The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HEKALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1874.—ITRIPLE SHEET, all There Be a New Election im Loulstanat eas oars | Sh 7 NEW YORK HERALD aera Governor McEnery has set a noble example BROADWAY AND ein enPS | to his opponent. In his letter addressed to | x = the Heratp he offers to resign all claim to the et e' JAMES GORDON SO? > | office to which he believes he was elected, | REP eee | upon the condition that Mr. Kellogg shall | Q i vi e rst ing that a new | 2RALD, go resign, with the understanding | THE DAILY HEL ate government shall be chosen by the peo- | day in the year. Fe ple. ‘Lo this spirit of unselfish zeal for the nual subscription price $12. good of Louisiana the highest praise is due; ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic | but it has charocterized the McEnery party | despatches must be addressed New York | published cvery An- ur cents per copy. from the first. In the recent revelution | there was every temptation for the su ful leaders to use extreme ures to retain their power. They tainly represented the will of the people. | They claimed to be the duly elected officers | of Louisiana. The public opinion of the country, and, as in the case of as conspicuous a partisan as Senator Carpenter, public opin- ion without distinction of party, believed in the justice of this claim. Even extreme republicans, of whom General Butler might be called the representative, could find no- thing but apologies for the Kellogg govern- Rejected communications will not be re- cer- HERALD. turned, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions ond Advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. | — SS | ment. As if to emphasize these facts, the be- | Volume XXXIX. No, 262 | havior of the contending parties during | = the crisis was such as to destroy | ANUSEAIENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING any vestige of respect that may have been telt for Kellogg, and to increase our sympathy for | Mr, McEnery and his followers. Kellogg and his comrades behaved like cowards. They did not strike a manly blow for their power. At the first blush of revolution they threw down the and Twenty-secona mmelwe ,atsP. M, Mr, John, Raymond. streets — Matinee BOOTH’S THEATRE, of Twenty-third street and corner “Sixth avenue.— trom the wrath of the people it misrules? | Louisiana be restored to her true place. VENICE PRESERVED, at 1 5 closes, at 4P.M. | FED toe its Panuy Brougie FM 4e0n | sovereignty of the State and hastened to seck —— | protection behind the federal bayonets. Gen- N D'S GAR! N, Broadway, inion Be Gnd Houston streets.—THE | eral Longstreet seems to have made an effort DEL {at 8 P.M: closes at i. M. The Kiraity | 1:30 P.M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, at sP. Miss Fanny \avenport, Miss Sara, Matinee at 1:4) P, M. ba Faully. hatinee at closes at 11 weet, Lewis | THE PM. James, Charles Fisher. ROBIN-ON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway an' VARIETY, at5 P.M. Matinee at2 P.M d Pith avenge.— | BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-toird street, near sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSIKELoy, at 8 P.M. ban Bryant Matmee at 2 ¥. M. METROPOLITA ATRE. No. 585 Broadwsy.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at 8 P. M. | Maunee ut P.M. PARK GARDEN. | ayeque.—THOMAS’ CON. | OP. —NEGRO | ‘STITUTE, ty third and Sixty-fonrth ABITION. ‘Third avenue, between streets, -INDUsTRIAL BAILEY'S CIRCUS, | foot of Houston street, East River, at i P. M. and 8 P. M. | TONY PASTO! No. 201 Bowery.—VARI PM OPERA HOUSE. POM, 1, at 5 COLOSSEUM, corner of Thirty-fitth street—PARIS BY 340 P.M. | WALLAC THEATRE, | and Thirteenth street.—DEARER THAN Mj closesatli P.M. J.L. Joole. Matinee Woop's MU: Proadway, corner Thirtieth st LIGHY, at 2 P.M loses ai closes at 10:20 P.M.’ Louis Ald: .—UNDER THE GA. 4:30 F nd at8 P.M rich and Miss sophie Miles. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No, 604 Broadway.VARIBTY, at § F. Mf. ; closes ati0:45 P.M. Maunee at DE, at8P. M.:¢ d . Matinee THEATRE COMIQUE, Broadway —VARIETY, at 8P. H1.: closes at 10:30 No. 514 ¥.M. Matinee at 2PM. T RIPLE SHEET, New York, Saturday, Sept. 19, From our reporis this morning the probabilities | are thai the weather to-day will be cloudy and | rainy. Watt Sreeer Yesrenpay.—Stocks were moderately active and generally firm, leaving | off with a fractional decline in the Western shares. Gold closed at 1093. Last Nicut Detzcates to the Republican Convention at Utica were elected, and the list will be found elsewhere. Asotnen Horrmie Domestic TraGepy is reported to-day—the attempt of a jealous man to kill his wife, and his successful effort at suicide. Ir Is Pnovapte that the new Atlantic cable | expedition has met with a misfortune. Noth- ing has been heard from the steamer Faraday | since the 9th inst., and it is inferred that the | cable parted in water over two miles deep, | and that the attempt is being made to recover | it. Tue Frencu Repve.icans in the Permanent Committee of the Assembly have accused the government of suppressing none but repub- lican journals. The treatment of the press in | France has certainly been almost as severe | under the Republic as during the rule of the Empire. STATEMENTS are now in season concerning the troubles of Mayor Havemeyer and Mr. | Kelly. Mr. Waterbury is one of the first in the field with charges against Mr. Kelly of fraud and rascally conduct in general. His | letter, elsewhere printed, is the latest but not | the last chapter in this lively discussion of the politicians. Tue Mystery in the Greenpoint kidnap- | ping case has been solved by the confession | of the woman Lizzie Munger that she had | stolen the child to revenge herself on its | father, and that before she placed it in the | board pile where it was found she had struck | it on the head with a stone. This confession | was made to a detective under the pledge of | secrecy; but, of course, when the detective was placed in the witness box the Coroner | obliged him to repeat it., One point in the case is that a stronger motive for revenge ex- | isted on the part of the poor creature than | ber mere dismissal from the service of the | family to which the kidnapped iafant be- longed. Tae New York Lrserats.—Some of them, as liberals or democrats, participated in the work of the Democratic State Convention, and they have a candidate on the democratic State | ticket in Mr. Dorsheimer for Lieutenant | Governor. But the main body of tho liberal | | breaking the levees, for it was not justified by | awicked outbreak against authority, or an | | difference between isolated and wanton dis- | of 1866. | wicked resistance to law, An armed mob sup- | | have a number of other old women. Mr. j | ered and negroes shot down on the highway, | satisfy the wishes of Louisiana and to relieve to redeem the cause of Kellogg, but sur- rounded by such men even his conspicuous and unquestioned bravery was useless. Yet, in the hour of absolute victory, the McEnery government threw down its arms | and its opportunity at tHe feet of the national government. The simple demand of the President was enough. His movements of troops from other States to Louisiana, his orders for war vessels to proceed to the Mississippi, were altogether unnecessary. This terrible array of war against New | Orleans was as superfluous as it would have been against New York, for no resistance to | the United States authority was contemplated | ormade. The President might have spared | his threat to shell the city or inundate it by | the temper of the people, and we regret that | it was ever made. We must remember that | we cannot always deal with revolution as | act of lawlessness, like the religious riots of | thirty years ago, or the Astor place riot, or the outbreaks in this city against conscription in 1864. The difference between these events and what we have seen in Louisiana is the turbance of the peace and the spontaneous uprising of a people against tyranny and cor- ruption. Nothing could have been more | brutal, for instance, than the New Orleans riot The response to that on the part of the North was instant and decisive. Presi- | dent Johnson’s strange sympathy with the affair was the beginning of the downfall of his | administration. That riot had every phase of | pressed freedom of speech. A convention in proper deliberation was dissolved by force, ita | leaders murdered, innocent spectators massa- amid a general reign of lawlessness and terror. The recent revolution had none of these pain- ful phases. Authority was assumed by what certainly was obedience to the will of the peo- | ple of Louisiana. There was no revenge, no | recrimination, none of those scenes of blood- | shed and cruelty which marked the success of | revolutions in France and other countries. There was nothing in the whole course of the | McEnery revolution, from its inception to its surrender, to forfeit the respect or the sym- pathy of the American people for the people of Louisiana and their leaders, The answer which Mr. Kellogg will make to Governor McEnery ought, therefore, to be as patriotic as the offer. The ease with which the revolution was effected must have con- vinced the nation that his government has not the support of the people, and he should profit | by the lesson. He has the power now to the national government from embarrassment. Let him use it wisely, and not insist upon compelling the administration to keep him in the office which he has not the power to hold unaided. If he accepts the proposition of | Mr. McEnery he will make a peaceful and permanent solution of the difficulty possible, | and prove that he values the welfare of the | State more than the honors and gains of office. But if he refuses the entire nation will be forced to recognize in him an obstacle to peace, and will justly reason that the man who dreads a fair election now has good cause to doubt the fairness of the election before. We infer from his telegram to the Heratp that it is not his intention to resign, and that he places the responsibility of his removal upon the Legislature which is to be elected. But, whatever Mr. Kellogg may choose to do, the duty of the government is to see that justice is rendered to the people of Louisiana. The proof is overwhelming that they repudiate | the Kellogg administration. The appeal | which we print to-day from the President of | the Board of Trade of Baton Rouge, the Presi- dent of the Farmers’ Association and other citizens, is only additional evidence of the | intense dread they have that this hated rule | may be restored. General Grant should deal with the question of equity as well as with | that of the law. He has suppressed the armed revolution by a word, but the moral revolution still lives as a protest against usurpation and crime in Louisiana and the criminal sympathy given to usurpation and crime by the admin- istration. The country will demand from the President, as due to the oppressed people of that State, something of the vigor he has shown in overcoming the McEnery government. He should insist upon justice to the State, It is no answer to such @ demand to say that | having heretofore recognized Kellogg he must | | tration be just toward Louisiana. | those grave problems resulting from the war, | | people of Plymouth church, their outcomings | and their inwardness, have ceased to be in- | bas appealed, and as the friends of Mr. party of the State hada convention of their | own on the 16th, which, in reference to a | State ticket, will meet again. It is generally | understood that General Cochrane will not | e : : : call this convention together again till he | ana answer with alacrity the President's sum- hears froma the republicans at Utica, The | mons to surrender a sovereignty which was | liberals claim thirty thousand votes, aforco | theirs by mght as well as in fact, why should which it would be folly to throw away for | not the President recognize this peaceful dis- nothing in our November election. Liberty | position by securing to the State its rightful cannot be supported and reform cannot live government? He cannot do this by the mere on buske force ofarmsa, “Upon the surrender of the sustain bim. If, as no one will seriously | question now, his recognition was a mistake, | why not retrieve it? If the people of Lonisi- | insurgents,’ Adjutant General Townsend says in his despatch of yesterday to General Envry, “‘you will inform Governor Kellogg of the fact and give him the necessary sup- port to re-establish the authority of the State | government.” But is this all? Is there | no more to be done for Louisiana? What kind of a government is that | which needs an army to protect it | It is here, we think, that the higher duty of the President begins. He has carried out tho strict letter of the law by replacing Kellogg in office; now let him act in the spirit of the constitution, which guarantees ‘“‘a repub- lican form of government’? to every State, and use the immense moral influence of his | office to obtain an honest election of a new Governor by the people. Not by the terror of bayonets, but only by measures of justice, can The President cannot ignore these facts. The republican party cannot live unless it | adopts a nobler policy toward the South; nor can the North be true to the Union while | such crimes as that of the Kellogg govern- | ment are clothed with the sacredness of the | national constitution. With us alone rests the responsibility. We conquered the South; we accepted the burdens of conquerors; we de- stroyed its armies; we exhausted its wealth and its resources; we annihilated its credit; we paralyzed its social system; we emanci- pated the slaves, and in doing so threw its rich, dominant governing class into poverty. In doing this we virtually imposed upon the Southern people a war fine infinitely greater than that imposed upon France by Germany. We imposed ruin upon the Southern States in | a spirit of brotherly love, and, not satisfied | with this—which might have been regarded as | the unavoidable results of a war wantonly begun by the South—-we stimulated and rec- | ognized a system of government which not | only has brought scandal upon the American name, but threatens a St. Domingo war of | races and the adoption by many States of the policy of repudiation, ‘ There is only one way to treat this question, and that is the right way. Let the adminis- The revo- lution has ended in a majestic protest against acknowledged wrong. Let us accept the pro- test by removing the wrong. For the pres- | ent we can do justice to this State, and in the future we can enter upon the consideration of | which bear fruit in Louisiana, as to-morrow they may bear fruit in Wisconsin and Califor- nia—problems of reconstruction, labor, race and finance—by a national convention of | peace and reconstruction. Louisiana is a swift and terrible argument in favor of such a | convention. A Statement About Statements. Mr. Tilton has made another statement, which we print to-day. Mr. Beecher has made a statement. Mr. Moulton has made three statements. The committee has made what it has the audacity tocall a decision, but | which is really nothing but astatement. Gen- eral Morris has made a number of statements. Mr. Tracy has made astatement about Mr. Moulton’s statement and about himself. Susan B. Anthony has made a statement. So Shearman has made a statement. Brother | Raymond has made a very important state- ment—viz., that to attack Mr. Beecher is to attack the throne of God itself. Miss Proctor has made a legal statement. Elizabeth has made several statements. Bessie has made some shocking statements, which, as usual, are irreconcilable with each other or with truth. Mrs. Morse has made a state- ment. Samuel Wilkeson has made a state- ment, briefly but forcibly referring to the “Life of Christ.’’ Mr. Carpenter has made a statement. Everybody has made a statement about somebody else. I, thou, he, we, you and they, he, she andit, have or hast made statements. There are almost as many state- ment makers as there are candidates for the Vice Presidency, and they constitute a large percentage of the population. Now, this is our statement. Having read all the statements of the other statesmen, is it not time to state that any further state- ments are a bore? We think so. The public, from the facts presented, has been able to form a general idea of the case, and the details of the private life of the romantic teresting. It may be agreeable to the states- | men to see their portraits in the illustrated papers, and to have the fac-similes of their dreadfully bad chirography published as a warning to our public schools, but it is not agreeable to the public. The news- papers, too, have other duties to per- form than those which concern Mr. Beecher and his wild companions. There are murders in Montana, larcenies in Louisi- ana, crim. con. in Connecticut, arson in Arizona and outrages in Ohio. We cannot confine ourselves to a single crime in Brooklyn. Much as we respect that crime and those criminals, other sins and other sinners have claims upon us which we are in duty bound to consider. The ques- tions of Mr. Beecher’s guilt, of Mr. Tilton’s sufferings, of Mr. Moulton’s veracity, of Miss Anthony's virtue, of the sanity of the Plymouth church committee, aro important, but other men have sinned, and it is possible | that others have lied, though probably not to | such an extraordinary extent. As Mr. Tilton, if | he has been wronged, has an opportunity of ob- | taining some redress in the courts to which he | Beecher, if he is innocent, can prove it better | in court than in the newspapers (for unfor- tunately we cannot compel the statesmen to swear to what they say), why should not both | parties wait for a legal decision? They should less and fruitless discussion, and is very well content to hear no more of the case till it | comes up for trial in October. In the mean- while we have only to say to these Brooklyn statesmen what Ge 1 Grant said to the nation when he was first elected President, and we trust the suggestion will have a more satis- factory response. ‘‘Lot us have peace,’’ said | the President, “Let us have no more states | ments,’’ say we. Tue Inish Rurtemen have had a warm re- ception. Yesterday they were escorted to Creedmoor by the Amateur Rifle Club, where nothing was inhospitable but the weather. | the party which has determined to renominate | ing in his official conduct as Governor which | | his advocates are called upon to plead to or j limit and localize most jealously the few | twenty thousand, is pledged for General Dix; achi hite republi = | understand that the public is sick of this use- | but let the approaching white republican con. The Syracuse Platform—Impliea Eu- logy of Governor Dix. The democratic State platform is, in the main, an excellent body of sound political doctrine expressed with commendable brev- | ity. It differs from most platforms put forth by a party out of office and wishing to get in, by making no arraignment on specific charges of the State administration it secks to dis- place. Such charges are the ordinary staple of such manifestoes by a party out of power. No act of Governor Dix is thought deserving | of censure in the bill of indictment for put- ting him on his trial before the people. A convention of his political opponents could find nothing which he has done or neglected to do since his inauguration as Governor which they thought the public sentiment of the State would uphold them in denouncing. When the chief magistrate of a State has so clean an official record that his lynx-eyed opponents ean discover no blot in it, and virtually ac- knowledge by their silence that it is faultless, him may proceed with great confidence. He is to be put on trial without charges, without an indictment, without an accuser, with noth- explain, While his discharge of public duties thus escapes criticism for lack of materials the platform of his opponents is a strong indorse- ment of his well-known political principles. The platform takes admirable ground on the currency. The voters of the State will be reminded by it of Governor Dix’s able and vigorous letter last spring indorsing Grant's veto of the inflation bill. Every monetary | and fiscal doctrine of the plaiform—and these are its main substance—is a perfect reflection of the lifelong and tenaciously held views of our present Governor. The citizens of the State are asked to put him out of office by men whg cannot make an acceptable and popular declaration of principles without | transcribing his. ‘Behold I called thee to curse mine enemies,’’ said Balak to the Prophet Balaam, ‘and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.” Instead of censur- ing Governor Dix the authors of the Syra- cuse platform have proclaimed their approba- tion of his political principles by adopting them as their own. The fifth declaration, favoring payment of the national debt in coin and maintaining public faith, is something very different from | awar note against Governor Dix. It is a castigation of political friends, not of politi- | cal enemies. It is meant for the democracy of those Western and Southwestern States who have recently denounced the government for entering into such an obligation. The democracy of New York publicly wash their hands of the financial heresies of their Wes- | tern brethren, entering a plea of not guilty for themselves instead of arraigning their adversaries. Ina republican platform such a declaration would not be merely a defensive but an offensive weapon. In a democratic platform it is an involuntary tribute to the soundness of the republican position on this subject. If anybody is wounded by it it is not Governor Dix. There is one declaration of the platform | in which well sounding phrases are substi- tuted for sense, the confusion of thought being so great as to convey no intelligible meaning. We refer to the proposition “to powers intrusted to public servants, muni- cipal, State and federal.’’ What idea is meant to be conveyed by jealously localizing the federal authority? In its proper nature it is not local but general, including in its scope those common concerns which interest the whole country alike. The true democratic doctrine is, and always has been, to delocalize the federal power, to with- draw and restrain it from every object of merely local inttrest, to keep it entirely apart | States, and we can hardly hesitate in choosmg | cent rainfalls of the 15th and 16th inst, on the | reservoirs along | of the famine, as witnessed last year in Ben- from every subject of governmental regula- | tion which does not affect the common welfare | of the whole country. Localizing the federal | power is either a phrase without meaning or it means something just the reverse of what the democratic party has always held. Localizing the powers of the State governments is equally | objectionable and undemocratic, if it be not meaningless. It cannot mean the restraining | of State authority within State limits, for nobody has ever held the contrary. But ob- | | viously State jurisdiction is coextensive with the State territory, and it ought not tobe “jealously localized,’’ but jealously delocal- ized in the sense of withdrawing it from things of purely local interest and the avoid. | ance of local legislation by the enactment of | general laws which apply equally to the same | subjects in all parts of the State. The true | democratic method is to discriminate wisely | between general and local powers, giving to the federal government such as cannot be localized in the States and to the State gov- ernment such as cannot be safely intrusted to the municipalities. From the very nature of the case all proper federal powers are general and not local. Tue Cororep Rerunticans of this State have had a convention at Utica, in which they have laid down the law to their white brethren. They charge that the administration has been too lenient with Southern ex-rebels; that the President has been pardoning imprisoned Ku Klux leaders who deserved hanging ‘‘for their hellish perpetrations upon their unoffending fellow citizens;'’ that the Civil Rights bill must Be passed, for if not passed the colored voters of the country will know the reason why; but that meantime the colored citizens of New York stand ready, if wanted, to give a helping hand to the President “in the struggle of right against wrong” in the South, The colored vote of this State, claimed to be yention at Utica flinch on civil rights if the party wishes to dispense with its colored element. Soutnern Reconstruction—Senator Cray- von Asxina For Morr.—Senator Clayton, of Arkansas, in recent speech at Little Rock, has declared that in hardly any of the South. ern States is there a republican form of gov- ernment, and that it is the duty of Congress to reconstruct them over again. The Senator is mistaken. The trouble with nearly all those States is not that they have had too little of reconstruction, but too much. Their constitu- tions have been ruined by the Congressional auackery of recoustruction, | the Indians. | dians on the warpath enough of it. Of the : The Summer and Its Lesson to Agri- culturiste—The Early Equinoctial Rain. The equinoctial weather has made a premature appearance this year, but never was it more needed. There is an old Italian proverb in verse which, put into English prose, means September either washes away bridges or else brings famine. This adage is not less true of Italy than of the United the first alternative it presents. The summer has been one of extraordinary dryness, con- sequent upon conditions unknown even to the scientific, which, if not relieved by an early equinoctia! rainfall, must have blighted the hopes of both the autumnal and summer harvests. Experience leads us to expect in this month those heavy downpours from the clouds which not only wash away bridges, but have so often proved destructive of human life. The sum- mer heat on the American Continent is very telling in causing a barometric depression, which can be filled up only by immense indraughts of oceanic air, charged with a gaseous vapor and the elements of storm and tempest. A few years agosuch an atmospheric movement gave rise to the terrible water- spout which, coming in from the Atlantic, along the line of the Chesapeake, poured its desolating floods over Southern Maryland. Still later and at the same season (autumn) came the fearful cataclysm, which burst upon the fair valley of Virginia and the Piedmont section of that State, carrying havoc amid the ungarnered crops and a watery death to many who were suddenly swept with their houses into the raging watercourses. The re- seaboard, but that they were spread out over | longer periods of time, might have accom- plished similar ruin; but, with probably few disastrous effects, they will prove the salva- tion of the crops not already blasted by drought. Every year we have a fresh and more em- phatic lesson to our agricultural communities to turn their attention to the husbanding or artificial storing of their water supply. It is true the alleged diminution of summer rain- fall and deterioration of climate by deforest- ing and other causes is in dispute among | scientific authorities. But, meantime, the practical observer sees unmistakable evidence of the increasing scarcity of water in the American summer and the growing need of | irrigation systems on a small scale in nearly all | the agricultural districts, save, perhaps, those bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, Even these (were it not that cotton is a sun plant | and can thrive with but little moisture) would | fail of their agricultural yield, and have failed, | in many of the excessively dry summers, and might advantageously siore their surplus spring rainfall. In the Middle States, how- ever, where agriculture concentrates its labor and capital for the supply of the great metro- politan cities, and produces large crops on small areas of soil, irrigation would be | feasible and comparatively cheap. Small | the Alleghany and Blue | Ridge slopes and outlying elevations would | cost but little when compared with those of | India, and would save annually far more than | the interest on the original outlay. The subject of irrigation is confessedly diff- | cult, but it is high time it was thoroughly | wetghed by intelligent agriculturists, and | means devised for testing ita feasibility, if not | for immediately introducing it. This is the great lesson taught by the severe and ex- tended drought of the summer, and the | sooner it is heeded the better, unless we aro prepared to brave, in some form, the horrors gal and at other times in some of the fairest countries on the globe. A Kicking Bird of Peace. An interview of a correspondent near Fort Sill with Kicking Bird, one of the Kiowas, gives some interesting opinions of that cele- brated chief upon the possibility of civilizing With kind and just treatment | Kicking Bird thinks his race may be taught | to cultivate corn and “live in houses and | settle down like white men.’”” But he is not | satisfied with the invasion of the reservations | by unauthorized whites, nor with the bad | quality of the rations furnished. Upon the question of war he speaks sensibly, and | hopes that Washington, in whose present ex- istence he seems to believe, will give the In- Heratp, which he calls ‘the great captain | paper,” Kicking Bird has a high opinion, and’ | is desirous that we shall fairly represent his opinions. In doing so we must sey that ho proposes quite a good Indian policy, and that | the Great Father and the Great Lodge at Washington might profit by some of his sug- gestions. We would be very glad if all our theoretical, experimental Indian statesmen | were half as practical and wise as ‘Kicking | Bird, Chief of the Kiowas (friendly),” as he | signs himself in his letter. Tue Inprans of the confederated hostile tribes operating in the Great Plains southwest | of the Indian Territory are giving General Miles, in his pursuit of them, more trouble | than he anticipated. They appear to have dodged him and turned back for a deliberate | attack upon his supply train, and their strat- egy in this movement was apparently very | skilfal. Failing in their attack upon the train, | they will now, reduced as they are to short | rations, be rapidly pushed, no doubt, to an | unconditional surrender. aE EE | Conaness, at its last session, made a great | mistake in the reduction of the army, and the country is now perceiving the fact. It is re- ported that by desertion and death the num- | ber of the rank and file has fallen to 18,000, and that the effective force is not more than 12,000 men. This condition of our military service is discreditable and dangerous to the country. Tae Spantarps have many ingenious ways of raising money to carry on the war in Cuba. ‘The latest is a decree re-establishing titles of | nobility, the possessors of which aro to be | taxed according to the royal decree of 1846. | It costs something to be a Count in Cuba. Brrcnen on Suaxespzane.—Mr. Beecher has supplied an interesting contribution to | our Shakespearian discussion, which is con- tained in a letter from the Twin Mountain House to-day. He takes the sensible view that dramatic genina ia not limited in ita | tal remains —Tnealaeia exercise to the facts in the life of its possessor. He therefore finds no reason in Shakespeare’s want of'learning to justify the belief that he could not have written the plays, while ho thinks that Bacon's intellect was deficient in thé wit and fancy re- quired. Mrs, Harriet Beecher Stowe gives a brief account of Delia Bacon and her book upon her great namesake, from whom, we be- lieve, she claimed to be descended. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General George W. McCook, of Ohto, is staying at the Hotel Brunswick, Admiral J. R, Tucker, of the Peruvian Navy, 18 at the New York Hotel. Captain Hogg, of the British Legation, and lady, are at the Westmoreland Hotel, Professor J. E. Hilgard, of Washington, haa apartments at the Astor House, General M. W. Gary, of South Carolina, has ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Henry Armitt Brown, of Philadelphia, is among the recent arrivals at the Albemarle Hotel. Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Roberts, United States Army, ts quartered at the Gilsey House. Mr. Richard M. Field, manager of the Boston Museum, is stopping at the Westminster Hotel. Colonel J. Stricker Jenkins, of the Fifth Mary- land regiment, is registered at the Hoffman House. Captain W. E. Peck, of the Royal Engineers, British Army, is sojourning at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, Sefior Don A. 8. Ybarra, Secretary of the Lega- tion of Venezuela at Washington, is residing at the Hoffman House, General Van Buren, who once went to Vienna, has entered upon his duties as United States Con- sul General for Japan, An Irishman returned from his travels gallantly compared his landlady to Vesuvius, because “she was a fine old crater.” England 1s agitated about the “bearing rein,” which the horsemen like and which the men of Bergh’s persuasion oppose, Philosophers are now disposed to argue that the fishes have a language. This has no relation te the ancient discovery in regard to thelr sounds. John Hyman, colored, Congressman elect irom North Carolina, was sold seven times while a slave. He will be sold still more frequently in Congress. Mr. Ciement Hugh Hill, Assisrant Attorney Gen- eral, arrived from Boston yesterday at the Bre- voort House. He leaves the city to-day for Wash- ington. i At @ horticultural exhibition at Belfast, Ire~’ land, a bunch of black Hamburg grapes was shown which weighed twenty pounds, twelve ounces, Itis reported that the Empress of Russia will go to England shortly on account o! the occurrence of an important eveat in the family of the Duke of Edinburgh. Lieutenant Boyne, of the Thirty-eighth British | regiment, recently walked from Aldershot to Lon-: don and back in seventeen hours, The distance ws seventy miles, iad | Bazine | will yg tn aeeion, and has taken the apartments on King street, St. James, that were once occupied by Napoleon III. in the days when he was cailed Prince Louis. ‘ Mr. Proctor, the astronomer, {s urging the adop- tion in England of our system of the publication daily of predictions of the weather, and says that im his lecturing tour In this country he only knew these predictions to be wrong twice in three months, In England a poor curate, unable to live on his | salary, supported himself by repatring watcnes, This was reported tothe Bishop asa disgrace to the cloth. ‘“Tais must be put a stop to,” said the Bishop, indignantly, and he stopped it by giving the curate a place worth $2,000 a year. At Ouchy, Switzerland, a boatman pulled out @ man who tried to drown himself in the lake, Later he saw him hanging on a tree, and left him alone to enjoy his “fixed idea.” He was summoned before a magistrate for not preventing the suicide, and said he thought the gentleman had hangea himself up to dry. ‘The only thing that Earl Russell ever did greatly was to sneeze. His acnievement in that line is thus described by a biographer :—“This remarkable Man seemed to concentrate himself, as it were, fora gigantic effort, would be bent nearly double | by the Jorce of the explosion, and would then dive down into the flaming banner of red silk, from which, alter several minutes’ obscuration, he emerged with a countenance as vivid as the back of a scalded lobster.” The late Lord Clarendon said:—When Lord John takes snui the conse- quence ‘brings down the House.’” NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE. {From the Buifalo Express.) Marshal Buzaine ts the latest specimen caught by the enterprising agent of the HERALD in Europe tor the Bennett Collection of Curiosities. We never took any stock in Bazaine. In the hour of his country’s death struggle he was an intriguing po- litician instead of a patriotic soldier. He was con- victed upon good evidence of being a traitor, and sentenced to death, His lite was spared by Marshal MacMahon, and the favor was reciprocated by breaking his parole and escaping from his place of confinement. He now turns up a8 @ HERALD cor- respondent, which will not improve bis reputation, to say the least. FUNERAL OF BEV. JOSEPH BRUNEMANN, . & FB The funeral of Rey. Joseph Brunemann, 0. S. F., took place yesterday afternoon from St. Peter's church, Hicks street, South Brooklyn, The ser- vices, whica were of the usual impressive charac- ter, were attended by a very iarge congregation, About thirty priests and Bishop John Loughlin were present, Rev. M. Murphy officiated as cele- brant at the solemn requiem mass which was celebrated, and Rev. William Keegan and Rev. J. Carroll officiated as Deacon and Subdeacon respectively. The music, which was very finely executed, consisted o| Rossi’s mass, in A minor, for four voices. At the conclusion of the mass Rev. Father McKenna, of Southold, L. 1, delivered the faneral oration. eo deceased bad been thirty years in the ministry. No one in need or in distress ever appealed to Father Brunemann for assistauce in vain. aoe to him was valueless save for the good it migh produce, He had the greatest faith in the efficacy of prayer; be prayed constantly and be- sought the prayers ol others tor limself. Father Mckenna entreated the prayers of aii who heard him lor the repose of the dead "ge whose mor- are lying in dumb supplication be+ fore them. The Temains were interred im the , Cemetery of the Hoiy Cross, Flatbush, FUNERAL OF THE LATE REV, CANTWELL. The funeral of the late Kev. P. F. Cantwell took place yesterday from St. Jonn’s church, Paterson, N.J. A solemn requiem mass was celebrated, Rev, Father Thebaud, 8. J., officiating, with Rev. P. Connolly, of Perth Amboy, as deacon; Rey. P, Downey, sub-deacon, and Rey. J. P, Smyth, master of ceremonies, The church was densely crowded. Fok Among tbe ciergy present were the Rev. Dr. Cor- rigan, Bishop of Newark; Rev. Thomas Kil- leen,| Rev. Charles H. Reilly, Rev. Joseph Daiton, Rev. P. Cody, Rev. P. bennessey, | Rev. F. McManus, Rev. F. McKernan, Kev, P, MoNuity, Rev. Father Zimmer, Rev. Father Or- | lando, ev. John O'Neill, Rey. Pather Schnetder, | Rey. Father Salt, Rev. Father Haus, ‘The pane | gyric was preached by the Rev, P. McNulty, from | the text, “Blessed are the dead who die ja the | Lord, sor they rest from their labors, and their works do jJollow them.’ The denediction was pronounced by Bishop Corrigan, who seemed to be greatly affected at the loss of a good priest. The remains Were interred in the Catholic Ceme~ tery. | RAILWAY PASSENGER AGENTS’ CONVENTION, Yesterday morning the half yearly Convention of the General Passenger Agents of the rail roads of the United States was opened at at the St, Nicholas Hotel. After the meeting had been called to order the following officers were elected :—President, T. L, Kimball; Vice President, E. A. Brown; Secretary, Samuel Powe! Committee, Messrs. B. W. Wrenn Avettoe. The work before the Houston In extensive nature, and consists mainiy 1h Fi ing rates and the winter service ot brit 6 is believed (hat the Convention will remain in sea- sion for a week at leant. The sessions being Be- cret, the press were unavie to cain Govalls of Was waa trADADiTLOie