The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1874, Page 6

6 TRIPLE SHEET, fana Revolution, The news from New Orleans this morning | is of that satisfactory character which we | Were led to expect from the latest despatches | | in the Hzraxpof yesterday. Lieutenant Gov- | | ernor Penn has agreed to surrender to | THE DAILY HERALD, published every | General Emory and submit to the na- NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR BEE itis : -, tional government. This is all the the . Four cents per copy. An- 8 | ey eee 5 lai. | more pleasing because it proves what nual subscription price $12, | the people of Louisiana have always All business or news letters and telegraphic maintained—namely, that they were not ; despatches must be addressed New York making war upon the United States, but | | President Grant’s Duty in the Louis- | federal government has no authority to do | | relieve the federal authority of its embarrass- NEW YUKK HERALD, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 18% this unless both sets of State officers resign ; but in that case the whole question could be referred to the people, and their will ought to prevail. If the Kellogg and McEnery govern- ments would both resign and retire the solu- tion would be direct and easy. A brief period of military government, followed by a fair | election and a reorganized State government, | would be satisfactory to the people and would | ments. Mayor Havemeyer’s Letter. The letter which Mayor Havemeyer com- Herarp. upon a State usurpation. Kellogg was + he . not the choice of the people of Louisi- | Rejected communications will not be re- Vana crab lsesh 46) had rigue heat turned. § | satisfactorily shown that he had received a Letterg and packages should be properly majority of the votes of the people. His gov- sealed. | ernment, with its legacy of debt and taxes and | —_—-—___. z | bad legislation, was an intolerable burden. It | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK was to throw off this that New Orleans | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | flew to arms, but the dignity with which Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | the proud people of that proud city acknowl- | received and forwarded on the same terms | ©4ge their allegiance and manifest their obe- | pa dience to the general goverament is ad- | sarin Naw York, mirable. Kellogg is rebuked, and at the same time the people of the North are | assured that it was against him and not against the Union that they seized their weapons of war in a moment of despair. The | | episode carries with it a useful lesson, and | invokes us to consider anew our duties to the | South. Volame xxXxrX,. No. 261 EMENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQUR, Ko, 514 Broadway —VAKIETY, at 5’, M.; closes at 10:30 rm. PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-secona | Kelly must sdmire. sireets—GILDED AGE, at Mr. JohnT. Raymond, We have already expressed, with sufficient emphasis, our view of the legal obligations of the President in the alarming crisis which has | arisen in Louisiana. After recognizing Kel- | | logg as the legal Governor of the State, after | submitting the question to Congress at two Separate sessions, after the approbation of that body implied in its nom-action, the strictly legal points involved in this grave conjuncture are too plain to admit of contro- | versy. When Kellogg applied for military assistance it was the clear duty of the Presi- BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street aud’ Sixth avenue.— VENICE PRESERVED. at P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Joba McCullough and Miss Fanny Brough. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—THE DELUGE, at 8 P.M; closes at Ur. M. The Kiralty Family. FIFTH AVEN EATRE, THE SCHOOL FOR 5. atSP. M.; closes at 1 P.M. Miss Fanny Vavenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Lewis dames, Charles Fisher. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Brosdway and Fifth avenue.— VARIETY, ats BLM. dent to make the necessary proclamation and | BRY OPERA HOUSE, ‘West Twenty-third street, near sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at SP. M." Dan Bryant, promise to furnish it. But in an emergency | SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, so important it is the duty of Broadmay, corner jot, Twenty-niuth sireet—NEGRO | g statesman to proceed with wise circumspec- MINSTRGLSY, ats P.M, METROPOLITA HEATRE, No, 585 Broadway.—Yarisian Caucan Dancers, at 8 P. M. tion and deliberate caution. Strict adherence | to law may sometimes involve serious entan. PARK GARDEN. nd Seventh avenue,—THOMAS’ CON- ses a 10° P.M CE. Fifty-ninth stree neou: itt t the government in Deanne siege is committals have put governme! oe a false position from which it is difficult to | Third avenve, between Saty-duird aad Sixty-fourth | Tetreat. President Grant's original recogni- tetrects. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. | tion of Kellogg was a political blunder. Peace 5 CIRCUS, and tranquillity would have reigned in Louisi- ee ee | ana if he had not acted on the illegal order of | Judge Durell and had allowed things to take their natural course in the inauguration of | McEnery, who had the color, at least, of a | legal election. The present revolution in Louisiana is the direct consequence of. | President Grant’s original mistake, and even | | if he is at last sensible of that mistake and is willing to rectify it he stands in an embar- rassing position. Having indiscreetly recog- nized Kellogg as the legal Governor the Presi- | dent was bound to support and restore him ; but, having made this recognition without warrant of. law, in pursuance of a judicial de- cree for which Judge Durell was impeached by the Hause of Representatives at its last | session, the President should perceive that he is ina false and untenable position. If his | recognition of Kellogg had been defensible all | would be smovth sailing now. Had Kellogg been elected by a fair vote and honest count, to the office been estab- BAIL foot of Houston street, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.—VARIETY, at $P. M. COLoss: Broadway, corner of Lhirty NIGHT, at 7:45 P.M. WALLACR’S TH Broadway and Thirteenth st LIFE, at 5 P. M.; closes at li P. M. M, tt street—PARIS BY WOOD'S MUSEUM, rner Thirtieth street—UNDER THE GAS. P.M; closes at4:0 P.M. and at8P. M.; P.M, Louis Aldrich and Miss sophie Miles. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Ko. ou Broadway,—VARIETY, at P. M.; closes at 10.45 LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street_and Sixth —LA PRINCESSE DE TREBIZONDE. at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mile. Aimee, Mile. Mu 18, 1874, TRIPLE SH New York, Friday, Sept. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy and had his right clearing. | lished to the reasonable satisfaction a | of impartial men, no kind of con- | Wart Street Yesterpay.—Stocks Were | cession would be justifiable, and it would fairly active during the day, and on the whole | ph. the imperative duty of the President to | Prices were well maintained. Gold sold at 110 postore him at all hazards and every cost. and 1093, and closed at 1093. | But even the republican party is not unani- Bazarve’s Accomptices, including Colonel | mous in thinking the President made a wise Villette, have been sentenced to short terms | decision. The impeachment of Durell by of imprisonment, This, we presume, is the | the House afford’ » presumption that the Binal disposition of the whole matter, and we | President was misled. The report of the are glad there is an end of it. Senate committee charged to investigate this ; question winter before last proved that Gznenat Toomss on THE Tump Trmm, some | Kellogg was not legally elected, and Senator ten days ago, declared that he was in favor of | Carpenter's very able speech put the point trying it with General Grant. Now he is | beyond reasonable controversy. When feady to fight once more ‘the minions of the | false decision of the President brings the | atrocious despotism at Washington.’’ Gen-| country to the brink of civil war he eral Toombs has had enough of President | obviously does not stand on the same Grant. clear and tenable ground as if there were no valid legal objections to his recognition of Kellegg. His persistence in an original mistake, even with the implied sanction of Congress, puts him in a very different position from that which he would | hold if the unanimous judgment of the statesmen of his own party supported him in recognizing Kellogg on the decision of Durell, | the impeached Judge. When strict law is on | one side and fairness, equity and justice on Scenes, as was proved by the extraordinary oc, | the othe t, the President ought to pause and currences at the meeting of the Board of Free- | Consider. holders yesterday. If New York had not her| General Grant cannot safely ignore the Charities and Correction frauds of a like | strong public sentiment of the best classes of character we might read the Jerseymen a very | the Louisiana population, They unanimously stern lesson. indorsed and supported the overthrow of the | i ¥ Kellogg usurpation. Peace, order and univer- a eee, Ciodilded Rage sal degaisieated followed the supplanting of Weather, are well pleased with their recep- Kellogg. The public sentiment of the re tion, and intend visiting Creedmoor to-day. Rihacs % P 2 : spectable classes and business community of ‘We hope they may have a real September da; Louisiana supports the overthrow of Kello, but the storm of the last two days has so per- PP a plexed the American weather guide, “Old pe eortaaes of bsitetdcasheit i oe Heese 9F i" consists in a conflict between what is right Probabilities,"’ that we can promise them : A ry and what is legal. In point of law Grant is nothing, whatever our great prophet may say 6 rem * * ~ bound to support Kellogg after recognizing this morning. We ean assure them, however, hi Hie. fecal. Gove But i that unless the almanac has been changed nate ips 4 nie ae 11 A sa jal a they will soon have beautiful skies and a CUNY Sn aad apie atx ee ced ll Gexrrat Borizn, it seems, is to have an antagonist in General Cogswell for the nowi- tation for Congress from the famous Essex district. Wherever Butler is there is material for dramatic literature, and we print this morning a letter full of just such points as can only be wade when that veteran politician affords the occasion. Fravps mm Jersey City provoke lively | the office, and the best public opinion balmy stmoaphere, | of Louisiana warmly indorses his over- Tur Brastixo Operations in the Fourth throw. With justice and sound local opin- ion side and strict law on the other the President is put in a very em- | barrassing dilemma, This is one of the oc- casions Where compromise and conciliation is the wisest statesmanship, if a pacific adjust- on one venue improvement have long been carried on with a reckless disregard of human life. Casualties, often of a fatal character, have so frequently occurred and may still happen that the neighborhood must be considered an un- safe place of residence, We have frequently , ment is possible. If the powerful moral in- protested against the manner in which the | fluence which the President can exert were work "is conducted, but without effect, as it | directed to procure a resignation both of the seems no public officer feels it his duty to pro- | Kellogg State officers and the McEnery State ¢oct the community from a danger which bas officers the State would be left without any already cost many lives, legal government, and the federal authority —- might then step in, as it did on the same ground at the close of the war, and provide for the establishment of a new State govern- | ment. If Kellogg and his associates should fvifit of the Beecher-Tilton scandal. It seems resign and McEnery and his associates should | we + never to have done with this affair, but | resign, the election of new State officers th all the foul stories which have been in | might be referred to the people, and the re- ix. lation for years are to have a thorough | sult of a fair, honest election ought to be venttation in the courts, In all this there is | equally satisictory to the President something like madness. Wecan no longer | and the people of the State. It zegard this matter except with disgust, and in | is of the essence of republican institutions Tum Action yor Liven which has been | brought against Francis D. Moulton by Miss , Dean Proctor is only a part of tho bitter | , would not have been half so entertaining. Mr. \Ice Signals | of the Canadian steamship lines, which prom- | ises to give great safety and security to pas- | sengers crossing the Atlantic. | has issued to all its commanders an ice chart | | and tallying ice signals, by the use of which | been encountered. The ice chart is divided | latitude, nearly making squares, each of which | | has a separate literal designation. | a steamer they indicate to the passing ship the | above these means berg ice, and the Union | are made by means of Colomb’s Chatham | lamp. The whole system is one of extreme | communicate tothe steamer approaching it | some one has been drunk—either the Legisla- ths name of decency and virtue we protest | that the peopie should rule, and the easiest against more exposures of the rottenuces of solution of the present difficulty is to refer | Brooklyn society, | the auestinn ta the neonle of the State. A The ! or false, municates to Mr. John Kelly through the public press is very spicy reading. The Mayor's style is peculiar but vigorous, and his charges are pointed and epigrammatic. There is no mistaking what he means in anything that he says. It is also plain that he intends giving Kelly as good as he received. Indeed, we suspect there is a little tinge of bitterness and bad temper in the Mayor's composition ; but the sophomoric promise of his effort is so great that we have high hopes of him after he ha’ had a little more experience. It betrays extensive reading and a large fund of anecdote. It shows an aptness at figures and their application which even Mr. We are sorry, however, that the Mayor has not that esteem for the Hon. Jobn Morrissey which the career of that eminent statesman would justify. And we are grieved, too, that Ottendorfer has a lower place in the Mayor's affections than he once had. Other little episodes of the youthful Havemeyer's epistle are equally painful to us. | But, after all, it would have been more dig- | nified perhaps if Havemeyer had arraigned | Kelly before the proper tribunal as Kelly did Havemeyer, though we confess that course Kelly, for his part of this interesting affair, promises to give the public some lively read- ing also. The Storm Season, The opening chapter of autumn’s introduc- tion to winter's record of marine disasters is being written. The Hzranp's ship news | olumns have during the past day or two glements, especially if legal mistakes and erro- | plainly indicated that the present season is | not to be an exceptional one of freedom from | himself non-partisan, and has always dared | | to do suffering for the mariner. The daily arrivals at this and other ports of craft variously dam- aged in their contests with the winds and waves are melancholy forecasts of what may be expected during the rest of the season of storms. A hurricane that raged on the Atlan- tic from the 4th tothe 8th inst., and extended | from the latitude of Bermuda to forty-two de- | grees north, was very hard upon the vessels caught in its limits, one old shipmaster de- | scribing it as the severest he had experienced | in twenty years’ cruising. Several vessels*| succumbed to it, but, fortunately, so far as re- ported, the crews were rescued from the fate | ot their vessels by passing craft. Others have | managed to struggle back to their ports of { departure or found refuge in some other | haven, terribly battered, with loss of spars | and decks swept of everything that stood in the way of the ponderous boarding seas. In | one or two cases seamen were washed away amid the wreck of spars and bulwarks, and | the broken limbs and battered frames of some | of those saved from immediate death cvi- | denced the severity of the contest they had | passed through. ‘The ships that have reached port passed many ‘lame ducks,” in various degrees of dilapidation resulting from the | same storm, and it isto be feared that the worst of it has yet to be chronicled. in the North Atlantic. A very beautiful and useful system of ice signalling has been recently adopted by one The company steamers passing each other can learn when and where dangerous bergs and ice fields have | i | | into degrees of longitude and half degrees of This in | each section of the chart consists of two letters representing two flags of the commercial code, and when the corresponding flags are hoisted by exact position of the ice met. The ensign hoisted Jack field ice likely to imperil navigation. The flags are, of course, only serviceable in the day time; but at night the ice signals simplicity, both in the chart and code, and easily enables any steamer, after passing through the ice track near Newfoundland, to the precise place of the peril, and, therefore, the imminent necessity of extreme caution in nearing that point. The adoption of this or some similar code by all the transatlantic steamship companies cannot be too urgently sought atter, and it is a wonder they have not, for their own security, long since devised one. Great as have been the advances in modern navigation no navi- gator has yet found any means of detecting the presence of an iceberg until he has approached far within the circls of great danger. The fact that the floating ices of the Atlantic select a pathway thronged by the world’s commerce, and upon which their stealthy movements are concealed by fog, must always make them the objects of terror to the mariner. Tur Report comes from Maine that there is no Maine law in that State. It is clear that ture, which thought it had passed the law, or the persons who now think itdid not. But if they were under the impression that the law existed how did they get their liquor? If they did get their liquor how did they come to imagine that the law existed? It is said the Attorney General is to investigate the matter with the soberness due to its impor- tance, and it is to béRoped he will settle it. To have been drunk unconstitutionally has given much pain to many well disposed inebriates. If itis shown that they were drunk legally they will feel relieved. On the other hand, it will distress the temperance party to know that these other parties have been drunk con- stitutionally, That somebody must suffer seoms inevitable, whether tho report be true | until 1871, when, at a late stage, he joined Mr. Tilden’s Nomination. We will not conceal our conviction that the Democratic State Convention has perpetrate an enormous mistake in nominating Mr. bi den as its candidate for Governor. If Mr. Tilden could be elected he would, no doubt, make a very fair Governor; but he is the weakest candidate the democratic party could have presented for the suffmges of the people. What has Mr. Tilden ever done to secure the confidence of the people? He has been promi- nent in the democratic councils for thirty years, and nobody can point to any act of his that aroused the enthusiasm of the party. He moved in the ruts of ordinary party routine the reformers against the Tammany Ring. His disinterestedness in that movement is open to serious question. He is a vain and ambitious man. He had been eclipsed by the favorites of the Ring. Nothing could have been more humiliating to an old stager like Mr. Tilden than to see men like Mr. Hoffman, whom he re- garded as upstarts, advanced to party honors | while he was neglected. He hated Tammany | because it ignored his claims to political pro- motion; but he courted and flattered its chiefs until he sawa chance of dispossessing and humiliating the rivals who had mortified his | A | ejected, or adopted to be rescinded, readopted while acting inside the party organization | vanity by keeping him in the background, | In the winter before the Tammany explosion | Mr. Tilden used to call on Governor Hoffman | The Third Term Question and the Constitution — Necessity for Amend- ments. No part of the federal constitution seemed tothe generation that adopted it so perfect in theor,” or has proved so disappointing in practice,as that which relates to the election of the Presmlent. The history of the Conven- tion shows that this imaginary perfection was reached only at @ late stage of its proceedings, and after more changes,vacillation and embar- rassment, more propositions offered only to be and again rescinded, than were presented in all the other parts of the constitution put together. In the original plan, which formed the basis of the discussions, the Executive was to be elected by the national legislature for seven years and be ineligible thereafter. The seven years were afterwards reduced to six, After this the ineligibility for a second term was stricken out by a vote of six States against four. “On the 19th of July & proposition was carried by the vote of eight States against two to take the choice of President from the national legislature and give it to electors ap- pointed by the State legislatures, On the 23d of July a motion to restore the election by the national legislature was adopted by the vote of seven States against four. A few days after the resolution was again amended | 80 as to restore the ineligibility clause and at Albany, and after deferring to the Tam- | the term of seven years by a vote of seven ) as | were weak he might win ; but he could never | favor of honest government and against the | Republican District Convention at Utica, many Governor in the most suave manner he would linger and shake hands with him | three or four times before taking leave. Mr. | Tilden knew then as well as he knew after- | | ward that the Tammany organization was a | sink of rottenness and corruption, but he en- | vied and courted it so long as he thought it had honors and offices in its disposal, and | turned against it at last only when he saw it was | | doomed to inevitable destruction. Such a man, whatever his character in other | respects, was not a proper person to nomi- | nate against so popular and magnetic a can- | didate as Governor Dix. The course of the | veteran chieftain has been such as to make | | him many new friends, while he retained | most of his old ones. He has not offended | his party nor embittered his political ene- | mies. In many respects he has shown | right, even in the face of party. His renomination cannot fail to be | Unanimous, and it was plain from the be- | ginning that his support in the canvass would | be enthusiastic unless the Democratic Con- | yention named a candidate sufficiently power- ful and popular to prove a counter attraction. In the nomination of Tilden the opposition hag failed to do this. He is not so eminent, | not’ so widely and generally esteemed, and not so skilful in political tactics even | his opponent. He is pitted against | the strongest man in the State, while he is the weakest man in his party. He can count upon nothing except well drilled party | support, and we are not sure that he can fully count upon this. If the republican forces hope to be Governor unless he was carried in on the high tide of party success. He is not aman to make his party successful. In a word, he is not an available candidate, and that, | too, at a time when availability was the essential element in the contest. It may be easy to understand who and what forced his | nomination, but it is difficult to comprehend © why mere motives of success should not have | counterbalanced these, influences, Certainly | the Convention did not believe so thoroughly in his fitness as to forego all considerations of availability. His nomination was an unfor- tunate selection, but it was made with deter- mination and without haste, and there can be | no excuses upon any ground except that of blundering. No man ever nominated for Governor of | this State had so sure a prospect of an igno- minious defeat. Mr. Tilden cannot poll the | full vote of bis own party; much less can he draw off any votes from the republicans, In | the western part of the State democratic votes for Governor will be traded off against votes | for members of Assembly. The democracy, despairing of the Governor, will try to secure the Senatorial election in the Legislature, and they will feel that they sacrifice nothing by exchanging votes for a gubernatorial candi- date who cannot possibly be elected against | votes for the Assembly which may assure the chance of a democratic Senator. Mr. Tilden | will be one of the worst beaten candidates that ever ran for the Governorship of this State. Tue Newrort Camp Mysrery.—The sud- den disappearance of the little white girl, whose presence among the Indians upon the | beach at Newport had attracted so much attention from the visitors there, is explained | in our correspondence from that place pub- lished this morning, and a sensation thereby spoiled. A respectable citizen, it seems, be- came attached to the child, and, determined to rescue her from her unfortunate position, took her to his home and made proper provis- ion for her. In this he is naturally sustained by the sentiment of the community, A Bort m Sourz Canonrna against the regular party ticket has been set in motion | among the colored republicans, who are in corrupt and shameless ruling ring of that un- fortunate State. This is the most hopeful movement yet attempted. The most hopeful, we say, for among the honest colored men of all parts of the State it appears to be ac- cepted as the open sesame to the den of thieves. A Stenrricaxt Voice rrom Urica.—Thy late with the nomination of Mr. E. H. Roberts for re-election to Congress, declared itself op- posed to a third Presidential term. What will the Republican State Convention at Utica next week have to say upon this important | subject is, however, just now the question to | which all the country is awaiting an answer. Orvm Ricuts 1s Haytt.—The Haytians have a constitution whereby foreigners (i. ¢., white men) are subject to all the obligations, taxes, | &c., of citizens, and denied, at the same time, all the rights of citizens. It is reported that the object of this constitution, under which | white men have no rights which black men are bound to respect, isto drive the whites from the country. Such are the civii rights of the black republicyns of Hayti, They should set a better example than this in be half of the civil rights of their brethren in our Southern States, | independently of every external influence. ' federal patronage from the choice of a Presi- , corruption by requiring that the electors , one purpose, H stitution that the functions they intended to | Bive to the Presidential electors would be an- ‘term. In the progress of time the federal , Presidential ambition, federal patronage and | constitution has become the danger of tho | advocating Mr. Greeley's election, dismissed | portance of that iasna, for it adda that a third | | States against three. The whole resolution, as thus amended, was then put to vote and adopted, with six States in the affirmative, three in the negative, ono absent and one equally divided. This seemed for the time to | settle the substance of that part of the consti- tution, leaving nothing but to put it in the proper form. The constitution was then re- ferred toa committee of detail to prepare a draft in conformity to the resolutions of the Convention. But in discussing the draft the Executive office again came up for discussion. Difficulties and objections were presented with accumulating force; the Coi- vention undid the work it had so often changed; and at last, after a new series of rejected propositions, it was determined almost unanimously to reduce the term from Seven years to four, and choose the. President by electors appointed in such manner as the Stute legislatures should prescribe. The fundamental mistake of the framers of the constitution in this part of their plan was the supposition that the Presidential electors would exercise their own free choice and vote The Convention fancied that it excluded dent by requiring that no person holding any office under the federal government shall be a Presidential elector. They thought that it shut the door against intrigue, cabal and should meet in their several States to cast their votes on the same day instead of assem- bling as one body ; that they should meet im- mediately after their appointment for this and that their official existence should be so transient as to permit of no com- munication between the electoral colleges of the several States for concert and intrigue. It was not foreseen by the framers of the con- ticipated and usurped by nominating bodies called national conventions, chosen outside of any law and assembling in one place. The Presidential electors are mere instruments of the nominating conventions. They only record the selection of candillates made by the irresponsible party conventions. The substitute which was thought so dex- terous and clever having proved utterly worthless, it is a great publio misfor- | tune that the Convention did not ad- | here to its original plan of giving the President a tenure of six or seven years and making him ineligible for a second ‘ patronage and influence have expanded to such colossal proportions that General Grant cherishes the hope of third election, and the | constitution interposes no obstacle. The precedents set by Washington and Jeffer- son, who declined a third term, were purely voluntary and have no sort of binding force. They Merely operate upon public opinion. If the combined influence of party discipline should set aside those whole- some precedents which have been so long respected, there is no legal or constitutional obstacle, If President Grant were to be elected a third or even a seventh time his right to the office would be as perfect and as unquestionable as when he first received a majority of the electoral votes. The country cannot afford to depend for its security upon mere precedents which have no binding | authority and may be set aside with impunity whenever a President in office is able to pack | the nominating convention of his party, and that party proves to bea majority. The out- look is becoming too ominous for the country to trust to so frail a barrier as the mere prece- dents of earlier and purer times. With the | vast amount of corrupting patronage in his hands, and with a hundred thousand office- holders always ready to act as his tools, a | President should not be permitted to intrigue even fora s-cond election, and the constitu. | tion should be so amended as to render such aspirations impossible. This is one among many reasons why it is expedient to havea national convention for revising the consti- tution. Thus the question is no longer theoretical but practical, The inherent weakness of the Republic. Those who believed that the ex- ample of Washington and the good sense of the people would always make a third term impossible now see their error, and know that as Washington's example is not con- sidered sufficient in other matters, so the good sense of the people is best shown when they protect their liberties by fundamental laws. Our calm and thoughtful contempor- ary, the Tribune, which, even when it was the idea of Grant's third term aspirations os a political absurdity, and has always looked upon Casar as a myth, now declares, after considering the significant silence of the President, and the action of his friends, that the third term movement is ‘a | pronounced and tangible issue in our poli- tics.” Nor does it fail to perceive the im- term “is a subversion of the system of popu- lar government which must in the end be fatal to republican institutions." Thus Cesar becomes a reality, and this opinion of the Tribune is the more valuable because of its past incredulity, and shows that the time has fully come when all parties should unite to establish the one term principle impregna- bly in the constitution. ‘This reform ought not to be @ partisan movement as against Grant; it should be enforced by the nation as & safeguard for the tuture. The End of the Drought—Welcome the Blessed Rain. After a protracted , drought throughout the United States, of unexampled severity ina period of many years, the welcome rains which ushered in the morning of Wednesday last along this section of the Atlantic coast were hailed with general expressions of rejoicing and thanksgiving, in city and country, and by men of all pursuits and professions, to an ex- tent seldom witnessed within the experience of even the “oldest inhabitant.” ‘The drought had become a general misfortune, and it was apparent to all that, if continued even 8 month longer, it might assume, in its for reaching consequences, the proportions of 8 general calamity. It has prevailed for the last two months or more generally over all our country east of the Great Plains, and. far into the interior of the New Dominion, though in some narrow localities, as in Con- necticut and at Pittsburg, there have been sudden and heavy inundations, and in many. other places within the general area indicated) occasional light showers. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic sea- board this drought of the last two months has prevailed. Had it covered the months of April and May our hay and wheat crops of this year, which have proved re- markably full and good, would have been disastrous failures. And again, had this drought extended over the months of Juno and July our cotton and Indian corn would have snffered heavily. As it is, the drought has seriously affected what is called the top crop of the cotton, and from Arkansas and Kentucky southward has, to a considerable ex- tent, blighted the corn. In Mississippi it has so far exhausted the soil of its moisture, and to such a depth, that in some districts the forests are blighted as by a sharp and un- timely frost From Western New York to | Kansas, in consequence of the drying up of pastures, wells, springs and brooks, the cattle of the farmers have suffered much from the want of grass and water. In Lower Canada large amounts of property in timber and lum- ber have been destroyed by bush fires, and thousands of acres of woodlands have been laid waste on Long Island and in Southern New Jersey. In Ohio and other States west the drought has delayed the farmers in putting into the ground their wheat for the next sum- mer’s harvest, and in this view alone gen- eral and generous rains at this time will be worth millions of money to the country. From the last two days’ reports of the Signal Service Bureau we are glad to perceive that these “‘latter rains,’’ as they are designated in Holy Writ, have extended over a large area of the thirsty land We dare say, too, that, considering the near approach of the autumnal equinox, we are entering upon a rainy season which will extinguish the drought over all the coun- try suffering from it, and to gardens, fields, wells, springs and streams will give bountiful supplies of life-giving water. Tue Tennessex Repvsiicans, with the record of fifty thousand majority against them in their last State election on the Civil Rights bill, now go before the people on a sort of compromise. They are opposed to the en- forcement of mixed schools; but Mr. May- nard, their candidate for Governor, declares himself in favor of the Senate's Civil Rights bill, and this will doubtless settle Mw, May- uard. Tue Arkansas REPUBLICANS congratulate | their brethren of Louisiana on the Presi- | dent's proclamation in behalf of Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana; but they repudiate Baxter, who was established Governor of Are kansas by a similar proclamation. They think 'tis Strange all this difference should ve ‘Twixt Tweediedum ahd Tweediedee, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, eS Mr. Benson J. Lossing is sojourning at the St Nicholas Hotel. Mr. P, T, Barnum and bride have gone to the White Mountains, Postmaster George W. Fairman, of Philadelphia, Js residing at the Gilsey House Secretary Belknap will return to Washington from Columbus on Saturday morning, captain W. H. D. Haggard, of the British Lega- tion, is registered at the Weatmoreland Hotel. Ex-Coniederate Senator Thomas J. Semmes, of New Orleans, bas arrived at the New York Hotel. Colonel Thomas A. Scott, President of the Penn- syivania Railroad Company, is at the Windsor Hotel. = * . M, Bartholdi, French Minister at Washington, arrived from Boston last evening at the Brevoort , House. Those stormy Petrels of social life—Woodhull ana Ciafin--are back again. Now lor the next unfor- tunate. senor Don Emi!io Benard, Minister for Nicara- gua at Washington, has apartments at the Clarendon Hotel. Secretary Robeson arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening, and left on the nine o'clock train for Washington. Mr. Dodge, the statistician of the Department of Agricuiture, has been ill some weeks in New Hampshire, with pneumonia. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick D. Grant ana Lieutenant Col.ne!l Jedediah H. Baxter, United States Army, ave quartered at the Filth Avenue Hotei. OBITUARY, Lord Fermoy. Acable telegram from London yesterday, 17th inst, reports as foilows:—“Ea. mund Burke Roche, Barou Fermoy, is dead.” He was fifty-nine years of age, having been born in the month of August, 1815. He was Lord Lieutenant ant cus‘os rotorum af the County Cork, and served as a member for the same county in the Engish Parliament trom 1837 to 1855. He represented the eiectors ol an- Other constituency from 159 to 1305. Lord For= moy Was descended trom a very ancient family, the founder of whe Irish branch of the house having accompanied Robert Fitz-Stepuen from England to the green tsiand in the year tigé, The deceased nobleman was a geniai Irish gentieman, very Wealthy, practical and enterprising, Bua chief seat of residence, Traboigan Gvurt, was for many years a Susy centre for the exercise of skilled exertion jor the development of agri- cultural industry, RAILROAD RECEIVER APPOINTED, LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept, 17, 1874 Chancelior Bruce, of the Louisville Chancery Court, to-day appointea Mr. J. B, Wiider Receiver Of the Louisville, Cincinnatt and Lexington Short under date of Line Rairoad, Mr. Wilder has heea President ob the road sar wha naat year,