The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. i JAMES GORDON BENNETT, pROPRIETOR pacer neve {THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- pual subscription price $12, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. nate fer LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Advertisements will be Subscriptions snd received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. | cessful candidate and his friends join their | the banner of the victor. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, | Hew the Feud at Syracuse May Be | and denounce corruption without pointing Composed. The struggle between the friends of Mr. so far and become so embittered that demo- both be withdrawn to make way for some can- | didate who has taken no part in this enven- omed contest. Had it been only the ordinary | | : | and respectful competition between rival can- didates belonging to the same party perfect good feeling might follow the nomination of either. 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TR ; closes at 10:45 New York, Thursday, Sept. 17, 1874. | From our reporis this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with light rains, clearing towards night. Wau § YusTErDay.—Stocks were active and advanced. Gold sold at 110} and closed at 110. Foreign exchange was firm end advanced. Armed Revoirrion cannot raise the South, | but must depress it. The North cannot Jook indifferently on another civil war. | SeEs no hope for the democ- | racy but in iring ideas and fresh issues. He says:—“Old lations will keep men in line in the absence of new issues, and no gen eral declamation nor mere cry for reform will | of itself drive them into new relations.’’ Mz. Porr Tue Formosan Drrricunry seems to be in | process of peaceful settlement. The Japanese | re willing to vacate the part of the island | they hold upon certain conditions from the Chinese government. | d States troops | would be infinitely | worse for Louisiana than the worst evils of | the Kellogg rule. Let the citizens of New | Orleans remember their responsi: A Cowrticr betw: n Ui and the White Le: me Tue Kansas Leotstarvre has met to devise means for the relief of the sections of the State which have been devastated by grass- | hoppers. The magnitude of the injury those insects have inflicted can be measured by the | fact that fifteen thousand persons are said to be destitute, and one hundred and twenty thousand bushels of wheat are needed to fur- | nish seed for the Tre Unrversau yesterday, and the reports showed an increas- ing prosperity of the sect. relations of Universalism to Christianity were powerfully discussed by the Rev. E. H. Capen, who re- pudiated the idea that the doctrine of unj- versal salvation is contradictory to the Bible, and opposed the teachings of Professor Tyn- xt crop. Mr. Porren Turvas that, although the constitution was admirably suited to the con- dition of the country ninety years ago, the garment which fitted our national infancy requires important alterations when we have grown to national manhood. He says:— “Had the evils which now threaten us existed or been foreseen in their time they would have themselves added to the constitution those further restrictions by which only these evils | can now be prevented."’ Tre Boanp or Epvcarron met yesterday and the budget for the ensuing year was arranged. Itwill cost the city and county of New York threo million six hundred and eighty-three thousands dollars for the education of chil- dren in 1875. If they are well taught even this large sum will not be too much, Yet how many thousands of children will not be benefited by this expenditure ; will grow up in the profound ignor is almost certain to ripen into crime how many Tue Graxp Jury of Washington hag re- | fased to find a true bill against Mr. Dana for an alleged libel upon Governor Shepherd, ‘This is very sensible. The question was not so much as to the guilt of Mr. Dana as to the Poland press law, which has thus received a crushing blow in the capital itself. It is not likely that the attempt will be made to drag other journalists to Washington upon such flimsy protexta, | right democrats in the State, as to make ge: . Tilden faction would feel as much humiliated | suance of his advice that Mr. Warren and | | another democrat visited Judge Church and | not a basis of | name has stood quite aloof, doing no act | held their Convention | e which | violated in the course of this bitter contest, imputations of corrupt motives have been +o | fiercely bandied, malignant aspersions have been so freely cast on some of the most up- uine harmony impossible after this inter- change of insults. If either Tilden or Church should be nominated now the friends of the beaten candidate would go home sore and sullen, and their affronted self-respect would make them indifferent to the success of the ticket. It Mr. Tilden gets a majority those | who have opposed him in the Convention will | | work without heart, because without hope, | and the canvass will flag throughout the in- | terior counties. If, on the other hand, Caurch | should be nominated, Tammany Hall will leave the rural districts to elect-him. After | the accusations, animosities and reciprocation | of personal affronts which have attended this singular struggle the only hope of a united | democratic canvass lies in dropping both | Church and Tilden and bringing forward a | new candidate. But who shall he be? Not Judge Allen, | certainly, although, next to Church, he was | the preference of the rural democracy. The in supporting Allen as in accepting Church himself. Allen has been a party to the | attempt to crowd Tilden off the track. His | reply to Mr. Warren’s letter asking him to | withdraw identified him so conspicuously with the anti-Tilden party that his nomi- _nation would widen the breach instead | | of closing it. He is not to be thought of. | Senator Ganson has been talked of as a com- promise candidate, and his popularity is un- questionable with the democracy of Western New York. But there is the same objection to him as to Judge Allen. He was not merely an active promoter, but a chief originator of | the anti-Tilden movement. It was in pur- | | procured his consent to run if the other can- didates would withdraw. Ganson’s nomina- tion would be simply a victory over Tilden, and union and conciliation. Another worthy democrat who has been talked of in connection with the Governor- | ship is Allen C. Beach. He would also be a | creditable candidate and make a fair Gov- ernor ; but he, too, has been mixed up with | the present quarrel. He is a champion of | Tilden, and furnished to the leading demo- | cratic organ an interview advocating his claims. The same objection applies to Gov- | ernor Seymour, who would not consent to take the nomination, and to Francis Kernan, who was overwhelmingly beaten by General Dix two years ago. We have thus gone pretty nearly through the list of possible candidates, and every one yet mentioned is disqualified | for the réle for which he is wanted by partici- | pation, on one side or the otker, in this | abusive contest between the friends ot Tilden | and Church. | In going through the list of democrats who | might have been available in the absence of | this quarrel we have omitted one, reserving | him to the last, because his advantages as a compromise candidate will bear scrutiny. Of | the personal fitness of the others we have | spoken with respect; but they are so obvionsly | ruled out by the stand they have taken as par- | tisans of either Tilden or Church that their qualifications do not admit of particular dis- cussion. The gentleman we are about to | and speaking no word to fan the embers. Moreover his political standing is equal to that of any democrat who has been mentioned, | with the exception of Governor Seymour and | the two candidates who ought to retire, and in personal standing he is the peer of them | all. We have described him so fully that readers will anticipate the name, since he is the only prominent democrat in the State who | comes up to the description. Of course we | can only mean Clarkson N, Potter, who has for several terms represented the Westchester | district in Congress, and has often been | talked of in political circles as possessing | | admirable qualifications for the Governorship. We will not dwell on Mr. Potter’s inflexible integrity, spotless private character, profes- sional success, eminent business accomplish- | ments, nor upon the minor but still important | requisites of urbanity and popular manners | which would give adornment and distinction | to the social duties which belong to the chief | magistrate of a great State. These are so well understood in this part of the State, where Mr. Potter is well known, that it is superflu- ous even to allude to them. Private virtues | and social accomplishments were to be ex- | pected, as a matter of course, in a son of the late revered Bishop Potter, as well as the | active intellect and steady industry which have | borne fruit in Mr. Potter's enviable profes- | sional success, It is more pertinent to the oc- | | casion to remark on the talents which this | | suecessful lawyer is developing as a wise and | | forecasting statesman. His letter to Mr. Tilden, | which we printed a few days since, evinced a | aatpiebaaston of political necessities and | a grasp of the present situation which has | not been surpassed or equalled by any | | recent democratic utterance. It marks | him not merely as a thorough democrat, but as a liberal, progressive statesman. ter has the sagacity to see that a political party cannot live on dead traditions and stale formulas ; that it must keep pace with the march of events, He perceives that a country has new needs in the successive stages of its growth, and that it is the province of true | Statesmanship to keep up with and anticipate | the developing wants of a nation. He has the rare faculty of discriminating between gen- Bem and sham remedies, He understands | Tilden and those of Judge Church has gone | cratic harmony and efficiency require that | | that the only remedy that can go to the root | tional and State constitutions. | be litted out of the old party ruts and to ex- | worst of precedents. We can better endure for | only of the Louisiana difficulty at present, | | cannot consent to a precedent which might | result in the destruction of the Union. | sock and buskin. Mr. Pot- | | been foreseen. out practical remedies. It is not enough for a | physician to tell a patient he is sick—the pa- nt kuows that himself. Unless the physi | cian can prescribe the right medicine at each stage of the disease he is of no use. Mr. Pot- ter perceives that the essential thing in this | juncture of affairs is to put new checks and curbs on our legislative bodies ; to dry up the | sources of corruption and extinguish the lobby by interdicting all private and special legisla- tion ; to root out the extortions practised upon the people by gigantic corporations by bring- ing this form of aristocracy under the stern control of law. He sees, too, with clear | penetration, that to declaim against these | evils and denounce them in party platforms is as idle as ‘a bull against the comet,” and of them is an efficient revision of the na- Itis refresh- ing to find a statesman with capacity to see and courage to say that our affairs ought to pose the folly and quackery of meaningless party platitudes, It is manifest that Mr. Potter is the fittest compromise candidate on whom the Syracuse Convention could unite. He bas taken no part in the existing quarrel, and in that re- | spect he is unobjectionable. He is a man of | fresh ideas, and in that respect he is superior to every candidate that has been named or thought of. He has faith in ideas as the | most potent force in politics. It would bea great and refreshing relief to see the canvass elevated froma mere personal contest into the higher region of political ideas and definite, deep-reaching propositions of reform. We give the Democratic Convention good ad- | vice ; if they sin against light and knowledge it is not our fault. - Upon the New Orleans | Difficulty. But one opinion appears to be held by the press of the North as to the course the govern- ment should pursue in respect to the conflict | in Louisiana. Although the leading papers of both parties differ as to the rights of the Kellogg and the McEnery factions they are agreed upon the question of law. The recog- | nized government of Louisiana is that of Kel- | logg; for two years it has been supreme, and- the attempt to overthrow it now is not made through the courts, but by force. Bayonets and guns have been substituted for argument. Even the journals which sympathize with the McEnery party and despise the adminis- tration which Kellogg has established do not approve the effort to overthrow the govern- ment. Tyranny, corruption and fraud may be submitted to in American States, but | it is impossible to yield to revolu- tion. The moment that revolution is | begun all other questions disappear. We cannot, as Americans, afford to have even the right established by riot. That would be the The Press a time the reign of wrong established by | fraud. The position the Northern press has | taken in this matter should be studied and understood by the South. It has one opinion | and that is that revolution cannot be tolerated. We are alarmed and pained by the events in New Orleans, but the national government Manx Twary’s Puay.—Mark Twain's ver- satility has been tested in more ways than one, and always with flattering success. As a humorist he is sans pareil; as a journalist, a ready and clever writer; as a pilgrim he is | quoted in all respectable church circles; as an insurance representative, architect, politician, miner, traveller, hunter, rough rider (vide “Roughing It’), he is unique, and now he in- vades the sacred precincts of the footlights. Were the Shah present last night—and every one knows from Mark Twain's correspond- ence in the Hzratp what intimate relations existed between the humorist and the despot— he would have enjoyed the new play more than he did the endless ceremonies of Buck- ingham Palace, Sans Souci or the wild life of the boulevards. We are glad to be able to congratulate Mark Twain on making a hit in his new sphere, and congratulate him on the graceful manner in which he has donned the Mr. Porrzr Says that the old democratic doctrine of ‘‘strict construction’ is insufficient, and that the only sure way to forestall abuses is tomake the constitution forbid, in plain words, what we wish to prevent. As he expresses it himself:—‘‘And since there be honest men who fear a reopening of the issues of the past, if an effort be made to prevent these evils by strict construction of the federal constitution, and since the strictest construc- tion of that constitution would not certainly and wholly prevent them, let us meet their apprehension by seeking such changes in the constitution itself, either by revision or | amendment of that instrument, as shall cer- | tainly secure the country against these in- creasing dangers.” A Nomper or Poricemen were tried yester- day for intoxication and assaults upon citizens. The strictest justice should be en- forced in such cases ; for the recent arrest of three young women, without the slightest jus- tification, shows how the powers of the police | may be abused. The arrest of a saloon keeper for putting into the street a notorious woman, who drank her beer but wouldn't pay for it, is a significant case and deserves tho fullest ine. vestigation. We want our police force to be efficient for the protection of citizens, which it cannot beif unjust interference and outrage are permitted, There have been too many clubbing cases of late, and it is evident that | there are ruffians upon the force who are as dangerous as the rascals off of it. Mn. Porter 18 oF Optyron that the only efficient civil service reform is to be found in amendments to the constitution, We quote | his language: —‘“The President to-day has the | absolute appointment of upwards of eighty | thonsand office-holders—an army almost suf- | ficient of themselves to control nominations | and elections, And yet this is a power per- fectly constitutional. It is one which would never have been permitted had its magnitude But, nevertheless, it now exists and is constitutional. Some have pro- posed to reform this evil by regulation and examination. But such regulations and ex- aminations have proved thus far au utter and that it amounts to nothing to expose abuses absolute failure,” | is in the hands of the President, and- that he will do nothing until he | has instructions from Washington. The | threat to bar the road through Atlanta to any * foresight could well provide. | he had dealt with the Louisiana question at | We cannot tolerate an appeal from the ballot SEPTEMBER 17, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Crisis in Louisiana. | The situation in New Orleans is virtually | unchanged. The Penn party remain in con- trol of the State. The new Governor shows | great diligence in the administration of his | sudden and rudely-won power. Order is pre- | served to such a degree that even Collector | Casey testifies to the fact so promptly as to make us fear that he is trying to hedge and cultivate friendship with the new masters of the Pelican State. Kellogg and his comrades, who seem to have ignominiousiy surrendered, are hidden in the Custom House. Kellogg refuses to resign, and informs us that his fate United States troops in New Orleans are quiet and practically helpless, as their commander | reports the impossibility of combating the usurping party. In the meantime large acces- sions have been made to the Penn forces. When we remember that these forces consist of the soldiers of the Confederate armies, thoroughly drilled in war aud only too anxious, we fear, to welcome an outbreak, we can un- | derstand the helplessness of the small force | of regular troops now in New Orleans. It | would be an exceedingly difficult task to re- capture the city from these men. Unless Penn and his party yield to moral pressure it will be hard to dislodge them. In the meantime, wherever there is an ex- pression of opinion from the Southern people, it is in favor of the Penn revolution. Happily there is no echo to the sentiments of the mad- man Toombs, as reported yesterday. That noisy chief does not seem to make good his federal troops that may be sent to New Orleans. The valor of a man like Toombs | is*fortunately not of the quality that necessa- rily disturbs the peace. He had a thousand opportunities of showing his gallantry during the war, but his proceedings were never calculated to terrify the Northern armies. Toombs is a mischief-maker now, as he was in Montgomery, when he opposed the purchase of arms for the Southern troops, saying that upon her people, they can only be redressed by lawful means, by patience, effort and time. As it is the cause of good govern- ment, of free, independent, intelligent anthority in the Southern States, has been severely wounded in Louisiana. Our hope is that prudent counsols will prevail, not only in New Orleans, but in Washington; that the Penn party will see how foolish they have been ; that General Grant and his Cabinet | willsee how wicked and weak and selfish they have behaved in dealing with Louisiana and with the whole question of reconstruction. As itis the Union must be preserved, and there can be no union where such a revolution is possible as the revolution in Louisiana. The Brooklyn Business. The uprising in New Orleans is a misfortune for Mr. Tilton, and his long prepared ‘‘state- ment’ will come upon a palled and weary world. People wiil crave other tidings than the Brooklyn scandal. Even a controversy between Beecher and Tilton cannot last for- ever, and we shall feel it as a blessing when this disastrous business is hushed into silence. Mr. Moulton’s statement has made no impres- sion upon the country, except to show that melodramatic way. This is the kindest judgment that can be passed upon the ‘anutual friend,” who seems to have meant | Well all the time, only to fail because he was in a false position and because he was com- pletely under the control ot Tilton. Wher- ever Tilton appears it is as a resolute, self- willed man, determined to have his own way, and bending every one of the parties con- cerned to his purpose—Beecher, Bowen, Car- penter, and especially Moulton. While believ- ing that he was serving Mr. Beecher, Moulton was really a servant of Tilton’s, collecting money for him, adjusting quarrels with | Bowen and Woodhull and Beecher, laboring all | the time to put him on his fect and keep him | there. | complish Moulton served him. Wherever Tilton had a point to ac- The author- ity was absolute. the Yankees would run before the Confederate riding-whips. His title of General must repre- sent warlike services in time of peace, as he | certainly did not earn it by actual war. The | effect of speeches like those of Toombs will be to rouse the Northern sentiment, fire again the spirit of Sumter, give the administration an excuse for new severities and the republi- | can party a pretext for continuance in power. We are glad to find no echo to his opinions in the South. In the meantime the President continues / his preparations. There was a Cabinet ses- | sion yesterday, and the Louisiana question | | ' was elaborately considered. The conclusions reached have not been made known. In such a matter, however, requiring military or naval | action, the proceedings of the government | would naturally remain secret. It is generally | understood that all of our available military and naval forces are on the way toward New | | Orleans. The federal commanding officer | in that city has been instructed | |in no way to recognize the revolu- tion. Lieutenant General Sheridan has not left Chicago, but he is under orders to take the field if necessary. The proclamation of the President gives the revolutionists until | Monday to lay down their arms and recognize the federal authority. Unless this is done | there will naturally be a demonstration of force. The President is so thoroughly com- | mitted to the recognition of Kellogg that he | cannot remain neutral if he would. As we showed yesterday, the law, as laid down by , Chief Justice Taney, in the case of the Dorr | rebellion, leaves him no alternative. The words of this Judge should be carefully consid- ered, so pregnantistheir meaning. “If,’’ says | Chief Justice Taney ‘‘there is an armed con- | flict, like the one of which we are speaking, it isa case of domestic violence, and one of the parties must be in insurrection against | the lawful government. And the President | must, of necessity, decide which is the gov- ernment party, and which is unlawfully ar- rayed against it, before he can perform the duty imposed upon him by act of Congress, After the President has acted and called out the militia, is a Court of the United States | authorized to inquire whether his decision | was right? Could the Court, while the par- ties were actually contending in arms for the possession of the government, call wit- nesses before it to inquire which party repre- sented a majority of the people? If the judicial power extends so far the guarantee contained in the constitution is a guarantee of anarchy and not of order. It is said that this power in the President is dangerous to liberty, and may be abused. All power may be abused | if placed in unworthy hands ; but it would be difficult, we think, to point out any other hauds in which this power would be more safe andat the same time equally effectrial. When citizens of the same State are in arms against each other and the constituted authori- ties unable to execute the laws the inter- position of the United States must be prompt, or it is of little value. The ordinary course | of proceeding in courts of justice would be | utterly unfit for the crisis; and the elevated | office of the President, chosen as he is by the | people of the United States, and the high re- | sponsibility he could not fail to feel when | acting in a case of so much moment, appear to furnish as strong safeguards against a wil- ful abuse of power as human prudence and At all events, it is conferred on him by the constitution | and laws, and must, therefore, be regpected | and enforced in its judicial tribunals.”’ As we have said, there remains no option to | the President. He will naturally seek to undo his mistakes. He more than any one else is to blame for the uprising in New Orleans. If | the time ; if he had insisted upon a settlement from Congress, as proposed by Senator Car- penter, we should not now see revolu- tion triumphant and the spirit of | secession manifesting itself in the mad- | ness of a man like Toombs. The Pres dent must answer for this to the country | and to history. But his present duty is plain, to the barricade. The most righteous govern- ment in the world would be sinful if it rested upon a revolution like this of Penn. Such performances may do in France and Spain, | in the republics of Central and South Amer- | ica. We cannot permit them in the United | States. Much as Louisiana has suffered, and | atievous os have been the wrongs heaped | which we print elsewhere. | American champions to beat them, General Tracy contributes a ‘‘statement” to the literature of the contest, the substance of We do not see the wisdom of this statement, for no one has sus- pected General Tracy of doing anything unbe- , coming a lawyer or a gentleman, and his ‘vindication’? seems unnecessary. Miss Edna Dean Proctor, a young lady of wide reputation as an authoress, and who has been brought into the case wantonly, begins a suit against Mr. Moulton for slander. ging of this lady into notoriety was certainly ® most outrageous and inexcisuble proceed- ing, and Mr. Moulton can never explain it. Miss Proctor will have universal sympathy in | her suit. We wish her example could be gen- erally followed. Mr. Beecher can hardly resist bringing an action of a similar charac- | ter. that he had at last appealed to the law. The State Governors of the South. We publish to-day the reports of our cor- respondents in the South, who have had inter- | views with different State Governors, or their representatives, upon the situation in Louisi- ana. One of the most important of these is that with Governor Smith, of Georgia. This representative Southerner takes the ground that General Grant made a great mistake when he sustained Kel- logg in his claim to the Governorship, and thinks that this error should now be retrieved by neutrality. All inter- ference, in his opinion, means mischief. Yet Governor Smith admits that the action of the people of New Orleans isa dangerous prece- dent to follow. In Mississippi Governor Ames could not be found, but he was repre- sented by Lieutenant Governor Davis, whose views as a colored man are important. He condemned the course of the White League, and thought that, whatever might be the abuses for which the Kellogg administration is responsible, they did not justify violence or bloodshed. He thought that the Kellogg régime would be supported by the general government. In Richmond the State officials seem to hold similar opinions, and in South Carolina the fears are that an effort similar to that of Penn might be attempted in Columbia. are in the South desire that the national government shall sustain the consti- tuted authorities, and that the pre- cedent Louisiana proposes to establish for the overturning of a regular government-by revolution shall be made forever impossible in this country. No one wants North America to become as disorganized as South America or Mexico. The Srish Riflemen. The Irish riflemen arrived yesterday in this city, and will soon contest for the supremacy with our Amateur Rifle Club. There was oncea time when the American sharpshooter earned his living by his gun, but now our best marks- men shoot for amusement and renown. But though the days have gone by when “Leather Stocking’ killed the swift wild pigeon on the wing with his unerring rifle, something of the skill which that fabulous character of the novel possessed still remains. Our American amateurs have been practising assiduously to meet their Irish challengers, and the match will be unprecedented in | interest and value. The Irish team were brilliantly successful at withstanding the unfavorable fact that the use of the rifle in Ireiand is discouraged by the strict laws, and that the gentlemen alone have the free use of arms. When the laws thus interfere with any-pursuit the influ- ence is necessarily against the full develop- | ment of skill, but these Irish gentlemen have nobly vindicated their country by their victories over the English. Some of the best marksmen at Wimbledon will be present at Creedmoor, and it will take steady nerve and true eye on the part of our One thing is sure, that whether our Irish visitors | | hit the bull’s cye or not, they cannot miss a warm, hearty and enthusiastic reception from the American public. The target of hospi- tality is too big for any of them to miss. Hayrt, by her new constitution, appears to have discriminated against foreigners. They are to have the disadvantages of citizens with out any of their privileges, and the effect will probably be to discourage toreign commercial agents and to injure the American company recently established at Samana Bay, its author involved himself in an unfortunate | difficulty which he tried to compose in | The drag- | The community would rejoice to learn | All the indications | that the wisest and coolest thinkers | Wimbledon, not- | a | The Transit of Venus. The finest poetry is always founded upon fact. ‘The Occultation of Orion” is one of Longfellow's most beautiful poems, simply because his ideality is founded upon an as- tronomical fact. Therefore, in scientific in- vestigation, we have two great objects—first, the acquisition of a new physical truth; second, the enlargement of the sphere of all imagination and thought. The transit of Venus over the sun is an event which will hereafter be of more importance to the world than a revolution in Peru or the election of a President in France. By the discoveries which our astronomers will doubtless make in their observations of this passage of a planet across the disk of the central orb of the solar system old laws will be established more firmly and new physical realities, perhaps, revealed. We cannot undervalue the dis- coveries of the strange universe in which we live, and it is a significant proof of progress that in our day governments give the support to science which of old could only have been expected from individuals. The United States have not been behind Enropean countries in their preparations for the observation of the transit of Venus. To- day we print a letter from the Cape of Good Hope which announces the arrival of the United States sieamer Swatara with the scientific cominission on board. The record of the voyage is extremely interesting; the Atlantic was crossed three times because of the winds, and the distance from New York of seven thousand miles was thus prolonged to nine thousand. This successful trip and | the excellent condition of the American expe- dition give every reason to expect that, with the observations which will be made at differ- ent points of the globe, the transit of Venus will be more closely observed this year than it has been at any previous period. Nearly all civilized nations have contributed to this in- quiry into the nature of the solar system, and, we are glad to say, America has done as much to facilitate the investigation as any European government. When the planet Venus passes over the face of the sun American telescopes will watch her from the Pacific islands and the verge of Antarctic ice. the country will consider the wrongs of South- | ern citizens. But now it knows neither Mc- | Enery nor Kellogg. The question of law ia supreme. | Mn. Porrer Draws this striking picture of | the aristocracy of great corporations: —“In a country which forbade orders of nobility, privileged classes, primogeniture and entailed éstates, which left men free to accumulate | property while they lived but wisely refused them the right to perpetuate such accumula« | tion after their death, an ar ificial rivileged, | class more dangerous than any natural persona | has been gradually allowed to grow up and to consolidate itself until now these great corporations hold estates vaster than any nobility and possess great lines stretching over thousands of miles of territory, able by | their power, their influence or their wealth to control legislation.” For this, as for so many other threatening evils, he justly declarea that there is no other remedy than constitu- | tional amendments. Apotocy won the race for the St. Leger | Stakes yesterday, which it is possible thia | fine filly would not have donc had not George | Frederick, the favorite, been withdrawn. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain John Leitch, of the steamship Scotia, ts at the New York Hotel. Postmaster Jono F, Smyth, of Albany, is stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Senator George Goldthwaite, of Alapama, is stay- ing at the Filth Avenue hotel, Lieutenant Commander F. M. Green, United States Navy, is quartered at the Westminster Hotel. | Mr. Gustavus V. Fox, formerly Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, has arrived at the Everett House, &x-Governor A, E. Burnside, of Rhode Isiand, ta among the recent arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Richard Potter, President of the Grand Trunk | Railway of Canada, has apartments at the Brevoort | House. | Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in the city yesterday aiternoon and took up his quarters at the Astor House. General S. P. Heintzelman and Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Elliott, United States Army, are reg- istered at the Sturtevant House, Rear Admiral James H. Strong, who has recently been relieved of the command of the South Atian- tic station by Rear Admiral Leroy, is sojourning at the New York Hotei, Mr. John crossley, M. P.; Rev. Dr. E. Mellor an@ Colonel Fitzwygram, of England, and Rev. Michael Patterson, of Dublin, arrived here in the steam- ship Scotia yesterday and are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Narayan Wassodeo, of Bombay, has been “solemnly cremated’ on the burning ground at Sonapore, The pyre was lighted by his son with | sacred fire brought for the purpose. in three hours only a handful 01 ashes remained of him wha was but that morning the influential leader of the | “He prayeth well who loveth well Both man, and bird, and beast; He prayeth best who loveth beat All things, both great and small."” In view of recent cierical complications it may be !nteresting to know that a music book, entitled “Songs of Love,” is now to be put into the hands of Sunday schoo! scholars. They quarreled and he went out, never, never toreturn, She had not the courage to light the | charcoal until she had swallowed a tambier full | olabsinthe, Then ske made the fatal fire. He re- | turned in an hour, found the door locked, smelt the gas, burst in, and there she was. Only haif dead, however. She revived, and now they are ‘ happier than ever, Rue de Savote, No. 11, aa quutrigme, Dr. Lunter, who 18 the Inspector General of | French lunatics, because he is loonier than the others, believes that im great political or soctal crises there are fewer lunatics than at other times. He means, of course, fewer registered in asylums. | This is, perhaps, because when everybody is mad it 1s impossible to make special distinctions; there is no standard of sound ideas, and consequently no one can be locked up for his vagaries, M, Vayssard, one of the librarians of the Na- tional Library in Paris, has jusc died at the age of eigity. He knew what was in the Library, al- though it contains 2,200,000 printed volumes and | 100,000 manuscripts. One day a man asked for @ | romance. He did not know the title nor the au- | thor’s name; he only Knew that it began with the words, “fhe marchioness walked alone in tne | park,” and old Vayssard brought it, though it waa sthe production Of an obscure author of the eighe | teenth century. | In the government of Pleskau, in Russia, a letter was circulated which reported that the govern- ment intended to send 5,000 of the prettiest girls of the country to Africa to be married to negroes. | There was @ panic, and the girls made haste to | marry any one who would have them, and where were any number of marriages. One brandy | dealer made a small tortune out of It, for at Russian weddings they must have brandy. Now the authorities have discovered that this mer+ | chant started che story, aud they are not yeu done { with him, | Hindoo community, full of life and hope. | | Tue Laws must first be sustained. Then —