subject; but, unfortunate as the results of emancipation have proved in some respects, they have fallen infinitely short of these hideous pictures. Tho Southern people have abundant reason to con- gratulate themselves that the reality is so much more favorable than those confident Southern prophecies, If it be conceded that no grati- tude is due to the negroes for keeping so quiet it must at least be admitted that Southern statesmen formed an unjust estimate of the reckless atrocity of their character. And as those foreboding anxieties are proved by events to have been exaggerated let us indulge the hope that present fears will be found equally chimerical. If the federal government had let the negroes alone after their emancipation there would have been no trouble. A war of races in the South would be the surest means of perpetuating Northern influence over the freedmen. We therefore counsel patience, forbearance and humanity. Axormer Revo.urion has failed in St. Do- mingo, and the Republic is said to be tranquil. Caution Acarnst a Rumorep Swixpiz.— We have been informed, on apparently good authority, that supposed agents of a sheet called The House Gazette, which pretends to be a “board directory and hotel register,” represent their paper as being included in the regular edition of the Henatp, and as thereby possessing advantages as an advertising medium which it would not otherwise have. If any paper in existence makes such a repre- sentation as this it is a singularly bold and open swindle, designed to obtain money under false pretences, and we cannot understand why anybody should be deceived by it. The Herat offers very great advantages to adver- tisers, but all who wish to reap these advan- tages ought to know that the only way to do this is to advertise in the Heraup. The idea that the Henaup would farm out a part of its patronage is simply preposterous. Any intel- ligent person ought to know that it would be impossible to obtain the benefit of the Henaty's circulation ata low rate by doing business with a paper that pretends to any such arrangement with this journal. Tue War or Races is still threatened at the South, and ex-Governor Vance, of North Carolina, believes that the President is not displeased with the prospects of more dis- turbance. ‘This is a serious accusation, for even the Presidency could not compensate for a neglect to suppress the dangers of another conflict in the South. An interview with Gov- ernor Vanco in this city is published to-day, with the details of the Ridge Spring uprising been one of which they may justly be proud, | and the views of a Southerner upon the course It is not likely. therefore. that with Governor | sha whites are likalv to adovf, Disagreement of Political Docters, Our contemporary, the Commercial Advertiser, and that doughty champion of the straight the Albany Argus, are at loggers. ene ian ot anti-democratic administrations. The Com mercial Advertiser having pronounced the Oré- dit Mobilier and Sanborn job the ‘cheapest kind of petit larceny in comparison with the stupendous swindling of the democratic gov- ernment officers of 1836 and 1837,” the Argus retorts on the venerable New York organ by charging upon it the most prominent ahare in the efforts to compel a new charter for the United States Bank something less than a hundred years ago, and with persistent influ- ence in all whig and republican enormities down to the present time, when it stands almost the sole champion of straight republi- canism in the city of New York. The people may learn from the quarrels of these vepera- ble political organs’ the fact that there is but little to choose between politica) parties in the matter of honesty, and that a long lease of power acts with the same demoralizing influ- ence on both organizations. Perhaps it is this’ conviction that induces the desire'for a change so manifest in recent elections, Tue Anr Corony m Pants presents many phases of interest, and none more interesting than that of the large number of ladies whe are studying under the leading painters. Mrs. Morrell, of Boston; Miss Tompkins, of Washington; Miss Stevenson-Cassatt, Miss Kate Cameron, of Chicago ; Miss Sartaine, of Philadelphia ; Miss Corbett, of Boston, and Miss Gardner, of New Hampshire, are some’ of the lady painters who have made great progress in their art, and who in time may be depended upon to pursue their profession with success and usefulness at home. Our or Towx.—This is a delightful season at the watering places—at the seashore, we think, the most delightful time of the year. The bathing is from August till the end of Sep- tember atits best. Our correspondents give the public very pleasant accounts to-day of the manner in which the world is amusing and refreshing iteclf at some of the principal’ places of resort, We learn what agree- able times there are at Narragansett Pier, the latest gossip from Niagara Falls and the quiet pleasures of beautiful Lake George. Soon all these delights will be ended, and that is the best reason why those who: have leisure and means should make the most of them while they may. Tae Awentcan Base Bart players have reached Dublin, and in their cricket match’ were pretty nearly sure of winning by the first inning, when the game was adjourned. The base ball games between the Athletics and! Bostons are s novel excitement in Great Britain, but at home the cricket scores of our champions are decidedly more interesting. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. All crops in Mexico greatly damaged by heavy rains, Seven thousand annual violent deaths in Eng- land, Secretary Robeson returned to Washington yes- terday. Sir Bruce M. Seton, of England, has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Rothschild left 400,000 florins to the poor of Frankfort and Vienna. Assemblyman F. A. Alberger, of Buffalo, is stop Ping at the Metropolitan Hotel Captain BE. R. Warner, United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Solicitor Bluford Wilson arrived from Washing- ton yesterday at the Brevoort House, Rev. Dr. William Patton, of New Haven, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jersey, has arrived at the New York Hotel. Ex-Governor Ambrose E. Burnside, of Rhode Island, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Henry B. Carrington, United States army, is quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. Colonel John E, Tourtellotte, of General Sher- man’s staff, is registered at the Hoffman House, An Irishman at Bristol, England, tried to cure his wife of drunkenness’ by banging his son, three years old. General Thomas . Nelson, of Indiana, formerly United States Minister to Mexico, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Bauffremont divorce case was pleaded eleven times before it was gained, as recently announced, by the Princess. ‘The femate orang outang at the London Zoo was consamptive. and they have sent her home to Borneo for her health. Liverpool is discussing the propriety of intro- ducing the use of bank checks, instead of making the settiements with money, Postmaster General Marshall Jewell arrived im this city yesterday from Hartford, and left on the evening train for Washington. Sefior Don J. B. Dalla Costa, Minister from Ven- ezuela at Washington, atrived in the city yester- day, and 1s at the Brevoort House. All through the German Empire they are taking statistics ot the complexion, color of the hair and eves of the children in the schools, The Germans have found in a secret place in the wails at Metz @ complete set of maps of Eastera France, very minute as to the roads, Fellows who were with Sir Samuel Baker on the White Nile and came home with grievances against him are now telling their stories of the expedition, which differ slightly from Sir Samuel's story, Hon. W. R, Bown, of Winnipeg, will administer the estate of Manitoba Gordon by public authority, as the defunct has no relatives in the country. President Juarez, of Mexico, left among nis papers an autoblography and @ compilation ot Mexican history, both of which are to de pub- lished, Twenty tons of meat from America were de- stroyed by the police at Liverpool. It was salted meat, in barrels, and the brine having decom- posed the meat rotted. It is now being remarked in Paris, spropos to the Bazaine excitement, that while the Empire was styled the governuient of Invasions, the present régwne wil be known in history as the govern- ment of evastons (escapes). Communications in the London fimes charge (nas travellers trying to return to England from Asta by way of the Pacific and this Continent are swindled, as throngh tickets bought in Japan, ‘Australis end Obins are found good only as far as CISCO. er hier tn a Paris telegram to a London newspaper, in reference to Basaine’s escape, thas his nephew, knowing his ancle possessed nothing ‘Dut @ house in Paris, which was lately sold, nas generously placed nis own fortune of a million francs at his disposal. NAVAL INTELLIGENOE, Wasninotow, August 24, 1874, The following chief engineers have been ordorea by the Navy Department to assume the duty of the inspection of machinery afloat at the places re- epectivety named, in addition to their present Muties:— Newell, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; Robel, 3 jt 0; lersan, at New Storipaevon, at Mare’ iiand;- Fenian, at Waste Engineers Bartieman, Fletoher, Sewell and Ayres have been detacned as inspectors of adlogs ta asreik oxdery,