The New York Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Henan. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. ‘ Rejected communications will not be re- turned. — | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX No. 271 TS TO-NIGHT. AMUSEN AMERIC avenue, between Si Thiet NUOBi RlaL EXHL TrUTE, ird and Sixty-fourth LON, BAILEY'S CIRCUS, foot of Houston street, Last River, ati P. M. and 8 P. M, TONY PASTC OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARLeTY, ats. M. col’ UM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-flith street—PARIS BY NigHi, at 740 P.M. TRE, elL—DEARER THAN J. Ly Toole, 1 Broadway and Thirteenth LiF B, at 5 P. 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M.; | closes at 10:20. M. | Sixteenth street, berweea Broadway and Fifth x tween Broadway an — VARIETY a8 PM Mees BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at8 P.M. Dan Bryant. VAY HALL. STEL GRAND CONCERT. Iima di Murska. TERRACE GARDEN, MASANIELLO, Bredelli, Weiulich. METROPOL Paris THEATRE, Bo. 585 Broad: ancan Dancers, at 8 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway. corner of Twenty-ninuh street—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at 5 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, Sept. 28, 1874. = — co meen —— From our reports this morning the probabilities ere that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with pos- sibly light rains. Tae Escape or Rocuerort and his com- rades has caused a stricter guard of the Com- munist prisoners, who are to be removed toa place of confinement which is more secure. Tux Resetwi0on rm Cvsa has been repeat- edly subdued, on paper, but it still manages to give the Spaniards trouble. Our latest news from Havana is of a battle near the river Largos Eborucal, in which the govern- ment troops claim the advantage. Boox Revrews.—We publish to-day a re- view of the latest American publications, in literature, science, poetry, travel and history, it shows how busy and active our authors and presses have been, and what a broad field for study or enjoyment lies before the reading | public this fall. Tre Serriement of the United States | and Mexican claims has been delayed by various causes, which are explained in our ‘Washington despatches. About four hundred cases remain to be decided, and it is under- stood that the whole business will be com- pleted before the end of the year. Tue McEyery Pasty in Louisiana captured ‘but could not keep the State, but it seems to have been long enough in power to obtain from the archives some important docu- ments. These are said to compromise Gov- ernor Kellogg and several United States Senators, and the facts in the case are else- where published. Tae Otp anv New Po.ice Jusrices.—It is stated that the Court of Appeals has decided that the act of Assembly by which the new Police Justices were created is unconstitu- tional, and that the old justices will be rein- stated in office. The confirmation of this report, which is founded upon an alleged despatch from Mr. Richard O'Gorman, will produce a profound effect upon our politicians, who have made this question partisan to an un- | necessary extent. Tur Crcarmaxens’ Apprat.—New York energy und philanthropy have done much to destroy the evil system of tenement houses, which was so long a disgrace to the metropolis. -che Five Points is no more like the Five Solis ten years ago than the old Bat- | ery js like the Battery which Mr. | Tweed was kind étiongh to give us in his days of wealth and power. But enough | of wretchedness and disease and sin remains in our tenement system, and something of it is told in our account of the cigar factories. The Cigarmakers’ Union held a meeting | yesterday to protest against the mode of life in the factories, where ‘‘the prisoned toilers are kept together by the surveillance of the em- | ployers, and where they ate, slept and were | coffined,” and it is to be hoped that the ear- nest appeal to the Board of Health to abolis& se deng will have an immediate and just 4 The Political Outlook. The politics of the country are to-day in a condition which may be described as “high mixed.’ Our political parties resemble two armies pretending to be drawn up in order of battle, in which the troops are arranged on the confusing plan of intermingling regiments of foes with regiments of friends on each side. When the signal for battle is given a fire de- livered deross the common front is as likely to wound friends as foes, and there is con- stant danger that battalions of the same com- mand will discharge their shot into each other. The currency question appears in all the recent platforms as a political issue; but there are hard money troops and inflation troops on both sides of the line, and a vic- tory by either side could not decide the ques- tion. The same confusing mixture of forces prevails on the free trade question, A large section of the Illinois republi- cans are free traders; a large section of the Pennsylvania democrats are protection- ists. There is a similar jumbling of elements on the transportation question, which has lately risen into prominence. Our party lines are not drawn with reference to a well-marked Givision of public sentiment as to the merits of practical measures. There is no harmony of’ views even in respect to closely related issues, like the currency and revenue retorm. Many of the Western free traders are. infla- tionists, and, on the other hand, many of the Eastern advocates of a sound currency are protectionists. The consequence is that the strength of every section of public opinion is frittered away by division and neutralized by distribution in opposite camps. It is impos- sible to collect the sense of the country on the currency question, or the revenue ques- tion, or the transportation question by a con- test between the two great political organiza- tions. No victory by either side can prove anything respecting the wishes of a majority | | of the people on any of these great topics. This unnatural and tangled condition of | important issues degrades our politics into a vulgar contest for office and spoils. The elec- tions can decide nothing beyond the fact that this party gets in or stays in, or that party goes out or stays out. If our elections could be made to turn on the currency issue alone, all the specie men fighting on one side and all the paper men on the other, the country would learn how it stands on this great ques- tion, the election returns showing whether the inflationists or the redemptionistd were to have the future control of the government. But in the present adulterous intermixture the elections can decide nothing either way. So, if all the free traders were in one party and all the protectionists in the other, the elections would enable us to judge which side is in the majority and to estimate the char- acter of our future tariffs, of which the election returns will actually tell us nothing when issues are so confused that neither party has any distinct policy on the subject. It is superfluous to remark that this condition of our politics is debasing and de- moralizing, since neither party is contending for great principles and important measures, but only to get possession of the government and control of its patronage. The members of the two political organizations are not bound together by unity of views on public questions, but by what a statesman of the last generation called ‘‘the cohesive force of pub- lic plunder’’—the cohesive force of plunder to be retained on one side, or of plunder to be got on the other. Political morals will remain at their present low ebb until parties divide on principle and citizens who think alike act together on the same side, The way out of this confused entanglement, which strips our politics of all dignity, moral earnestness and genuine sincerity, is to be found by separating and simplifying issues and fighting but one battle atatime. It is only by this method that we can find where the majority lies on any given question. There can never be but one predominait | issue in any one contest. The predominant issue in this contest is official patronage and spoils. It ought to be some one of the im- portant questions that affect the public wel- fare. It the advocates of a sound currency could gain a decisive victory in the coming elections that question would be taken out of the arena and the country could proceed to settle another. But when the tariff question and half a dozen other qnestions are mixed up with this nothing can be decided, be- cause evcry majority is frittered away and lost by a distracting division and distribution of the advocates of particu- lar measures. It is like the confusion* and imbecility that would result from lumping half a dozen separate bills together in a legis- lative body and forcing a vote upon all at the same, time. The rejection of such a bill would prove nothing except the folly of the lumping process, because members who ap- proved of only one or two of the associated measures and detested the rest could not be expected to swallow the whole batch. In the present condition of the country there are only two subjects of immediate urgency, and even these two ought to be separated and one of them postponed, because they are not related. These two subjects are the currency and the condition of the South. The free trade issue is an impertinence until after these two have been decided. It is a question in which there is at present no popular interest. Of the two thousand newspapers of the country there are not ten that discuss it at all, and in those ten | nothing is so certain to be skipped as a free trade article. The attempt to force itasa political issue until questions of more interest are disposed of only obstructs political unity and concentration. Even the currency ques- tion, in which there is altogether more politi- cal life, only serves to distract attention from what ought to be the leading issue. Since | President Grant's veto the country feels that there is no danger of further inflation, at least so long as he remains in office, and on the strength of this assurance it is content to have the question adjourned for a year or two. The really great question of the time is this ground the ensuing political battle ought to be fought, The really commanding issue in the campaigns for Congress now, and for the Presidency later, is the proposal 80 wel- come to the South, and so grateful to honest men in the North, that these States should meet fu a national convention of peace and reconstruction. Ons, | well and fulfilled the promise of their anthora. tho condition of the Southern States, and on | that question would long ago have disappeared from our politics. After the lapse of nine years since the close of the war, it cannot be said that those measures have not had a fair trial. They must be judged by their fruits. They bave not brought tranquillity; they have not revived Southern prosperity; they have not restored fraternal feeling between our countrymen who fought in the war; they have not reinstated republican government in the South; they have not enabled us to withdraw mililary coercion from that afflicted section of our common country. The new State govern- ments are rotten with corruption. Their Legislatures are hotbeds from which there has shot upa rank growth of pecuniary in- famy which has no other palliative than the gross ignorance of the negro mem- bers. The property of the South has been burdened with swindling taxes until it has become, in many localities, nearly worth- less. This monstrous injury to the South is also an injury tothe North. The whole country is taxed to support the soldiers re- quired for maintaining order in the Southern States. The burden of government rests with increased weight on the North when debt, poverty and prostration disable the South from bearing its proportionate share. The very foundation of our free institutions is sapped by accustoming the federal govern- ment to intermeddle in State affairs and set aside the result of regular elections. The frequent breaches of the peace in that sec- tion are the shame and scandal of the times. The paramount necessity of the country is to have this- state of things remedied, and the remedy will come more readily after being considered by a national convention of peace and re- construction. The great pressing national want is a restoration of order, tranquillity and governments which, resting in the free choice of the people, do not need constant propping by federal bayonets. Until this great issue is decided and set at rest all others are of subor- dinate consequence. The country does not ask the republican party to undo its work in the South, but to rectify and repair it. The country does not object to the fullest civil rights to all men, but it asks that the new privileges and franchises be reconciled with peace, order and prosperity. If tbat party is incompetent to bring negro rights into harmony with good order and honest government the country will demand that the task be put into different hands. This is the great issue. When this is settled the currency will be next in order, and it can be dealt with more in- telligently when it is seen how much money is wanted in the South ina condition which reawakens confidence and enterprise and sets all the wheels of industry in motion. Next in order, after a sound currency, is the ques- tion of free trade. Free trade as a political question means free trade with foreign na- tions, ‘We slready have it in our domestic commerce, But before we can establish our commerce with the world on a sound basis we must first adopt the currency of the world as the medium in which it is transacted. By thus separating public questions and settling each in its order we might restore dignity and respectability to our politics, and enable the people to vote intelligently on every great issue without mixing and confounding it with others. The True Remedy. The following letter, addressed to the editor of the Hxnatp before the outbreak of the revolution in Louisiana, has a peculiar inter- est at the present time, in view of the events that have taken place since it was written: — NEw ORLEANS, Sept. 10, 1874, To THE Eprron OF THE HERALD :— As the editor of a Southern journal, and as a Southern man having the interests of the whoie country at neart, permit me to toauk you for the noble and manly course of the HERALD toward our peopie in this momentous crisis. You have tempered justice witn mercy, and you propose to deal witn the people of the South as with mteliigent spd reasonab.e beings, and not as with savages, We appreciate proioundly the HgeRatp’s grand exertions iu behalt of pesce and justice, and believe tha’ 1! @ national conven- tion such as you propose can be convened, the issues whica now disturb the nation can be finally and satisiactorily arranged. ‘there ig great dan- ger oj aconilict in this State, whicn would be iraoght with the most lamentable consequences, and We 1ovk to the HERALD and the otner great journals o1 the country to aid us in this emergency. ‘We earnestly desire peace and shrink trom war; but it seems to be the determination of the radi- cal leaders nerve and of Attorney General Wilhams at Wasnington tu goad the people to desperation and violent outbreaks. Li tne spiendid appeals of the HERALD eventuate in a navional conven ion It will be tne granuest achievement Oo! the century. Very respectiully, PaGE M. BAKER, It will be observed that Mr. Baker looks to the Hzraup and “the other great journals of the country’ toaid the Southern people in their “emergency.” Nothing, we are sure, would gratify us more than to see Mr. Baker and his friehds assume that position in Louis- iana to which they are entitled. Nor can we censure too strongly the course of the Presi- dent in imposing upor Louisiana a govern- ment foreign to the will and interests of the country. But there is only one way to peace in this Republic, and that is by peace. The very dangers which Mr. Baker pictures had been seen by the Henatp. It was because we were deeply impressed by them, and hecause we believed it was possible to attain by peaceful means # true solution, that we ventured to present to the country the policy which he commends in such warm terms. Whether or not the convention the Heratp proposes ‘‘will be the grandest achievement of the century’ we cannot prophesy. We are profoundly convinced it is the true and only way to peace and recon- struction. But such a convention, or any convention, in fact, or any measure of conces- sion to the South, will be impossible if we are to have revolutions like those in Louisiana, No matter how sincere and justifiable, no rev- olutions can be approved. It would be an appeal from the ballot to the barricade that would mean the disintegration of the Union. The attempt will only result in reviving the war spirit of the North—the dark, revengeful spirit that was seen in the recent speech of Mr. Morton. And we are perfectly frank with Mr. Baker when we tell him that, with this spirit aroused, the appeals of the Hrratp and “the other great journals of the country” for kindness to the South would fly as idly in the air as thistledown. | Mr. Baker is an able and influential citizen of Louisiana, with power for good or evil. | Let him use his power in enforcing this | maxim upon his people, that the onty way and quicken the Northern heart. But when | once and all the time, | to peace for the South is by peace. We shall | | do what we can to aid in this work—to awaken | Concerning Organs. We little thought recently, when in one af our communicative moods we announced the fact that the Heap had become the organ of the President and of his administration, of the responsibilities we were about to assume. But here comes an entbusiastic republican, who writes in an envelope stamped with an official mark, thanking God that ‘‘glorious Grant” has a paper behind him “upon which he can rely.” And another correspondent thinks we should give ‘words of advice and warning” to the party and its organs which, coming from an independent source, they would be apt to heed. If this means we are to run the administration organs as well as the Henatp, our response must be a request that the job be put aside until the weather be- comes cooler. Moreover, we have only under- taken to be the organ of the President until the Republic starts. The loyal republicans of the city, with the exception of Mr. Cornell, have put all of their money into the Republic, and far be it from us to throw a shadow over its path. Just now there are three organs, the Commer- cial, the Evening Mail and the paper which prints the government advertisements. The Commercial is an organ of severe temper, whose editor is a close triend of the President, and wears a long tail to his coat of the true Donnybrook pattern that he may not be denied opportunities for showing his zeal. The Mail, on the contrary, is a dovelike paper, which coos and has cunning, peaceful ways, and nestles closely under the party roof, willing to warm and cuddle, but with no combative purpose. The third organ, having been violently opposed to everybody, now shows an affection quite as violent This organ, which bas no editor, but is evolved by “managers,” is evidently alarmed at the coming of the Republic and the impa- tience of the Custom House mind for honest, intelligent discussion of living themes, not merely questions affecting the English Church and emigration. Accordingly it signifies its devotion by the fulsome praise of Collector Arthur and Mr. Laflin. ‘Mr. Rogers,” said apertand painted dowager to the satirical poet at an evening party, “I hear that you are abusing me.”” Mr. Rogers, then above eighty, turned and said, “‘My dear lady, how mis- taken yoa are! I have been all my life defending you.’’ Nobody has assailed Mr. Arthur; no one has any such intention; every- body concedes his worth; but the organ insists that he shall be defended! It seems that the envious Zribune, not content with the monumental glories of its new building, must say that Mr. Laflin was at Utica shouting for Grant. The organ replies that he was not there and that whoever makes the assertion is a ‘liar’ and a ‘“slave,’’ or words to that effect, for we quote from memory, as we generally do with this nitro-glycerine sheet. Whata blunder! A discreet organ, like the Henatp for instance, would have said, “True Mr. Laflin was not at Utica in person; he bas had his wages cut down, and Vanderbilt will not give passes, and having had a great change of soul at the camp meeting he does not like rough company—but in soul he was there. Laflin’s spirit cheered; Laflin’s pa- triotism waved the white hat; Laflin’s soul breathed through the proceedings. Laflinism was in Murphy’s beaming eye, in the radiant smile of Bliss, in Howe’s sunny laugh, in Bailey’s Websterian mien.’’ This is the way an organ should stand by its friends, This, at all events, is the Hznaup way. As it is, Mr. Laflin is left in a suspected position. Loyal postmasters all over the country will ask why they should be expected to go to Utica out of their poor pittance when Laflin with his large pay can remainaway. This is one of the blunders the Republic will not make. A good organ in the party is like a good dog in the family. We do not mean a dog like that of Sparrowgrass, which always signalized the coming of as suspicious character on the farm by creeping under the kitchen stove. Nor do we mean the painful loyalty that was shown in Washing- ton by an administration editor the morn- ing atter Lincoln was killed, who proposed to amend the declaration that ‘the nation had lost its best defender’? by adding ‘‘except Andrew Johnson.” Nor do we mean a dog that barks all the time and disturbs the mas- ter’s rest, nor a reckless dog that takes every- body by the leg and never learns who are the friends of the family. There is as much dif- ference in the quality ot organs as there is in dogs, and what the President wants is a faithful, patient, hardy, vigilant, affection- ate, but not & reckless animal; and a mod- erate foeder, for expense is an item with organs as well as with dogs. If this is not to be vouchsafed to him he had better keep the Henaxp on its present terms—namely, twelve dollars a year, ‘invariably in advance’’— and ‘take our advice on all important ques- tions, For, it the truth is known, we would rather be his organ than not. If he will only do right we will defend him and not worry his friends. We will defend the whole Ous- tom House on the same terms. We know the business. We have been the organ of Bis- marck, Rochefort, Bazaine, Napoleon IIL, Kellogg, Penn, Brooks, Baxter, Butler, Brigham Young, Beecher, Tilton and the Pope, and nearly everybody of distinction ex- cept Havemeyer and the angel Woodhull. We like the life. We prefer peace. If anybody desires to tread on our coat tail let him. It is only a little soap and water, and God forbid with the comfort of our friends. It may not have occurred to our readers, but this is the trath about the whole matter, and this is why we are so thick with Grant and | the Custom House. We are in our decadence, | The truffle-hog newspapers do not like us. The truffle-hog is the animal which keeps its nose in the ground rooting, rooting, rooting, its whole lifea root and a grunt. Weare conscious that we do not suit this phase of journalism, and it | grieves us; neither does our ‘intellectual department,” composed, as it is, of Irishmen, | not Englishmen, but Irishmen, remember, who have been taken with a lariat from the | emigrant ships at Castle Garden. The only advantage these unfortunate men enjoy is good pay; for, in addition to the Hznraup bounty, they are paid by Tammany Hal and the Custom House, by Jay Gould and Mc- Henry, by Beecher and Tilton, by the democ- | racy and the republicans, nol*to speak of the large sums they have from he Pope and | from the head of the Msuit Order. Their Had the reconstruction meascres worked | revolution really comes we are for the Unfon, | only caro in life is how to invest their | | money. They avoid railroad boads, But they that a piece of broadcloth should intertere | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1874.—-TRIPLB SHEET. are poor creatures after all, and the best apology we can make for them is the twenty pages eyery day or two containing sixty <r seventy columns of advertisements and the had million of geaders who will accept and perugs them. We wish it were otherwise, so far as the \rifile-hogs are concerned. If they will only;come to our office we will supply them with\more adveriisements than they have ever received in éhe\ course of honest | bysiness, for we have emough and to spare. Byron says nothing soothes the\troubled spirit more than rum and true religion. We pre- sume there is nothing thwt teaches an editor good temper sd much .2s sfxty-five. columns ot advertisements, with other fixings to match. Our contemporaries di» not enjoy this felicity, but they may accept war word for it! In this frame of mind we .we will- ing to announce ourselves as everybody's organ, and, until the advent of the Republic, the organ especially of Grant, the Custom House, the Post Office and the whole truiMe- hog newspaper race combined. The Metropolitan Pulpit. Again we give an extensive survey and com- pendium of the religious teachings in this and the neighboring cities, in the numerous ser- mons which we publish to-day. In doctrine and spirit they range from extremes, from the defence of the efficacy of prayer by the Rev. Father McCauley, of St: Stephen’s, to the attack of Rev. Dr. Patton, of the Baptist Tuber- nacle, upon the miracles of the Church of Rome. At Plymouth church, the Rev. Mr. Edson, a young Western clergy- man, thought fit to preach upon the positive and negative advantages of heaven ; but, if we may humbly suggest, any of its advantages ought to be enough. Infidelity was discussed by the Rev. Dr. Rambaut, who pointed out that for eighteen hundred years no in- fidel disputer, such os Voltaire, Paine, Strauss or Tyndall, had made a single impression on Ohristianity. “Tt sits upon the throne of Zion,” said the elo- quent speaker, “laughing at their pains, and, since they will have out their spite, urging them on to do their best.’’ The Rev. Mr. Talmage, with equally picturesque language, describes those who would recall to life their departed friends as willing to ‘‘com- mit a burglary on heayen.’’ But he points out the folly of these attempts, and that the fear of death is unreasonable, as in the life hereafter ‘“‘the climate and all the other attributes are more perfect than in those we now enjoy.” Sermons were also preached by the Rev. John B. Brouner, Rev. Howard Crosby, Dr. Thomas F. Cornell, Rev. John M. Farley, Rev. Dr. Wild, Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson, Rev. Dr. Hugh Flattery and others, to which we refer the reader who would intelligently examine the different and frequently opposite phases of religious belief. The Death Mask of Shakespeare. One objection of the Baconians to the gen- eral belief that Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him is founded on the portraits of him, which, they argue, show @ man in- capable of producing such works. Professor Holmes ridicules the Droeshout engraving prefixed to the first folio edition of the plays, edited by Heminge and Condell, as the face of ® mountebank, and imagines it to have been intended to be a Momus laughing at the de- ceived public. The Baconians universally in- terpret Ben Jonson's lines in this edition— Reader, look Not on his picture, put his book— to mean that Jonson was cognizant of the deception, and hinted that the true author was not to be found in the portrait, but only in the work. The Shakespearians, on the contrary, have accepted the Droeshout engrav- ing as a poor likeness, which yet conveys some idea of Shakespeare’s appearance, and they infer that Jonson meant that in the plays the mind of the man was to be found, and that by them posterity should judge him. But the Baconians have this advantage, that the Droeshout picture cannot be accepted as that of a man great enough to write “Hamlet,” unless much allowance is made for the ignor- ance or carelessness of the artist. Much the same may be said of the Stratford bust, which seems to be a coarse attempt at por- traiture, and if it be Shakespeare is undoubt- edly Shakespeare distorted. The other pic- tures, which are superior as intellectual heads, want authenticity, Thus the Bacon- ians make the portraits of Shakespeare, in stone and on copper, evidence against his authorship, and their reasoning from the facta has considerable plausibility. Their opponents are forced to fall back on the in- competency of the stonecutter and of ‘Droeshout. The authenticity of the death mask dis- covered in Germany is, therefore, an im- portant point in the discussion of authorship, for in it is offered a portrait of Shakespeare adequate in dignity and intellectual power to the plays. That it is not a forgery is to be admitted. Experts in the art of taking plaster casts of features after death have testified to its genuineness, and even to the fact that the inscription “t+ Anno Domini, 1616,” is of the same date as the model itself. The fact that Shakespeare died in 1616 is looked upon as a significant coin- cidence. The study of the cast, and especially the comparison of it with the Droes- | hout engraving and the Stratford bust, is cer- tainly important, and some new opinions upon the subject are published in our letter from Princeton to-day. Professor John 8. Hart, who has made a careful examination of the evidence, has given our correspondent valu- able information. We do not agree with Mr, Furness when he says, ‘I am not sure that it is not a blessing that we know so little of Shakespeare's life. I like to keep him asa myth.” On the contrary, his personality is becoming more and more interesting to the world, and no apparent clew to it can be neglected. Tux Locic or tHe Revo.ution.—The Elk- ton Journal complains of the logie of the Henatp, and quotes us as saying that ‘‘Gen- eral Grant, having fastened a tyranny upon a State, is bound to defend it, right or wrong.” This is rather an extreme way of putting the case, but how can it be helped? ‘The logic is not ours, but of the constitution as laid down by Mr. Chief Justice Taney in the Dorr rebel- lion case, and as explained by Mr. Reverdy Johnson in his great letter to the editor of the Herauy. When the President recognized | Kellogg his jurisdiction over the subject —_ This may not be logic, but it is the law. There are two logical courses open as a sulu- tion of tho problem. One is fovolution, which is logical enough, but so utterly at va- riance with democracy and order that it must be put down at whatever cost. Tho other course is for Kellogg and McEnery and all their partisans to resign and permit a fair election. This isthe plan proposed by the Henaxy, indorsed by Reverdy Johnson and acceptable, we should think, from the tone of his remarks, to our correspondent the othor day, to General Butler. bis is the only logi- eal solution, the only possible solution—ex- cept to proclaim martial law, which in itself would bean evil almost as great as revolu- tion. The Opera Season. The doors of the Academy of Musio wilt be thrown open to-night for the first time this season. The new Italian opera com- pany assembled together by Mr. Max Strakoseh will then be placed on their mettle, and the pablic will have an opportunity of passing judgment on their capabilities, The initial opera is ‘‘La Traviata;'’ not a work of inherent strength, but attractive only for dis- playing the emotional powers of the new Violetta, Mile. Marie Heilbron. The réper- toire of the company is full of promise and novelties, and the announcement of the pro- duction of such works as ‘‘Ruy Blas,’’ “Romeo and Juliet” and tbe “Flying Dutchman” has already created a stir in -musical circles,. The history of Italian opera in America is,: indeed, an interesting study. For many years the lyric drama wallowed in the Slough of Despond until a strong and successful effort was made last season to elevate it to a standard of respectability. The same course, we understand, will be pur- sued this winter. It is too late for an im- presario to adhere to the old system, believing that the average American opera-goer knows nothing about the manner in which operas are presented in Europe. Americans, espe- cially those belonging to the class that patron- ize Italian opera, know as much about opera at Covent Garden, Drury Lane and the Ly- rique in Paris as they do about the New York Academy of Music. Therefore the reform introduced last season places the management under the necessity of following the same course and presenting each opera with a com- pleteness of detail commensurate with the ex- pectations of the public. This was success- fully accomplished last season, when ‘‘Aida’? and “Lohengrin’’ were produced, and to-night we will have the opportunity of giving am opinion on the ultimate success of the new reform in opera so triumphantly inaugurated by Mr. Strakosch. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Baron Trenck is on the Paris stage as a soldior of fortune. Secretary of War Belknap Is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. i Ann Eliza Young ts to lecture on Mormonism ta San Francisco. Simon Cameron and party arrivedin San Fran. cisco Saturday evening. Count and Countess Amidée, of Italy, are 80 Journing at the Gilsey House. Congressman John T. Averill, of Minnesota, is staying at tle St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor William Everett, of Harvard College, ‘nas apartments at the Grand Hotel. Captain James Kennedy, of the steamship City of Chester, is quartered at the New York Hotel. General J. H. Baker, United States Commissioner of Pensions, bas arrived at the Filth Avenué Hotel, A correspondent of the Coleraine Chronicle re- ports having seen a Merman recently on the Irish coast. “If Ishould learn to write a better hand,” ob fected a stroke oar, “people would find out how f spell.?” General John Meredith Read, Jr., United States Minister to Greece, is again at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. . Mr. Robert M. McClane, of Baltimore, formerly United States Minister to China, is stopping at the Hoffman House, Mayor Stokely, of Philadelphia, whose life has been despaired of for the past week, ls now rap- idly recovering. Sefior Don Emilio Benard, Minister for Nicaras gua at Washington, sailed ior home on Saturday in the steamship Colon. Lord Rivers, who has visited the “claimant” in prison, says he has lost 100 pounds in flesh an@ his hair has turned gray. Guizot aesired that only his family shonid be present at his funeral and that no discourse should be pronounced at the tomb, William informed the Sultan thet there was & little prince and the Sultan says he’s delighted, And yet to him this must be avery commonplace event. Sir J. D. Astley, a new member of the British Parliament, says there are sixty “Irish chaps” im the House of Commons, and about forty of them “are the most confounded rascals he ever saw.” Captain J. D, Bird, of the Twentieth Hussars, British Army, gave Thomas Smith seven days’ punisnment, and Thomas Smith, engaged with other soldiers at target practice, shot the Captaim dead on the 12th ult, The London Examiner mildly tntimates that “when Victor Hugo assumes the forms of reasoning he ought to pay some regard to the claims of com- mon sense.’ But how if he hasa kind of color blindness for that article? * Messrs. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Come» mercial; Samuel Bowles, of the Springfleld Re- publican, and Chester W. Chapin, of Springfield, arrived from Europe yesterday in the hip Batavia and are at the Brevoort The law under which the Paris police seized ‘the pictures of the Prince Imperial is a law against pretenders to the throne, anda merchant whose goods were seized has just defended himself in court on the ground that the Prince is not @ pre- tender. Wonderfal ts the ex-territorial jurisdiction that ‘yurkey accepts. The police of Constantinople wished to regulate a little the habits of some women of extremely easy virtue. They are French women, and the representative of France forbids interference with them, An impertal decree bas been issued at Constan- Unople, making it imperative for the faithful to repeat the prescribed prayers five times a day. ‘This is because ol recent severe fires in that city, which are attributed to neglect of this duty. May ve this 18 also what alls Chicago. The London Echo judges Guizot very justly as “q type of man not at all common—a man whe has worked his way by his own industry and talent from obscurity to the position of a promi nent character in Europe, and yet cannot be said to be more than o lamentable failure.” ‘An infallible reme ly against obesity i—Takeadish of badly cooked garlic soup at four A. M., take @ promenade ofeight hours on a hiily road, carrying thirty pounds’ weight in your knapsack; dine om bread and cheese, with half a pint of sour wine; repeat the performance, and sup on soup. ‘This ta ° more effective than Banting’s system. André Moussin, a Paris cabdriver, drove down the street a wretcned, lame and meagre animal, and Charles Killick, an English Jockey, recugaized the horse as Volunteer, @ racef, on whose back he had won several races in former times. He was tipsy, He rushed out, stopped the horse and apostrophised him with sympathy for is condt+ tion, Moossin hit the jockey in the face with his ended and Kellogg wasas much entitled to his protection as Governor as Dix or Hastranft, whip, aud the jockey drew @ knife und stabved (he driver vo the heart, a C‘(N.OUOt(N(N((titét(iitiét.N(((t(UNiti((iéi_i(i(iwdeeeee