The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1874, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—Stocks fairly active yesterday, somewhat irregular, but on the whole firm. Gold was steady at 1093 a 1094. Tax Yettow Fever Srory.—The story that came to us yesterday to the effect that yellow | fever had made its appearance on the Gulf and the Atlantic coast seems to have been IL ON PaRun Rar | joice and feel that they were magnificently M.; closes at 11 P.M. | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ‘10, The Way to Reconstruction. The profound and extraordinary impression which has been made in various parts of the country and more especially in the South by the Hzraxp’s advocacy of a national conven- tion as the sure means of solving the diffi- culties now surrounding reconstruction should not be misunderstood. We have presented the case as a cold problem in political economy, | a8 the means, or, what we profoundly trust, | may be the means toa most desirable end. | The reception of this idea by the country | shows the activity of the national mind in grasping political problems, as well as of the | extreme sensitiveness of the Northern States | upon all questions arising out of the war. It | is this sensitiveness, which we have discussed | as the want of courage on the part of the North, which we now dread as the principal | obstacle in the path of reconstruction. ‘As a general thing the temper of these dis- cussions is admirable. There is every desire on the part of the North to be kind to the South, to remember the appalling burdens that necessarily fell upon its people from the | war; to assist the people in resuming their | position in the Union. The National Republi- can, generally conservative, as becomes a gov- ernment organ, in dealing with the Southern | question surprises us by an argument based | upon the principle that the rebels should re- | | treated because we did not hang them. Mr. Senator Anthony, in the Providence Journal, sees many difficulties in the proposed conven- | tion, mainly arising out of the necessities of | the republican party. Some journals, whose editors do not read to the bottom of a subject, complain of our advocacy of a plan to pay the | slaveholders a large sum of money for their | slaves, not seeing that we expressly regarded such a proposition as impracticable and in vio- lation of the constitution. One thick-witted critie sees in our plan an insidious attempt to restore the democratic party to power, and | affects to believe that we speak in some way for that party. The grotesque averment is | also made that the Hznaxp is in favor of dis- | union, and that in proposing a convention of all the States to consolidate the Union and put | an end to the frightful scandals that now per- | vade the South we ara really Sapporting a dis- | | solution of the confederacy. Our readers yesterday had the advantage of seeing what Governor Wise, of Virginia, | thinks of this proposition, and this morning | we print an elaborate expression of the views | of R. M. T. Hunter, as given to our Rich- mond correspondent. Mr. Hunter has long | been one of the most eminent leaders of the | South, a Man who in his time wielded com- | manding influence not merely in the councils | of the Union, but also in the councils of the | | Confederacy. A man of rare and comprehen- sive ability, who went into disunion not pri- | marily, but rather in the eddies of Virginian | secession, his influence has always been for humanity and peace. Since the war he has | aided reconstruction in Virginia in the hum- | blest, most self-denying but most efficient man- ner; and there is no man in that State more entitled to our respect and attention. What | Mr. Hunter admires in the Hzrayp plan is its | wisdom, and, ‘“‘what is even better, its good | | spirit toward the South,’ and he does us the @ coarse and cruel cotton-jobbing canard, lh . a z onor to say that ‘if the government had soley i ia es aS oa been governed by such views in its conduct aoe cid et aun Gs i ©! oy gees | toward the South heretofore and since the ever, and there is no fear of its appearance | ya it would have been better for all con- et this season of the year. In THe Sxres.—The balloon question should be settled soon, so that we may know some- thing of the air tides and the currents in the heavens. Our Philadelphia correspondent de- scribes a balloon trip from that city to Allen- town, which was a pleasant adventure. If these air excursions are scientifically managed, they should yield us curious information about the upper regions, and perhaps lead to discov- eries of value in reference to the navigation of the air. Tue Evening Post, in dwelling with com- mendable emphasis upon the fact that ‘‘the Henatp possesses a large circulation,’’ ex- presses the natural regret that ‘‘the voters of this State are not as enlightened as the Henaup,”’ a circumstance which the Post, with characteristic acumen, regards as a misfor- tune ‘‘for the cause of good government.’’ Let it be our duty, as well as the duty of th Post, to educate the people. Let us show the democracy that to force Mr. Tilden upon the State ticket now is to sacrifice the success of the party in the State and its presumptive success in the nation in 1876, simply to aid the local ambition of Tammany Hall. Mr. Tilden will only run, if at all, to help Mr. Kelly. Tue Suaxesrzane Discusston.—The discus- sion that now takes place in the foram of the Henan, as to whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote what are called ‘“‘Shakespeare’s plays,” is continued this morning. Mr. Furness, of Philadelphia, o learned and graceful Shake- spearian student, pronounces earnestly in favor of Shakespeare. Mr. Davey addresses us an exhaustive and able letter taking the same ground. These and the other con- tributions are exceedingly valuable accessions to Shakespearian literature, and show the of the modern importance newspaper, not only as an advocate of opinions and a gazette of news, but as a lyceum for investigation. In this discus- sion, as our friends must again permit us to remind them, the Hrrap is of no party. We merely present the case, looking upon the | debate with as much interest as our readers, and reserving our own judgment until it is closed. Owma to a Break IN THE CABLES con- necting at St. Pierre communication with Europe has been interrupted for the last twenty-four hours. The value of telegraphic communication was felt very strongly by the mercantile body, who were left in ignorance of the finc- tuations of values in Europe. Owing to the absence of stirring events in Europe the gen- eral public did not feel the interruption very much. The accident, however, teaches the | lesson that we should not be content to depend on one or two cables terminating at the same point, and therefore exposed to the danger of | being rendered useless by the same accident | or local cause that disables one. Prompt com- | munication with Europe is as much a neces- sity now as the morning newspaper, and we cannot be content to remain exposed to the | danger of being cut off from hourly informa- tion of what is passing in the Old World, We tuust heve move ocean cables, * | injury to the national credit? cerned.” The evils in the South, he argues, | arise from the studious attempt to destroy the self-respect of the people and clothe the | | worst classes with power. History shows no | record of such treatment as the South has received from the North since the times of the Spartans and their helots. The South suffers from a ruined people and the North must soon suffer in sympathy; for if the South, once a potent agent in the production of wealth and credit, had not been stricken down, the panic would have been less severe in its effects. The South is now pinioned by the action of the government. If, as President Lincoln suggested, emancipation had been accom- | panied by ‘‘a small compensation, even by way | of a loan,” ‘it would have gone far to revive the credit of a section which for so long fur- | nished the bulk of the foreign exports of the | country.” Why should the South be in- | duced to ‘destroy its own liberties to ob- tain immunity from outrage or oppres- | sion,’ to take “that long step toward des- potism, the third term?’ If the South is to | | be punished by the North and the East, what is to prevent an alliance with the West on financial questions that would do irreparable Mr. Hunter | does not know whether a convention could | decide these questions, but ‘the model Re- | public should find some more appropriate | work for its soldiers” than to Africanize and | barbarize the Southern States. | Thus far the drift of the discussion. We | | shall mark its progress from fime to time, for | it is a question that cannot be discussed with too much earnestness and candor. And let us | say now, in answer to many criticisms, and so | that it may be clear even to the most preju- diced mind, that the arguments presented by the Henazp do not contemplate any interfer- ence with the negro, except to give him every right that belongs to a free American citizen. Nor do we propose to vote the old slavehold- ers a certain sum of dollars as an indemnity. Nor do we mean to affect in any way the moral and political value of emancipation. Nor do we contemplate the disunion of these States as a consequence of the meeting of this con- vention. Nor have we considered whether | the effect of our plan would be to restore the | democratic party to power, having never given | that party a thought in the matter, caring | nothing for it, and believing it to be as cor- | | rupt and weak in the handling of solemn questions as the republican party. Nor do we.desire, as that always courteous and can- did journal, the Evening Mail, fears, to belittle the act of emancipation. Nor can we see, so far as the Union is concerned, that the effect of this policy would be other than to minister | | to good feeling and peace and secure the | Union from the war of races now threatened in the South, and from the war against our credit now so successfully waged in many Southern States—two evils that would be more fatal to us than the success of the re- bellion itself. This is our position. We see as @ conse- quence of the war, arising out of it, and its inevitable result, perhaps, many new and per- plexing problems. The country seems to | have swung loose from the old moorings, from | the ways and courses laid down by the fathars, ‘There nes une South, Dieeding, Dankrupt, Gis- j honored—crime assuming the name of legis- lation and anarchy dissolving society. We see the Presidency and the Senate clothed with exceptional and undemocratic power, while the popular house is not, as it should be, the real source of government. The inde- pendence of States and municipal bodies has been fused into one vast central, practically irresponsible and governing central power. ‘‘Cwsarism,” which a year ago was esteemed by some as & HERALD sensa- tion, is now seen to have been a Hrnatp prophecy, and is so important that State con- ventions deal with it as a solemn and menacing issue. In the West the railway controversy has assumed a shape that no Legislature and no court can control. Ques- tions of emigration and civil service, of civil rights and the right of States to contract debts which cannot be paid, and to repudiate other debts that should be paid, are all new, threatening, immediate. Upon their solution depends not merely the prosperity of the South, but, as we are profoundly convinced, the future happiness and fame of the Union. Thus believing, we say that there is no better way to meet and determine these ques- tions than by assembling all the States in a national convention of peace and recon- struction. We are coming upon our centen- nial anniversary, and how better can we cele- brate the hundred years of our national life than to meet in solemn convention and con- sider the state of the Union, adjusting every issue that now threatens our peace and enter- ing upon our second century more confirmed in our republicanism and more thoroughly devoted to liberty and union? New York LiberalsSenator’ Fenton's Position. The New York liberal republicans have held their State Convention, declared their plat- The | form, and have left their State ticket to be considered hereafter. Their course will probably be the same as that of last year, | when they adopted a mixed State ticket from the republican and democratic nominations, and when with their six or seven thousand votes thrown in as a balance of power they elected their niéu. But as a balance of power | tho liberals will doubtless direct their efforis mainly to secure a balance in the Assembly, whereby they may wield their little strength to some purpose in the election of a United States Senator in place of Mr. Fenton, whose term expires on the 4th of March next. Our State Senate (republican) elected last year, holds good for the coming Legislature, and against the republicans (for the United States Senator) the only chance is an opposition majority in the Assembly (of five or six) which will give a majority on joint ballot. According to the results of our last Novem- | ber election the republicans, under the guber- natorial banner of General Dix, have clearly the best show for the Assembly; but the demo- crata, under the advantages to them of general apathy, are hopeful, while here and there the liberals expect to secure a member, and if they only gain even two or three members, all told, they may be enough to turn the scale perhaps in favor of the re-election of Senator Fenton. That, as a liberal or independent, he is a candidate for another Senatorial term we cannot doubt, and his position, as defined the other evening ina public speech before the liberals at’ Albany, is such that upon a pinch, as a last resort and as a choice of evils, he may be taken up by republicans or demo- crats. f Mr. Fenton claims that the liberals in the cause of reform have done good service within the last two years, but that much remains to be done. He holds that the principles of his party are in the end sure of entire success. He is sound on the money question. He dis- trusts the motives and the wisdom of an ad- ministration which assumes the power to regulate State and local affairs. He de- nounces the lack of attention, the lack of comprehension, or the lack of honest intent, at thie head of affairs, which he will discuss at another time. From all this it is apparent that no agreement has been entered into be- tween the national administration and Mr. Fenton, but that the Senator remains in the attitude of inflexible hostility to the national powers that be. Asan active guerilla party, therefore, under Mr. Fenton, the liberals in our approaching State election may possibly gain the whip-hand in the Assembly over the democrats and the republicans. We can- not tell, however, until we shall have heard from the democrats at Syracuse and the re- publicans at Utica. The Black Hills—The Gates Closed. The Acting Secretary of the Interior, B. R. Cowen, in a letter to Governor J. L. Penning- ton, of Dakota, informs him that the gold bearing country of the beautiful Black Hills, recently explored by General Custer and his command, belongs to the reservation secured by treaty obligations to the Sioux Indians, and that, under this treaty, the United States have solemnly agreed ‘‘that no persons except those herein designated (Indiaus) and except such officers, agents and employés of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations,” &c., ‘shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon or reside in the terri- tory (i. ¢, reservation) described in this | article, or in such territory as may be added to this reservation for the use of said Indians.” And the only power that can remove these re- strictions is that which made the treaty, which includes the consent of the Indians. General Sheridan, therefore, was entirely | right in his stringent order against all parties of white men meditating an expedition to those interdicted Black Hills. They belong to the Sioux Indians, end. their gates are closed against all unauthorized white adventurers. From General Custer's fas- cinating descriptions, however, of the gold bearing streams and ‘mountains and exquisitely beantiful and bountiful floral valleys of the Black Hills, there will doubtless be, with the return of the govern- ment to its winter quarters, a successful out- | side pressure brought to bear upon it for a new treaty with the Sioux Indians, embracing the extinguishment of their title to this new El Dorado, Let the gold hunters, then, ‘possess their souls in patience,’ for doubtless the iron gates to this charming mountain-bound land, with its inviting supplies of deer, trous and game, its ettensive fields of grass, its gardens of flowers, its forests of pine, and its treasures of gold, will be opened to miners and settlers in the suring, ‘dne Wemocratic Revolt Against Tam- many. The success of Tammany Hall in putting Mr. Tilden so conspicuously forward at Albany as to make the danger of his nomination im- minent resulted from the weakness and in- activity of other candidates, It was the sense of the party that Judge Church was its one victorious leader, and so long as there was the faintest chance of his acceptance every candidate except Mr. Tilden stood back, wisely relinquishing such claims as they had in favor of the only man whom they all be- lieved could be triumphantly elected against so strong and popular an opponent as Gover- nor Dix. Mr. Tilden and his Tammany backers took advantage of this praiseworthy reluctance by pulling every wire to bring him into the foreground. Judge Church him- self was inactive from self-respect and a sense of judicial propriety as others were from deference to his superior strength, and Mr. Tilden, with the astuteness in which nobody ever thought him deficient, saw his oppor- tunity and entered the field which nobody was prepared to contest. He knew that Judge Church did not want the nomination, that he could consent to take it only at a great personal sacrifice, that judicial dignity as well as personal disinclination held him back, and in this absence of competition Mr, Tilden saw the one chance of his life for se- curing coveted official prominence. Tammany was quick to perceive the. value of such a candidate for its selfish local purposes and was too willing to sacrifice the party in the State if it could thereby recover jts ascendapey in the city, whose spoils and plunder, which the Tammany men would enjoy alone, so far exceed the patronage of the State government, of which they would be obliged to give the lion’s share to the rural democracy: Tammany Hall accordingly gave its most energetic support {6 the preten- sions of Mr. Tilden, and when, at a late day, Judg2 Church decided that he would not permit his friends to make him a candidate, Mr. Tilden had stolen solong a march on all the other candidates that he seemed to have the field quite to himself. : This state of the canvass filled the demo- eratic leaders of the interior of the State with foreboding anxiety. They had no objection to Mr. Tilden on y~rsonal grounds, but they did not believe ho could be elected. They were alarmed at the prospect of losing the | State for the benefit ot the Tammany organ- ization in the city. It now seems that they again beset Judge Church, and this time with an urgency which would listen to no denial, to consent to be a candidate and rescue the party from the defeat which they believed would follow the nomination of Mr. Tilden. It appears that Judge Church yielded on con- dition that all rival candidates would with- draw and that the nomination should come to him as the unanimous wish of the democratic party of the State. Hence the assembling of the rural democratic leaders at Albany, their invitation to Mr. Tilden to meet and confer with them, and their attempt to bring about graceful retirement for the good of the party. This vigorous effort to get a fatal candi- date out of the way exposes the hollowness of some recent declamation to the effect that if Mr. Tilden is rejected it will prove that «Tweed can stretch forth his hand from Black- well’s Island and dictate the nominations of the democracy.”” Such frantic rhetoric can have little weight withsjudicious, self-poised citizens, who see that the strenuous protests against Mr. Tilden’s nomination come from the rural districts of the State, which abominate Tweed and all his belongings, and think that ‘Tammany Hall, scarcely yet disinfected of the scandal of his leadership, would be a mill- stone on the neck of the New York democ- racy if it were allowed to dictate the’ name for the chief place on the ticket. They believe health and safety re- quire that a ship which has so recently had the putrid yeliow fever on board should be kept fora reascnable time in political quar- antine. It is not from Blackwell's Island, but trom the honest rural ‘masses of the in- terior, that the remonstrance comes against [ taking a democratic gubernatorial candidate from the city, put forward by Tammany Hall, which has not yet established confidence by “works meet for repentance.’’ It is because the old Tweed taint is not yet washed out of Tammany, or, at least, not out of its reputa- tion, that the rural democrats, whose hands are clean of municipal plunder, so vehemently object to Tammany domination in the coun- cils of the party. It does not yet appear what course the rural democrats will pursue after their unsuc- cessful attempt to induce Mr. Tilden to with- draw. They are embarrassed by Judge Church’s refusal to run without the unani- mous support of the party. Their contention with Mr. Tilden has no tendency to slacken their opposition, and since Judge Church has yielded so far, they may think it expedient to nominate him without his consent and’ put upon him the responsibility of declining against the wishes of the Convention. Such a nomination, even if he refuses to accept it, would dispose of Mr. Tilden, and as Judge Church can be communicated with at once by telegraph, while the Convention is still in session, the delegates who have defeated Tilden can unite on another candidate. of Garcia. It appears from later telegrams received from Havana that the annodiiiicement of the dewth of the Cuban patriot General Calixto Garcia Ifequez was premature. The cor- rected telegram states that the General and The Capture General Calixto | several of his staff were made prisoners and earried into Manzanillo. This is the severest blow the Cuban cause has received since the death of Cespedes. It sweeps away the most respected and the ablest chief of the in- surrection in the Eastern Department. Unfor- tunately for the Cuban cause there is no man capable of taking his place. Others there may be as brave, but none who possess the mingled shrewdness and audacity of the cap- tured rebel leader. We hope the Span- ish authorities will show the humanity and good sense in deal- ing with General Garcia that they exhibited in the case of Rojas and Jiminez, Blood enough has been shed in this unfor- tunate contest, and Spain cannot adopt a wiser policy than to hold out the olive branch of peace practically in dealing with captured Cubans. The Spanish authorities should not forget at thia woment that (gnaral Garcia same 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. often sparea tne ves of Spanish prisoners, setting them at liberty, depending on their gratitude and sense of honor not again to take up arms against the cause of Cuba. Spain can well afford to be magnani- mous. She holds in her hands one of her most dangerous enemies, and by adopting toward him a policy of mercy and forgiveness she might be able to lay the foundation of a restoration of peace. A contrary policy must result to her. disadvantage by convincing the men in the insurgent camp that their only hope of safety lies in resist- ance. If this mistake be made the war will continue to drag on for years with the result of bringing ruin and bankruptcy on Cuba. On the other hand, to extend mercy to General Garcia would be to the insurgents an unmistakable announcement of amnesty to all who should lay down their arms, The ad- vantages to be gained by adopting this policy are so many that we should be astonished if the authorities at Havana should neglect to make use of the opportunity it affords them to weaken the insurrection. ‘What the Musical Season Will Bring Forth. The arrangements of the musical managers for the coming season are now complete enough to be abieto give a prospect of the entire season. And here it may bo said, the feeling of diffidence which has pervaded other business circles since the terrible time of the panic, a year ago, has taken hold in musical circles with like tenacity. With the excep- tions of Italian and English opera, the inevi- table opéra bouffe and a few concert troupes, the musical outlook is poor indeed. Concerts will be few and far between and oratorios and grand choral combinations almost unknown, Tho Italian opera company of the Strakosch Brothers aims to be in accordince with the desired stan- dard of g perfect ensemble, in which artists, chorts, orthestra, mise en svtne and appoint- ments will be in harmony rather than the triumph of a single star, Six prime donne— Albani, Heilbron, Donadio,.Potentini, Maresi and Cary—must be sufficient in point of num- bers to satisfy the most exacting. Three tenors— Carpi, Debassini and Benfratelii—will be pre- sented for the first time, and the two bari- tones, Tagliapetra and Del Puente, and the bassos, Fiorini and Scolara, will make up a good assemblage of the solo artists. The co- operation of one of the best conductors of the present day, Signor Muzio, with a fine chorus and orchestra, and the promise of new scenes and effects in each opera, must raise high ex- pectations of the success of the season. Then the répertoire is rich in novelties. Marchetti’s ‘Ruy Blas,’’ Gounod’s ‘(Romeo and Juliet’ and Wagner's “Flying Dutch- man”’ will be genuine novelties, and the re- vivals of ‘The North Star,” ‘Dinorah,’’ “Othello” and ‘‘Hamlet’’ may be considered also in the light of novelties, as they will be brought out for the first time in complete form. Miss Kellogg unfortunately commences her English ‘opera season at Chicago instead of New York. The metropolis should be her starting point, considering the fact that she has with her a fine company, comprising such well known artists as Mme. Van Zandt, Miss Beaumont, Mrs. Seguin, and Messrs. Castle, Campbell, Maas, Carleton and Peakes. Miss Kellogg proposes this season to introduce to the American public the posthumous work of the lamented Balfe, ‘‘The Talisman,”’ which has had already an Italian rendering during the summer at Drury Lane, London. This company will visit New York probably during the holidays. Mr. Theodore Thomas and his orchestra close their concerts at Central Park Garden in a week or two and start ona tour through the provinces. It is too bad that the regular patrons of music in this city on their return from the summer resorts should be in time only to witness the departure of the best in- terpreters of classical music in America, and there is no reason, with a suitable winter garden, why Mr. Thomas should not continue those interesting concerts all the year round. There is talk of a reform in the Philharmonic Society, and a Boston quintet club of solo instrumentalists promise us agisit. French and English opéra bouffe will be the leading features at the Lyceum Theatre (the former has made a very bad beginning), and Mlle. Di Murska proposes to appear in two concerts at Steinway Hall. There seems to be an un- accountable apathy among concert managers, which at this period of the season will tend to concentrate all attention upon the opera. We hear no more also of the great oratorio society that last season promised so much and accomplished nothing. A few public spirited lovers of music, with the necessary means at their disposal, could do much toward giving the people of New York regular musical en- tertainments beyond those furnished by the opera. The concert field is a boundless one, but it is comparatively deserted this year. The Manifesto of the British Scien- tists at Belfast. The grand gathering of the clans of science at, Belfast, which has just adjourned, will mark a momentous era in the history of the age. No student of the progress of modern philosophy can fail to be impressed with the altered tone and emboldened claim there put forth by its great votaries, who within the memory of men still living were wont to wear the mien of modesty and disavow every specu- lative pretension. Taken as the spokesmen of the great brotherhood of science, the hon- ored leaders who ‘spoke out at Belfast bave | made a manifesto which will ring forth in no ambiguous sound over the whole world. Their words aré an undisguised declaration of war upon systems which their forefathers in science professed to revere, and which have confessedly shaped the morals, the religion and the law of all Christendom. It is the part of a skilful strategist to shift the scene of active military operations from the field where he manceuvres to disadvantage to one where he can strike a fatal blow, and yet, in case of reverse, find an easy retreat. Such has been the strategy of those who met at Belfast to plan the campaign and -fight the battle of science against the religious system which seeks to chasten its pride of reason and confine it within the legitimate limits of scien- tific thought. As, more than once, we have predicted, the aim has been disclosed to make the theory of evolution the dark and myste- scientists wage for supremacy. No longer is it proposed to bring every thonght and every rious ground of the future conflict which | nr ca vs — claim to the light of the Iaboratory and teat: every future deduction by the experimentum crucis. A higher method of research than in- duction and o more perfect criterion of truth than observation are set up; and henceforth the science of the age, taking its animation from the fiat of its Tyndalls and Huxleys, will soar on the wings of speculation, revelling im what its grand master calls ‘the scientific use of the imagination." There is something greatly to be deplored in all this. There was a time when the great philosopher, William Whewell, could open the British Association with the avowal that ‘‘an intellectual grasp of material laws has no moral worth except it be combined’ with another movement of the mind, raising it to the perception of a First Cause.” There was a time when another not less honored ex- ponent of science declared in the same assem- bly:—“Infidelity and irreligion are the off- spring of ignorance united to presumption.” On a similar occasion the great astronomer and physicist, Sir John Herschel, proclaimed, “the time seems to be approaching when & merely mechanical view of nature will become impossible;’’ and, speaking of the very “law of development” now deified by Mr. Tyndall and Mr. Darwin, asserted, with all em- phasis; —‘‘Take the amazing facts of geology which way we will, we must resort elsewhere than to a mere speculative law of development for their explanation.” These grand utter- ances of men who were patriarchs in science before our Belfast scientists were fledged are now disowned and repudiated, and the friendly guides who have led the science of this century ap to its commanding heights are dismissed in disgrace, Henceforth the shib- boleth of science will be ‘‘evolution,” and the heterodox philosopher will find that there is a hierarchy of evolution as imperzous, as relentless and bitter in its persecution as the religions ierarchy against which Professes Thdail utters his defiant and aggressive bull of excommunication. It were next to idle to attempt any refuta+ tion of the wild assertions, which in the name of intellectual liberty and free philosophic re search have been so copiously vented at Bel- fast. It is difficult to fight an enemy in a thicket, enveloped in fog or shrouded in dense smoke which he has kindled. This ia tho confessed state of the case, ‘The strength of the doctrine of evolution consists,” saya Professor Tyndall himself, ‘‘not in experi- mental demonstration (for the subject ia hardly accessible to this mode of proof), but in its general harmony with the method of nature ag hitherto known.” In fact, the highest process of reasoning claimed by the evolutionist is inferential. ‘‘The condor ia circling in the sky; therefore a lion is devour+ ing a horse below. Tho sheep turn their tails to the southwest; therefore there will ba a gale from that quarter.” And yet, while allowing that his magnificent speculations cannot be tested by ‘‘experimental demonstra- tion,” the great specalator requires his hearers to dismiss everything unfriendly to his fancy, even the inspired account of the creation as given in the Mosaic narrative. “We have no hesitation in saying the day was an ill-fated one for science when the war on Scripture and Christianity was declared at Belfast. Those who have enlisted at that mar tial call must consent to part with the glory of science, inherited from the Christian philoso- phers—the Newtons, the Youngs, the Whew- elis, the Faradays—and enter upon an unequal strife, in which victory itself would be buta shame and a defeat. No change of programma” can be expected from the leaders of British science, who are wedded to their idols. Cam no counter-movement, which shall confront that inaugurated at Belfast, be undertaken on this side the water? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The Graphic comes out for the'third term. Captain Mullins, of the British Army, 1s quartered at the Windsor Hotel. Hh Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, ta at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. @The French Association for the Advancement of Science is in session at Lille. There will be an International Geographical Congress in Paris in March, 1875, Rev. Dr. Lewis, of New Orleans, has taken up hia residence at the St. Denis Hotel. On the 21st ult. the topmost stone of the Ven- Ome column was put in its place. Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, yes- terday arrived at the Windsor Hotel, rs President M. B, Anderson, of Rochester Univer- sity, is staying at the Everett House, Ex-Congressman R. J, Haldeman, of Pennsyl- vania, is stopping at the Astor House, In Switzerland people are signing a pledge not to drink beer—until the price comes down. State Senator William Johnson, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor Alexander H. Bullock, of Massa chosetts, is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Lieutenant Governor ©. C, Antoine, of Louisi- ana, is sojourning at the Westmoreland Hotel, Mr. Nicolas de Voigt, Russian Chargé d’Affatres at Washington, has apartments at the New York Hotel. ) General 0. E. Babcock, Private Secretary oa President Grant, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Emperor William will visit Kiel on the 16th inst, to witness the !aunch of the iron-clad Frederic the Great. Mr. Francis E, Spinner, United States Treasurer, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Gilsey House. ‘The Siecle announces the arrival in Paris of Mme. Woodhull, “‘ex-candidate for the Presidency of the United States.” Mr, William T, Adams (‘Oliver Optic’’) of Bos- ton, is among the recent arrivals atthe West minster Hotel, k Lieutenant G :vernor John ©. Robinson arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last evening irom bis home at Binghamton. ‘At Florence there (sa grapevine from one root on which 6,000 bunched of grapes have been counted this sammer. ‘Vhe inquest on Bazaine’s escape is compicted, and as reported establishes the complicity of nearly everybody in the fort. Acotn doctor in Europe begins his announce. ment with the statement that he has “had the honor to operate on several crowned feet,” Mr. James H. Benson, of the Bond Department Unitea States Treasury, sailed for Europe yester- day on the Russia, On business {or the govern- ment. i Pelikan was in love with Mile. Amanda, who amused the public from a little stage in the Prater at Vienna; but Amanda would not love Pelikan, so he went to the play to blow out ils brains tn the front row. Two gentlemen, of Caius College, Cambridge, England, fora practical joke, turned out the gaa ‘and put a roll of carpet on the siairs, and the poor old hall porter tumbed down and received fatal injuries; but youth must be gay. The gentiemen who have gene to the Postal Congress at Berne to represent the United States government, Messrs, Blackfan and Lambusch, are instructed to visit before their return several European capitals to make themselves acquainted with diffrent avstemas of postal service. — * s)