The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ahi THE DAILY HERALD, Four cents per copy. published every | day in the year. si tion price $12. or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HeRacp. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. area aaa LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FL STREET. | Subseriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. | —— Volume XXXIX.... No. 269 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, ‘1874.—' TRIPLE SHEET, etait John Kelly’s Position in City and State Politics. Of course all fair minded citizens should hold their judgment in suspense respecting the Mayor's charges until Mr. Kelly has been heard in defence, The accusations are forti- fied with a strong body of seeming evidence, but they are urged with such vindictive heat and garnished with so much insulting vitu- peration as to justify considerable distrust of | the Mayor's statements. An investigation which was so evidently prompted by virulent personal animosity was not likely to be con- ducted with scrupulous fairness. The public will listen with candor to Mr. Kelly's reply, if he bas a valid reply to offer. But he can- not afford to make light of the charges or to retort by mere counter accusations. His im- pulsive temper will lead him to strike hard blows in retarn, and the provocation will | perhaps justify him if he at the same time | presents a solid refutation of the detailed | specifications of his accuser. We hope he | | will be able to make a successful answer; for, although we have found something to criti- | cise in Mr. Kelly’s course as a politician, we . { AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | PARK GARDEN, —GILMORE'S ‘STRELS, ninth street. NEGRO i. Matinee ard P.M. ICAN INSTITUTE, rt and Sixty-fourth ON, Third avenw sureets. INU US La. BAI foot of Hous‘on stree TRCUS, ver, atl P.M. and 8P. M, TONY PA No. 201 Bowery.—VAw Matinee at? P.M. CoOL Broadway, corner of 1 NiGHi, at 740 P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE BUM. -flith strect.—PARIS BY Broadway and ibirteepth street—DEARER THAN LIFE, ac 37. Mj cioses at LL P.M. J. L. Toole. Matinee | ae ab P.M. Woop’s MUs Broadway, corner Thirtie:h str ROMEO JAFFIER JENAINS PM: closes at 4:02. Mo Mr Letting well, MACBETH, at 8 P. Mj closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. | é. E, L. Davenport. OLYMPIC THEATRE. No. 624 Broad. VARIETY, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 .M. Mauuce at 2 P.M. Fourteen'h stre DE TREBIZON Aimee, Mile. ‘ :E . Mule, TRE COMIQUE, AKIBIY, at5 P. M.; closes at 120 ML. No. 54 Broad way. P.M. Matinee at2 P between & wenty-second yi enty ad T (Deb AGE. at 3PM. Mr. John t, Kay LEST) . BOO HEATRE, corner ot Twenty street and’ Sixth avenue.— | CONNIE s00GAt SP. M. closes at lu:3) P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. Matinee at 1:3) P.M. 3 ARDEN, Broadway, between Frince and Houston streets. —THE DELUGE P.M; ¢ atl P.M. The Kiraify | Family. “Matinee at i: 1. M FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, DHOOL | OR SCANDAL, ac 8 P. ML.; closes at 11 zport, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis | Matinee at 1.3u 2. M. M. Miss Fanny Day: James, Charles Fisher. GERMAN IA THE ATR Fourteenth street.—ASCHENBROEDER, at 8 P. M.: | closes at 10:50 1, al. | ROBINS( Sixteenth stroet. between 15! VARIETY, ats P.M. Mat atinee at 2 ARDEN, MASANIELLO. & eilich. METROPOLITAN THEATRE. | No. 585 Broad way.—Purisian Cancan Dancers, at8 P.M. | Matinee at 2 P. TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Saturday, Sept. 26, 1874, | | | | | From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Wart Srrzer Yxsrenpay.—Stocks con- tinued active, with advancing prices. Gold | was without juterest and steady at 109} a 1093. by which MacMahon may retain his power, and reviews the situation in France. Tse German Reronmens and democrats— the two claim to go in harness of late—held a meeting last night and unanimously indorsed the Syracuse nominations. Tuer Pexprxc amendments to the constitu- | tion of New York were the subject of a lecture | before the Liberal Club last night by Mr. L. Bradford Prince, of which we give a full sum- | oy Dusiry was received | yesterday by the municipal authorities and was presented to many of our citizens. It is | rumored that he is to be naturalized, so that he can have a vote in November. Tur Races a! the Prospect Park Fair | Grounds closed yesterday with three excellent trots. ‘The winners were Kittie D., Arthur and Flecty Go'ddust. But this meeting was only the beginning of the fall trotting. Tuer Funenat of a free lover, the daughter of one of the leaders of that creed in New England, is described in a letter from Ver- | . The services were conducted by Spiritualists and seem to have had a touch- ing but grotesque solemnity. Tue Canust Fouxpry Vera has been | visited by one of our correspondents and is the subject of an interesting letter to-day. This manufactory is of very great importa: s o to the royal army, as it turns ont all the shells used in the war; yet it bas not been molested by Serrano. Tue Trorn of the statement that Germany contemplates the acqnisition of Porto Rico receives startling confirmation to-day in our despatches from Washington. We are in- formed that the State Department has re- ceived from Russia the assurance that in case of such an attempt the Czar will offer to join with the United States to prevent it. Tar Czan Anexanpen or Russta has ad- ‘dressed a note to Don Curlos, in which he ex- presses much sympathy with the Bourbon | Prince in his efforts to ascend a throne in Spain. The imperial missive is in reply to a letter of the royalist chief. This action is | quite natural on the part of the Russian ruler in a dynastic point of view, republicanism in Spain or any other portion of Europe boing | diroctly opposed to his system of government from St. Petersburg to tho Caucasus, There may bea good deal of diplomacy as well as of politeness in the matter of the correspondence. Perhaps Don Carlos has promised a quid pro quo. Russia looks toward the Mediterra- nean occasionally. | | abuse of enemies. _ and will compel him to retire from that posi- | down and steps out” of his old honorable have never doubted his personal honesty. His faults have seemed to us those of | an upright, but prejudiced, headstrong, if not overbearing man. Notwithstanding the gravity of the Mayor’s charges and the for- midable array of seeming proofs alleged in support of them, ouropinion of Mr. Kelly's | character is, as yet, substantially unchanged. | We feel bound to assume, in view of the repu- tation for integrity he has always borne, that it is in his power to make a convincing de- fence, and he is entitled to reasonable time for its preparation. But it is indispensable | that these charges should be fairly met and | | clearly x | Unless this is done there will be another ad- | { ted with as little delay as possible. | dition to the sad list of ruined reputations and | blighted usefulness, We trust the community | may be spared & new blow to its shattered | confidence in the virtue of leading politicians. We assume, for the present, that Mr. Kelly | will clear himself completely and that his | character will shine forth like gold tried in the | fire. But in that case he will be subjected to a new trial ofa different nature, which will be | a severer test of manly fortitude than unjust accusations. ture to portunities to bear It requires a stronger na- withstand the flattering im- of fawning triends than up against the groundless Some of Mr. Kelly's friends and many of his parasites will insist on his taking the democratic nomination for the Mayoralty if he makes a successful vin- | dication. They will tell him that this mark | of continued confidence is the proper mode of setting the final seal to his defence and attest- ing the public sense of his innocence. This is a kind of appeal which only strong and self-poised minds can resist; but as foolish personal vanity has never appeared to be one of Mr. Kelly’s weaknesses we hope he will not give in to the flattering zeal of his friends. He can be more useful to his party, | and can build up a much stronger political and personal influence by resolutely refusing office. When a distinguished party leader accepts high office his party feels that its debt to him is discharged. In the inevitable rota- \ tion by which room is made for rewarding | others for party services in the same way, he soon sinks again to the obscurity of a private station and is laid upon the shelf. The only men who exert a permanent influence in pol- ities are the few who prefer power to the ostentation of it. Consider, for example, how many ephemeral Gov- ernors, Senators, Cabinet officers and foreign Ministers Thurlow Weed has survived, con- tinuing to be a power in politics after long successions of them have come up and gone down like bubbles. Dean Richmond exerted a similar influence in his own party, though on a smaller scale and for a much shorter period. We believe it for the public interest that | this higher kind of political ambition should be cherished by the very few men whose ca- pacity and disinterestedness qualify them for guiding our party organizations. Mr. Kelly has recently given a signal demonstration of his abilities in this line by securing the nomi- nation of Mr. Tilden for the Governorship, and thereby making himself his political su- perior. If Mr. Tilden should be elected Mr. Kelly will have more influence over him than all other public men in the State. If this bold adventure proves successful Mr. Kelly's ascendancy in the democratic party of the State will be uncontested unless he is so short- sighted or so weak-minded as to take his pay as he goes along by accepting the nomination for Mayor. In that case the party will | think its debt to him has been acquitted, | tion of unofficial leadership from which he could not otherwise be dislodged. The Mayoralty of the city is no more compatible | with the guidance of the party in the State than ix the office of Governor. Mr. Tilden was under a moral compulsion to relinquish his place in the State Committee in consequence of accepting his present nomination, and, whether he is elected or defeated, he ‘steps position of disinterested leadership. The Governor's salary is a mere bagatelle to him; he will spend thrice its amount in maintain- | ing the dignity of the office if he’ succeeds in | getting it. The patronage in his gift will be next to nothing, so that he cannot have the satisfaction of rewarding political friends. He can gain nothing but the mere honor of the position, and, tor the chance of this, he sacrifices the real power and permanent ot being the Warwick of his party, nan whose judgment is universally | deterred to by the constant succession of in- comers and outgoers who mark the dates in digni the one our political history. This moral authority }in the democrati perty which Mr. Tilden has 80 unwise! relinquished will fall by the force of circumstances into | Mr. Kelly's hands, unless the pressure of triends or the bauble of office tempts him to throw away a splendid opportunity. The way is opened for him to become not merely the permanent autocrat of Tammany but the chief counsellor ond virtual director of the democratic party of the State. If Tilden is | nobody will dispute Kelly's claim to in the party after so distinguished an primacy achievement, if he does not abdicate it to be- come the recipient of a vulgar party reward. If bis character for honesty should be fully vindicated against Havemeyer’s savage attack he may count on a great inoraasa of influence, | his suggestions will be acted upon, | somewhat and nothing will do more to confirm the good opinion of the public than for him to exhibit the rare example of a professed reformer who de- clines to make his professions a stepping stone to office. It is well for our politics that we should have such a class of men. If they are sagacious and higa-minded they not only give steadi- ness and stability to party policy, but the ex- ample they set of public spirit and disin- | terested services enables them to exert 4 wholesome moral influence in restraining the prevalent insane eagerness for office, inducing aspirants to postpone their claims, and men in public positions to be content with the honest emoluments of their places and to prize honor and public favor above sordid gains. The Great Rifle The long expected trial of skill between the Trish riflemen and the representative marksmen of America takes place at Creedmoor to-day. The contest will be witnessed by thousands of interested spectators, and the champions will go to their work cheered by the smile of beauty and urged on by the evidence of public interest in the contest to strive with all their skill and nerve to achieve victory. At this hour it would be impossible to predict with certainty the result of the struggle. It is true that in the practice on Thursday the Americans stood ahead some points, but this was due to the remarkable score made by Lieutenant Fulton, and which he may not be able again to repeat On the other hand, while the gentlemen of the Irish team were behind, there was a marked increase in the accuracy of their shooting, due to better acquaintance with the atmospheric conditions of the range. But, whateyer the result of the contest may be, it cannot fail to be creditable to the nations represented by such skilful marksmen. Tho exhibition we have already witnessed shows that even in defeat the teams will have acquired honor, for the average made at prac- tice on Thursday has never been equalled in the annals of rifle shooting. Although the sport is comparatively new in this country, the American team beat the highest score ever made at Wimbledon by forty points. This re- sult is decidedly encouraging. It justifies the hope felt by the American tam and their friends that the victory will not be won by the Irish marksmen, although they have fulfilled all the expectations formed of their wonderiul skill. Where the merit of the contestants is so close it is almost as great an honor Contest. to be defeated as to carry off the victory. At most the victors will be but a shade more skilful or more lucky than the men they defeat. A sudden gust of wind or a burst of sunlight might cause the most skilful marksman to commit an error that would be fatal to his final chances of success. Under these circumstances the defeated need not be ashamed of being con- quered, and the victors will do well to be generous to their less Incky rivals. The result of the contest will, however, be looked on with increased interest from the very nearly equal merits of the competing teams. Should the weather prove propitious, as we hope it may, there will be such a gathering of the beauty and fashion of New York city as Creedmoor has never yet witnessed. This contest must certainly exert a very favorable influence on long range rifle shooting in this country, and may be the beginning of a series of international matches which will have the effect of drawing closer the bonds of friendship between America and the British Isles, represented in the contest to-day by that race which has so much contributed to the building up of the American nation. Treland sends across her team to dispute the traditional superiority of Americans as the great rifle shots of the world. Should our visitors win laurels at our expense it is within the range of possibility that an American team might be organized to visit Ireland in the hope of winning back the traditional pre- | eminence of which we are so proud; and should fortune favor our American marksmen they would no doubt be asked to cross over to the Green Isle to give the Irish riflemen their revenge on their own ground. The Midsummer Drought Areas East of the Great Plains. The important report furnished the Heratp | by the courtesy of the Chief Signal Officer, and published in another column, makes a suggestive exhibit of the summer droughts, While the season was unusually rainless the anomaly was not so great as to exclude the inference that the estimated rainlessness for 1874 affords the data for future calculations of the summer moisture. The basis of compu- tation has been taken, as will be seen by reference to the report, from the average pre- cipitation ascertained by many years’ observa- tion. Every departure from this normal quantity, amounting to one and a half inches of rain in the two-month period (including July and August) has been regarded as in- volving drought. To an ordinary glance the deficiency of one and a half inches in sixty-two days may seem insignificant and of no consequence agriculturally. But when it is considered that this deficiency happened in the very crisis of the vegetative process it is seen to be very serious. One inch of rain in July or August will do more for the crops than three or four inches in the preceding or succeeding months. The midsummer period is one in which the grain-growing and fruit- ripening processes reach a dead point, beyond _which only the refreshing shower can enable them to pass. And if the old Greek proverb, “One swallow does not make the spring,’ be true, it is often true that in the critical crop- making period one good shower turns the scale in favor of the husbandman and insures a tull harvest. Tux Ownensuip of the diamonds found on | Macdonald, the Bank of England forger, is to be decided by the United States Court. Tae Avstran Expiorers or tHe Arctica Reaion have enjoyed quite a national ovation ince their return from the Polar region. ney made a triumphal entry to Vienna yesterday in the midst of a most enthusiastic demonstration by the people. The complete report of their experiences and discoveries | ith much interest. Tax Dreaprvn Conprrion of our pavements has long engaged the attention of citizens and now receives that of Commissioner Van Nort. His communication to the Common Council is published to-day and would soften a heart of stone, We wish we could prophesy that will be looked et, eas ee ee The Resembiances to Shakespeare and Bacon, We think wo have discovered why Mr. Dion Boucicault is so violently opposed to the theory that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays. His resemblance to the different portraits of Shakespeare is well known, and were it not that he is better looking than the Chandos picture and the Stratford bust they would do very well for his own. Mr. Boucicault has also a more intellectual appearance than the Droeshout picture prefixed to ‘the first folio, but with a few alterations it would be thought a good likeness. He also resembles the paint- ing found on the back of an ancient pair of bellows, the terra cotta bust discovered on the site of an old theatre in London, and in fact all the portraits of Shakespeare have a decidedly Boucicaullian air about them, which is in the highest degree creditable to both the distinguished parties. This bemg the case Mr. Boucicault can be easily supposed to have reasoned thus:—‘If Shakespeare did not write these plays what the deuce is the value of my resemblance to Shakespeare? Nothing. It is, therefore, necessary to the dignity of my countenance that Shakespeare should have written or adapted the plays which bear his name, and I shall crush with indig- nation the critics who say he did not,’’ This course is made more compulsory on the partof Mr. Boucicault by the admitted fact that he does not atall resemble Bacon. It he resembled Bacon then he might, if he wished, admit that Professor Holmes and Miss Bacon and Mr. Smith have some reason in their argument. But here we find the likeness which has been for years a source of pride and distinction suddenly transformed into a cauge of moriification and regret. Who would not be glad to look like the magician of all time, the consummate flower of human genius, the poet of nature? Who would not be pained to resemble the poacher, the igno- rant manager, the crow so brightly decked in the plumage of the swan? Yet this is the renown the Baconians would take from Mr. Boucicault, this the grief they would iorce upon him, Perhaps the Baconians have not considered the matter in this light. Yet they should do so. It is no trifling matter to ruin @ man’s features, and, in the case of Mr. Boucicault, they would give him the cup of sorrow when they would take away his mug. It is just here that another very grave sus- picion is forced upon all thoughtful minds. Why is this determined attempt made to prove that Bacon wrote the plays? Is it not because of other likenesses? Professor Holmes has a brow and eye much like Bacon's, and the resemblance of Mr. Dougherty to Verulam is also striking. Is it true, then, as the public be- gins to believe, that these gentlemen are envious of those fortunate persons who are said to ‘look like Shakespeare,” and are resolved to make by this theory their own similitude to Bacon still more flattering to themse!ves? We fear so, and we cannotapprove the effort. This question should be argued upon high philo- sophical grounds; it should be decided by a capable jury and uot by the mere eyes and nose. Gentlemen who are proud that they look like Shakespeare and gentlemen who, re- sembling Bacon, want to show that Bacon was Shakespeare, ought to meet and compromise their personal differences, Perhaps if they would agree that they all look like Beaumont | and Fletcher this painful dispute might be arranged. Beaumont and Fletcher were very great dramatisis, and anybody ought to be happy to resemble thcm. But, passing by this grievous wrong to Mr. Boucicault, ws call attention to the opinions upon the authorship of Shakespeare's plays which we publish to-day. They very ably treat of similar phases of the subject. Pro- fessor O'Leary, of Manhattan College, has compared the two minds, and argued that Bacon’s classical habits of thought were in- congruous with the Gothic style of Shake- speare. ‘'The Doctor,’’ by quotations from the plays, desires to show that their geograph- ical and chronological blunders could never have been made by Bacon. A Battle in the Antelope Hills. One of the most important movements in the desultory Indian war of the summer was taat under the direction of General Miles against the savage tribes who had been plundering Kansas, Eastern Colorado and portions of Texas. The expedition, divided into four columns, took the field early in | August, and we publish to-day from our cor- respondent a full account of its operations and successes, in their march through the desert without water and under a burning sky were intense, but their bravery in battle was remarkable. | The main body of the Indians—Arapahoes, “Cheyennes, Kiowas, Comanches and Apa- ches—was found intrenched among the Antelope Hills, and was attacked on the heights by our soldiers, who drove them from their lines. They were and compelled to abandon their canips, pro- visions, and even the bodies of the slain. The rout of the savages seems to have been com- plete, and the loss on our side was but three men wounded. The artillery was used with excellent effect. General Miles in this battle will be followed up by other movements, which it is expected will relieve the frontier till next summer. ‘Then the annual Indian war will no doubt be- gin again, unless Congress is wise enough to give the country such an Indian policy as General Sheridan has so earnestly recom- mended. Here we have the army compelled to suppress Indian hostility without the power | to remove its causes, and the folly and injus- tice of such a course on the part of the gov- ernment needs no further illustration. The Grand Jury’s Picnic. The Grand Jury yesterday were treated toa pienic by the Commissioners of Charities and | Correction, under the special charge | of Messrs. Laimbeer and Stern. They went first to the Charity Hospital, where a sufficient quantity of white wash was taken on board for the trip, and thence to the Smallpox Hospital, where they did not stay long. The Almshouse then was complimented, and the Asylum for the Blind made the jurymen wink. The Work- house was pleasing, and at Randall's Island the boys were told how happy they were and how thankfal they should be. The Foundling Hospital was next in order, and by this time, it being late in the day, the party drow near the Inebriate Asylum. Here The sufferings of the troops | pursued | The advantage gained by | effect being malicions jokes, and they wound up the picnic at the Lunatic Asylum. There the Grand Jury should have taken up perma- nent residence, for how can it investigate the true condition of these public institutions when everything is prepared for their com- ing? Such visitations are follies, like the ex- hibitions of Dotheboys Hall in ‘‘Nicholas Nickleby,’ or the investigations of Bedlam in “Very Hard Cash.” But the Grand Jury, no doubt, found everything perfection. The Condition of the South. The feeling in the Southern States crys- tallizes into action as the election draws near and the candidates are chosen. The men who aspire to lead parties or to represent them in high offices must now take practical ground. Our correspondence from the South is, there- fore, a mirror in which its purposes and its passions are reflected; and to-day we print a number of letters and documents which are of more than ordinary significance. . In this in- quiry we are making systematically from Vir- ginia to Texas, our first object is to let the country know the condition of the South now. It is not the condition that existed at the close of the war, nor when General Grant was elected for the second term. New feelings and new purposes have been created by time, misgovernment and the long suffering of the people, and new reme- dies must be devised if we would prevent greater disasters. The situation in New Orleans since the restoration of Kellogg to power is described in one of our letters to-day, and it confirms the fact that the White League has used con- siderable power with moderation and with no design to resist national authority. Its object, as we have believed, was simply to establish Mr. McEnery in the Governorship to which he was elected, and, failing in that, it has absolutely yielded. On the other hand, we find Mr. Kellogg anxious now to conciliate his enemies, and our correspondent thinks he would “sacrifice ten of the best years of his life not to have entered into the gubernatorial contest.” This is not impossible, but Mr. Kellogg, nevertheless, holds a position antag- onistic to the peace and the highest interests of his State; and not of Louisiana alone, but also of the whole South. In this connection the reply of General Emory to Marshal Pack- ard will command attention. The Marshal desires General Emory to answer whether the charge of Senator Schurz and the Committee of Seventy—that he has attempted to use the United States troops for political purposes—is true. General Emory emphatically replies that it is not true, and forcibly adds that the Marshal should ‘be assured that any such attempt would be promptly resented by both officers and men.’’ If this is a hint it will probably be sufficient. The Kellogg government is plainly alarmed at the position in which it finds itself, and undecided upon the best course to pursue. We can tell it in three words—golden words for Louisiana— Let it resign. General Chamberlain, who is nominated for Governor in South Carolina by a wing of the republican party, gives us his opinions freely, but not as clearly as might be wished. He admits the terrible corruptions for which the radical government is responsible, and that is one strong point for a candidate in his posi- tion. ‘To admit the evil is one step toward its destruction. But his reasons for desiring the presence of troops might be stronger, and in regard to the Civil Rights bill he is not ex- plicit. Upon this question he will be forced to take a stand before the canvass is over. “That may or may not be s0,’’ will not do for an opinion.- Of the necessity of a national convention we are glad to learn that General Chamberlain is convinced. Governor Smith, of Georgia, has delivered an address upon the general situation, which the public will find to be as able as it is posi- tive. Reconstruction he declares to have been utterly a failure—an evil for the negroes, whom it exalied, and for the whites, whom it dethroned. But, as we understand him—and here, too, we should like more explicit terms— he believes the South should accept the re- sults of the war—freedom and equality for the races. Emancipation and the ballot must | stand forever for the colored man, Of the Civil Rights bill Governor Smith spoke in words of the bitterest denunciation, describ- ing it as intended to promote the amalgama- tion of the races, and declaring that a fear- ful increase of violence, bloodshed and crime would be the immediate result of its passage. Not the least important of these opinions which are grouped together to-day is that | Johnson when he declares, of a wational con- vention to consider the condition of the coun- try, that ‘there is no batter movement by which general satisfaction could be given to all the people.” ; have earnestly urged and explained, meets with universal approval in the South. It only remains tor the North to act to make | this great consultation of the States ao cer- tainty in our centeunial year. The Expected Organ, We think we speak for the loyal followers of Grant's administration, and especially of the Custom House persuasion, when we express the disappointment that is felt at the non- | appearance of the new administration news- | paper, Zhe Repubhe. The reason for this | delay is happily trom the desire of its cwpable | founders to begin wisely and bogin well. The sucklings of the party, who have been fed so long on hash and bitter beer, will not have to wait much longer. There are so many ques- tions that starve, as it were, for official treat- ment, that the impatience is natural. A party without an organ is a good deal like a steam engine without safety valve, and we learn from an intelligent contemporary that the President in his distress has been compelled to pains to instruct us as to his views upon the Southern questions. Considering that the second—or, perhaps, to be exactly accurate, the third—Washington has for a long time ceased whatever, this condescension on his part shows how deeply he must feel the want of his “organ."’ We are proud to be the organ | of the President, and we offer him better terms | than he will be apt to obtain elsewhere. | Henatp’s advice on all matters and he will have | an organ worth possessing, and we shall get on as harmoniously as the brethren Plymouth church. But in the absence of and as there is no assurance that the Prest- dent and the Hznatp may not again fall out, let us urge our friends of The Republic te begin. The only organ now in New York (excepting the Hznaup for its present short engagement) is the Commercial, an exceedingly combative newspaper, whose editor is so high in the President's confidence that he wants to fight everybody who differs with him. No President cares to be always in hot “water, and so the Commercial is rather a tax upon the mind of the incumbent Washingtom than a comfort to him, as every well con- ducted organ should be to its President—as the Herap is, for instance, during its present brief and pleasant term of service. Our readers will understand the hunger of soul and littleness of spirit that must dwell in tbe Custom House mind when they find ex- pression like this in the newspaper which prints the government advertisements. ‘Never- theless,” says this unruly organ, ‘‘since we are still two years from the Presidential campaign, and since thero are pressing subjects of the hour which need attention, it is not improba- ble that our own State Convention and all others will address themselves to the business immediately before them and avoid being drawn into a wild-goose chase after the lame ducks of the democrats. The third term ques- tion will be very easily disposed of whenever the proper time comes.” Here is a living issue, which is in all men’s minds and upom which every Custom House follower has yearn- ings for information. He looks in the organ, which has the advertisements, and he is told to wait two years! Here is a problem which an American statesman as eminent as Henry Wilson informs us threatens to rend the republican party, and the organ calls it “‘# wild-goose chase after the lame ducks of the democrats” —whatever that may mean! He looks elsewhere and finds no- subject intelli- gently treated except the Prince of Wales and emigration questions, All this will be reme- died when we have The Republic, In express- ing our disappointment at its non-appearance we congratulate the party that it will certainly appear, that loyal minds will then have sound doctrines laid down, and an intelligent con- sideration of American questions, and that the President will have a newspaper which will comfort and cheer him and be worthy of the official advertisements. — PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Paris use3 annually 240,000,000 eggs. Colonel Henry D. Wallen, Untted States Army, 18 registered at the Sturtevant House, Mrs. Hooker Beecher is convinced that her brother is innocent of those charges. Congressman Stephen W. Keilogg, of Connectd- cut, 18 staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Assistant Adjutant General J. B. Stonehouse, of Albany, is stopping at the Hotel Brunswick. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in the city yesterday, and is sojourning at the Astor House. Judge George Sharswood, of tne Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, has apartments at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. Beecher’s observations at that agricultural fair on cattle—especially those on the bull—are remarkable, Adjutant General James A. Cunningham, of Mas- sachusetts, 1s among the recent arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Commodore R. N. Stembie and Captain J. Le Davis, United States Navy, are quartered at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Mr. James E. Harvey, of Washington, formerly United States Minister to Portugal, has arrived at the New York Hotel. vardinal Cullen belleves that the Church is menaced by philosophy disguised as science. Let us therefore have a crusade in iavor oO! ignorance, General G. T. Beauregard and daughter, ef Louisiana, arrived in this city aday or two stace irom Canada, and are residing with a fricad in Fifth avenue, Paris has a great insect fair; an exhivition of all insects, useful or destructive. Bees and Silke worms are the stars of the show, even though the phylloxera is there. From the tenor of Mr. Beecher’s observations a¢ the Graiton Fair Grounds it would appear that he endures the mis:ortunes of the Southera people with the greatest fortitude. Jn England it is just now vaguely deemed possi- bie that they may organize a special train to de- liver the Lonaon papers in Manchester and Liver- pool at eigut A. M. People are startled at the thought, Policemen, by general order, must, it appears, “wear the prescribed uniform at all times’’—am uncommonly foolish order, which, if taken to the | letter, wiil not allow a man even the liberty of a | night shirt. ‘They had a festival lately at the city of Orange, im | which is tersely expressed by ex-President | This suggestion, which we | fall back upon the Hrnaup and to take unusual | to read the Heraxp, or in fact any newspaper | Ho | | has only to pay four cents a day and take the | in| Southern France. There is au old Roman theatre there like the Colosseum, but smaller. They il- Iuwinated this with the electric light and played “Norma” before seven thousand persons, | The genius of Adam has glorified the Postilion | of Lonjumean certainly. When the Bavarians | were at Lonjumeau they carried away the sign- bourd of the inn with the postilion parnoted on it which ts vow treasured at Munich, Watt till the drenci go to Munich! Three Highlanders sat by their toddy on a rainy day, and as an Englishinan was present they in- dulged themselves in the fdiom of his country. | One said, ‘this is the best whiskey I never tasted any more.” The second satd, “So did I neither,” | The third concluded, ‘Neither did I too.” Prolessors Theodore D, Woolsey, George E. Day and Charles A. Alken, members of the committee | engaged in the revision of the Bible, are at the | Everett House. The committee 1s holding its | regular monthly meeting at the Bible House, In 1516 the courts of Troyes, in France, comply. | ing with the prayers of the inhabitants of Ville- { noxe, admonished the caterpiliars by which thas | district was then iniested to take themselves of witnin six days, on pain of being declarea “ac- cursed and excommunicated.” How would this | do with the grasshoppers ? Beccher’s statemeut in answer to Tilton’s last statement is signed by his sister, Catherine BE. It accuses Tilton of a “deficiency in common sense,’? and points to Bowen as the real author of all the trouble. Bowen, Tilton and Moulton, in the theory of this statement, were all dear friends of Beecher, | but all great rogues, Astonishing what sort of triends he had. ‘he dangers by rail which seem inevitable are bad enough; but to be killed in one’s seat bya stone thrown through the window for the pase time of some idie rufan is certainly an ounce too much. Ifin such a case a8 that which occurred at Metuchen they could stop the train and give the | passengers a chance at the ruffian that sort of amusement woula become unpopular, It 1s not desirable for a man in a boat to pick up every drowning rogue that happens to be near, He ought always to interview him first and ene deayor to obtain a material gaarantee or a solema promise of good behavior. Near Exeter, Enge jana, @ soldier deserted from an artillery regte ment, He was pursued so closely on every hand that he plunged into the river, He couldn’t swim, and was near drowned, When & manu ina boat came to the rescue and dragged him out, But he did pot deliver him to the pursuers, He landed him on the other side, and the deserter got away. Then the Man in toe boat was brouglt upon a charge of aiding the escape of a deserter. His delence was that he yielied to immient peril, as the soldier threatened his life, All this is now on | trial, If he had not picked the man up perhapa some other process of law would have got {at him for constrnctive manslaughter im none of them remained. gil revorta to that | this, glliance, which awaits conanmmation. | consvatiug (9 4 deat be gould have preventeda