The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY The Situation in Europe—Shadows of Coming Events. There is a constant rumbling in the Conti- nent of Europe, and even the wisest men can- not read the signs. Hawthorne said in one | of his publications about England that be always felt in that country the sensation that, according to scientific laws, is said to presage an earthquake. But Hawthorne was a curious, deep observer, apt to see the true England in St. Giles and Bethnal Green, rather than in | eden NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETO RK Letiers and packages should be properly soaled. ‘ue LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Westminster and Belgravia, He may | ‘1 f 1 Advertis A have reasoned as those reason who | Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be | Ti dices Ge monuments: iG received and forwarded on the same terms | puijder rests his edifico upon the strength of the majority or the larger portion. | A nation is great, intact, free, only when the | foundations rest upon prosperity aud content- + = - ~ = | ment. Class rises above class, even as layer | AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. rises above layer and forms the pyramid. The | —_——-___. | summit will be uncertain if we are not certain | sisteenth atreet, between Broadway and Fifth avenoe.— | bout the foundation. and Jooking at those | VARIETY, at. Me | splendid monuments of civilization as we see | = BRYANT’S OP# RA ITOUSE, _no | them in Europe, we are tempted to ask what | ‘est Twenty-third street, near sixth avenue.—NEGRO ‘ MINGTRELSY, at 8 P.M.” Lau Bryant | security have we for their permanence and | | their strength if there these tokens of disaster | | assume real form and have their ultimate and Fifty-ninth street and, vent avenue —GILMORE'S Pas adlry es OONCERT, ats P.M. at 10-30 P.M. Peaceful as Europe seems it is not a whole- some peace. We cannot accept the summer as in New York. Volume XXXIX... No. 266 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No, 98 BroadWay.~Jarisian Cancan Dancers, at 8 P. M, SAN FRAS ) MINSTRELS, | Broaaway, corner ol. Iwenty-ninth eireet—NEGRO | day as truly summer when clouds, rent and | MINSTRELSY, ats P. is ts : : 3 | | torn with lightning, disturb the sky. We third avenue, between siiytiird aud Sixty-fonrth | May have the harvest moon or we may have | streets INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. | the thunder storm when the sun goes down. | “Questi n” after ‘question’? comes tumbling BAILEY’s CIRCU P.M. andsP.M | foot of Houston street, East River, ——<—— one upon another, even as we read TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, i 2 “ No. 201 Bowery,—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. in the poet that from peak to (a paseo peak, the rattling crags smong, leaps COLC UM, ‘ ” y, Broadway, corner of Ihirty-fiitli street—PaRts By | the live thunder. Never did old Europe NIGHT, 7:45 P.M. } + . seem in so phenomenal a condition. Eng- Broadway and Se ee ee ae nen THANX | land gathers her skirts about her and, content | Moumania, and that somehow it will be con- nected with the Eastern question, One of the greatest thinkers in America, by some thought to be the greatest, believed that the two races who must govern the world and struggle for the supremacy are the Teutonic and Slavic, and that the other nations are subordinate ; that the German people, ‘not diffusive, but deep wells, dark, cool, mysterious and never failing,”’ are bound to rule Europe ; that the Teutonic race, which has produced Bacon, Leibnitz, Newton, Hegel and Shakespeare, must always be the superior race. Napoleon, who had a way of sayipg oracular things empirically, once re- marked that Europe would, in ‘fifty years,” which should be about the present time, be “either republican or Cossack.'’ Those who are fond of speculations upon history will find the Continent an interesting prob- lem. If these great writers and thinkers are prophets also our European friends may well look with anxiety upon each revolving day. But here, in free, happy, and, we fear selfish America, with nothing to trouble us but an occasional row with Louisiana, President Grant's ambition, Mayor Havemeyer's at- tacks on The O'Kelly, and the daily ‘‘state- meuts’’ that come from disagreeable Brooklyn people, we can look calmly upon the burning volcano, and, listening to the roar of the guns of Armageddon, hope that the millennium has really comg and that we may be all able | | to take first class balloon passages for the | Champs Elysées and the Boulevards, whero we may enjoy it at its best “Military Protection” and Government.” The Inter-Ocean, of Chicago, the administra- “Military tion organ of the Northwest, says that an | LIFE, at P.M; closesat I P.M. J. L. doole. with the guardianship of her embosoming Woop'’s MU! | seas, sulkily awaits the storm. Trance | Broadway, corner Thirteth st ROMEO JAPFIER : 4 JENKIN 2 P.M. close: P.M. Mr. 1 sharpens her sabre and pike, watching and | well. OTHELLO, at8P, M. ; cl L, Davenport ar liso P.M. Mr. E. | braying for the tocsin to summon the combat | for Alsace and Lorraine. Austria, bothered with her finance and her artillery, her history a series of monumental defects, prays that the shock is really money and she her cannon from bronze to steel. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 0% Broadway. Y, atSP. M.; closes atl0s5 UM THEATRE, 1 Sixth avenue. —LA PRINCESSE, P.M. ; closes at 10:00 P.M. Mile. | Fourteenth stroe TRE COMIQUE, ARIETY, at SP. M.; closes at 10:30 | PARK THFATRE, cen Twenty-first and Twenty-second ik, ato? Mr. John, Raymond Broadway, be streets —GILDED AG RATRE, | sion upon the ungarnered possessions of Asia. “energetic, positive policy on the part of President Grant will save the whole South trom scenes of blood and carnage.’’ ‘What the South needs now, and must have, is mili- tary protection, and, if need be, military gov- ernment.’’ This may be regarded as an ex- pression of the belief of those who feel, with may not fall until her currency Senator Morton, that the whole trouble comes | has changed | from the strifes of Southern democrats against | Russia, Southern republicans. We have no doubt | | half civilized, half barbarian, looks with civ- | this expresses a part of the situation, but only | ilized earnestness upon the Slavic dominions | a small part of it. The movement which | tive party necessity, an act of self-preserva- bordering her kingdom and with barbaric pas- | overthrew Kellogg’s government by a touch, | tion, to cause it to be understood by the | as though it were a child’s toy house made of Gorner of and Sixth avenue — | Spain is beaten from shore to shore, at the | cards, cannot be called a political demonstra- and Mrs. Bu | mercy of every tempest. The smaller nations, | tion. Nor can it be solved by ‘military pro- RDEN, | rejoicing in the weakness which has | tection.’’ The army of the United States, had re eee. “phe kinay | at last become strength, huddle into | the revolution in Louisiana proceeded to des- the corners away from the storm, | perate measures, could not have captured New FIFTH AVE THEATRE 14 FOR -CANDAL, only hoping for the safety that comes with forgetfulness. Turkey feels that her doom is | a question of time and patiently awaits her | execution. Germany pursues her destiny | ——== | with eager, brutal resolution. Between Ger- We can TR I P LE S H rE T. | many and France the issue lies. | learn one side of this issue from the remarka- New York, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1874. | Orleans without a great loss of life and treasure. | New Orleans is a peculiar city, defended on all | sides by nature. A well equipped British | drmy, composed of soldiers who had been in | arms against Napoleon, and commanded by | officers of experience and renown, was driven | into the swamp and destroyed by a small | army of militiamen. | male population of New Orleans are ex- closes at 1 a Jewett, Louis | ble letter addressed to the Peace Conference | of Geneva by Victor Hugo. According to the = a - | : From our reports this morning the probabilities | Cable summary which first are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy and clear. Wau Srnret Yestrrpay.—Stocks were ac- tive and higher, closing firm. Gold was steady at 109} a 109%. Tre German Press ry Beary defends the act of the expulsion of the Danes from Schles- M. Hugo declared that there could be no | of the Confederacy and are perfectly familiar | peace in Europe until there had been another | with the duties and hardships of war. We | war between France and Germany, conveying | have no available army now under arms and venerable writer rather welcomed such a war. We are not apt to be startled at any demon- | stration from Victor Hugo, knowing the ex- | travagance of his rhetoric and his disposition | naval vessels might have shelled the town ; wig on the grounds that it was a legal measure, | to treat all questions in a thunder-and-light- | but no one knows better than the President and was only adopted in a few isolated cases. | ning fashion. But we respected his tran- | that shelling does little hart toa large city. Can they can make the people in Copenhagen | scendent genius, and, knowing his views as re- | Of course we could have taken New Orleans, believe this ? gards peace, would have regarded a warlike | just as the Spanish government took Carta- Carramy Genzpar Coxcua has been fired at | letter from him as springing from an aberra- | gena; but Cartagena was only taken after a by an assassin. The Spaniards attempt to tion of mind. ; 3 long siege, and after a defence that severely conceal the fact Better seek to arrest the | _ Victor Hugo’s genins, when it addresses | tested the resources of Spain. felon. | itself to a mae marae eres It | In addition to the material difficulties at- ee ee 3 gives instant, lurid glimpses of the valleys and | tending the capture of a city like New Or- Mexico has just been troubled with a | gepths, enabling us to know what is spoken | leans, e must patentee also the moral effect of an armed and living insurrection in a com- military revolt in one of the provinces. The | and thought and done by the large body of mutineers were under the lead of acivil judge. | socialists and democrats who live, as it were, | munity like that of Louisiana, and surrounded Jurisprudence must be ata discount in Mexico, | jn the under world of European civilization. | by communities like those in the adjacent but politics appear to be quite lively, as yy Hugo, not a strange thing in an old | Southern States. Such an example would have been a burning, blazing fire, throwing usual. | man, takes a despairing view of the | | present. The military Empire of Na- | out sparks and tempting a new conflagration. All the old Confederate spirit would have poleon has passed away, and in its | stead we have the Gothic Empire of Germany. | found life, and whatever we may feel about it, now that it is over, however tervently we may He sees no peace except after ‘inexorable condemn ‘the sin of rebellion” and ‘treason’ combat;’’ for the present, nothing but silent | and sombre hatred. This is because France, | and ‘‘making war upon the best form of gov- taken New Orleans had it been properly de- fended by these men and with the peculiar advantages of its natural position. The Tae Cvzaxs anp Spantanps have com- menced to fight in parties of three and four. The engagements as reported to the press jeaye the suspicion that the contributors to contemporaneous history in Cuba are strongly prejudiced against the brave men in the Manigua. _ | having been slapped in the face, “edness | ernment the world ever saw,” it is well to Tus Neweastnn Commencian Mrs don't ™0unts to the brow of all peoples.” For, ac- | remember the practical fact that it cost approve of the idea of Canadian reciprocity. cording to the exquisite vanity of M. Hugo’s | four years of war, the loss of hun- | rhetoric, France is our mother, the mother of | dreds of thousands of lives and the aggre- ‘all nations, and whoever insults her wounds | gation of an enormous debt to suppress this ergs es hate ee is ae is | spirit ae eran assumed the actual front | not between France and Germany—which na- | of war. ‘e do not say that it would cost a ! tions we are glad to hear are actually ‘“sis- | much the second ee but it would coat Tue Rvsstan Govennsent has made an im- | ters”but “between two principles, republic enough. We are not much better prepared to portant concession to the Mennonites. Mem- | and empire.” On one side he sees the Ger- | aght. the South, if that is what the Jnter- bers of the sect are to be exempt from actual | yanic Empire and on the other the United | Ocean means, ais, we. werowehel Fort military service, but will be required to do | States of Europe. And there must bean en- | Sumter fall ‘We have, 0 army, no duty a6 hospital surgeons and nurs This | counter between these two principles, a terri- | navy, no depots of supplies. Time outa be is an imperial invitation to the Mennonites to | pJe duel, profoundly saddening to the philoso- | necessary to create them. We may calculate remain at home. They had commenced to pher. France, ‘doubly wounded, in her | how long o regular army would require to practise the Irish plan of cure. meer and eS pine cara hope and suppress a rebellion, say in the mountains of “at this moment everything tips towards uni- | Alabama, when we remember how long the versal gloom.” The solution will be the | Spanish army has been employed in peed United States of Europe. In the end there | ing a sporadic, mconsequential, nebulous re- the merchants of the city have obtained the | Will be the triumph of the people, which is | pellion in the Biscayan mountains. That job creation of a new court of arbitration, with | liberty, and of God, which is peace, And 60 | has been forty years doing, and according to the obj settling 5 dispute within | we shall all become fellow citizens of universal | our cable despatches it is not quite done. a reasonable tiae, ‘The idea is an excellent | fatherland. We admit that this is not the high, heroic one, and will, mo doubt, have a healthy in-| ‘There can be little doubt, we fear, that in | way to deal with solemn questions. General fluenco on the commerce of the city, Europe at this moment everything “<‘tips | Logan, who is ruler in Inter-Ocean parts, by creating confidence and enabling all towards universal gloom.’ Mr. Disraeli, | hada better plan. ‘The situation in Louisi- matters in dispute among the merchants tobe | whose rhetoric is of different quality from | ana,” he telegraphs the President, “is such disposed of withont delay. | that of M. Hugo, more sedate and practical, that in my judginent there can be but one Chis When nacale Macann Wie oie | spoke recently of the “great crisis” about to course pareced: That isto promptly reinstate Celtis dead. tai Semele taeda, iat ddiaths $6. appear in the world’s history, and he explained | the deposed Governor if tis whole army and paper that three indeed ‘aha aisle. ssiions his course upon certain ecclesiastical qnes- | navy be required to do it.” This is, we con- of raltinny eis fe ay default. .e Th cities tions by saying that when this crisis came he | fess, the heroic tone and it has the merit of weil: 46 tase Sorkonel’ Wla-vuk don, Ee are he, Clmeotaet Boe aae Pec | being easily adopted, of being popular, of pei siiiirsisivi ie Gone 1 1 ‘ | tected against the storm. We do not attempt commending itself to the average mind. aey tolmprove the country and we do not | 4, fathom the meaning of the English Prime | There is a good deal of the Fourth of July in Newcastle has been always a little selfish, Can the people of Nova Scotia derange the coal market, particularly in the matter of the storage of the naval supply ? Courts or Arpiruation.—In the effort to relieve themselves from the cumbersome modes of redress provided in the law courts | DT pay the interest, ‘This is a shameful fact— | yyinister, but we presume he referred to the | it, and we know how dear this isto the Ameri- | one of the dark omens of the policy of repu- diation which threatens our future. We shonld so amend our laws that a fact like this would be impossible, What better question can heart. We have read cf noted military heroes and critics, Barry Lyndon, Captain Jinks, Boabdil, Bombastes Furioso, Captain | struggle between liberalism, as represented by | Prince Bismarck, and the ultramontanism cf the Roman Chtrch. Whether we look upon s H | a 3 * sion | this struggle from an ecclesiastical point of | Costigan, among others, who would could be discussed a & patina ComyenteD ¢ | view, as that of the nineteenth century against | heartily applaud Logan's plan and disdain | Baionam Younc, the Mormon President, the Middle Ages, or from the poetical point | any measures but the severest for High Priest Prophet, is reported ill, | of view of M. Hugo, the Gothic Empire | ‘dealing with rebellion.’ But the point we | and some uncasiness is felt among the saints | against the United States of Europe, the forces | venture to make, with all humility and sub- of Salt Lake in regard to his condition. He | is getting old, and in the natural order of | must in time assume proportions that history | out the sword?" Grant that an emergency things he must soon ‘go the way of all the | does not parallel. | may arise compelling us to move all our avail- 3” but his loss at this time would almost | It may be that we are coming to the time | able resources in money and men toward the certainly prove disastrous to Mormondom. | spoken of in sacred writings and impatiently | South to-morrow, and no one would question Hence this uneasiness iu reference to his con- | expected by enthusiastic interpreters of Scrip- the most extreme activity. But is this neces- dition means much more than the ordinary | ture, when the great battle of Armageddon sary? Does the South really need ‘military interost uf a people in the health of a ‘avor- | will be fought and we sball enter upon the | protection” and “military government?” Have ite ruler. For the sake of peace in Utah we | millennial period. Some of these commen- | we exhausted every peacetul remedy? Do we ope that his life may still be spared. tators (ell us that this battle will take vlace im | not really fly to the army as an excuse for our A large portion of the | reached us | perienced soldiers. They served in the armies | the intimation, also, that the illustrious and | within reach of the President that could have | on either side are gigantic, and the contest | mission, is, ‘Can we not rule the South with- | | own misdoings and shortcomings? Have we not failed in reconstruction as a measure of peace, and do we not wildly seek any possible excuse, even an act of war? We have over- thrown Davis and Lee, and in their stead we have built up Moses and Kellogg. The Rhetts, the Masons, the Breckinridges and other “‘pestiferous rebels’’ have been properly ex- tinguished; but in their place we have the Warmoths, the Pinchbacks, the Whittemores and the Blodgetts. Are these achievements over which we must glory, which we must “protect’’ with all the mulitary power of the government? Can we not, as enlightened citizens ot a free republic, find a way to recon- struct the South and secure peace to its peo- | ple without imitating the sternness of the Czar with the Poles or the cruelty of the Eng- lish government in India? The Utica Convention and the Third Term. There is too much reason to fear that the | Republican State Convention will let slip an opportunity of rendering a useful service to the party. The third term discussion would be extinguished und public apprehension quieted if the republicans of the great State of New York would join those of the great State | of Pennsylvania in pronouncing against the | third election of a Presideat. There can be no doubt that the widespread belief that General Grant desires a third term injures the republican party. As he has not thought fit, atter so great a lapse of time, to relieve the party by a disavowal, it is time for it to take the subject into its own hands and set the question at rest. The republicans of Pennsyl- vania and Iowa have already declared their | sentiments, and if those of New York would add their voice it would be apparent to Presi- | dent Grant himself that his hopes of a third | term are visionary. No man can be elected with the two largest States against him, and all the third term efforts and intrigues would suddenly collapse if the Convention at Utica | should proclaim its hostility. If the public | suspicion is unjust to the President, and he has realy no such intention, he could not , SEPTEMBER 23, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, take such a resolution unkindly, since it could thwart no purpose of his. But if he does | aspire to another election it is an impera- | | country that the republican party will not | tolerate this ambitious pretension. We sup- | pose the only objection to such a resolution | is the seeming discourtesy of imputing to the President a wish which, after all, he may not entertain. If the question were new there would be force in this objection. But it has occupied public attention for more than a year, and for the last three months it has been the most prominent topic of political discussion. ‘The President’s stubborn silence, when a dozen words might have cleared him | and his party, has deepened suspicion into belief among multitudes of his countrymen. After allowing him ample time for disavowal, the party would give him no reason to complain | if it should do in its own interest what he has s0 suspiciously neglected. The republicans \ are already too heavily handicapped without | this additional weight. If the Utica Convention should agreeably | disappoint the public by declaring against the | third term, it would naturally select some courteous and delicate form of expression. | But it would be more manly, more consistent with republican simplicity and directness to follow the example of Icwa rather than taat of Pennsylvania. Why should the people for- bear to express themselves with freedom on any public question? The easiest way for the Convention to sweeten the pill, if they fear it would be taken as a pill, would be to pnt in one part of their platform a strong resolution approving General Grant’s conduct as Presi- dent and indorsing his administration, and in another part a resolution expressing their re- spect for the inviolable precedents set by Wash- ington and Jefferson. For obvious reasons the Pennsylvania method of dissent cannot be adopted in this State. Governor Dix, unlike Governor Hartranft, is a candidate in this election, and it is quite enough for the Con- vention to ask the people to recognize his | fitness tor one office. Besides, o prefer- ence expressed for Governor Dix would probably be taken as serious, whereas the raming of Hartranft in Pennsylvania could only be regarded as o transparent veil | for another meaning. The nomination was | redeemed from burlesque only by its evident purpose and the dignity of Hartrantt’s | official position, But Dix has such personal | fitness for the Prosidency that a repetition of | the Harrisburg tactics at Utica would be liable to be misunderstood, and the same remark would apply if a like compliment were paid to Senator Conkling, There is, however, another method which the Convention might adopt, equal to the Harrisburg device in courtesy and not exposed like it to the imputation of paying an in- sincere compliment toa man who is used as mere vehicle for conveying a distasteful intimation to the President. The wisest thing the Utica Convention could do would be to recommend gn immediate amendment of the constitution, limiting the President to a single term of six years. This might be done with perfect sincerity both toward General Grant and toward the public. It would not only commit the New York republicans against a third term without offering a per- sonal affront, but it would be a good way of startirg an important reform of the federal constitution. It is a change which has been | favored by many of our most distinguished | statesmen for two generations. President | Jackson earnestly recommended it in every one of his eight annual messages. Henry Clay zealously advocated it in speeches and letters after Jackson’s retirement from the | Presidency. Tho third term excitement | would render such an amendment popular in the North and secure its ratificition by the Northern Leg slatures if Congress should pro- pose it, The Southern States would be cer- tain to ratify it, as they did a similar provision in the Confederate constitution. If the re- | publicans would take time by the forelock and carry such an amendment through Congress | and submit it to the States next winter they | would thereby do one of the most popular, | timely and successful things ever undertaken by a political party. If the Utica Convention would inaugurate the movement it would be a step so far in advance of the ‘“‘no third term’ negation of the rival platforms as to make this | bach, by which the city was made to pay | cessive, and that Sternbach, purporting to buy question a vote-winning issue for the repul- licans, The Charges Against the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correc~ tion, The charges against the Commissioners of Charities and Correction are now being in- vestigated by the Grand Jury, and as the secrecy usually attending such inquiries seems to be removed we are furnished daily with the names of witnesses and the bearing of the evidence they have given. We find that Mr. Howe, the Commissioner of Accounts, who in his official examination of the depart- ment discovered fraud and illegality in its management, was summoned before the Grand Jury and swore to the truthfulness and cor- rectness of his report; that General Bowen, the Commissioner of Charities and Correction who refused to sign -the reply of his associates to Mr. Howe's exposition, has been a wit- ness, and that the Mayor's son, who sells tea to the department, and the Mayor's son-in-law, who supplies the butter, have been examined. We are also informed that Commissioners Laimbeer and Stern, who stand officially charged with malfeasance in office, with wilful violations of law, with attempts to cover up and conceal their offences by means of altered invoices and false entries in the books of the department, and with allowing the city to be defrauded by exorbitant charges, have applied for permis- sion to give their testimony on their own behalf. We bave no means of knowing how accurate these statements are in detail; but, as they are given with much particularity and are not denied, we accept the main points as correct, The duty of the Grand Jury in this matter appears to be very simple, and it is not sur- prising that the extended examination they | are making should be looked upon with some degree of suspicion. Six months ago the Henarp commenced the expos- | ure of the corruptions of the Depart- ment of Charities and Correction, and compelled first a partial investigation by a former grand jury, and next the movement of the Board of Aldermen which led to the official examination made by the Commission- ers of Accounts. We showed the character of the transactions in dry goods between Com-* missioner Stern and his relative, Louis Stern- about thirty-three per cent more than the market price for the articles purchased of the latter person. ‘These transactions were pre- sented by a grand jury as irregular, and | tending diyectly to corruption ; but the facts that the dry goods in question had been pur- chased in violation of law, and that the entries and invoices had been fraudulently altered for the purpose of concealing’ the offence, were not | then known; hence no indictment was found. The present Grand Jury have before them proof that the dry goods, flour and other sup- plies used by the department have been pur- chased by Commissioners Stern and Laimbeer in amounts prohibited by the charter; that false bills have been rendered and false entries , made in the books of the department, with the | bject of concealing the violations of the law. They have evidence that the prices paid for dry goods to Sternbach by the city were ex- for the California trade, received the goods on | the sidewalk only to cart them off to the de- | partment, making out his own bills to the city for the same articles at increased prices. In one case they have the proof that Sternbach’s original invoice to the city fora single pur- chase of over two thousand dollars, made on July 31, was afterward replaced by three false bills dated July 30, July 31, and August 1, ond that the original entry of the transaction was subsequently erased and a felse entry made to correspond with the altered bills. If the Grand Jury desire evi- dence in regard to the flour purchases they will be able to discover that samples of the flour have been examined by competent per- sons and pronounced to be worth from two to three dollars less than the price paid by the Ory axp New Puors.—The Richmoné Enquirer begs us to understand that in repu- diating Mr. Hunter, Governor Wise and the leaders of the secession movement as ‘‘pilota’* who ran the South ‘upon the shoals” and wrecked it in 1861, it does not mean to reflect upon the justice of the cause. Its quarrel is with ‘the imbecility” and “inefficiency” of the leaders, not with the cause, which it still esteems ‘‘as holy as ever commanded a warrior’s sword or a patriot’s prayer.” We have too much respect for the liberty of con- science to criticise any Southern man who feels that he took part in the rebellion os ina religious war; but at the same time we do not think it is fair to attribute the “shoals” and the ‘“‘wrecks’’ of 1861 to the leaders. In that movement the people were the pilots. Leaders like Hunter and Davis and the rest merely held on to the wheel while the veasel dashed over the rapids, and did what they could to steer it out when tho sea arose. We would much rather trust those men than the new leaders, who have no memory of the war but its anger and passion and who rise to power by constant appeals to the past, R. M. T. Hunter is to-day more worthy of respect and attention than any public man in Virginia, and we shall believe in the reality of recon- struction when such men return at the head of their States to the counsels of the Union. Tur New Jensey Canvass.—Matters bid fair to be lively over in New Jersey, The Jersey City Herald, which is a fighting news- paper, comes to us with a double-leaded edi- torial in which the editor nominates himself as a candidate for the State Senate on the democratic ticket. We have read this article curiously, as we can think of few phases of literature more interesting than the article of an editor criticising his own claims to office. Mr. McDermott, who writes with a Cobbett’s command of English, is ‘opposed to the political gas-bag and the political juggler, whose principles are money and whose pro- fessions are inflated by the rustling of our currency.” We do not much believe in edit- ors taking office, but if this editor really means to enter into a campaign against all the “political gas-bags and jugglers’ in New Jersey he has undertaken a canvass only equalled by that of Don Quixote against the windmills of La Mancha. Srarz anp County Farns.—With September we have the return of the season of State and county fairs, There was a prevailing appre- hension that the drought would seriously affect these popular and useful agricultural festivals this year ; but the late general and generous equinoctial rains, in replenishing ex- hausted wells, springs and streams, in giving new life to the lately blighted pasture fields and in settling the dust on the highways and fair grounds, have dissipated ail fears of failures in State or county fairs. It appears, too, that, notwithstanding the great area of the country which has suffered trom this late severe drought, the general products of cereals, fruits and roots this year, though ma- | terially diminished, are still good in quantity and quality. So much for our abundant and | general spring and early summer rains. Otherwise our unexampled dry season from July to September and from the Atlantic sea- board to the Great Plains would have resulted in unprecedentedly short crops and in general PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretary Robeson left Washington yesterday for Long Branch, Secretary Bristow has gone to Kentucky to be absent several days, Mr. Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor T. F. Rando!tph, of New Jersey, has arrived at the New York Hotel. Postmaster General Alexander Fraser, of Ause tralia, is at the Brevoort House, Mr. Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, N. Y., ds staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor Henry Howard, of Rhode Island, 18 so- journing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commissioners. With these facts before them it is clearly the duty of the Grand Jury to | indict the Commissioners, for the violations of | law are clearly established, while the damage | to the public interest is self-evident. The | defence of the accused Commissioners, if they | have any to make, should be offered ina court | of justice and not in a grand jury room. There is reason to believe, however, that the corruption of the department under in- vestigation reaches deeper than the present disclosures indicate. The population under the, | charge of the Commissioners is represented as nearly ten thousand. It is asserted that this is a gross misstatement, and that the census, honestly taken, will not show a population of more than eight thousand at the outside. This number will include infants, children under ten years of age, invalids in hospital | and others who cannot consume fall rations, as wellas the employés of the department, who are not supposed to be supported at the city’s expense in addition to their salaries. Yet the consumption of beef and flour in the | department is sufficient to feed an army of twelve thousand men on full rations. In the face of these charges it cannot be believed that an honest grand jury will fail to find an indictment against the accused Commission- ers. Tue Democratic Press is a littie too fast in claiming votes for William Dorsheimer on the ground that he is “of foreign parentage.’ | His father, the late Philip Dorsheimer, was not a foreigner, but a Pennsylvania German, who emigrated from that State to Buffalo in early life. There is a large immigrant German population in Buffalo, but all the social rela- tions of the Dorsheimer family have always | been with the native part of the people. The German citizens of Buffalo would laugh at the idea that William Dorsheimer is their rep- resentative. He is simply the representative of the liberal republicans on the democratic State ticket. He is a gentleman of literary culture and fastidious social pride, and the Senate would have the handsomest and most dignified presiding officer since Luther Bradish if he should be elected. Brssancr’s Ipxa ror THY LNconPoRATION or Denmank in the German Bund is very dis- pleasing to the Russian Ozar. The French press says so. The wish may be merely father to the thought in Paris, bat the statement is not altogether improbable. Russia would not feel easy with the knowledge of the fact that the Germans held the key of the Baltic. The Germans are likely to make an attempt to gain possession, Thus France may obtain a chance, for the European democracies would become excited by the collision, Rear Admiral J. H. Strong, United States Navy, is quartered at the Everett House, Ex-Congressman R. J. Haldeman, of Penasyl- vania, is stopping at the Astor House, Fine chance fora new speculation—Who will be the first man to sell Plymouth pews short? General 0, E. Babcock, Private Secretary te President Grant, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rear Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, has taken up quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Israel 8, Spencer and State Senator D. P. Wood, of Syracuse, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Fitty persons attended the last Congress at Brusseis of the International Society of Work- ingmen, Louisiana Penn might have been mightier tham the swora—but it was the federal bayonets tuac settied it, Major General Joseph Hooker arrived at the Astor House yesterday from bis home at Water- town, N.Y. Mr. Benjamin Stark, of Connecticut, formerly United States Senator from Oregon, is at the Albe- marie Hotel. Baron Van Limourg, Minister for the Netherlands at Washington, yesterday arrived at tne Clarem- don Hotel. Sefior Don J. B. Dalla Costa, Minister for Vene- zuela at Washington, has apartments at the Bre- voort House. When coming together after vacation the French Assembly intends to excite itself tremendously about the recognition of Spain. Medill, of Chicago, is in raptures over the free- dom of Germany. How he would enjoy the con- versation of George Bancrott, Esq. Mme. Iima di Murska and Signor Carpt arrived from Europe yesterday in the steamship America, and is at the Westmoreland Hotel. ‘They are mystified in Italy because somebody sent by train a magnificent gift of fowers with 160 pounds of powder in the basket, Mr. Charles Lucas, member of the French Insti- tute, repeats the declaration that he ts not dead, reports to that effect notwithstanding. Rodolphe, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, | reached his sixteenth year 0D the 21st ult, and is consequently of age under the laws of the Empire, It is less than fiity years ago since the world be~ gan to build itsel! railways, and now it nas 52,000 geographical miles of them, eqnal to a construc. tion of two miles a day since the beginning. Cotunel Joseph C, Audenried, of General Sher- man’s stat, and Major Peter C. Hains, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, are among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Aveaue Hotel, ‘The English ladies who were hanted for through. out France, on a charge of complicity in the es cape of Bazaine, were two boarding school misses from Cannes, Who Went ontin a boat and got up @ flirtation with Colonel Villette, the Marshals aid-de-camp. Wine producers on the Rhine want a law to compel dealers in a Guid that passes in the market for Rhine wine to call tt “artificial wine.” It ia made of water, potatoes, glycerine, sugar and raisins. Then wreath the bow! With flowers ot soul. It Is unpleasant to be & priest if one wants to go to Prussia, Reventiya French priest, whois also & professor of plilosophy at Grenoble, tried to spend afew days at Bonn for the use of a brary there, but he had to jeave by peremptory order from Berlin, \,4Teuch Ambassador werg of ng AVAlL. Remonstrances made turough tue —