The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD] BROADWAY AY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON “BENNETT, PROPRIETOR published every An- ‘THE DAILY HERALD, day in the year. Four cents per copy. nual subscription price gle. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx | Henav. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. 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. BOOTHS THEA corner of Twenty-third. street and Sixth avenue. BELLE LAMAR ats F M.; closes at 10:30 2. M. John McCullough and Miss K. Rogers Randolph, ston streets, — es at 10:45 P. Broadway. between THE BRIDE OF ABYDO: M. Joseph Wheelock Let Miss ae , Ac \cK’S THEATRE, Y, and OFF THE LINE, at 3P J.'L. Toole. Broadway —PAL M closes at LI P WOOD'S MUSEUM LAST NAIL, at 8 P.M: ouis Alarich and Miss sophie Miten ses. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, at 8 P.M. Mrs. FW. Lander. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 0 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.: cloves at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, WHAT SHOULD SHE DO? OR, JEALOL Yo at 8 P. m closes at li P.M. Miss Fanny bay sport, Miss Sara Jewett, Mr. C. Fisher and Mr. Jaines Lewis LYCEUM THEATRE Fourteevih street and Sixth LA TIMBALE D'ARG ats P. loses at 10 M. Mile. Aimee, Mile. Minetiy No, Sit Broadway.—VARIE closes at 10:30 s,atSP. M, Weat Twenty-third t, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, avs P. Den Bryant. EATRE, , at 8°P.M.; closes at 10 corner of, Tweury ath. Hiet—NEGRO | SY, ats P.M. Tg SHEET ‘Thursday, Sept. 3, 1874, From our ene this morning the probabilities | are that (he weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Srocks were firm yesterday, showing a gen- eral improvement. Gold was quiet at 1093 a | 109}, Tax Bonarantist Newsparer Pres¥ does not appear to pay well as an investment in France. MacMahon interrapts ses trade. Hunpneps or Mozsoxs coming out to | America from England: Good for the ship- owners. Is it good for Brigham ? Tae Carusts have been again defeated, with great loss, at Puigcerda. They are very | unlucky, particularly so when we consider the | Divine right commission. Tos Crogvet Quzsion, in regard to the Park, is fully discussed in interviews which | one of our representatives had yesterday with some of the ladies engaged iu that favorite pastime. (wrenmun Germany rejoiced over the an- niversary of the surrender of Sedan yesterday. The right of the victor belongs to Prussia. The founder of the Bonaparte dynasty set the example and exercised it in Berlin. Our Sprctan Letrer rom Panis.—The special Hunatp correspondence from Paris, under date of August 20, which we publish to- | day, is of unusual interest, the writer setting torth in plain terms President MacMahon’s present position before the nation—his oppor- tunities and his sorcihshes A Gnaxp Tx ‘MPERANCE DEMONSTRATION o0- curred yesterday at New Haven, Conn. Four thousand men paraded in the cause of total abstinence, a good exhibit for the land | of steady habits, and a Catholic clergyman | made o stirring address, encouraging others | to go and do likewise. ION Was suc- {sland Sound A New Meruop or Navics cessfully tried on Long Tuesday last. ter, no other motive power being nsed. Kiting over the waters of the Sound or the Hudson River may now be considered the thing in navigation. correct Tae Natioxan Amatzur Ruarta begins to- day on the Hudson River, near Troy, and promises to rival in attractiveness the late events on Saratoga Lake, The programme is very interesting, comprising single sculls, pair-oared, double sculls and four-oared shell races, each of them being beats of one anda half miles straightaway. Some of the best oarsmen in the country are entered for these contests. Tue Sovruern Detxcares who are abovt to lay their grievances before the President make their appearance chronically on the eve of anelection. Some of them are concerned only abont their own interests, and the action | orner, of thirtieth street —BLOW FOR | M. THE on | A boat was drawn by ao kite | twenty-two miles in three hours and a qnar- | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER The Congressional Elections. Itis always # useful service to clear away the fog with which heated partisans envelop @ political contest, and give a correct state- ment of the issues really involved and of the results which may be fairly expected. After the impassioned debates on the currency | question during the last session and the arrest ! of wild legislation by the President's constitu- | tional negative, it might have been expected | that the controversy would be transferred to | the people and made the dominating issue in | the Congressional elections, Bunt, in point of | fact, it will hardly influence the elections at all, and the actual contest will be a mere con- tinuance of the everlasting warfare between | the outs and the ins. Nor is it indeed of any consequence that the great issue which 80 deeply agitated Congress will be practically ignored iu the choice of its snocessor. The country has complete security aguinst the passage ot inflation laws by the next Congress in the fact that President Grant will remain in office until its term expires, and stands ready to protect the country with unflinching vetoes. Unless the inflationists should elect two-thirds of the next House they will be utterly power- | Jess, and that is a danger which nobody fears. With this solid ground of confidence tho | people cannot be brought to feel any great interest in the currency question as a practical issue during the remainder of this Presidential term. Public opinion is not yet ripe fora vigorous policy of contraction, and is not likely to be during the ensuing two years. | ‘The inflation tide reached high water mark | with the passage of the bill which President | Grant vetoed. It has been quietly but | | steadily ebbing ever since, and will con- tinue to recede by the operation of causes | | which have but a slight connection with party | | polities. The inflation craze of last winter was the consequence of the then recent panic, | which turned the heads of a large portion of | | the business community. The clamor for more currency which’ besieged the President | in the height of the panic and moved him to put into circulation a portion of the reserved | greenbacks “was interpreted by politicians | \ | | they were eager to mount the supposed popu- | lar hobby. But the fever heat of the panic | | was certain to c6ol down with the lapse | of time, and tho crisis of that de- | | lusion passed with the sobering veto | of the President, which disappointed the | hopes and broke the courage of the inflation | | leaders. The experience of this autumn will , demonstrate to everybody's satisfaction that there is abundant currency for moving the | | crops and conducting all the great operations | | of commerce, and when this demonstration is | once given there will be a total collapse of the inflation excitement, We have the prospect | of an active but not extravagant fall business, | | with a diminished scale of prices, requiring | less money to transact it than was necded in previous years, and exempt from the sharp | | a8 expressing a permanent public want, and | gressional elections of this year may be im- portant. Senator Thurman has recently ex- pressed the opinion that the next Presidential election is very likely to go into the House. We can account for such an opinion by so able a man only on the supposition that the republicans will elect a majority of the next House. If the democrats elect a majority of the coming Congress thero is scarcely a possi- bility of more than two candidates in the field, and with only two candidates the election cannot go into the House. If the democrats should have a majority of that body the re- publicans could not afford a split, and the democrats themselves would be too much elated to think of dividing their party when the great prize was at last within their reach. But if the repub- licans should havea majority of the House and the democratic party should, neverthe- less, seem formidable, it might be a good stroke of party tactics to encourage the grangers to run a separate ticket to prevent their joining the democrats and thus carry the election into the House, where the republi- cans would have the game in their own hands. In like manner, on the same supposition that the republicans have a majority of the House, if President Grant should makehimself a can- didate for another election an anti-third-term bolt would be perfectly safe for the republi- cans, sand a piece of adroit strategy. Tho bolters would prevent a wholesale desertion and forestall the election of a democratic President by the people. The republican ma- jority in the House would then either elect Grant or the bolting republican candidate. the success of the republicans in the Congres- sional elections of this year, which Senator | Thurman would seem to admit by necessary implication. | The Management of Our City Finances. It is always an unprofitable labor to ex- | troller Green, for the reason that they are not only unrehable but are concocted for the purpose of deception. The object of the been made by the Commissioners of Ac- counts proves that fact. people, two months before the election of charter officers, a detailed history of the re- ceipts and expenditures of the Corporation | during the year preceding the first day of the | month in which such statement is made, and, in accordance with this provision of law, Mr. Green last week published a long array of figures in the City Record. No person ever sees the City Record; but this is of less conse- quence since they could gain no correct idea of our financial operations from the Comp- troller’s muddled report. One fact, however, appears, to which it is proper that the atten- | tion of the taxpayers should be directed. competition for money created by wild specu- lative enterprises like the Northern Pacific | Railroad and so many others that exploded , | with the panic. When the country finds te it has money enough for the transaction of all | legitimate business inflation will die a quiet, | natural death. That tolly will be cured by | the spontaneous good sense of the people, | without the aid of politicians, and the cur- rency question will have no perceptible influ- | ence on the Congressional elections of the | | present year. | } It is in one respect fortunate that both. | political parties are so hopelessly divided on | this great subject. The fact that both repub- | ticans and democrats have a large infla | aba wing makes it impossible for either | to gain any party advantage by agitating this | question, so that the education of the public | mind will not be impeded by the blinding | | effect of party spirit. The ablest public jour- | nals of both parties, in the West as well as the | East, are champions of sound ideas, and | truth is certain to prevail when sound doc- trines have numerous and powerful advocates | irrespective of party lines. But inasmuch ‘as | | no party capital is to be made out of the cur- rency question, and asthe country has com- | plete security against inflation in the firm at- | titude of the President, it cannot be made an issue in ihe approaching Congressional elec- tions, and no spasmodic efforts to make it a | party issue will have any success. The only sense in which these elections are important is their bearing on the next Presi- | | dential canvass. The democrats have every | advantage for an effective appeal to the peo- | ple which they are likely to have two years | hence. Many of their most damaging topics | of invective will havo grown stale before | 1876. If these topics do not arouse the people | | now while they are fresh they will never pro- | | duce any effect. As the Presidential election draws near both the administration and | | Congress will grow cautious. They are not likely to repeat any such hazardous experiments as they ventured | upon in the flush of their last victory, like the salary grab and the Louisiana outrage. | There is little chance of a new crop of expo- | sures like those which resulted from the Crédit Mobiliez investigation, ruining Vice President Colfax and sending other prominent republi- cans to Coventry. Such grounds of inculpa- | tion are fresher now than they will ever be again, and if the democrats cannot give their | party a great lift by means of them in the election of the next Congress it is a vain ex- | pectation to suppose that they can gather up | the spent shot and fire them with effect here- | after. If the republicans are able to hold, or nearly hold, their present majority in Con- | gress, their opponents will go iuto the Presi- dential canvass under gloomy and discouraging | auspices. The elections of this year will vir- j tually decide the Presidential contest. If the | | Mr. In the twelve months from August 1, 1873, to August 1, 1874, we borrowed money on city and county bonds and stock to the total | amount of $47,184,408; of which $41,839,128 | | was on city and $5,345,280 on county account. Of this large sum, $31,032,511 was borrowed \ at the high rate of seven per cent interest; $15,551,897 was borrowed at six per cent in- terest, and only $600,000 at five per cent. Yet the whole amount of premiums received on the sale of these bonds and stocks was | $221,641, or less than one-half of one per cent | | on the total amount of stocks and bonds sold. Every business man in the city knows that with unquestionable security he can borrow money readily at the rate of five per cent per annum. The recklessness and gross inca- pacity of our present financial management can. be understood from the fact that while we pay seven per cent on nearly three-fourths of | the bonds and stocks of the city, secured upon the real estato of all the property owners in | the metropolis as well as by the public faith, we receive on their sale less than one-half of one per centpremium. This is « more striking | proof of financial stupidity than is the fact, that the public debt is increasing at such an enormous rate while our works of public im- | provement are almost at a standstill, and the | progress and prosperity of the city are dis- astrously checked. The present city government succeeded to power under the most favorable auspices for the inauguration of a wise and economical financial policy. The profligacy of the old municipal administration had momentarily embarrassed the treasury, it is true; but every- | body remembers the promptness with which moneyed institutions and citizens of wealth stepped forward to the relief of the Comptrol- ler. At that time a financier of ability would have seized the opportunity to place the city on a sound and solid financial basis. Green frittered away these advan- tages and proved himself a charlatan in finance. He has ever since been managing his department in his own interest or for the gratification of his personal likes and dis- likes. The people are kept in ignorance of their true financial condition, and only know that their debt is increasing and their taxes growing heavier and heavier every year. Mayor Havemeyer has stated to more than one citizen that if the true condition of our finances and the true amount of our debt were known it would be impossible to sell city bonds at fifty cents on the dollar. We do not know whether Mr. Havemeyer is correct in this prediction, but it is certain that the truth cannot be much longer concealed, and then the taxpayers will recognize the necessity of transferring the management of the city finances to competent hands. Tur Five Ports Straventer.—From the they willask President Grant to take will be | republicans carry New York and retain a | case, so far as it has gone, of the little Italian such as is calculated to promote their individ- | strong majority in the House the democratic | boy killed in the Five Points House of Indus- ual objects and fortunes. stances real grievances will be brought to the President's notice by disinterested persons, and it is to be hoped that appeals of this kind | may receive the attention they deserve. There are many evils to be remedied in the Southern | States, some of them arising from the unfor- tunate selections of public officers made by the national administration. This is notably the case in Texas, and it is desirable that all | such causes of complaint should be remcved. | But the President should turn a deaf ear to the scheming carpet-baggers and scalawags | who so persistently bother him with their appeals about election time, and whose friend. | ship is tho most serious evil vith wiih the ational administration has to contend. | which alone could bear them on against ad- | versaries long intrenched in power and sup- | | ported by the potent influence of the federal patronage. The whole fature of the demo- cratic party is staked upon its making great | gains this year. Its leaders, or at least | | some of its journals, are making a | mistake in trying to force the currency, which cannot be made a party question at present, and free (rade, for which the public sentiment of the country is not yet prepared, as the chief issues of this year’s elections. A party which | is in a minority cannot succeed with issues on | which its own ranks are divided or to which | they are indifferent. Thagg ig gue other aspect in which tha Gon. | But in some in- | party will lose the hope, courage and prestige | try, it is pretty clear that but for the fact that tle boy’s mother took him away we should never have heard of this crime. It is already yery clear how much power there is to | Smother testimony ; to put out of sight and | keep out of sight all the facts which were at first clear of the brutal treatment of the child, and to make it appear that he was o victim of a mere error of judgment in the use of the cold bath. If that child was killed, as we believe | he was, by the beating and its frightful shock to his feeble nervous system, it is @ crime | chargeable to the one man whose brutality | was active on the occasion; butif he was killed by the bath it is a crime chargeable to the Institution, a8 & consequence of a criminal disregard of the simvlest and most necessary But either of these contingencies presupposes | to the democrats on the third term question, | | | | | | bad protected himself by either of these wise | amine the financial reports made by Comp- | | tem of pastoral intercouse, safe from such | ; Tevolting scandals as have poured their dis- | Comptroller is to misrepresent our true finan- | | cial condition, and every statement that has | ‘The charter requires | that the Comptroller shall lay before the | | sinful to eat flesh, but a Christian obliga- | If the custom were different it would be an im- care for the health of the persons that take refuge there. Are they in the regular habit of administering their murderous baths in that way? This query that may excite the more interest in view of the fact, now made apparent, that children could have died there and been buried on the certificates of a phy- sician who did not know whether a cold bath would cause collapse, and thus not a word would ever have been heard outside of the true cause of: death. Only the accident that this mother took the child away brought out the present story. “The Social Relations of the Clergy.” Under this title the Evening Post expends a column of invective upon a recent article in the Henarp, and exhibits a zeal unchecked by courtesy and scarcely bridled by decorum. We will not imitate our contemporary’s rude ‘ discourtesy, but we trust we may set it an example of social and moral discrimination by which it may profit in its future attempts to reason on subjects of this class. It objects to our suggestion that it would be a safe and prudent rule for married clergymen to be ac- companied by their wives in making pastoral visits at hours when tho male members of the | family are absent, calling it ‘a scandalous libel’? on the clerical profession and their female parishioners. We are unable to per- ceive that there would be the slightest inde- corum in a clergyman making a call on o female member of his flock attended by his wife. We do not doubt that Mr. Beecher will regret as long as he lives that he did not either abstain from his frequent visits to Mrs. Tilton in the long absences of her husband on his lecturing tours, or take his wife with him to share in the pastoral | intercourse. What the Post calls ‘the scurvy story of Mr. Beecher's relations with the Tilton family” could never have arisen to poison the social atmosphere if he precautions. If a minister of Mr. Beecher's | great eminence is not, under the present sys- | gusting tide through the newspapers for the last five weeks it is time that some measures were adopted to shield innocence from unjust attacks and prevent guilt. It is a point of Christian ethics to give up the most harmless indulgences if the example is injurious to weaker brethren. ‘If meat make my brother | to offend,"’ says St. Paul,’’ “I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my | brother to offend.'’ Not that he thought it | tion to lay no stumbling blocks in the way of others. The Post, in denouncing our suggestion as ‘dnsulting,” overlooks the most ordinary distinctions that prevail in social reasoning. Nobody's self-respect is ever injured by con- forming to an established code of social etiquette. The rule, as soon as social usage has sanctioned it, is a complete protection to | individual sense of character as well as a bul- wark to the evil against which it is intended to guard. We will make this plain by one or two illustrations. It is an accepted point of manners that a lady does not receive the visits | of a gentleman in her sleeping apartment with the door closed. In ninety-nine cases out of | a hundred no harm would result if this rule were abrogated; but, so priceless and sensi- tive is female honor, that we presume the rule will always stand. But if it did not ; exist, if it were the ordinary custom for a lady to admit a gentleman guest to her bedchamber and shut the door, then it would, no doubt, be an_ insult, | in any individual case, to remonstrate with a lady and forbid her to receive such visits. It would be a reflection on her per- sonal character, implying that her virtue could | not be trusted in circumstances under which that of others was deemed safe. The exist- | ence of the rule as a part of the accepted code of manners protects her against every such implication. So far as we are aware no young lady with a proper respect for social opinion would make along pleasure excursion with her betrothed, spending days with him at ho- tels, without other acquaintances in the party. | peachment of her character for her friends to ob- ject; but we do not doubt that society is pretty | unanimous in regarding it as, on the whole, a prudent and wholesome custom. In the light | of these instances—which might be multiplied | indefinitely—we submit that the Post's quota- tion from Don Quixote that ‘‘no bars neoure a} maiden so well as her own reserve,” is not pertinent, and that the application the Post | makes of it is not in consonance with the set- | tled usages of society. A clergyman’s sexual | honor is as precious and sensitive as a wo- | man’s, and social usage should be equally careful lest the winds of defamation ‘visit it too roughly.”’ A recent able writer—Lecky, in his ‘“His- tory of European Morals” —in his candid and interesting description of the relative advan- tages of the Catholic and Protestant tenets respecting the celibacy or marriage of the clergy, pays ® beautiful tribute to those gentle clerical houscholds that stud Protestant countries, which Coleridge described as “the one idyll of modern life.” Lecky closes that attractive encomium with the following state- ment of the gentle and beneficent offices of the wives of clergymen: —‘In visiting the rich, relieving the poor, instructing the young and discharging a thousand delicate offices for whigh a woman’s tact is especially needed, his wife finds a sphere of labor which is at once intensely activeand intensely femi- nine, and her example is not less beneficial than her ministrations.’’ The strongest of all arguments for the Protestant practice is that it gives the clergyman a useful coworker in the sphere of pastoral duty, especially as it relates to the female part of his parishioners. If he claims the comfort and solace of matrimony, burdening his 3, 1874. —TRIPL | violence. | and South which resulted in our civil war parish with the support of a wife and family, he owes something to the parish in return, | and should give it the full advantage of these | gentle female ministrations for which his own pastoral visits can be, at best, but a coarse | substitute. The rule which we suggested can be defended on quite other than its precaution- ary grounds, and its adoption could not shock | any reasonable person's self-respect, whether clergyman or laywoman. It is preposterous to say, as the Post in effect does, that a lady | would be insulted by a clergyman’s call attended with his wife, or that it is “a scan- dalons libel’ on the clergy to suggest that this would be a prudent custom to adopt E SHEET, The War of Races. The fall and graphic accounts we publish to-day of the lamentable war of antagonism that exists between the whites and negroes in the South and that daily exhibits iteelf in ac- tions disgraceful to a civilized nation will be perused with deep regret by our readers. The baleful influence of the Civil Rights bill upon the educational system in Tennessee by rais- ing the cry for mixed schools as the proper method of elevating the negro to terms of social equality with his white brother bids fair to destroy the public schools in that State. As might have been anticipated, this attack on educational institutions and the horrible out- rages—of which our exchanges inform us—are mainly tho handiwork of unscrapulous dema- gogues and incendiaries, who try to make capital by exciting the worst passions of the human mind. The mutual repugnance of the two races is deep and real, and where the State governments are inadequate to hold such dangerous elements in check the worst conse- quences may be feared. Tt was alwayg predicted by our statesmen, previous to the civil war, that emancipation would be followed by a merciless war of races, and the most enlightened foreign observers adopted the same opinion. The philosophic De Tocqueville said, in his great work on our institutions, “I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off a struggle of the two | races in the United States.” He thought there was no safe intermediate course between holding the negroes in servitude and inter- mingling with them after emancipation, and that anything short of perfect social equality and intermarriages seemed ‘‘likely to termi- nate in the most horrible of civil wars, and, perhaps, in the extirpation of one or other of the two races." Of course this opinion had something to justify it or it would not have been held by so many able men. Nine years of experience since the close of the war has nearly convinced the world that their view of the danger was prodigiously exaggerated if not wholly chimerical. But the recent occurrences in the South make it necessary to revise this opinion and inquire if there wera not some real ground for the old fears. and bitter discontent. There is cord of action between the two races, and the | | estrangement has grown with the progress of the experiment. Time has exerted no healing influence. In politics the negroes are all on one side and the great body of the white citi- | zens on the other; and the latter, in despair of ever dividing the colored vote, are boginuing to revive the old cry of a white man’s party. The two races stand more widely apart to-day than they have at any previous time since the close of the war, and the breach seems more likely to widen than to be closed. Whether the former predictions of so many sagacious men of a war of races as the inevi- table consequence of emancipation would have been so long falsified if the two races had been left to themselves it is impossible to say. The federal government has stood | over tho South as the menacing guardian of the freedmen, maintaining large bodies of troops there until some time after the work of reconstruction bad been completed, protect- | facts, | If thera bas | @nded by the Aldermen. | been peace in the South since emancipation it | Be ROR erg TES tas tet en Oe is undeniable that there has also been deep | 3 tone neither | 8°™e suspicion that it might have been pur- | friendship nor harmony of feeling nor con- i, general apathy in the party camps throughout the country. If the domocratic party were harmoniously organized and working actively as a unit upon national issues, and in behalf of an honest currency, the constitution, law and order, it could now do great things; but the fact is the democracy, as a national organiza- tion, were never more distracted, divided and adrift than they are at this time. And herein lie the hopes and the apparent confidence of the republicans in the general profits and losses,from all the elections of this year for the next Congress. We are badly cut up and demoralized, say the republicans; but the opposition being without head, body or tail, what have we to fear? We cannot meet this question now, but we may be able to answer it in October. The signs from the Vermont election are certainly calculated to encourage the opposition forces in other States with hopes of success, particularly when the heavy burden of a third term appears to be fixed upon the back of the republican party as fast as the Old Man of tho Sea. The Charges Against the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correc- ‘tion. The Board of Aldermen meet to-day after their summer recess. Some months ago they directed the Commissioners of Accounts to investigate the official acts of the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correction and the condition of the department, and to report the result of their examination to the Board. The fact that the purchase of dry goods on account | of the city by one of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, Mr. Meyer Stern, had been the subject of investigation by a Grand Jury and had been presented by the in- qnest as illegal and tending directly to cor- ruption, rendered the action of the Board of Aldermen proper and timely, especially as other charges of irregular and illegal conduct had been made against Mr. Stern and his associates, and Mayor Havemeyer had neglected to make an honest inquiry into the The Commissioners of Accounts have had ample time to make the investigation de- Indeed, the delay on by the press of the city and has excited posely suppressed. It is to be hoped, there- tore, that these injurious ramors will at once | be set at rest and that the report will be placed betore the Aldermen to-day. It will be remembered that one of the | charges against the Mayor is that of having | failed to properly investigate the alleged illegal acts of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction. It has been shown in the Henrarp that dry goods, flour, beef and other articles have been purchased by the Commis- sioners in excessive quantities, at exorbitant prices and in violation of the provisions of the charter; that the census of the institu- tions has been misrepresented; that bills for supplies have been altered and falsified im order to evade the law or to clude the conse- quences of its violation. The people desire to know whether these charges are well founded or aro unjust. We repeat all that wo have | heretofore alleged against the tainted depart- i ment, and are ready to substantiate our ing the blacks and holding the white inhabi- | tants in fear. What would have happened in their absence is matter of mere speculation and conjecture; but certain it quietness has not increased since their withdrawal. If a war of races should arise and become general it will be the fruit of long indulged animosities breaking out with sudden The ill-fecling between the North | was thirty years in ripening; but it will not require thirty years nor half of that period to fan the hostility of the two races to the point of general bloodshed if it goes on at its present pace. It will not do to ignoro the | necessary tendency of these growing senti- ments of mutual repugnance because its vio- | | lent manifestations are as yet only local and sporadic, The dangerous passions out of which they grow pervade the whole South. We wish we could impress the Southern whites with a due sense of the importance of arresting and controlling these ill-boding ten- dencies. If they canot keep peace between the two races nothing is more certain than armed interference by the federal government, which nobody has so much reason to depre- cate as the people of the South. They have had enough of this already, and should mot invite it again. The precious right of: self- government, so tong impaired in tue South, | can be reacquired only by patient efforts dur- ing a period of internal peace. Their experi- ence has taught them how monstrously even small disturbances are exaggerated by the in- cendiary portion of the Northern press and the inflammatory effect of such exaggerations in arousing passions of which political partisans are too ready to take advantage, We appeal to thoughtful and patriotic Southern citizens to save their unfortunate section from the hor- rors and the new federal oppression which would accompany and follow a war of races. The Vermont Election. The general results of the Vermont election are as they have been from year to year within the memory of ‘the oldest inhabi- tant’—that is, they are heavy majorities against the democratic party. Vermont, in the days of the old whig party, was distin- guished as ‘the star which never sets,"’ and under the republicans it is known as “the State which never fail: but at length it is evidently getting a little shaky. The dates, the outside factions and the prevailing looseness of party discipline, were never .so marked in Vermont as in this late election. Nor will the plea answer that the republicans areso strong in Vermont that they can indulge there in these fantastic tricks without fear of defeat; nor will it do to say that this is an “off year” in our party politics, wherein the State elections, one way or the other, are per- | mitted to go by default; for this is not ‘an off year,"’ but the Congressional year, and o Congressional year which, in its results, will go fur to reunite and strengthen or to dis- tract and weaken the republican party in the important work of the approaching Prosidential campaign. General apathy among the republicans’ in Vermont, to the extent developed in this late electisn. means is that | charges by procf if they should be denied by the Commissioners of Accounts. But we have been willing to hear what the said Commis- sioners have to advance before pursuing the subject further. We now call upon them for their report without further delay. Should it be longer withheld the Commissioners of | Accounts may find themselves in the position of accomplices in the illegal acts of the de- partment they have been instructed to in- vestigate. Tux Onto Repupiicans, in their State Convention, have adopted a regulation platform, one of the provisions of which demands of public agents fidelity to their principles, the honest execution of the pledgos ; made to the people, aud purity, integrity and economy in the discharge of their official duties. A very pretty theory indeed, if it can only be reduced to practice. Specie re- sumption, debt redemption, cheap transporta- tion, colored civil rights and temperance are also advocated. The Ohio republicans evi- dently think that the millenninm is not far distant. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, SERRA PETER, Baez, of St. Domingo, «ins gone to Curagoa, Ex-Governor Jonna T, Ho@man and family are tw Paris. *In Nevada they lave called anew town “Nest- ; hiding.’” General A. 5. Diven, of Elmira, is staying at the Hofman House. Bishop John F. Young, of Fiorida, is residing at the Astor House. ‘The Welsh are at Bangor for an eisteddiod, They | have terrible names. Mr. Thomas Ball, the sculptor, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bazaine says the report that he nad given his word not to escape “13 false.’ Rev. Dr. Warren, 01 Chicago, 1s among tho recent arrivals at the Gilsey House. Ex-Congressman Lewis McKenzie, of Virgima, is stopping at the Astor House. Commander A. P. Cooke, United States Navy, ts registered at the Gilsey House, Prince and Princess Ohartes of Roumania are at Claridge’s Hotel, London. Her Majesty the Empress of Austria aad suite are at Claridge’a Hotel, Loadon. Commodore J. M. Fratley, Unitea States Navy, ts quartered at the Surtevant House. State Senator Daniel ?. Wood, of Syracuse, has arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Quincy, Mass., has apartments at the Brevoort House, General Babcock arrived in Washington yester- day, where he will remain three or four days. Lieutenant R, C. Tillyer Blunt, of the British | Navy, has quarters at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, general apathy, the bolts against the regular | | party nominations, the independent candi Assistant Adjutant General J. B. Stonehouse ar. | rived from Aibany yesterday, at the Hotel Brung | wick. Mr. PF. Hegermann Lindencrone, Danish Charge Affaires at Washington, is 4b the Grevoort House, Harriet Beecher Stowe refuses to talk about lienry—ane (8 80 sorry for What she said about. Byron. London had in the second week of August 91,000 paupers, and the births tn the same city for the same week Were 2,365, white the deaths were onip 1,368. General R. R. Cowan, Assistant Secretary, has returned to Washington trom his summer excur- sion, and 18 discharging the duties of Secretary of the [nvertor. Lewis D. Campbell, of Onto, writes to the Democratic Convention of his Congressioaal dis- trict to say that 45 his name has been mentioned for Congress, ‘he neither has claims to nor per- sonally wants that or any other oMce or nomina- tion.’ He dees not wank to be thousat “Aa obronie ofce-seGker.”