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6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1814—TRIPLE SHEET. * NEW YORK HERALD ieee’ Hheaaaisodds in Gosche Malai ity. For if there is no “hope of the} mournful enthusiasm to do honor to the BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every -day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, MEE BoB. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yore HeERaw. . Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. bien! 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. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, aE THEATRE COMIQUE, | Jo,s14 Broadway.—VARIETY, at $2, i; closes at 10:0 BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.— BELLE LAMAR, at8 P.M; closes at 100 P.M. John McCullough und Mise K. 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M. | BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth uvenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at P.M. “Den Bryant. Fifty-ninth st rect and Seventh s yeone. THOMAS con. ree’ venth avenue. —' , f. GuBT, at SP. M.; cloves ai 10:30 F. M. | I E SHEET. New York, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1874. are that the weather to-day will be clear. Wart Srazer Yxsterpay.—Stocks were fairly active and generally firmer. Gold was steady—109§ 0 1093. Tax Caste News From Spary is, as usual, | very contradictory. The contending forces have just fought a severe battle, in which the Carlists were defeated with the loss of four hundted men. The fortune of war is evi- dently with the republican government, de- spite the reports to the contrary which come * from the French border territory. Tae Atiantic Sreamsnrp ComPantes have reunited on the subject of the charges for passage and freight. The corporations have thus pat an end to the competition which has existed between them. They say that the new tates of tariff are exceedingly low. How long will they remainso? This is the’ question which interests intending emigrants and shippers. Tae Rosstsn Government has despatched special agents to the Spanish camps, Carlist and republican, to report on the military posi- tions of the contending parties. The Czar won't learn anything very brilliant in the way of military tactics from this. He may, how- ever, gain some diplomatic and topographical knowledge—how Russia may come to the Mediterranean, for instance. Taz Ixpuux Wan.—We publish in another column a graphic account of General David- son’s first serions brush with the Indians, Our correspondent does not believe in the peace-policy humbug. Like most men who have had near relations with the red man he recognizes that the savage only under- stands force. General Davidson displays firmness and energy, and will no doubt ad- minister such a lesson to the braves that they will mot soon forget it. The safety of the frontier settlements requires that the hostile Indians shali be made to understand the full risk of making war on the white men, Cenestia, Marrucrs.—We publish in snother column an affidavit made at Salt | Lake by Brigham Young. It is inter. esting as placing on record the Saint's | opinions of the ‘celestial marriages,’ which | ia the leading point in the new belief. Ac- cording to this document the “celestial mar- | riages’’ are no marriages at all, but simply | arrangements which confer no legal rights on | the ‘‘celestial” wives. In fact, Brigham Young takes off the mask and declares that Mormonism is simply an organized system of concubinage thinly covered ower with the pretence of religion to hide its grossness and immorality. Governor Dix has probably made up his mind long ago as to what he will do with Mayor Havemeyer; but he desires that the fullest opportunity should be given both to accused and accusers to make good their cases before the decision is announced, so that neither side may seek after cause of com- plaint. It is to be hoped that the parties with whom the charges originate will not | cause unnecessary delay, as the matter should be disposed of a8 speedily as possible. It ig now rumored that the Governor will severely | censure Mayor Havemeyer's official conduct, | but will decide not to remove him, in view of | the near approach of his officia! decease by a | natural death. But would not the precedent | be @ dangerous one to establish? The law the Governor the power of removal. Why should not the power be exercised fear- leaaly when tbe vuniabment is deserved 2 | their platform utterances they balance them- ance, sible Platforms. As the democracy emerges in defined pro- portions from the fume of the spouters and the froth of the platforms, it is an unpleasant spectacle. It is a figure that, it seems to us, mast necessarily prove offensive to the nation. In Missouri the democrats tormally declare a8 follows:—‘‘That the public debt should be paid in exact accordance with the contracts whereby it was created; that anything less would be repudiation and that anything more would be an unjustifiable abuse of power by Congress in the interest of the bondholder and to the detriment of every other class; that the five-twenty bonds authorized by the act of February, 1862, and succeeding acts, are dis- tinetly by their terma made payable in legal | tender notes or greenbacks, and that the act of March 18, 1869, whereby Congress solemnly pledged the faith of the United States toa coin redemption was an unjustifiable usurpa- tion of power.” And the declaration of the Ohio democrats, in substance the same, is a8 follows:—‘‘That the democracy of Ohio re- iterate their declaration that tho five-twenty bonds, by the letter and spirit of the law and the general understanding of the community, were payable in legal tender notes, and the act otf March, 1869, which pledged the faith of the nation to their payment in coin, was an un- necessary and wicked sacrifice of the interests of the taxpaying laborers for the benefit of the non-taxpaying bondholders.” Now the democratic leaders in those States, though they may be credited with a fair amount of Bourbonism and its characteristic tenacity for old notions, are yet clamorous politicians, ravenous for the spoils ; go that in selves between the assertion of party princi- ples and the assertion of what they deem likely to find favor with the people. It wasa principle with a certain kind of democrats that the five-twenties should be | paid in a depreciated paper, and thus that the national debt should be repudiated to the ex- tent of the ion. This was a perverse democratic application of a legal theory that has found favor in the Supreme Court. It was 8 notion well calculated to be a thorn in the side of the government and the dominant party, and that was the cause of its appear- It originated in hostility. It came from politicians whose views of the war and of the acts of the government in the prosecu- tion of the war, and the obligations of the debts incurred as war necessities, were not the views of fair political opponents, who agreed on the general principle of defending the na- tion and differed only as to the means; bat were, on the contrary, the views of the enemies against whom the war was car- Tied on. If there were such a science as po- litical astronomy, and its professors pretended to determine from men’s views of public topics just where the men stood when the views were taken, they would inevitably find that the standpoint from which the five-twenties presented this aspect was the city of Rich- mond as the capital of the Southern Con- feeracy. With the war over there were men in the republican party who showed their political dishonesty, their unprincipled readiness to take up any popalar cry, their mistaken judg- ment of the people or their ill-concealed affiliations with the other side in their treat- ment of this subject. Old Stevens, who ap- plied thorough “‘nigger-driving’’ tactics in parliamentary ~ractice, talked of the ‘bloated bondholders.’’ President Johnson and Gen- eral Butler both touched this forbidden fruit, and while one was driven out of the party paradise the other indulged in a characteris- tic defiance of authority. Thot repudiation should find in the repub- lican party no other prophets than such as we have named was a good evidence that that party up to the time when this agitation oc- curred was really the exponent of the national will; and it was another millstone around the neck of the democratic party that it was esteemed willing to avail itself of the possi- bilities of a difficult position to wound the nation in, so sensitive a point as obligations that involved its honor and ita faith with its creditors. It was then evident to the people that the democratic party, which was their natural organ in one great phase of our political existence, was still contaminated with the treason that led to the war, and was so far from accord with popular impulses that it was unable to distinguish between the party that governed the country and the country itself. There was no room in the field of political differences for a party which could not strike at its opponents without striking the nation; and, by the common law of par- ties the world over, there can be no grace and no possible career within the sphere of party activities for an organization that comes with the purposes and principles of the na- tional enemy. All this was soon felt by the | wiser men 6f the democracy, and they re- pressed and silenced for a time the only thought of their party that secured any con- siderable share of popular attention. And now it comes up again; and why? Is | it a mere characteristic of Bourbonism? Is it | because they cannot forget? Is it becausethe | democratic brain is out of the current of in- tellectual activity that supplies new ideas and carries away old delusions for every other brain? Has it hardened into the narrow | forms of # political insanity that compels the party to mumble forever its pitiful formula | about five-twenties, as a poor wretch in an asylum bereft of his wita drivels on forever | with the last idea that made an impression on his mind in the days of his sanity? Or is it that these Western democrats believe that the | Tising tide of popular discontent at the bur- dens of taxation will be satisfied with no leas than repndiation, and they, therefore, present their party as the organ of such a policy? Perhaps both these points in part account | for it, but we believe the democrats will be | again disastrously mistaken in their views of the popular mind ; and we believe that the judgment will be that if there is as yet no | ground of opposition in politics but one on which we necessarily tamper with our faith and honesty as a nation, then no opposition party is wanted, and the republican party will atill suffice for all our needs. It will be with great disappointment that } the country will thus see the democratic party | assuming @ position that must: inevitably | outlaw it and determine the struggle | against it beforehand, and, indeed, make | overthrow of the republican party in grand general rally of the nation to the demo- cratic banner—if the democratic banner is | made impossible by those who bear it—-what is to become of the country thus forced to give ® new lease of power to the jobbers and rob- bers that have already done so much to cor- rupt and destroy it? » Crequet in Central Park. Croquet is not the most exciting game in the world. It is not likely to encourage a taste for betting, as racing, billiards, boating and base ball are said to do. Extremely ac- complished croqnet players have organized ; clubs and have tried to establish a croquet championship, but with little success; for this delicate, modest game refuses to be dragged into the arena of “outdoor sports,” where men are as earnest as they are in their rivalry of business. Croquet must by its nature con- tinue to be a social enjoyment, and is, above all others, the recreation in which ladies and gentlemen can meet upon equal ground and combine the refinements of the drawing room with open air exercise that strengthens but does not fatigue. Cruel is the man who would deprive the sexes of the right to meet upon the neutral ground of the loop, the stake, the mallet and the ball. Yet this'is what the Park Commis- sioners have undertaken to do in New York. A correspondent appeals from their decision, . by which gentlemen are not allowed to par- ticipate in croquet in “our Central Park, and says that it is unanimously decided that the game is thus deprived of half its interest. We should have said of all its inter- est, especially to the ladies. This is the one game of skill in'which they are superior to men, and they are riot permitted to profit by their supremacy. A game of croquet con- ducted by ladies only loses its spirit and vivacity. A game of croquet played by gentlemen is flat and unprofitable. All the courtesies of society, the attentions of friend- ship, are excluded by such selfish arrangements, Which resemble the old-fashioned churches in which the women are separated from the men, as if they were obliged to take different ways to heaven. As gentlemen and ladies are allowed to walk together, to ride together, to boat together, to skate together, to sit together, we think they are entitled to play croquet together. There are no good reasons advanced for the prohibi- tion, which is, indeed, a relic of barbarism un- worthy of a great metropolis. In Prospect Park there is no such interference with the amuse- ment, and, though Brooklyn is not now considered as moral a city as New York, there have been no evil re- sults, We therefore plead for the admis- sion of gentlemen to the croquet ground in behalf of thousands of suffering citizens. We warn the Park Commissioners of the danger of a refusal. It is now believed by many per- sons that the Commissioners do not know how to play croquet, that they have made tremen- dous efforts to acquire the art without suc- cess, and that in revenge they have resolved as they cannot play no other gentleman shall. We deeply regret to say that the mat- ter has this appearance, and that what was once only a suspicion is rapidly becoming a conviction. They can only answer this serious charge by making croquet free to all, and ceasing to enforce a barbarous separation of the sexes, of which even the Turks and Hindoos are becoming ashamed. It is really serious matter when a Park policeman can ‘interpose his club between brother and sister, husband and wife or lover and sweetheart, and make the innocent game of croquet almost as terrible as divorce, The Third Term Argument. The argument used by the avowed advo- cates of the election of President Grunt for a third term, as set forth in our Long Branch letter to-day, is specious, but full of danger to republican institutions. We are told by one who has occupied a high position in the gov- ernment, and who is an earnest supporter ot the third term movement, that the example set by President Washington is not applicable to the present time. The reason given is that in the early days of the Republic it was pru- dent and even necessary to guard against any approach to monarchical institutions, or, what is much the same thing, to a life long dictator- ship, while in these days the Republic is firmly established, and so everything that can strengthen the government strengthens repub- lican institutions. The continuance of one man in power for three terms, with centralization, is calculated to strengthen the government, hence it is the best thing that can be done for the Republic. But if this argument is good, then a life term must be still more beneficial, and what becomes of republicanism when the nation is saddled with a Napoleon? There is danger, too, in the opinion, so boldly expressed by the friends of President Grant, that he is necessary to the nation, and that no other man can be found, out of a pop- ulation of ‘forty millions, who can safely be intrusted with the reins of government. ‘It would be a sad day for republican institutions if any one citizen should be necessary to the preservation of the United States as a nation. It is well, however, that the adyo- cates of the third term beginnin, to be thus bold in their avowals, and that we are assured of the earnestness of their efforts to secure success. The strength of the move- ment is not overstated by the champion of the cause, who speaks through ‘our Long Branch | correspondence. The South is likely to be solid in the Republican National Convention for General Grant, and it is to be feared that the federal patronage in the leading Northern States is sufficiently powerful to control the | local organizations and to secure the delegates. | But it may be found that a nomination is not | an election, and it is possible that the republi- | can party, too strong to be killed by an enemy, may after all die by an act of suicide, Marx Ssira Memonit Meerixa.—A meet- ing of prominent members of the dramatic | and literary professious was held yesterday at Booth’s Theatre, under the presidency of Mr. Lester Wallack, to make arrangements for the reception of Mark Smith's remains on their arrival in this country. Resolutions of con- dolence with the bereaved family were adopted and @ committee appointed to carry out the arrangements for the reception of the remains. The meeting yesterday was a striking testi- mony to the worth of the deceased actor, It embraced men eminent in the literary and | memory of one who im life had been a genial companion and a true friend. Devoted to | his profession he did hia duty thoroughly and faithfully, securing the respect and friendship | of all who enjoyed his acquaintance. And now that he has passed away those who remain behind desire to pay the last sad tribute of Spain, England and the United States. It appears in a despatch to this office from London that Mr. McDonnell, the British Chargé at Madrid, writes to Lord Derby, July 7, that the Spanish government appeals to England to defer pressing a settlement of her claims concerning the Virginius outrage on account of similar negotiations pending with | the United States—that ‘Spain will be ham- pered in her negotiations with us if our gov- ernment is able to cite as a precedent the pay- ment of the indemnity demanded by Eng- land. Lord Derby replies, July 17, demand- ing a settlement at a fixed and not too distant date; and Mr. McDonnell telegraphs {rom Madrid, August ¥, that the Spanish Ministe? agrees that the indexumity shall be settled im- mediately under certain reservations. This report, upon the dates, names and specifications given, we assume is true; but if true, this appeal of the Spanish government surely demands the immediate attention of Mr. Secretary Fish, The Virginius claims upon Spain of England and the United States sre substantially the same. Certain British subjects and certain American citizens found on board the Virginius were shot as filibus- tors by the Spanish authorities of Ouba, For among those prisoners England demands 1n- demnity; for the illegal slaughter of the American citizens among those prisoners our government has demanded indemnity. The principles of public law in both cases are the same; but mark the distinction made by Spain. England appears to be pushing her demand. She never permits much quibbling or trifling _in such matters. more time, and, giving her appeal its full in- terpretation, we think it may thus be ren- .dered: —‘‘Please express to Lord Derby our humble thanks tor his indulgence so far—it has been very good of him—and say to him for us that his claim is all right, and that the money would be paid over at once but for the fact that those unprincipled Yankees at Washington have a similar claim upon us, which we do not intend to pay. But in recog- nizing and settling the claim of England at this time a precedent will be established which will give us considerable trouble to get off without paying the claim of the United States. Be good enough so to represent our situation to Lord Derby, and say to him if he will in- dulge us yet a little longer uptil we shall have disposed of Mr. Secretary Fish, that that in- demnity will be paid.” The appeal of Spain is clearly open to this interpretation. It embraces, first, an insult to our government in the unwarrantable distinc- tion made between it and that of England, and, second, an apology to England, which is equivalent toa request fora little assistance in a deliberate design to defraud the United States. Now it strikes us that here is matter which calls for the immediate attention of Mr. Secretary Fish, at least to the extent of asking of the Spanish government through our Minis- ter at Madrid the exact contents of the English despatches referred to, and, if correctly re- ported, why this distinction made between the Virginius claims of England and similar claims from the United States? ‘How It Strikes the Contemporaries. It was foregone conclusion with the Plymouth congregation that Mr. Beecher should be found ‘‘not guilty;” that he should be acquitted of any and every accusation that might be made against him for irregularities in conduct; in short, that he should be sus- tained ‘‘against his enemies.” As an expres- sion of the fealty of his people, and of their spontaneous impulse to take up his cause withont regard to its merits, this is sufficiently comprehensible. Perhaps even very many will sympathize with them to some degree for their adhesion to the man of great genius whom they love in the very case in which such adhesion is of substantial value. They did not admire him fora capacity to resist temptation, but for an eloquence that is just as great if he has yielded, or that may be even greater for the human quality that could only flow from a nature likely to yield. Justice, such men may say, is a vague abstraction, a ' conventionality even, and differs for different social latitudes, while the so-called Christian morality as a standard of conduct is a hard restraint that all treat asa tyranny. But this support of the eloquent and deeply loved conventionalities and abstractions together. The point at which a distinct objection is to be made is where this love of one man be- comes an overwhelming oppression to others. Plymouth church should not have pretended to investigate if it did not care for justice. could be permitted to indulge its love for Beecher and to express its contempt for all abstractions and its hatred for all persons had no direct occasion for more than a super- cilious criticism; for it would have been, as it were, within its own lines. But to pretend,to investigate mercly in order to declare its in- difference to the results of investigation; to inquire whether a man was guilty only in order to declare its support of him, whether guilty or not—this is not merely to exercise its undoubted right to stand by its pastor in every emergency, but it is to endeavor to sub- erty of all and by which other people pro- pose, a8 far as possible, to regulate their conduct, It is to degrade the com- mon standard. It is laughable os ao piece of sublime impertinence for Plymouth and passion by the name of justice; but it is tend that a case in which public morality and the rights of some individuals are involved is determined by such a judgment. Assuming the position clearly taken by the Plymouth congregation that Beecher was to | be sustained though the heavens fell, we see | to what a narrow point the function of the so- called investigating committee was brought, Its duty was to meet the views of the church— that is, to examine into the facta not merely iw canvass @ mere contemptible formal. |dramatio world. who vreased forward with | ta find if there were quili, but to find fur. ground upon which to base a verdict in the pastor’s favor. ‘Intentionally or uncon- to reach the required verdict. they, like the world at large, were surprised to find the strength of the case against their pastor. Not one man ina hundred be- lieved that in a case so long smothered there could be produced evidences of guilt 80 dis- tinct; but there the evidences were, in the co- herent declaration of two sane men, and in Beecher’s own poignant, self-acousing ex- clamations of his participation in the ‘wife's offence."* With these before them, and stand- ing between the necessity of keepirg up a good face for Christian morality and the ne- cessity of sustaining their pastor, the com- mittee had to cut its way out and had to re- sort toa forcible course, Hence the extrava- gant step of taking nobody’s word but that of the accused person. Tilton, Moulton, Mrs. Tilton, even Beecher’s own letters, are thrown out of the case, and Beecher’s denial ‘only is worthy credence, If Tilton and Moulton are of so wretchedly small account, how could | the unlawfal butchery of the Englishmen | Spain appeals for a litile | pastor in a ¢risis of his life is worth all the | It | who interfered with that love, If it had | boldly taken that course people would have | vert to its uses that justice which is the prop- | church to call the verdict of its own prejudice , an insult to the community at large to pre- | their accusations have been sufficiently im- portant to make investigation necessary ? Our Schools and School Systems. The approaching period for the reopening of our educational institutions calls, for special notice by the press, and furnishes an occasion for urging upon educators generally some con- siderations that have been greatly overlooked. There is, perhaps, no branch of human in- | dustry in which the requirement of skill and sagacity is so essential, and yet so rarely found, as that of training the mind and drill- ing it for the rough battle of life which lies before American youth, The eminent jurist William Wirt, in distinguishing the causes which underlie the varying careers of young men emerging from college life, has forcibly reasoned that the difference in their destiny is due not to intellectual disparity but to the disparity of their labor and application. We cannot, indeed, accept the theory that all the young start in life with equal endowments, and need only the same education and same labor to keep abreast of each other. But without question our educational machinery, private and public, is moulding national life, because it is moulding by its ponderous and powerful strokes the individuals who in 8 little while will control the nation. And it is to be not a little dreaded that education may become in this country, as in Germany, not the tender and ministering nurse of the young but the tyrannic master, shaping the plastic mind on the unyielding anvil of its own thought and will. Such a result would be the natural conse- quence of the hasty and undue exaltation of | education beyond the legitimate sphere to which it should be confined. There is ‘no lesson we need to impress on our educators more deeply than that they are not called to fashion and mould but to lead along and develop the individual intellect in the line of nature and according to the individual bent, To do this in large schools, where large masses of youth aro put through the same course of study very much as large masses of clay are run through a brick press, is impos- sible, The individuality of the scholar is ig- nored, and the most precious germs of genius, which would under wise culture have been prolific of good, are crushed out between the upper and nether stones of the ponderous mill. In an age like this, when public morality is at a low ebb, because home culture and home education have been supplanted by the tree school, the boarding school, the academy and college, we should pause and inquire what limitation must be put on this unnatural process. True, we need the free school and the other public institutions as much as ever. But the time has arrived for complete re- vision of all our educational systems. Small and select schools, in which the numbers are sufficient to farnish honorable emulation and provoke earnest work, are unquestionably bet- ter than the grand academies and public schools, where all individual development 1s necessarily ignored. The academy, ceteris paribus, is or ought to be a better gymnasium than the college, and it is a noticeable fact that many a youth who has done well in the private school has been spoiled for life in the university. more difficult, and calls for far more patient and philosophic concern than it has ever yet received. An English physiologist, Mr. Lindsay, who has given much attention to the study of the mental faculties, has found that at or up to a certain age girls are as sharp as, or sharper, than boys at lesson learn- ing and recitation. The press reports of the competitive examinations in the public schools frequently record cases of female pro- ficiency rivalling that ot boys. And yet this same scientist has found that the female su- life, and is-afterwards perfectly eclipsed by | the average attainment of the man. The ex- | planation is obvious. The modern systems | of female education aim to stimulate the | feminine mind beyond its normal and natural tension, to push it onward to attain an | artificial standard of energy and com- | pass which it was never designed | for. The result is that diplomas are won | | and o little ephemeral reputation, at the cost at least of physical health, and after the enor- | | mous mental strain comes the reaction, which produces years of intellectual prostration, while meantime the sharp and delicate edge | of femininity, with its unsurpassable charms, | has been blunted and worn away. If we | would, therefore, secure the highest welfare of | | the female sex, upon which so much depends, | we must throw around it the power of fam- | ily influence and protect it from the withering | blaze of publicity. The failure to do this and the wholesale education of our women in | | public institutions, where the intellectual cul- | ture has the pre-eminence, are threatening the physical as well as the moral health of the | nation, and we cannot too soon or too sharply | look to the rectification of this evil. ‘Tue Wan or Races —The state of society which exists in Kentucky and Tennessee, ga victured by ur correspondents, is | periority, when it exists, is confined to school | ther, if there should be guilt, some plausible | not flattering to American civilization. Family fends fought out with all the ear egery of a Corsican vendetta are allowed scionsly they proceeded in that spirit. We | to assume something of the praportions of an have no doubt that they would have preferred | incipient civil war without interference from to declare for their pastor without committing | the authorities. With all respect for law and any outrages on public decency. But they | justice thrown aside and a reign of brutal found the case fuller of difficulties than it at | violence established, the State seems marching first appeared, and we can measure their own | rapidly toward anarchy. The trouble doce views of the difficulty by the violence of thé | not arise so much from antipathies of race as course they were compelled to adopt in order | from the spirit of lawlessness of the people. Probably | As the Governor of Tennessee properly points out in his proclamation, the cure for this state of things is not to be found tn calling in the services of the military, but must be sought in the enforcement by the civil powers of the law. The ‘‘Peop! Movement” in Mis sourl—Senator Schurz. A new party organization has been set up in Missouri, called ‘The People's Move- ment,” the chief object of which is declared to be ‘to redeem the State, and to set up @ capable, honest and economical government.” It is the old story over again, of reform—re- trenchment and reform. This movement ap- pears to be in the interest of Mr. Schurs, and doubtless its main object is so far to redeem the State as to secure his re-election to the United States Senate. Mr. Schurz has tinguished himself as one of the ablest and soundest statesmen of the Senate, especially upon the currency question; but we fear that this new party movement will not save him. When he and his liberal republicans’ some four years ago bolted against the national administration and the republican party and entered into a joint stock coalition with the democrats, they reduced the republican camp to a powerless minority, and made the demo- cratic party so strong that ever since it hae pursued its own course, indifferent whether supported or opposed by Mr. Schurz. Thus, then, stands the case—the republicans of Mis- souri have had enough of Mr. Schurz, the democrats do not want him, and his friends, movement as a third party, in the hope thereby of securing the balance of power in the State Legislature for their champion as a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate. The movement, perhaps, may suc- ceed; but the chances appear to bear so heavily against it as to make it from the out set a failure. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretary Belknap returns to Waghington to. day. Mr. Charles Lanman, of Washiagton, is stopping at the Everett House. General Joho B. Frisbte, of California, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Bessemer’s boat will be ready to cross the Eng» ish Channel this autumn. ; Signor Muzio, Strakosch’s musical director, stopping at the Everett House, Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. Captain W. G. Temple, United States Navy, quartered at the Everett House. Captain Cook, of the steamship Russia, apartments st the Brevoort House. Mayor George G. Clarkson, oft Rochester, is Journing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Senator Thomas J. Robertson, of South Varolina, 1s residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, | Sly old fellow, G. W. B., to palm off his poetry om the public and lay it to the frst mate, Rear Admiral Smith, United States Navy, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Windsor Hotel. Professor John M. Rice, of the United States Na- val Academy, is registered at the St. Dents Hotel. General N. P. Chipman, Congressional Delegate for the District of Columbia, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. State Treasurer Arthur Bingham, of Alabama, ts mong the recent arrivals at the Grand Central Hotel. Rev. E. 0. Haven, LL.D., will be inaagarated as Chancellor of the Syracuse University Septem- ber 15, The orders sent to all the stations relative to the escape of Bazaine led to the arrest at Moulins station of General d’Aurelle de Paladines, Depaty for the department, who, as he had no papers, was conducted to the Prefecture. Fortunately his detention was only & short one, At Kew Gardens. near Lonaon, there is an American century plant in blossom. If, now, it had only waited till 76 and then been sent to Philadelphia! It was, in part, to embellish Kew that the stamp tax was laid, and this blossoming comes at least Kewriously near te the centennial of the result. Queer, sleepy old fellows our British cousins. Just now they are horrified in the town of Sunder- land at a discovery made by the heaith officer, that the butchers put @ pipe under the skin of the fresh meat and “blow the foul air from their own lungs into the cellular tissue to give an appear- ance of plumpness.”” “Your Honor,” said @ prisoner to a Paris judge, “my lawyer is not here and I request a delay of the case for eight days.” “Bat,” said tne judge, “you were caught in the act of theft, what can any lawyer say for you?” “That is just what I shoula like to hear,” said the prisoner, and the Court The education of females isa problem yet | imaghed, put sentenced him tos year. Dr. Steinbeiss finds that cremation ts a bore, and by way of something better he proposes a kind of mortuary stucco. He has invented a cement that he wants to lave the dead plastered over with to a thickness of several inches, and as the | Mixture hardens it will become a close fitting stone coMn and defy the elements and time—anad even Gabriel. At three o'clock on the afternoon of August 18 & fashionsbly dressed young man was seem | flourishing his hat on ope of the towers of Notre Dame, Paris. He torew it down, and then jumped after it, He was picked up quite dead and so aiu- tilated in the face that tt was thought aseless to expose the body in the Morgue. From a passport found on him it appeared tnat bis name was Emile Jean Christian Hubert, born in London. How much can @ woman be marfied and yet re. main single? Mrs. Boyce entered into matri- monial relations witha gentleman sufficiently to give him authority to protect her from her rela- tives, But as she is entitled to gn income only while she is a widow, she mas’ satisfy the Bank of England that she 1s not & married woman or lose | the money. And her efforts are now directed to convince the bank that matrimony and single blessedness are not inconsistent, There was a great marriage at Liverpool August 19—whbat mignt be called s Cunard marriage— Mr. Charles Maciver, one of the sons of Mr. Wil- liam Maclver, of the Cunard Company, having wedded Miss Sarah Harriette Graves, daughter of S. R. Graves, M. P. All the shipping tn the pore was decorated. Even Her Majesty's ship Caledonia sympathized in bunting, ‘The bride wore a dress of white satin, trimmed with orange biossoms and stephanotis and Brussels point lace; and the bridesmai wore dresses of blue silk, trimmed with white tarletan and looped with tea roses.” Some curiosity was caused on the boulevards by | by the appearance of three women attired in a. singular costame—viz., large Zouave trousers, | closed by gatters, small gray paletots, trimmed) with black ond tall felt hats, who were stopping at. the Grand Hotel. On inquiry they were found to! be Miss Walker, an American medical Practitioner, and two of her pupils, The lady is about Arty years of age and the apostle of the emanotpation of women in the United States, and belongs to th¢ sect of the Bloomerists, she ts said to be on he} way to Turkey, where she has accepted the post d Private plysician ta tee Snicanta Goramita cians | Rate therefore, have resolved upon this people's /