The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1874, Page 6

)| NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HE day in te year. Four cents per copy. An- ALD, published every nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorE Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- inrned. y YORK TE LONDON OFFICE OF THE N HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET Subscriptions and Advertisem nts will be me terms received and forwarded on the su as in New York. Volame XXXIX AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. Broadway. ¢ BY NIGHL, a WALLAC Broadway and hirte DARLING, at 5 P, M.; closes at 11 P, M. THEATRE, street.—UNCLE DICK’S J. L. Toole. Woops MU corn: Thirtie 2 P.M. : closes at 4: ) at S$ P.M; closes at 10:30 P. AND 4ND Lettingwel Mr. E. Bra i stries 2M Davenport. OLYMPIC ATRE, No, 6% Broadway.—VA KL r8P. M.; closes at 10:45 Poo, LA PRINCESSE Fourteenth street an i DE TREB NUE, a tlU:30 P.M Mile. Aimee, Mile, Minelly MIQUE, THE Yatab. 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Bryant METROPOLITAN THEATRS, —Paristan Cancau Dancers, at& P.M. No. 585 Broa MRS. CONWAY'S BROC YN THEATRE, ROSEDALE, at6 P. Moy Wallack. closes at 1 P.M. Mr. Lester SAN FRANCISOG MINSTRELS, Broadway. corner of Twenty-uinth strees—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, ats P.M. Pe se AMERICAN I Third avenue, between Sixty _streets. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBI E SHEET. and Sixty-fourtn New York, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1874, From our reports this morning (he probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy and clear. Wat Srreer Yesterpay.—Stocks were ac- tive but unsettled, yet closed strong. Gold advanced to 110}. Tz Commissionrrs oy Emicrarion have unearthed a new swindle—nothing less than the exchange of copper pennies tor green- backs on a gold basis. Tax Marrrrmus Losses which resulted from the visitation of the typhoon at Hong Kong, China, are very heavy, American craft suf- fered pretty severely, as will be seen by the Hegatp marine report, Tue Boarp or EstimaTE met yesterday and growled as usual. The Mayor, Comp- troller, and Messrs. Vance and Wheeler were present and admirably succeeded in doing nothing worth speaking of. Tue Late Hvaricany at Charleston, S. C., was a terrible visitant to that much suffering city. The tide was driven up to an unusual | case that the duty of the Executive in all such NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SHPTEMBER 30, 1874.—TRIPLH SHHET, President and Louisiana—The Opinion of Charles O’Conor. We print this morning the opinion of Charles O’Conor, addressed in a letter to the | Heraxp, upon the questions at issue in Louisi. | ana and the legal duty of the President to the | Kellogg government. Charles O'Conor by | universal consent stands at the bead of the | American bar for character, ability and expe- | The illustrious jurist will be read with attention | even in a case like this of Louisiana, where | Mr. O’Conor'’s critics would be apt to say the ontbreak of the rebellion Mr. O’Conor has expressed extreme and unusual views upon | constitutional affairs. A recent lecturer upon art in discussing the genius of Turner ac- counted for some of the peculiarities of his later style by showing that he had a disease of the eye that made it impossible for him to | adjust the delicate shades of color. What seemed to him to be blue was really a shade of green. Mr. O'Conor looked upon secession and all the events resulting | as the unhinging of the American system. His mind was so severely logical, he had knelt | | preme law which the suppression of the re- | bellion made inevitable filled him with pain. " | From this he has never really recovered. | Better that the Union had fallen to pieces on | the rocks of extreme constitutionalism than to | live as it has lived—the expression of legislative | shifts and party expedients. Mr. O’Conor's | whose mind dwelt too much in the loftiest empyrean of politics and science to fully share the patriotic feelings that animated the Ger- } mans against the French. He was in the skies and not of the earth. While in the | fervor of patriotic anger we may censure the | apathy of a Gocthe and those like him, who will not share the emotions of strife and war, in time we come to respect the logical sincer- ity with which they maintain the courage of | their convictions. It would be better for the | _moral tone of our public affairs if we had | more statesmen as brave as Charles O’Conor. It will be seen that Mr. O’Conor takes direct issne with the opinions expressed by _ Reverdy Johnson in the letter addressed to | the Henanp, Mr. Johnson, our readers will remember, contended that while the Presi- | dent had erred in accepting any dictum or | opinion or even decree from a federal) court | upon a matter of State administration in | which the Courts had no jurisdiction, still the | question rested with him as an absolute Ex- | ecutive prerogative, and, having decided | | it once, he had no power to reverse or | | terms of a unanimous decision of the Supreme | Court in what is known as the Dorr Rebellion | matters was clear, and that having recognized | Kellogg as Governor of Louisiana, no matter | how tainted his record, he was bound by | the consequences of the act, and Kellogg was {as much entitled to his protection and | to demand the interference of the federal \ troops as Dix or Hartranft. Mr. O’Conor | contends that the President having made an | error and discovered the fact was bound to rience. Any opinion of this profound and | politician absorbs the lawyer. Ever since the | | patriotisin seems to be like that of Goethe, | ‘and illustrious as Charles O'Conor and | Where would the line be drawn? What abso- lute protection would remain to the States | from the ambitious daring of a President? | Suppose the rioters in New York at the time | of the drafts had taken possession of the city, what would have prevented their recognition by the President had he believed in their cause? Does not Mr. O' Conor in his zeal for State rights clothe the President with preroga- tives as immutable as those of the Czar? And ; might we not easily imagine a condition of affairs so delicate between the Executive and | the States that by the very exercise of the power conceded to the Executive by Mr. O'Conor we could have a coup d’ état ?_ The less the independence of the States de- pends upon the sic volo of any man, be he President or not, the better it will be for our liberties. If the arguments of Mr. O’Conor are sound then the Communists in’ Paris should have been free from the interference of M. Thiers and the intransigentes at Carthagena | should have been protected from the armies of | Serrano and Castelar. We admit the logic of the proposition that a President is as much | bound to revise a wrong decision as any one | else. But it seems to us that in conceding | at the shrine of the constitution with so sin- | Prerogatives to the executive office we must cere a devotion, that the infractions of the su- | not clothe them with moral laws, or laws of logic, appealing only to the President’s con- | science, but we must surround them with the | severest statutes. It is an extreme, unusual | and even dangerous prerogative for a President to have in his hands the decision of such a question as the recognition of a State. We | would much prefer to see him deprived of | avy power of this kind. But when we are to | have a prerogative that may change from day to day—that a President may put down as well as build up—we drift at once upon anarchy or absolutism. If auch power treedom and popular rights. Mr. O’Conor’s | logic is as perfect as a diamond; but we can never have @ logical republic, The es- | | | sence of our form of government is compro- | i | mise, agreement, concession—not logic. The evil effect of the war is seen in the un- hinging and dislocating of so many old tradi- | tions and customs, In suppressing the | Confederacy our whole republican system re- | ceived a shock, a strain, from which it now | suffers. The fact that two lawyers as learned Reverdy Johnson differ upon the point of an | executive prerogative only illustrates this po- sition, We have become less and less demo- cratic. The independence of the States isa fiction. We area stronger nation, but a weaker republic. The presidential office has as- sumed attributes that do not belong to it, which were never intended by our fathers. The Senate has become so powerful and ir- | responsible that its existence is almost incom- patible with a pure democracy. The House of Representatives, which should be sovereign, is only a dependent euxiliary body. We think the time has come for the country seriously to consider these things, not merely as they effect Louisiana, but as they affect our national freedom. They should be considered in a national convention of peace and recon- struction—a convention composed of men like Charles O’Conor and Reverdy Johnson, the true fathers and statesmen of the Repub- remedy it. He finds an instructive “‘strict- | lic, who would, in the centennial year of our | ness and precisio1 “Tt was | only,” he says, “in cases of imperious neces- | sity, and then under the most cautious limita- tions, that the fathers consented to allow ted- eral interference with State elections. How- | ever flagrant the disorders and violations of | | law and justice in the canvass or otherwise, | | by which a duly and fatrly elected State officer | | might be set aside and a usurper permitted to | | occupy his seat, it was deemed most expedient to | leave the remedial process in the hands of the | State itself." Following this exact line of | obedience to States rights Mr. O’Conor then | argues that the paramount authority in the | recognition of a State is Congress, and that when Kellogg made an application to the | President for aid, he ‘presented merely | | a renewal of the same precise question which | arose upon the first dispute—namely, was | Kellogg the duly elected Governor of Louisi- i | ana.” If the President doubted his legality | | then he should have decided according to his | | conscience and withdrawn his recognition. | | «However his original decision might control | | others it was in no degree obligatory upon him- | self. Individual consistency in official opin- | | ion or action is not to be maintained at the | expense of rectitude and justice."’ ‘Those who condemn the President's original inter- | ference in Kellogg's favor have even more | in the fundamental laws | ~ | in all matters affecting the States. national existence, calmly determine how far the rude shocks of war had deranged the con- stitution and what is needed to restore our | government to the simple purity of the Repub- | lic of Jefferson and Franklin. The Opera Outlook. The opera at the Academy of Music has become o question of vital interest to! the public of this city. Italian opera—once | a subject of ridicule, or, at the utmost, of | doubtful interest, to the people of New York— ; has gradually worked its way into their special favor. The metropolis abounds in places of amusement, among which may be reckoned the best dramatic houses in the world. Old and new comedies are now pre- sented in this city with a completeness of ensemble that is certainly commendable in every sense of the word. The opening of the Italian opera season on Monday night, com- paratively uninteresting though it may be in an artistic point of view (for what interest can musicians nowadays have in an opera like “La Traviata?”), was atteuded by very many people who must be regarded as representing | the principal connoisseurs in music in New | York. There was one notable success—that | | of Mile. Heilbron’s impersonation of the title \ role. Many attractive features are promised | for the forthcoming season, and the mana- | gerial prospectus is full of novelty and interest. exists the sooner it is ended the better for | extent by the foree of the gale, and the wind | reason for condemning his recent interposi- | 7” 7 laid some of the finest edifices in the’ city in | tion."* No one can expect Kellogg to resign, | autem: aad Gee ae ruins, The Battery sea wall was completely | and the only hope Mr. O’Conor perceives for | pois 7 fork A demolished. ‘The loss will reach a quarter of Louisiana “is that the popular will of the | work, “‘Aida,"" in which the frst great suc- | a million dollars. Lone Brancn has been heavily visited by fire, The long line of buildings which at- tracted attention after leaving the dusty depot, and in which every article of seaside want was for sale, were destroyed yesterday morn- ing, The cause of the total destruction can i lai , hy Sy a Fy ‘, : Fil 0 el re ROE | sorely needed. There is nothing the Presi-. ; lected spark, volunteer firemen and a strong gale, What more was necessary? Tux Presence oy Don Cantos’ Wirt on rue Frencu Frontier has been made a cause for testing the chivalry of the Marshal-Presi- | dent of the Versailles government, The | country, speaking through its efficient organ, the independent press, may prevail upon the President to reconsider his course,’” So far as Louisiana is concerned we are so | | profoundly convinced of the justice of the | McEnery movement that we should welcome | any method of reasoning which would enable the President to give her people the relief so | dent could do, nothing he has done since his | inflation veto, that would gratify the country so much as the overthrow of the Kellogg gov- eroment. fears of Mr. O'Conor as to the resignation of | Kellogg. But between his position and that | cess of last season's réperloire was made. | tended with attractive ceremonies. The rela- tion of chemistry to medicine is a subject that must always command interest, and it was well handled on this occasion by Professor J. C. Draper. The Insurance Problem. The action of the New York Board of Underwriters in declining any further risks upon property in Chicago opens a delicate and important question. The measure is of so unusual a character that nothing but extreme necessity would justify it. It 1s a serious thing to withdraw the protection of the most powerful insurance combination in the country from one of our largest cities. The practical effect of this will be to rule out Chicago from the insurance boards of Europe, for what New York rejects cautious London will hardly accept. Unless property in Chi- cago can have that protection from capital which insurance happily affords, it will be of Chicago to invest in its real estate. Tho proposition that Chicago should form a com- pany of its own with a capital of fifty millions of dollars is characteristic of the courage of the merchants of that intrepid city, but it does not seem to be feasible. Tho rate necessary to make insurance a profit when confined to one city alone would in itself be a serious tax upon the property of the north- western metropolis. cago Fire and Police Board proposes that there shall be a city department called the Board of Imsurance, which Board shall insure all the buildings and property therein, collecting therefor a rate of insurance to be determined by the | Board, the premiums received for ten years to be set apart as an insurance fund and an an- | nual tax to be levied to pay the losses likely to occur during the year. When the insurance annual income equal to the losses then the tax to pay the same shall be discontinued. This plan the Tribune calls the quintessence of folly, saying aptly that the “human mind can understand no greater encouragement to incendiarism than a standing offer to make good every man’s loss by fire.” We all know what this editor | truly says, that insurance is a business that has engrossed the attention of some of the | ablest minds in all countries, and, despite the | experience and observation of centuries, the system has not yet been so perfected that, taking one year with another, the business can be made profitable in 1872 the insur- ance done in Chicago represented a cash business in Dlinois during 1872 was a pros- | perous and profitable one; but the business | for the five years ending December 31, 1872, shows a balance of losses paid in excess of re- ceipts of over forty-five millions of dollars. The Tribune urges the Fire Commissioners to resign, and at the same time says that there can be no doubt that soon after the meeting of the State Legislature Chicago will have a building law enacted, and then, if not before, a reorganization of the Fire Department, while the work of replacing the water mains with like these, the Tribune says, should have been consummated long ago, coupled with the extraordinary vigilance which a withdrawal of insurance will necessi- tate, will combine to reduce the losses of in- surance companies to a minimum, and cor- respondingly mmcrease their profits."* We shall rejoice in the passage of sucha law as will enable Chicago to enjoy the bene- fits of that fraternity in capital which is illus- trated so wisely in insurance. The problem is one which concerns the whole country, and if some means could be found to combine all the insurance interests of the States into one national company, in some way under the care and protection of the government, it would be better for all concerned. In the meantime let us trust that Chicago will learn the lessons taught by her incredible misfortune and build a city which will defy and not in- vite destraction. Tne Liberal Republican Party. The grotesque organization called the lib- day, so far as this State is concerned. There was a brief and solemn meeting, anda Gen- i eral Jones, of Brooklyn—if any of our readers have ever heard of such a man—offered a reso- jution virtually surrendering the whole con- cern into bankruptcy. By the terms of this resolution the Convention declined to make nominations for State officers, but recom- mended the party to vote for honest men. Unkind critics might read this as an intima- tion that, having no honest men of their own to spare, they recommended their followers to look elsewhere. But we will not make this impossible for any moneyed interest outside" We observe that the President of the Chi- | tund shall become large enough to yield an | capital of thirty-six millions of dollars. The | those of larger size will continue. Reforms | “which | eral republican party came to an end yester- | We must confess that we share the | | Ch eotene it would be premature, | criticism, for this party is no doubt as honest | despite the flattering accounts conveyed | gg any other, only it wanted money and votes. | lnther from the European press, to | speak of the calibre of the new Italian | mont—dust to dust, earth to earth, and we fear | opera company, when only one principal | yitnout triumphant hopes of a joyful resurrec- | artist has been heard here. However, the new | tion, We have solemn and tender thoughts, | operas ara calculated to attract attention. | powever, as we look upon the disappearing | Suclt Works as “Ruy Blas,” “Romeo and | clay. What will become of Dorsheimer? He | Juliet’ and “The Flying Dutchman” express | jg 4 liberal, and why not have indorsed him | very vividly the modern phases of the Italian, | French and German schools. Marchetti, Gounod and Wagner may be considered as | | the lyric caterers par excellence of thia season, | There 1s One circumstance to be taken into | (ng most unappreciated statesmon now alive, is he to sing, and under what branches will Spanish Ministers complained of the matter | of Mr. Reverdy Johnson wo are disposed to | account in connection with Italian opera this | untogs it may be Edwards Pierrepont, a man of her domicile asa breach of French neu- trality, and we are informed, by cable tel gram, that MacMahon has decided to request the lady to leave the territory of the Paris republic immediately. Tue InTeRNationsL Postaz CONVENTION, which has been drafted by the delegates in | the Congress at Berne, has received the sanc- | tion of all the European governments which have been represented in the Swiss city, on the condition that it receives the support of the American government France reserves to herself the right to examine the conditions of the Convention be signing the paper. Tus Wan ts Spary is prosecuted with the most resolute de The fighting which hay just taken place in | Navarre was of # very sanguinary character, even for Spaniards. Gener Moriones’ troops | be so disposed? If the right exists in Louisi- agree with Mr. Johnson. [t is hard to decide when men as learned as these two venerablo jurists differ ; practical application of Mr. O’Conor’e dow | trines would lead to evils far greater than | those that now oppress Louisiana. If we | give the Executive the power to do and undo relations between the government and the States we give him a centralization of powel in violation of all the principles of republican | | government If the President can remove | Kellogg to-day to restore him to-morrow for the purpose of restoring P day, who would again be re oved for Kei | logg, what security can any State government | possess from the interference of the Executive? but it seems to us that the | | ; ; Jed the publio to expect great things in this | now, for his orations about our national de- , | Hine for the future. Mz, Strakosch has put | cadence? Likewise Ethan Allen, the Ido} of could | self in a position in which no backsliding is | always talk, and the Verquiand of the move- 1 | seagon, The successful effort made last spring | who has run more and foasd less thea any | to present a great work In 8s corresponding | public man alive except John Quincy Adam: with the efforts of our comedy managers has | o¢ yassachusetta—who will care tor Frederic | his shoulder to the wheel and has placed him- | interviewing reporters, becauso he permissible, The magnificent ensembles of | ent, Charles P. Shaw—must these interesting Covent Garden, Drury Lane and Paris have | young phenomena be teft out in the woods been favorably inaugurated, and now the | to gic, like the infants in the nursery tale? | public at the Academy will call for them again. | ang Qolonel James Haggerty, if he still Thorough efficiency tn overy detail of an | living—where is the futare for Haggerty? | operatic representation will be henceforward | aya Merritt, the trusted follower of Fenton— | Tegarded as the test of management, Stellar yo remains for him, and what possible attractions without the appropriate concomi- | function will society provide for D. D. 5 tants will fal) without effeot upon the public, | Brown? As for ‘Tom Stewart, times will go | nation on both sides. | What would prevent the removal of Dix and | The Academy of Music must be entirely re | yard when Tor will not take care of himself the recognition of #ernan, under the pretext °°" * | of frauds in New York, should the President | bring success to the manager. The pros formed, ag faras the stage is concerned, to | t¢ the party had lived six months longer tus | of the present season promises as much, Let , and wo grieve to think what this stimable routed the Carlists, with great loss to the lat | ana, why not in Ohio and Wisconsin and | us see how far such flattering hopes will be | yan will do without » party which he cannot ter, after three days of battle, wud it appears | California? If a President can revise his own | as if the contending forces are merely waiting | acts at pleasure, or when under the influence carried to fulfilment. \ reform and from which he can retire, We Tun New Yous Untverstry is an institution | suppose Waldo Hutchins gave it up long ago, to recover their breathings so as tobe enabled | of a lively conscience, what would prevent | in which the public of this city take warm | ‘That long-headed political mariner is uot apt to engage in another assault. How, or when, | will it all end? | Who will bold the ultimate responsibility? him from revising the acts of his predecessors ? interest, Last night the inauguration of the | opening of the Medical Department waa at. | to wait until the ship reaches the rocks, On chiefert sorrow. however. is for John So goes our dear departed liberai move- | | in the last moments of agony? And Chauncey | | Depew, the Nightingale of Westchester—where ! | he carol now? And Frederick A. Conkling— | Sinclair Tousey would have seceded from it, | Cochrane. John has opposed and supported every party that has existed for thirty years, and with a degree of enthusiasm that has no parallel in history. He has loved this bant- ling as if he really believed in it. He has sustained it with an eloquence that, like Ten- nyson’s brook, seemed to go on forever and forever. It has been his joy, his hope, his dream. He has travelled, walked, written, spoken, sung, shouted, cried for it, and now it passes away, and nothing remains for John but to wander, like Lear, on the heath and mourn over the ingratitude of his children, who have abandoned him to the storm, If John Kelly, the Tammany Boss, oy Tom Mur- phy, the Custom House Boss, have a remnant of charity in their souls, they will take care of John, He has life and energy enough left to secede from both of these parties yet, and it is a waste of the finest political material now | | unemployed not to give him another opportu- | | nity. All we can say of the liberal republican party, in this our word of sad farewell, is that it | might have been worse, and then again——— The Tyndall Controversy. It was scarcely to be expected that the | remarkable lecture of Professor Tyndall which now excites the attention of the scientific world would be allowed to pass without wide and deep discussion. Our Princeton corre- spondent sends as the report of an interview with Dr. James McCosh, the President of Princeton College, a scholar of distinguished piety and Jearning, who may be said to repre- | sent the orthodox school of thought in the United States. The Doctor compliments Pro- fessor Tyndall’s manner of research, but dis- putes his philosophy. Furthermore, he as- serts that the Professor misunderstands the position of the ancient philosophers, and he | alludes to the fact that hundreds of years be- | fore Christ Confucius had assailed the ma- terinlism of the Brahmins, and that others beside Confucius claimed that behind nature was “an intelligent designing cause.” This | was shown by the Greeks, and the grand and noble truths advanced by Socrates have never yet been overturned. The Doctor does not deny the theory of evolution, which he contends would be equiva- tent to denying Holy Writ. Science, properly | considered, shows a most interesting analogy | between nature and revelation. This argu- | ; ment the Doctor presents with force and elo- | quence, showing that in all forms of nature | there are divinely controlling laws. While | the marvellous indications of nature do | not of themselves prove a hving and | | personal God they prevent us from believing | that we are the mere sport of chance, or that + | “we may be crushed beneath the chariot ; wheels of a stern and relentless fate, moving | on without design and without end."" It is ! difficult not to accept the conclusions at which : the Doctor arrives, although the process of his reasoning, as well as that of Professor Tyndall, is too purely philosophical and sci- entific to be decided hastily, There has been | no more important discussion for a century, and we welcome every contribution to our knowledge upon the subject, especially from a scholar as eminent and thorough as the Presi- dent of Princeton. Europe, Asia and American We call attention to the brilliant letter from our Paris correspondent which ap- pears elsewhere, reviewing the present state of affairs in Asia and Europe. What may be called the American spirit seems to pervade the policy of the European world. Washington's policy of non-iniervention in foreign affairs was a wise one. But those who Jook closely into events in Europe will note the direct moral intervention of Ameri- ‘can ideas in Europe and Asia, Surely no country would seem to be further re- moved from the influence of America or any | sympathy with it than Russia. And yet only the other day we saw an interesting and im- | portant sect of the Russian people raising up their hands and calling upon us from the banks of the Caspian to give them shelter from the severity of Russian law. Thousands | of these people—the Mennonites—have come | to us, and but for the gracious concessions of the Czar we have no doubt the whole sect would have come to find on the plains of Kan- sas the peace and freedom of conscience de- nied them in Russia. A few weeks since, when the correspondents were in Iceland not- ing and recording the celebrations of the mil- lennial festivity, it was observed that the brave | people of that folorn, lonely shore, weary of | their contests with nature, with the earth- | quake, the geyser, the cold and the storm— weary with the attempt to found civilization | under the Arctic zone—were anxious to cone to America ; to come as one people and create | the Iceland which conld not grow under Hecla | under the gentler and more grateful shad- ows of the Alleghanies and the Rocky Moun- \ ‘tains. When Alsace, torn bleeding trom the | loved bosom of France, her mother, was rest- | less under the new dominion of the German, all eyes turned to America as the refuge and the home. Since the rise of the prodigious military empire of Prussia, which regards the ° State as only the drill-master's machine and | every German boy a soldier, the instinct of | every German mother who loves her son and ! dreads the summons that may lead him to a ‘ Ideas. i \ | | ! | | | | | | | \ | sudden and cruel fate in Champague, turns | to the United States. Here hundréds of thou- | sands have come, and from day to day they é | are coming, so much so that no probiem, j ; not even the Pope or Alsace and Lorraine or | {the Danish question, disturbs the Prussian ! mind more seriously than this American in- | fluence in Germany, which takes from the fighting strength of the Fatherland so many egiments of men trom year to year. ! Teeming Asia sends us her millions, and we have an Asiatic question ourselves as per- | plexing as any that perplexes the Contimentai | | Statesman. What shall we do with John? | Here he comes from year to day—thousands | and thousands. Here he stands, industrious, ' impassive, intelligent, frugal, silent, a model servant, only toc willing tc work. Behind | | him is the largest nation on the globe, larger than ail Europe united if the figures teil us ruly—ten times as large in population as the United States. On one side of the Pacific | ea is the overflowing reservoir; on the other the vacuum, the overcrowded cities and the | unhbarvested acres—China and California— | and only a sea between, which science has uartowed into a moon's journey. Surely this isa perplexing problem, which mathemati- cally can have but one result, which can only | be contemplated with anxiety by the | cuss the repeater. | ma | purely 1 @ Socia: Bature, and did Not posse | where be lunched with Anglo-Saxon mind. What can we do with John? We cannot banish him; we cannot drive him into the sea; we cannot compete with him in industry so long as whiskey and tobacco are so severely taxed, and it does no good for Patrick to set the dogs on him and pelt him with stones in San Fran- cisco, for he will come! In addition to this problem, serious enough in this shape, we are asked by our correspondent to consider the wisdom of an alliance with Russia and Eng land to interfere in China and protect our commerce. We do not crave such alliances. ‘There was one proposed in Mexico some years since, and what a sad end came to it! We have large interests in China, more important in every way than those of European coun- tries. Nor can we cease to look with interest upon the heroic efforts of the Chinese people to throw off the lethargy of centuries and show an activity in human affairs correspond- ing with the real enlightenment and thrift of her people. The Irish Challenges Answered. We publish in another column a reply from ' Colonel Wingate, as secretary of the Amateur Rifle Club, to the challenge of Major Leech, inviting the American team to visit Ireland. The letter is unsatistactory, in so much that it evades the question at issue, There was no need to inform the public that it would be in- convenient for the members of the American team, or some of them, to visit Ireland in | June, but it is scarcely possible that the repre- sentative riflemen of America would be pre- vented from crossing the ocean by the mere question of expense. It does not follow that, because the funds at the disposal of the Ama- teur Rifle Club are restricted at the present moment, the means to defray the expenses | of an international match would not be forth- coming if the project were once fairly before the country. It does not look well for the representative rifle club of America to plead poverty in a case of this kind. It looks too much like an effort to shirk a new contest. We could anderstand the unwillingness of our riflemen’ to expose themselves to defeat if they believed their victory the result of chance rather than superior skill. But in order to place their | position beyond suspicion in this matter they should accept the challenge, All ¢ruo sports- men will desire the best men to win. If the closely contested victory of Saturday was merely the result of accident then it is better it should be reversed. Other challengers might be answered as Colonel Wingate answers, but not the defeated irish team. They demand a revanche with changed conditions, and in courtesy the American Club is bound to accede to their wishes. There need be no fear that money will not be | found to carry out the project if once adopted. Friendly competitions of this kind should be encouraged. We hope that in future no year will be allowed to pass without its interna~ tional match to heighten and intensify the | interest in this admirable sport. The Sharpe's | Arms Company, in promptly accepting Mr. Rigby’s challenge to a new test of rifles, has set the Amateur Rifle Club an example that we hope to see followed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Swing calls it “Tyndalism.” 1tis probable that Abou Ben 'ad ’em badly thas night. Kellogg understands political science. ‘‘Retain- ers” are nis best hold. Congressman Charies Albright, of Pennsylvania, is staying at the Astor House. Major ». M. Halbert, of Binghamton, has ar- rived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Alexander E. Shiras, United States Army, 8 quartered at the Hoffman House. Secretary Belknap returned to Washington yes terday from @ short visit to this city. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staf, is registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Theodore F, Randolph, of New Jer- | sey, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Secretary Bristow bas returned to the national capital from his recent trip to Kentucky. Adjutant General John F. Ratnvone arrived from Albany iast evening at the Hotel Brunswick. Lieutenant Commander Heury Glass, United States Navy, has quarters at tne Windsor Hotel. General A. G, Lawrence, formerly United Stares Minister to Costa Rica, 1s at the Albemarle Hote They say there is One © too many in Busteed’s name for it to give @ strictly accurate aceount of him. Rev. Dr. R. B. Fairbairn, of St. Stephen's Col- lege, is among the recent arrivals at the St, James Hotel. . Congressman Jobn 0, Whitehouse, of Pough- keepsie, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Brevet Brigadier General R. TH. Jackson, United States Army, yesterday arrived at the Astor House. longressiman Samuel Shellabarger, of the Civil Service Commission, is sojourning at the St. | Nicholas Hotel. Mr. William D, Bishop, President of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, is at the Windsor Hotel, At Tisza Zo, in Hungary, as reported by the Vienna papers, they have discovered the tmpie sarcophagus of Attila. Barmah is to have her sovereign crowned shortly, and he wil) wear on the interesting occa- sion @ suit of pure siiver. Chief Engineer William W. W. Wood, of the Navy Department, arrived at the Union Square Hovted yesterday ‘tom Washington. “What can we do,” inquire the Metnodist mints- ters, “to make Sabbath schoois more interest img? Take the voys ont Asning. it used to be the function of she Tribune to uts- Whose especiai function 16 16 now?! it {8 a topic that awaits treatment. in Chicago the other day shere was a sermon on this conundrum:—“What ts the Christian Church doing for Chicago?” Notveven Echo could answer. , Charlee Francis Adams, Jr., Who fas been ng an extended tour in the West, arrived in this city yesterday and {8 at the Brevoort House, Lately a Western young !ady nad occasios to im. form a young gentieran that “ber hand was 106 @ emon.” He wantea # puncb and had the over tngrediences.”’ Major Marshall L Ladington, of the Quarter testers’ Department, United States Army, bas transferred bis quarters irota Wastington to the Metropolitan Hotei. Daddies Longlegs cr Daddy Longlegses—wnhich t ‘This is the great grammatical provies of the day. Not more than a columa of argument on either side Wii be tolerated. MOVEMENTS OP TES PRESIDENT. ai party was vroughe ning by theif resurn to Washington in the Yoiock train, Mrs. Grane and Ciysses, dr, Only accompanied the Presidens, ) and itis Understo. d that bis visit to this city wae any political significance whatever. Barly yesterday moraing the y Weat out driving, cotwith- sianding the rain, On their return to the Futm Avenue Hotel the President vent Gown town, Mr. John Hoey, In toe evening they dined ta their room en fumtile, Dur ing the day Collector Arthur, General Hillhoase ant Mr, Thowas Matphy called W vay Melt rey Bpects, The visit of the to» termination ia a