The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1874, Page 6

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Mr. Conkling is a man of distinguished character and reputation, the leader of the republican | party in this State, the most eloquent Senator | | in Congress now that Sumner has passed away; in the fulness and energy of active man- hood; and, having declined the highest office in the gift of the President, that of Chief | Justice, may naturally be regarded as a can- didate for the highest office in the gift of the Mr. Conkling retains all of a lover's enthusiam for a beauty that time has a good deal faded. To his tender eyes re- publicanism is as fair and fresh as when she | made her virgin campaign under the banner of Fremont. And although times have gone roughly with her since then, and men | have trifled with her good name, and there have been Crédit Mobilierism and carpet baggery and salary grabbing and other un- sores upon her brow, to honest and In these days of dence of this imperial lover is soothing and grateful. We can understand the political exigencies which lead a Senator as eminent as Mr. Conkling to speak of the rebellion as an event | that would not have taken place had Grant been President in 1860. And it would be as those devolving upon the President. This gentleman is a Senator and the representative of New York. He must know that no Com- monwealth in the Union is more interested in the perfect reconstruction of the Southern States than New York. He has only to take & position as independent as that of Senator Carpenter to compel from the republican party and the administration the recognition of the true principles of reconstruction. For we are weary of this monody of war; these constant cries for revenge; this belief that statesmanship is force; that the South can only be ruled by | the sword, and that a soldier is necessary to the pacification of the Union. We are weary repelling | unbiassed eyes, Roscoe | | Conkling is as ardent as when he chanted his | | first political epithalamium. | doubt and unbelief the sweet, assured confi- hard to deny a statesman the pleasure of say- | ing these harmless things to Collector Arthur | and his loyal followers in @ noisy convention. | But we must question the wisdom of a leader who takes so superficial a view of public events as to regard the rebellion as an event that could be created or suppressed by any one | man, as a mere combat and not a great awaken- ing and transition—not as a vast national revolution, but asa war “brought on them- selves by the white people of the South, mis- | guided and deluded by the democratic party.’’ And as the war was simply the result of the ‘delusions’’ of “the leaders’’ of the democ- | racy, so the present troubles ‘‘come from the lamentable and suicidal course of men who | have been freely forgiven by the nation for one of the bloodiest crimes in the book of | time.” In other words, and without venturing to follow the alert and soaring rhetoric of the Senator, the Southern people should have felt that we did all we were called upon to do when we did not hang them. We completed reconstruction when we refrained from capital | punishment. Of course there have been awk- ward bitches in the business, which the Sena- tor does not overlook. ‘Ignorant, weak, venal | men’’ have seized power. There have been “bad legislation, excessive taxation, unwise of evils.’’ The South should have submitted, grateful, as we before remarked, that its rebels had not all been hanged, just as New York submitted to the ‘counting in” of Hoffman as Governor when Griswold had thirty thousand votes more. Mr. Conkling feels that Grant ‘cannot be spared,’ the South, we have punished it as no people have ever been punished. We have overturned TERRACE Gar MASANIELLO. Bredelti, Weiu! TRIPLE SHEET. 1s7@. aa From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather today will be clear or partly cloudy. Pi Wart Srazet Yestenpay.—The activity previously noticed in stocks continued, with | » further advance in prices. Gold was steady st 1094 a 1098. Goverxor Du, in response to a serenade | last night, briefly reviewed his administra- tion, and declared the national importance of the State election. Tar Lorp Mayor or Dustin yesterday re- | ceived the official hospitalities of the city, and the speeches made at the festival are re- | ported elsewhere. A Gexzrat Amnzsty to political prisoners is promised on the occasion of the Qneen’s visit to Ireland. Thus the Irish are to receive as grace what they are entitled to as justice, Now Comes a peremptory contradiction of | the story that Germany had proposed to in- | corporate Denmark in the Empire, but by | whom it is made we are not told. Tur Avsrmn Exproners having failed, say that explorations in the direction of the North | Pole are hopeless. Their failure, however, | will but make our own experienced navigators | more eager to renew thi Tue Axsvar Faux Reaatra of the Brook. | lyn Yacht Club yesterday brilliantly closed a successful season. The Meta, Undine and Becreation were the successful competitors | for the champion pennants. Szwxator Cant Scuvrz, in St. Louis, last | night, made a powerful speech upon the state of the South, which we print. His opposi- tion to the Civil Rights bill is determined, and he declares that its passage would bea mis- fortune to the colored citizens. ‘Tar Governor Genenar, or Ovpa continues to have great trouble in compelling the people to pay their ‘spontaneous’ contributions for the support of the war. The convalescence of General Garcia, who is kept a captive on a Spanish gunboat, is announced. Tue Laprs have enjoyed this week to the fullest extent the feminine pleasure of looking over new goods and new styles and preparing | the Davis and Lee, Breckinridge and Jackson, Sa have raised up Kellogg and Warmoth, | Moses and Whittemore. | reconstruction, the result of nine years of the | deliberate statesmanship of Mr. Conkling and his triends, and New York republicans are | called upon to rejoice over the achievement. It is nine years since Lee surrendered at Ap- pomattox, since the last gun was fired in anger, since the republican party came into unchallenged mastery of the Union. Provi- | dence devolved upon that party the most | sacred mission ever intrusted to a political organization—to build up the shattered States; | to bind up the wounds and heal the sores ; to give opportunity to the misguided white man and protection to the black ; to consecrate and consolidate the results of emancipation, so that the new relation should be a benefit to the master as well as the slave; to revive dormant and paralyzed industries of the South; to restore the railway system, the cotton and sugar crops, and to enter heartily and fraternally into the sore needs of all classes. To this we were prompted by every instinct of brotherhood to men who were our brothers, by every instinct of selfishness as members of a Union which could never be a harmonious Union so long as anarchy reigned in a large section of States, so long as sovereign Commonwealths were suffering from ‘‘bad legislation, exces- sive taxation, unwise and profligate admin- istration.” This, we say, was the mission | themselves for nine years, and now the result | ment, that ‘ignorant, weak, venal men” rule | the South, and Grant ‘‘cannot be spared’’ | | overturn them. This is the situation, and this eminent and councils of his party, admits that he has no the old war cry of 1861. In the beggary and | bankruptcy of republican statesmanship noth- ing remains but the gospel of hatred, and Roscoe Conkling preaches it at Utica with as much earnestness, as much eloquence and as | much feeling as he preached war to the knife | when Sumter fell. We confess it is dreary | | from this continual refrain about the ‘‘rebels’’ | and , “rebellion,” treason” and *‘slavery’'— the safety’’ of the Union. No one will go for the fashionable season in the city. Of the principal novelttes presented in this opening | week we give a full account. Marsnan PACKARD, who is really the Gover- nor, and Governor Kellogg, who is only so by | the grace of the administration, have prom- | ised @ fair election in Louisiana, The latter would do better to show his fairness now by | resigning the office which he keeps against the will of the he people, Sous Panticonans of the severe treatment of prisoners by officers attached to the Fifty-sev- enth Street Police Court, are supplied to-day, | | and show unnecessary and unjust strictness, | ‘The Commissioners of Charities and Correc- | tion should give the matter their prompt Bttention. J further than the Hxranp in doing honor | to Grant and in cherisbing his fairly won | and honorable fame. But there is something | | greater than the President, and that is the | Republic. It is the misfortune of our present political condition, one of the evils arising out of the abnormal relations of the President | to the party, that leaders like Mr. Conkling | become simply flatterers, and, instead of as- | serting their freedom of opinion and endeay- | oring to lead the country into an honest con- | templation of the necessities of the hour and of the brave and just statesmanship that is | needed to rehabilitate the South, they be- come echoes and apologists of the adminis- | tration. Senators like Mr. Conkling have political teqponsibilitias a8 grave and clearly dafined ‘and if not now, how in 1876? As for | and profligate administration, with their train f accepted by Mr. Conkling and his friends in | 1865, To this work they have been devoting | | is, according to Mr. Conkling’s own state- | from Washington lest the honest masses should | leading Senator, who has no superior in the | other issue upon which to go to the people than | these invocations of war, these persistent adulations of General Grant as ‘‘necessary to of the gospel of hatred! We believe in a bet- ter and higher future for both North and South. Time will bring the two sections to a more complete and natural relation. In turning up the sod the green grass falls into decay, and all we see is the torn roots on the surface, the damp, oozing clay and | the crawling worms. In time nature makes | itall green again—greener than before, be- cause of the new life that has come with the breaking of the soil. In the South society has been torn up. These sorrows that now distress us are the torn roots of an old institu- tion—those Kelloggs, and Warmoths, and Moses creatures but the crawling worms who live their day and sink away forever. Time will bring us a nobler, richer, more beautiful | South, braver because of the chastening sor- rows that have fallen upon her people. We had hoped that Mr. Conkling and his friends would have given us their vast aid toward this result; that the Republican Con- vention would have presented a platform worthy of its grand and noble old candidate, a platform looking to a limitation of Executive prerogatives, economy and peace throughout the land, and the settlement of burning ques- tions at some speedy convention of peace and reconstruction. Roscoe Conkling might have led in this work. He has missed a great op- portunity, one that will not oceur to him again—the opportunity of showing himself a statesman brave enough to lead his party to its duty, and not a mere political leader, sink- ing all of his splendid gifts in an eager fight | for power. Non-Insvrep Cuicaco.—The warnings of the Chicago papers have had no effect upon the municipal government of that city. It has been repeatedly urged to establish a better Fire Department and to take ordinary measures to prevent other terrible conflagra- tions, but nothing has been done. The result is that yesterday the National Board of Fire | Underwriters issued a circular advising all insurance companies to cease writing policies in Chicago. This course is necessary to the safety of the companies, and Chicago has herself only to blame. Of course the effect of this action will be disastrous; but if the injury to the business of the city teaches her authorities common sense it will be an ulti- mate benefit. The business men of Chicago have shown great energy in recovering from the effects of two great fires, but they cannot expect prudent underwriters to take the risk of paying fora third, against which no pre- cautions are m: THe New Yorx Liserars AnD THE TEMPER- ANcE Party.—The republicans at Utica turned the cold shoulder upon the temperance party, and manifested their contempt for the liberals This is our | from first to last. Mr. Pomeroy’s allusion to ‘poor old Greeley’’ was received with up- roarions laughter, while in behalf of the Con- vention Senator Conkling begged the question. The temperance men, in convention at the same time and place, resolved substantially that as the republicans did not appear to want them they would fight their own battle in the com- ing election. The liberals will doubtless adopt the suggestion of Senator Fenton and oust wherever they can a republi- can from the Assembly. And so, while from the temperance party and the liberals the vote for Governor Dix may not be materially affected, they may change very materially the complexion of the Assembly. Tae Brack Huis.—The latest reports re- ceived in Washington from the Black Hills region are said to show that the reports of gold discoveries are untrue. This confirms our special despatches, which have contra- dicted the wild rumors of inealculable min- eral wealth. Colonel Fred Grant did not see three dollars’ worth of gold during the expe- dition, and we think that had there been more it would not have escaped his observa- tion. Anp Waat or Cuzap TRansporTation ?— Upon this important subject to the city and the State of New York we find nothing in the platform of our late Republican State Con- vention, and nothing upon the tariff, and nothing upon land grants to railroads, and nothing upon civil service reform, and nothing touching the wholesale corruptions of South- ern carpet-baggers. Upon all these and other important national questions, therefore, it be comes the duty of the people to learn what is | the position of every republican candidate for Congress. Tue Dertu or Meanness is reached when a man hurls a stone at a train of passenger cars to revenge himself upon the company. An outrage of this kind recently committed on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near New Brunswick, | has resulted in the death of a passenger who | was struck, and if the murderer is caught no | punishment could be too severe for him. The | ancient penalty of stoning to death would be reading, and the mind turns away in despair | barbarous, yet it would certainly be appro- | priate. Tux Locomotive | yesterday in this city, at which nearly all the principal railrgads of the country were present. Resolutions were | adopted declaring their determined opposi- tion to any further reduction of wages, and | demanding the restoration of the former rates paid by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. | The proceedings were orderly, and the meet- ing was a model in this respect which the | great political conventions would do well to imitate—if iiey could. elegates from ston of Blackwell's Island a once familiar voice is heard, and it speaks of Kelly and McKeon. It is the voice of Mr, Tweed, and he declares that he has not consulted with Mr. Waterbury upon methods to annoy Mr. Kelly. So that gentleman has one grievance the less to revenge. But he intends to make Mr. Tilden uncomfortable as @ candidate. in ignoring the temperance party | Two Remarkable Discoveries Physical Geography of the Sea. Two important expeditions, now engaged in oceanic research, one in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific, have recently reported some of the results of their labors, which will proba- bly put a new phase on the great problem they are seeking to elucidate. We have very lately published the full ac- | count of Commander Belknap’s extensive sur- vey of the bottom of the Pacific lying north of the great Equatorial current. While his aim has been specifically to test the telegraphic accommodations of the North Pacific bed, his soundings reveal an important principle never fully, if at all, known to physical geographers. When about a hundred miles southeast of Sendai Bay, on the east coast of Japan and directly in the strong sweep of the Kuro Siwo or Japan current, the sounding indicated abyssal depths, while a little further north- ward, on the great circle route from Yokohama to Puget’s Sound, the sinker carried the wire to the astounding depth of 4,643 fath- oms without reaching bottom. “The tooth of running water is very sharp’’ is an axiom of pbysical geography, which, in the curve of the great Pacific Gulf Stream, might well have occurred to the explorer. And he rightly concludes that his experiment ‘‘confirmed the existence of a very deep trough under the Japan stream similar to that cut by the Gulf Stream on our own coast.” The discovery that these enormous “rivers in the ocean’’ carve their channels through the solid basin of the great oceans is very suggestive to the physicist. It is known that they do not extend to the bottom, the deep sea thermometer ever assuring us that the warm strata cease long before the floor of the ocean is reached. It would seem, there- fore, to follow, from the facts brought to light, that these two hot gulf streams act upon the underlying cushions of cold water and by mechanical impact cause the abrasion or erosion of the bottom over which they run. It is by no means inconceivable that the rest- less on-flowing surface currents, by imparting their own motion to the subjacent water, make their impression on the oceanic floor itself, much as the constant running of the railway train imbeds the rails in the sleepers of the track and the sleepers in the road bed. This, at least, seems to be the meaning of the striking phenomenon discovered by the ex- plorers in the Western Pacific. The latest reports from Captain Davis, of the Challenger expedition, present a yet more astonishing and a most instructive discovery, likely to revolutionize the whole theory of marine circulation, and putting an effectual quietus on the interminable theorizings of Dr. Carpenter and his verbose school. The Chal- lenger's thermometric surveys of the Atlantic are so numerous and exact that they afford data for constructing a better map of the Atlantic sea bed than we had of North Ameri- can orography at the beginning of this cen- tury. The contours of the North Atlantic present an irregular belt, shaped like the letter reversed, exceeding twenty-five hun- dred fathoms in depth, from very near the coast of the United States and the Bahamas toward the African coast between the Canaries and Cape Verde Islands. North of this lies a submarine bank, rising to within less than two thousand fathoms of the surface, and stretching from Greenland to the Azores, It has always been supposed that over this sec- tion poured a cold stream of Arctic water on its way southward, slowly warming as it neared the Equator. But the Challenger’s soundings prove the startling fact that (beneath the water immediately affected by the sun’s rays, believed not to extend more than eighty fathoms) all the water in the North Atlantic, as far north as the fortieth degree of latitude, is actually warmer than at the same depths under the Equator itself! Such a dis- covery was never suspected, and only the unerrmg and inexorable register of the deep-sea thermometer could have suggested such an apparent anomaly. What is the solution? There being bottom water of a temperature of thirty-two degrees tour minutes at the Equator, with warmer water at all stations to the north of it, Captain Davis, of the Chal- lenger, argues, with great sagacity, that it proves unmistakably that the bottom cold water of the North Atlantic comes from the Antarctic region, and not from the Arctic, Certainly, if at the Equator the bottom water supplied from the southward retains its cold so tenaciously, the bottom water of the North Atlantic, if supplied from the nearer Arctic region, should be at least as cold. But the bottom temperature increases decidedly as we go north of the Line, showing that the vast submarine drift from the Antarctic flows over the Atlantic floor across the Equator and penetrates our hemisphere at least as far as forty degrees north. This fact apparently up- sets nearly all the prevailing theuries, if not every theory that has ever been current, and demonstrates that the circulation of the sea is not carried on between the Polar and Equa- torial basins, but between the Antarctic Ocean and the North Atlantic on the one hand, and probably between the Antarctic and North Pacific on the other. In a word, it shows that the circulation is between two points in opposite hemispheres, and not between the Poles and Equator. The plausibility of this explanation is especially obvious in the great ocean (from Behring Straits to the Australian and the extreme austral latitudes) which is cut off from free’access to the North Pole by the Behring Narrows. If the Chal- lenger figures demonstrate it for the Atlantic | there can be little doubt that it will be more remarkably illustrated when similar ther- | cnometric teste are made in the Pacific. In the enormous mass of boreal Antarctic water which is now revealed as forcing itself like a submarine wedge into the tropical sec- tion of the North Atlantic, have we not a new and sufficient solution of the long-vexed philosophy ef the Gulf Stream? Have we not | evidence that the upheaval and piling up the | surface water by the austral deep sea current, now unmasked, is 4 vera causa, if not the true cause, of that mighty outflow from the tropical | basin which pours forth its warm flood | toward Ireland, and. never ceases till it reaches the North Polar basin? The results of the Challenger discovery are | far-reaching, and make the grandest contri- bution to marizte science ever announced. This discovery will be hailed by all true stu- dents of physical geography as most promis- ing and as offering the only key to the mys- teries af the occan, i in the 4.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Absent One. As we read the glowing reports in the loyal administration journals of the Republican Convention at Utica we are impressed with the importance of good health and manly erercise as elements of political harmony. The members came together like boys from play. There was the fresh, breezy, invigorat- ing influence that seems to have affected even those generally cold historians, thé cor- respondents of the press, for their accounts read like carmagnoles.: There was Collector Arthur, rnddy with his salmon triumphs in Labrador, and Surveyor Sharpe, in shouting trim, whose hill climbing in Putnam and Orange has been the summer sensation of that pastoral region, and Naval Officer Laflin, who has had the most extraordinary religious ex- periences at Martha’s Vineyard camp meet- ing—a complete revival of his physical and spiritual nature. Although these three repre- sentative pillars of the Custom House and the party have had their salaries reduced and are denied many formerly existing comforts in the way of moieties and allowances, their zeal was unabated. The reporters make special mention of the enthusiasm of General Sharpe and Mr. Laflin; and we gather the impression that they must have been in a constant state of cheering during the whole session of the Convention. This wholesome, hearty spirit pervaded the other members of the Conven- tion. There was the corruscating Tom Murphy, fresh from Long Branch, where he is said to have had sublime inspirations from the source of all power, authority, office and wisdom. Mr. Van Nort, head of one ring by the grace of Tweed, brought the pat- ronage of his office as his contribution to the general harmony; while Mr. Delafield Smith, Corporation Counsel by the grace of Oakey Hall, and who never enters a nest where there are no feathers, was present, as Wise a8 an owl and as merry as a cricket. We do not observe the presence of Treasury Agent Frank Howe in any published history ; but we can well imagine that this sunny, limpid, effervese- ing soul could not be absent trom the Niagara roar of Roscoe Conkling’s eloquence. Our New England poet tells us that there is no flock, however watched and tended, but there is an absent lamb, We look in vain in this tumultuous, gladsome throng for the Wash- ingtonian presence of Alonzo B. Cornell. What influence could have kept him away? Has it come to pass that Roscoe Conkling can speak without his faithful Alonzo to hold his hat and lead the cheers? What grief, what hid- den, burning disappointment has fallen upon Pythias that he sulkingly abandons his Damon? We would as soon think of doubt- ing the affectionate loyalty of Howe, or the up- roarious devotion of Sharpe, or the Wesleyan enthusiasm of Laflin, as to question the loyalty of Cornell to the flag and fortunes of Conk- ling. But some misfortune has happened. Alonzo stands apart from this glad meet- ing, with dejected behavior in his visage. We wish we could suggest to our Custom House friends some means of inducing Alonzo to cast his nighted color off and throw to earth his unprevailing woe. Does he not stand close to Roscoe, most immediate to his is ® young man, and has been petted and nursed and tenderly cherished beyond any other of Roscoe’s political family. ‘‘Honest Tom”’ has been kicked and cuffed, Laflin and Arthur and Sharpe have had their wages low- ered, Bliss has been knocked from pillar to post by rude newspapers, Frank Howe has been pushed from one kettle of hot water into another in the Union League, Pierrepont has been more steadily overlooked by the President in his selections for high office than any man in party except Mr. Evarts, but they have not complained. Docile, filial, obedient, they do their work with cheerfal alacrity. But Alonzo has always had the first place at the table and the first slice of custard. He was made Surveyor of the Port at a time when there were a thousand leading and needy re- publicans more entitled to the place. He earned in this office probably two hundred thousand dollars, which no one has accused him of squandering for purposes of political corruption. He was elected to the Assembly from a district in which he did not really live, and made Speaker in violation of parlia- mentary precedent, He at once became an impatient candidate for the Senatorship, for he Governorship, the Lieutenant Governor- ship, and we have no doubt that if the pater- nal Boscoe could have had his way his favorite Alonzo would have been chosen to either one of these places, or to all three of them if he had desired. But this was not to be! There was Centen- nial Dix, to whom Mr. Conkling held a rela- tion akin to that of the sportsman who, having a tiger by the tail, did not wish to hold on and was afraid to let go. There was General Robinson, who would have been slaughtered without mercy to gratify Alonzo, only that the party dreaded the effect on the soldier vote of his decapitated ghost hobbling through the canvass. So, with all of Roscoe's love for Alonzo, we do not see how he could | have helped him. And if this spoiled young man will accept a bit of advice from us, we will say, let him eschew pouting and grief. If he has ambition, let him remember that no party ever cheerfully followed a knight with a rueful countenance. Let him go out into the woods and catch fish, like the Col- lector, or go to the camp meeting and get ro- ligion, like the Naval Officer. Let him im- itate the cheerfulness of which the Honorable Major General of Militia, Jimmy makes him the joy of his friends, no matter how dark and dreary the day. Let him con- | template the perpetual sprightliness of John Cochrane, who, having supported and opposed every party in existence, and having been actually nominated tor Vice President by the Cleveland Convention, retains buoyancy of | spirit enough to keep afloat the liberal repub- lican party. Let him think of somebody else | than Alonzo B. Cornell, and his future may tbe as prosperous as even Roscoe Conkling could desire. throne, chiefest cousin, courtier aud son? He j; Husted, is a chirping example, and which | =p Aan ER =D Mansna, Bazarsr’s Lerren.—We publich to-day the full text of Marshal Bazaine’s letter to the Henan, the principal points of which, we published ina cable despatch some days ago. Tho criticism of the Marshal on hie comrades in arms and on the men who con~ trolled the destinies of France during her mo- mentous struggle with Germany will be read with interest. Tho Marshal does not spare his enemies, and his short criticisms are pungent and severe. It is natural that a mam in Bazaine’s position should object to allow- ing the responsibility for the terrible mis fortanes that have fallen on France to be saddled upon him. He thinks he has beem made a scapegoat by all parties, and denies that he has had a fair trial before a competent tribunal. In this connection his criticism of the Duc d'’Aumale’s military career is very scathing. The Marshal thinks that oa mere theorist ought not to sit in judgmen$ on the conduct of an old soldier grown gray in hon- orable service, The letter is remarkably in- teresting. Tux Deprepations of river thieves along the Brooklyn shore have become so frequent and extensive that they may be said to con stitute a regular business, The want of @ river patrol accounts for their boldness, and! the Brooklyn authorities should supply it From the shore the police are often unable to arrest the few pirates they discover. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The hay fever has gone to seed. Mr. Beecher arrived at his home in Brooklys yesterday. Mr. Parke Godwin 1s reported as “on his way home.” Bishop Alfred Lee, of Delaware, is residing at the Everett House. Marquis di Calenzano, of Italy, has apartments at the Hotel Brunswick. State Senator F. W. Tobey, of Port Henry, N. TY. ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel A. K. McClure, of Philadelphia, 18 S00 journing at the Hoffman House. Professor John Forsyth, of West Point, is quare tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Thomas ©. Platt, of Oswego, N. ¥., is registered at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Professor Ezra Abbott, of Cambridge, Mass., yes terday arrived at the Everett House. Patti and Faure have both tried their volcem from the stage of the new opera house tn Paris. No more Madeira from Madeira, The vines aré alldying. Dealers will have to make it them~ selves. Mr. Jerome B. Parmenter, of the Troy Press, tw among the recent arrivals at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. Joseph Warren, of the Buffalo Courter, ang Mr. William Purcell, of the Rochester Union, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. At Radskote, in the college of Radschkoumar,, the Hindoo students perform Shakespeare’s plays. They don’t care who wrote them Professor M. B, Riddle, of Hartford, who is & member of the committee engaged in the revision of the Bible, has arrived at the Grand Hotel. We are indebted to a providential derangements of Tupper’s liver for hia absence from this coun= try, Here is at leastone advantage in having & liver. Dr. Sayre is of the opinion that General Elijah Ward has suffered no internal injury trom his re-. cent accident, but requires him to keep quiet for some days yet. Garibaldi has written a book in the nature of “Commentaries” on his military exploits. Itseems likely to give a final crown of the ridiculous to the history of this overrated patriot. Florida for a third term, but New York omt- nously reticent! Which seems to mean that where the people are in power the third term cannot stand; but where the administration is in absolute control there the third term has friends, And why did they leave the third term out of the , Utica platform if 1t 1s good? Because they were afraid the people might not agree with them, ‘They knew it would be a millstone on the neck of their ticket, At Utica they dared neither to pronounce for the third term nor against it, Their silence was a compromise between the yeomanry and the Ous- tom House. If they had declared against 1t they would have lost their oMices; if they haa declared’ for it they would have lost the supporc of a people. In England Mr. Richardson began a suit to have. the election of a School Board declared tnvalid, and as it would involve considerable expense to defend their case the whole Board resigned. Ia cases where the holders of office are poor men, this’ method ts worthy the consideration of party op-_ ponents. Edward Frederick Smyth Piggott ts the fall name of the British examiner of plays who suc- ceeds William Bodham Doune. They say over, there that itis an American fancy to have more than one given name. Indeed, some amusing ob- servations were written on the subject by Thomas, Babbington Macaulay. Everybody shouted ‘Vive la République” at Mor Jaix on the occasion of MacMahon’s visit, General Le Flo said to a little boy, “Silence, ragamumn4 some one has given you two cents to shout for the Republic.” Satd the ragamuifin, ‘Ha, old one, they give you a great deal more than that for serving a republic that you don’t shout for.'” Landseer’s lions in Trafalgar square are now to be surrounded by gravelled walks and shrubbery. As the place ts used by Odger and other agi- tators for public meetings, and there is no pretext tor preventing sach assemblages, this shrubbery ta, perhaps, a ruse, for the whole police of Londom can be callea out to prevent the tramping dowa of the shrubbery. YOUNG MEN'S OHRISTIAN ASSOOIATION, The Seventh Annual Convention of Pennsylvania. PHILADBLPHIA, Sept. 24, 1874 The seventh annual State Conveation of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Pennsyl- vania commenced this afternoon in Germantown, The afternoon session was devoted to organiza | tion and the appointment of committces, Mr. Willtam R, Davenport, of Erte, Pa., waa choses per manent chairman. A Welcome meeting was held in the evening, at which addresses were made by delegates. ‘thomas Whitewell, a corresponding delegate from Stock- ton-on-Tees, England, also delivered an address, The Convention 18 composed of about one han- dred delegates, and will continue in session to- morrow and Saturday, THE SALISBUBY BEACH MEETING, Discussion on the Recent Events in Louisiana. - Boston, Sept. 24, 1874, At the adjourned gathering at Salisbury Beach to~ day only about one thousand people were present. The principal speakers were Mr. P, A. Collins, of Boston, and Mayor Bufom, of Lynn. Mr. Collins The Body of An | Tue Conrnacr to print the City Record, | | which was given last year to one of the highest bidders, was broken yosterday in part, at the suit of Mr. Rhodes, who was the lowest bidder. Judge Pratt granted an injunction forbidding the city authorities to pay any money upon the contract, which is a very effectual way of stopping the publication, Truly the way of the subsidized press is hard nowadays. made a strong democratic speech, having particu- lar reference to the recent events in Louisiana, taking the ground that the people of the South had been kept irom their rights by the bayonet. Mayor Buflum’s address Was mainiy in repiy to Mr. Collins, and in strong opposition to the senti- ments he expressed, DROWNED AT NIAGARA, nown Woman Dis- covered, NIAGARA FALLS, N, Y., Sept, 24, 1874 Conroy, the guide, discovered the body of an unknown Woman this afternoun, below the bank on the Canadian side, above tue ferry landing. She is @ well dressed person, apparently about thirty years of age, and 18 supposed to be a Cana- dian, $17 in Canadian money being found on her Pere fi finding of a basket with her indicates that she was & member of a picnic party (rom Toronto which bh he Table Rock in the early part-o1 the Weak. and had accidantally (alien over the bank,