The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphi despatches must be addressed New Yonk Hera. Letters and 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. AMUSEMENTS THis AFTERNOON AND EVE‘ itiiniiata WALLACK'S THEATS roadway and Thirteen’ eet DARLING, ats PMs ioses at Il P. Matinee at 1-3) P.M. CLE DICK'S . J. L, Toole, Woop's M, corner ot Thirtiet ~DON C#SAR DE eer SP N° clows at 4:0 P.M 2P. it Mr. Lefingwell. Bet aRaD ih ats PM closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. E. L. pavenport OLYMPIC 7 No, 6% Broadway — VARIETY P.M. Maticce ai2 lM. TRE, SP. M.; closes at 10:45 h end: Sixth avenue ¢LA PRINCESSE Pourteenh street and Sixth avenue. —! A zSs LB TREBIZONLE, at 8 FP. M.; closes at 10:30P. M. Mile. Aumee, Mile. Minelly, Matinee atl :3) P.M. THEATRE COMI No. 514 Broad way.—VARIBLY, a P.M, Matince at2 P.M. JE, AL.; closes at 10:30 PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between iwenty-first. cad Twenty-second sireets —GILDED AGE, mond. Mutinee at 1:3 P. BOOTH'S THEATRE, corner CONNIE SOOGAH, at 5 P. M.: closes at 10:3) P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wiluams Matinee at 1:30 P. M. THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. LA TRAVIATA, at 1:3) P.M. Mile, Heilbron, Miss Cary, Signor: Carpi und del Puente. NIBLO's GARDEN, Broadway, between trince and Houston streets —THE DELUGE, at > P.M; closes at 11 P.M. the Kiraity Family. Matinee at 120 P. FIFTH THEATRE. THE SCHOOL. + DAL, at 3 P. M.; closes at 1 P.M. Miss ¥anny Daven James, Charles Fisher. Matinee at 1:30 P. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—ANTI-XANTIPPE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:90 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, §ixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— ARIETY, ut5 P.M. Matinee at2 P. M. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO | BINSTRELSY, at 8 P.M.” Dan Bryant Matinee at 2 ROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broad —Parisian Cancau Dancers, at 8 P. M. Naunce at MES. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. ROSEDALE. ati P. M.; closes at il’. M. Mr. Lester Wallack. Matinee at2 9. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway. corner of Iwenty-ninth street—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at SP. M. Matinee at2 P.M, AMERICAN IN Third avenue, between Sixt etreets.—INUUSIRIAL EXUL BAILEY'S CIRCUS, foot of Housion street, East River, at 1 P. M. and 8P. M, TIVOLI THEATRE, tee street, between Second and Third avenues.— G DABRO. THE GREAT N YORK CIRCUS, Eighth avenue and Forty mth street. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSF, Fhe ha Bowery.—VARIs1¥, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 | COLO: corner of 7birty-iitt 745 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, October 3, 1874. h stree.—PARIS BY Brosdway, NIGHT, at From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be generally dear. Wat Srrexr Yesterpay.—The stock mar- fet was one of realizations and heavy, but closed firm. Gold was steady at 110}. For- ign exchange was firmer. Tuer Granp Jury has disagreed as to the manner in which the Commissioners of Chari- ties and Correction have discharged or neg- lected their duties. But let there be no statements unless they are officially made. Cuiwa and Fornosa.—Chinese troops have reached Singapore on their march to Formosa. The imperialist detachment numbers ten thousand men. The Sapancse think that war will result from this Chinese demonstration, and it is very probable that the idea will be realized. Geyrnat Bzsvrec: tinguished Southern soldie:s in the late war, is at pre in New York, and to-day gives his opinion upon the Lousiana question, the Black League and other important mat- ters. He approves of a nati: convention. Dr. Epsunps, an nglise physician, lectured yesterday to women upon the use of alcohol‘c beverages and their substitutes and opposed their use as unnecessary. Cne asser- tion of his is important—‘‘that the babies of London are never sober from their birth until they are weaned.’’ A city filled with drunken babies is terrible. , one of the dis- Tux Mcnver or a Grnman Consvnar Acryr at Haxopapr, an event recently reported in the columns of the Hznaxp, is likely to pru uve the effect of roysing the Mikado of Japan published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- ...No. 276 | Mo Mr. Jobu T. Hay- | of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue.— | rt, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis | The State Canvass—Will the General Revolt Against Republicanism Af- fect 1tt It is boldly predicted on one hand that Gov- ernor Dix will be returned to the office he holds by fifty thonsand majority, and on the | other that Mr. Tilden will win by an equally symmetrical and sounding number. For our part we cannot see that the case is so abso- lutely clear for either candidate as to justify these predictions. To argue from the fact ie | that Governor Dix once carried the State by such a majority to the consequence that he will carry it again is to ignore the great dif- ferences in his position on the two occasions and to shut our eyes to the most obvious po- litical facts of the day, and to suppose that Mr. Tilden will get fifty thousand—that one bundred thousand votes will change places— is to believe that revolutionary forces cun | operate on the political fabric almost without the consciousness of the peop!¢. Are we in the midst of one of those general changes of popular sentiment and opinion that, through the agency of the ballot, consti- tute the silent and bloodless revolutions of our olitical history? Many indications point to ig | the affirmative here, and the consideration of | this possibility presents the case in an in- structive aspect. Government must necessarily be exercised by some one in every civilized country, and it would appear as if also it must necessarily be exercised in such a way as to ultimately op- press the people and become guilty of those very acts of injustice, robbery, fraud and vio- lence which it is its function to repress and prevent. In no country known did govern- ments ever yet fail to become the enemies of the people they were expected to defend, the plunderers of those they were re- | lied upon to protect, the obstacles to | that remedy for grievances which they were appointed to secure. And the oppres- sion and injustice have become grievous and terrible always in proportion to the per- manency of the government and to the strength of the institutions by which it kept | the people in restraint, kept them within the drowsy limits of acquiescence in robbery that | was “‘lawful’’ and barbarous and bloody re- | pression of natural impulses, so long a | butchery could be made to bear the semblance: | of an official character. Sooner or later, how- | ever, the people have always revolted, de- | stroyed the government and made another, or | sometimes destroyed the State, in the full con- sciousness that it was better to have no State | atall, to take in the forest and the highway | | the general chances of robbery and murder, | | than to have a State in which men were | robbed and murdered and authority only interfered to prevent .them from de- | fending themselves. In these oppressions | | of permanent governments, and in the revolts | of the people against them, are all the horrors of the chronicle of nations; and these abuses of government, and the possible abuses of this natural remedy of the people against government, received in a peculiar degree the attention of the authors of our political sys- tem. For a remedy against both evils at once they made government temporary in its na- | ture, subjected it to the necessity of coming before the people always in a given number of years to demand the renewal of its authority, and clothed the people with the power of ab- solutely rejecting their rulers and choosing new ones. They domesticated revolution; made it periodical, necessary, inevitable; tamed what had been the wild beast of all political systems, familiarized the people with it and taught them to employ it as their protector. And the people caught the instruction read- ily, and, upon the whole, have acted upon it with wisdom and discretion. It is alleged by the enemies of this popular power that the people have used their great weapon too freely; and no doubt under the influence of the teachings of demagognes they have frequently changed their government when it would have been better to retain the old one, and kept an old one when a change would have been to the common advantage. But though they have fallen into minor errors they have, as yet, never failed to make a thorough change and to call in new men whenever they were apprehensive that the continuance of a party in power was inimical to the public welfare; and that is the great fact the founders sought to secure. How do the indications as to the exercise of this great popular power stand | now? They all point to change. Whether we contemplate in the conduct of the govern- ment those innumerable abuses that should justly provoke the people to the exercise of their prerogative, or whether we observe in elections recently held the demand of the people as indicative of the fact that they are aroused against the misconduct of their rulers, we must equally find that the party in power has danger before it, Within a comparatively short period, so short as to give the whole result at one view, the republican party has been on its trial before the people as to almost every principle that is important in government. It has had the opportunity to show by its action in cases that might have been cuntrived only to show this, whether it was for the people or against the people. It has been against the people every time. It has been placed where in view of the whole country it could prefer liberty or tyranny, honesty or dishonesty, efficient, vigorous, straightforward discharge of official duties, or corruption, chicanery and theft. It has never failed to go as if by the impulse of in the face of General Dix’s fifty thousand | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, States government? Credat Judaus. Can even the men deepest in that iniquity doubt that the people understand the whole case and will act on it when the moment comes? Let the answer be seen in the prevalence of demo- cratic majorities in nine-tenths of the late elections. There are reasons, therefore, why there should be a wide and almost general revolt of the people against the Party in power, and there are evidences that this revolt is already prepared in the minds of the voters over the whole country. Will this general movement, arising with the discontent of the people mainly against the conduct of the national government, atiect ourState canvass? Geno- raily the political action of the people is the samo against a party wherever it oon find it on a national or local vote. Frequently, however, the situation is such locally as to in- terrupt the operation of a general cause. If, for instance, a party whose policy is becoming distasteful to the people nominates an ex- ceptionally good candidate and the other party an exceptionally bad one, such a case might interrupt the operation of the general revolt at that point; for people are not blindly resolute even fora revolution where revolution is accomplished by elections. But in such a case as that now be- fore the people of this State we do not see that such an interruption can occur. Here are two exceptionally good candidates. Both parties present men of high character and known and tried capacity. On the score of their merits as men there is little to choose between the two. There is no difference between them that can greatly incline the balance either way, and especially none that can incline it against a deep and serious determination of the people to change parties. This equality of the can- didates—this fact that the people can vote in sympathy with the movement of the nation against a party that has grossly abused its power and yet lose nothing in the fitness of the man that may be elected Governor—is all in favor of tue party that will get the benefit of the revolution. We cannot see, therefore, why the revolution may not operate in this State as it has operated elsewhere, and if it does we do not see the possibility of fifty | thousand majority for General Dix. If we do ot also see the case as they do who claim fifty thousand for Mr. Tilden it is because we do not believe the vote that changes place in this State is so large as they believe it to be, Germany and Spain. A pleasant and interesting letter from Madrid appears in the Hrrap this morning in reference to the diplomacy of the German and Austrian Powers in Spain. Our corre- spendent describes the reception of the am- bassadors from these governments to Marshal Serrano, and calls attention to the fact that these diplomatists were ordered to simulta- neously present their letters of credence. The purpose of this is understood to be a hint to Russia that the two great German Powers do not approve of her sympathy with France on the Spanish ques- tion. Sagasta, who is one of'the most power- ful Ministers in Spain, is said to have strong German sympathies, and although the Prus- sian official newspapers deny any such pur- pose it is believed that the Hohenzollern project has not beenabandoned. The question between the two parties in Spain is rapidly becoming a question between the ultramon- tanists and liberals, and upon this issue the Carlists believe Europe will shortly divide into two camps. It will be observed that Marshal Serrano takes especial pains to compliment Germaty upon the acquisition of her “egiti- mate influence’ in Europe. The Marshal could by no possibility say anything as of- fensive to France as to recognize in this form the superiority of Germany, and it would seem to us that the Marshal went out of his way when he practically complimented one nation upon having overthrown another. In a previous letter our correspondent reminded us that Spain had been the cause of the downfall of Napoleon IIL He | might have added of the First Napoleon likewise. This ancient and renowned nation never seems to have lost its moral influence in Europe. From the age when a Spanish em- peror was ruler of a large part of the known earth there has never been a time when the Spanish people have not been ready for a des- perate or extraordinary enterprise, and we can well understand the tremendous moral as well as material effect of an alliance between Spain and Germany against France. If there is to be another war with France, better that it should begin under the best possible condi- tions for Germany, and that Spain and Italy and Belgium should be in alliance with the Kaiser. France would be more readily handled if she were under bonds to keep an army on each of her frontiers. Furthermore, in the religious war between Bismarck and the Pope the advantage of Spain as an ally | would be great, more especially as her | people are the most Catholic in Europe. The | dangerof the German policy, however, is that, | by making an ostentatious alliance with Ser- rano, Carlism became the chosen cause of all | who believe in the Catholic Church. In the | division which would, therefore, necessarily take place when the nations of Europe become that “armed camp” which our correspondent apprehends, Russia would side with France, | and England would be apt to follow the | example. Commerce has made France and | England natural allies, | Our correspondent also repeats a rnmor to to an exceutive appreciation of the rights of | 8 Necessary instinct toward the evil side. In | the effect that the German government has foreigners in the presence of armed and fre- | Louisiana it has put up the pretence of the | given notice to France that unless the Carlists quently spiteful nativ assassin has been sente need to death. GaeENromT was yesterday the scene of a | destructive conflagration, aud the devouring element was checked only by the efforts of the noble firemen. This was formerly the way in which a large fire was announced. The loss in this case was really a serious one. Besides the burning of three or four factories four- | teen private dwellings were entirely con- sumed and a large number of hard-working families were left without resources, oaly must destroy the liberties of the white men, but that must crush out the very vitality ot a State and strike at the constitution of the United States, by which only the liberties of both races can stand. Is it not notorious—is it possible to dispute—that | by a republican Congress, a republican Execu- | tive, a government in which only republicans have power, there is sustained at this moment no more right over the people than a burglar in the State of Louisianaan authority that has | of the Empire. The liberties of the negro to excuse acts that not | aro prevented from receiving aid from France, by the establishment of an army of twenty-five thousand men on the frontiers, Germany will send that nuinber of troops to the Pyrenees. This seems to be incredible. If the troops | were sent into France it would be an act of war, wanton, unjustifiable, and in utter defi- ance of all international law. If they were sent into Spain it would be a direct foreign interference in Spanish affairs, resulting in actual war with the Carlists and bringing upon Germany the resentment of the whole has over the house he has broken into; and | further, that there is no remedy in law or in | revolt nor evenin the elections for that op- | Spanish nation. Nothing would do Carlism Genznat Mines has reached the Washita more good in Spain than for Germany to in- River, and his command has fully sustained | the advantages which, at last advices, had been gained. The line of supply has been well guarded, and up to the date of September 17 there was no danger that provisions would be deficient, Several skirmishes in favor of pressed people? Does anybody suppose Cuat the people of the United States are indifferent to that spectacle? Does any one believe that the people are satisfied with the pitiful pre- tences by which the government endeavors to terfere against it. The whole European drama | hinges on Spain. Events of the gravest inter- | est constantly transpire looking to the great | drama, or, as Mr. Disraeli calls it, the “great crisis,’’ that must soon astonish the world. oar troops have occurred, and the ultimate subjugation of the Indians is predicted by ow currsmondent with the expedition, Jupez SvurHERLAND acquits Judge Kasmire of extra-judicial conduct. But let there be BO mare satamanta veiland disguise the true character of this highest crime and misdemeanor ever yet com- mitted under the authority of the United Creedmoor, The Army and Navy Journal contains an admirable article upon the recent meeting at Creedmoor and the unusual interest our people show in rifle shooting. The advent of the Irish team and the singularly brilliant contest for the supremacy will have the effect of drawing the attention of thousands to the genuine and manly accomplishment of rifle practice. ‘The establishment of Creedmoor,”* says the Journal, ‘thas been of great service in developing in the National Guard a true spirit of emulation and in leading it to a practice which is of actual military utility. The exexcises of the drillroom and the street parades are use- ful, certainly, but they are only a part of the training of the citizen soldier. Moreover, they inciude matters of routine which aro far from attractive to young men, and the relief to them that is usually provided is afforded by the balls, receptions, excursions, banquets, &c., which are so popular among the militia, But that is not of the kind, however necessary under the cir- cumstances, which needs any encouragement from us. Creedmoor, on the other hand, offers both sport and valuable practice joined in one. It familiarizes the National Guard with the use of their great weapon, whereas before the rifle ground was opened very few of them knew much more than how to carry it, and at the trials on its grounds the regiments can put to good test the strength of the discipline they have had in their armories.”’ Of course this is not the last time we shall have ‘teams’? coming from foreign nations to compete with our marksmen, and we shall not be satisfied until a Yankee team shows what it can do abroad. We have not done much in the way of international comp-tition, at least since Mr. Morphy went to Englind as chess warrior and returned chess champion, sighing, like Alexander, for other worlds to conquer. Our readers will be pleased to know that the enterprise of the Henatp in its reports of the Creedmoor meetings has met with more than usual appreciation from the press and the public. The unique and orig- inal idea of giving next morning the fac- similes of the targets has met with universal admiration as one of the most striking and felicitous achievements of modern journalism. Home Acain.—Henry Ward Beecher re- turned to Plymouth church last evening. His reception, an account of which appears elsewhere, must be gratifying to all who be- lieve in him and who really see true religion in the worship of sentiment. Plymouth church deserves credit for the persistency with which she sustains her pastor, although, we are apt to fear, her members have not lost: their disposition to worship Mr. Beecher rather than Jesus Christ. Whatever comes Mr. Beecher need no longer feel that he is on the “ragged edge,”’ but standing on the rock of Plymouth affections. It is pleasant to see some people who believe in some one, and Mr. Beecher should feel that he is honored among men— at least, as men now go in modern Payina As We Go.—The ‘bridging over” and which is laying up a legacy of bankruptcy for the future, was well illustrated at the last meeting of the Board of Apportionment. Assessment fund bonds were authorized to be issued to the amount of four million three hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars, to take up the same class of bonds falling due November 1, and one million eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of public parks improvement fund bonds, to take up similar bonds also falling due the same date. Thus on one day of one month we issue new bonds to the amount of between six and seven million dollars, bearing seven per cent in- terest, to ‘bridge over’’ the payment of so much debt, while the Comptroller is engaged in opening bids for two millions three hun- dred thousand dollars consolidated stock for a similar purpose. This is the sort of finan- cial management to which the city of New York is now subjected. Dancznovs Burprves.—The Commissioner of Public Works has called the attention of the avenue excavations have rendered unsate a number of buildings between One Hundred and Second street and the Harlem River. Should any damages result the city would be liable; hence some action should be taken promptly by the Common Council. The railroad company should at once be notified to put the threatened buildings in a safe con- dition, and, in default, the Commissioner of Public Works should be authorized to proceed forthwith with such precautionary work as may be necessary, and to collect the cost of the company. The Fourth avenue excavation at out death and damage to our citizens for some years to come. Fasnionarte Trxper Boxes.—Now we havo the destruction by fire of another of those tinder boxes built for the punishment of pleasure seekers at fashionable summer resorts, The hotel keepers at Saratoga, Long Branch and similar watering places insist on erecting inconvenient, cramped-up cells, into which and when a fire kindles in one of them away goes the whole building like a bundle of shavings. Grand Hotel at Saratoga, which follows closely on the heels of the burning of the Atlantic Block at Long Branch. When will common seuse teach people to bnild good brick hotels at watering places, with Christian accommodation for the guests, and to protect themselves against this sudden destruction of property ? Tue Emprson or Avustnia has given an es- pecial mark of honor to every man who served wholesale is as it should be. communication in regard to the troubles on the Rio Grande, the thefts of cattle and the | general losses American citizens suffer from | Mexican maranders. Coke is published elsewhere, and it will be observed that he asks for protection by the government, Texas, it appears, cannot pro- tect itself, because the United States laws in- terfere. Wo presume Attorney General Wil- liams will make the statement, which in this policy inauguraied by Comptroller Green, | Board of Aldermen to the fact that the Fourth | the present rate of progress threatens to deal | monstrous wooden structures, divided up into | they pack their victims during the dog days, | The list of such conflagrations is a | long one, and at present it closes with the | in the late Polar exploration expedition. This | Tue Governor or Texas has made an official | The complaint of Mr. | cage is reanested, Our Autumn Festival. The fall meeting at Jerome Park will take place to-day, and we may regard it as the Opening of the autumn season. The opera and theatres have been doing something, but not much more than the overture to the real fall and winter entertainment We can hardly be said to have opera when we have not gone beyond “Traviata,” and Mr. Stra- kosch, who has been felicitating us upon the fact that he has uo stars in his troupe, now tells us to wait for Albani if we wish to see a real, shining star. But we must have a few more days in the fields before we content our- selves with the indoor life that must come soon enough with the swiftly-coming snow and frost. It is comforting to feel that Now York offers so useful and attractive an enter- tainment as Jerome Park. We have not yet fallen into the morbidly moral feeling which sees only sin in what will be seen to-day in our beautiful Westchester valley. Even Mr. Bergh, who must have a soul above pigeon traps in certain moods of his precarious and restless existence, could not deny us the | pleasure of witnessing the fine races that now await us, nor the horses the gratification of | the instinct of eroulation and triumph that will ig them sround the crowded turf. Wefan. well understand how so noble a sport as horseracing could be degenerated into a worse abuse than pugilism. If we are to have such a business as was seen at the last meeting, when a clumsy starter or reckless, tricky jockeys kept a group of horses waltzing for an hour before they could go, then better ead it. If Mr. Bergh wishes to insure himself new troops of friends let him take his stand by the starter this afternoon, and if things are not managed better than before march the whole party to the magistrates. But we pre- sume this will be remedied, and we are not impatient, for, next to managing civil service reforms in the Custom House, or endeavor- ing to comprehend the statements of O'Kelly and O’Havemeyer, we do not know of a more difficult under- taking than to start a group of horses | fora race. Fashionable dentistry would be a schoolboy’s game to it. At the same time something should be done to reformit. All that is necessary, it would seem, would be a little drill in the beginning and a little dis- cipline on the course, What is wanted is an honest, reasonable race. It is not of so much consequence which horse wins, more especially if we have no investments in the pools; but itis of consequence that we should have a genuine, fair and prompt trial of speed. People do not go to Jerome Park to see a dozen squealing jockeys at their pranks and games. They go to see the horse in all his strength, beauty and swiftness; to drink in the fresh air and sunshine; to give one day to natural outdoor sports; to encourage a pastime that comes with our blood, and which finds its expression in the sentiment that the highest test of an English gentleman is the love he shows for a horse. Those who go with this honest feeling will, wo are convinced, be gratified with what Je- rome Park will to-day afford. The list of horses leads us to believe that there will be | some noble trials of speed. As for the | weather, our readers may read the predictions | in another column and make up their minds about it. .We have been so rudely treated by the weather prophet recently that | we do not vouch for his predictions, and, although just now in full communion with the administration as its organ, we utterly re- pudiate “Old Probabilities.” October, how- ever, is a trusty month, and we are willing to rest upon its generosity, looking torward, as we do, to one of those radiant, cheerful meet- | ings which have made Jerome Park like the Derby Day of America, and will blithely open | | our autumn season of merriment and sporting | and song. i The Mayor and Mr. Kelly. There are many cases which can only be determined finally by public opinion, and it is proper that they should be submitted to the press as the proper tribunal. These cases will be found, as a rale, to be the most impor- tant that require the calm and thoughtful consideration of the public. They involve | principles. They have direct reference to the | | | | choice of a President, a Governor, legislators, Congressmen or municipal officers. The third term question, a national convention of peace, the restoration of the South, the financial pol- | icy—these are matters which the people are — compelled to decide, but which the press must in the meanwhile debate. But in issucs be- tween individuals the press is not always the | proper tribunal. It was so in the Leecher case up to a certain point; but then, after | the newspapers of the whole country had pronounced their opinions, it was necessary for the courts to givea legal decision. We could not acquit Mr. Beecher nor condemn | | Mr. Tilton, for beyond the question between | these persons and the public was the question between man and man. To decide that finally | a jury is needed. The Mayor and the ex-Sheriff scem dis- posed to lay their differences before the pub- lic for arbitration, and have submitied several elaborate statements which it takes valuable | time to read and long study to understand. | We believe the press does right to examine the facts, but only so far as the public is concerned. If Mr. Havemeyer has been defending the public interests we are glad to render him the credit he has earned; if Mr. Kelly has been stealing from the public we must enter an objection. But | we know this dispute only as it concerns the | public. With Mayor Havemeyer’s personal | quarrel with Mr. Kelly the press has no | legitimate concern, and it is time that both of | these gentlemen should understand it. Already long statements trom Mr. Kelly and Mayor Havemeyer have been published, The Mayor accuses Mr. Kelly of having defrauded the city, but wants it understood that he does not call him “a common thief.” | Mr. Kelly intimates that the Mayor has uttered an untruth, though he does not wish | | | it inferred that he holds him to be a common liar, The ex-Sheriff announces that he intends to sue the Mayor | for libel, and the Mayor, in return, pledges himself to destroy Mr. Kelly by another state- ment next Tuesday. We regret this, for we foresee the untortunate results. ‘This is to be | the Beecher case over again. The venerable | Mayor and the sprightly Sheriff will ride a | political see-saw, of which the press 18 to be the pivot, It will be ‘here we go up, Up, | this matter no longer principally concerns the public as much as the persons. It is not #0 much whether Mr. Kelly's returns were cor- rect as whether Mr. Havemeyer tells the truth. Let these two distinguished gentlemen consider the Beecher case, and try to profit by its lessons. The question has been fully discussed, so far as the public interests are concerned, and has become one of personal veracity. As such let it be decided bya jury. The libel suit which Mr. Kelly has promised to institute will enable His Honor the Mayor to present all his evidence, and makes his statement superfluous. To sum up the case briefly, we would advise Messrs. Havemeyer and Kelly to begin their battle just where Messrs. Beecher and Tilton left off—in court. So long asa statement con- cerns the public we aro glad to print it, but we do not believe that a newspaper should be turned into a prize ring for political pugilists. When John Kelly was a babe in the cradle His Honor was aman. Now let him eet the young fellow a good example, and declare with Tago, ‘from this time forth I never will speak word.” Taz Rrvaray between medical schools should not be allowed to interfere in the case in Paterson respecting alleged mulpractico in a surgical operation by a homeopathic phy- sician. The surgical treatment by the two great schools, it should be remembered, is the same in principle; it is only 1m respect to medica! theories that they disagree. Tue Porsce appeared in the political arena last night and attempted to disperse a demo- cratic meeting in the Sixteenth Assembly dis- trict. We deprecate such exaggerated forms of the disputes of factions, and think the police might have been better efnployed. But let no one make a statement. Arrorney Genera, Wii11ams has issued further instructions to United States marshals in the South, directing them to appoint deputies, with power to arrest at once, without waiting for the troops, parties who commit or threaten to commit acts of violence. A Rumor comes from Washington that a Cabinet officer has talked with the President and is convinced that he has no intention of being a candidate fora third term. That the Cabinet officer is convinced is delightful to know, but why a Cabinet officer alone? Why not inform the country? Here is the Presi- dent’s opportunity fora statemext, which it would be an act of ingratitude in him to with- hoid. Tue Trrsoon Watch Swerr Over Sours Japan on the 20th of August produced most disastrous and fatal consequences to property and life, as will be teen by our nows report from Yokohama. PERSINAL INTELLIGENCE. Major General A. McD. McCook is at Baruam'’s Hotel. Secretary Delano returned to Washington yes- terday from Ohio, Rey, Dr. O. H. Tiffany, of Washington, is staying at the Union Square Hotel. State Senator Roswell A. Parmenter, of Troy, ts registered at the St. Dents Hotel. Colonel T. J. Treadwell, United States Army, is quartered ut the Metropolitan Hotel. Bishop R. Courtenay, of Kingston, Jamaica, yes terday arrived at the Coleman House. Colonel Thomas G. Pitcher, United States Army, is sojourning at the St. James Hotel. Rear Admiral Fabius Stanly, United States Navy, bas quarters at the Hoffman House, Mr. and Mrs. S.C, Hall celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding on the 20th ult. Prolessor J. H. C, Coffin, of the Navy Depart ment, has apartments at the Hofman House. Assemblyman Harvey G. Eastman, of Poughe keepsie, 18 stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. F. Carroll Brewster, of Philadeiphia, ts among the latest arrivals at the Windsor Hotel, Mr. Butler B. Strang, speaker of the Pennsylva. nia Senate, has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel, In Canada they gave a colored man the cat ov nine tails the otner day for an assault on a woman. Rear Admiral W. R. Taylor and wife are at the Mansion House, Williamstown, enjoying the Berk- shire scenery. Mr. D. C, Ellis, Superintendent of the Bank Depurtment, arrived from Albany yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel. General N. P. Chipman, Congressional Delegate for the District of Columbia, is stopping at tne Fiith Avenue Hotel, John Mitcnel has sailed for the Unitea States and George Francis Train has broken out with @ new epistolary eruption. Lieutenant Colonel H. Fletcher, Secretary to Governor General Duffemn, of Canada, is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Tdeutenant General Philip H. Sheridan and Colonel George A. Forsyth, of the General’s stad, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel, About tls time expect ratlway accidents as a consequence of the effect of rains on the beds of roads at fillings. The paragrapbers will prepare the customary comtc epitapns. Butler’s motto on that letter “comme je trouve” means that he will take tnings as he finds them, fle will take them of course, but his finding them doesn't always imply that they are lost, There is as derce a figat in the Irish home rule party as there is here between Kelly and Have- meyer. They charge even a worse offence than public plundering, They even accuse one another of political inconsistency. Puncn’s cartoon presents Bismarck and Bull as two policemen looking on at @ row in which the Carlists are conspicuous. Policeman Bismarck proposes to stop the row, but Bull says:—“IsAt in your beat? ‘Taint in mine. 1 know a party by the name of-Spain—rather,’” One of the Simmonses has come out against Butier. At frst it was thougut to be anotner Simmons, and then his revelations were thought to be more important, as 1! one Simmons was not as good as another. If Dr. Johnson would not decide “the point of precedency” between @ flea and an- other very smali insect, who will decide between the Simmonses? So, perhaps this one’s revela- ‘tions are of some account also, French judges dear rather lightly on those legal formalities that are made to secure fair play to the accused, but prove too often a mere maze in which justice and trath are lost; but they are heavy on the facts, In the case of Moreau, tne polsoner, the Judge induced the chemical expert to deciare ! in straightforward terms, without ifs or buts, that the women were poisoned, No one but Moreau had been near them while they were iil, and so the Judge declared tu Moreau that he must assurediy be guilty, and this of course affected the minds of the jury. vudges over there are not mere holders of a balance between the prosecution and the de fence, with favor toward neither, bat they en- deavor to assure the punishment of crime. Some time ago the Chisichurst division of the Imperial party were flerce against Pioa Plon, Now they are less Merce. The secret of this change, says the Correspondance Réipublicaine, is a “terrible docament’ which the Prince holds, and which he threatens to publish, This doca- ment 1s described as @ political testament of the first Napoleon, and provides for the exclusion from the throne of the line of the Kiog of Holland, on the ground that “the well-known lightness of Queen Hortense was not calculated to guarantee ups and here we go down, down, downy.’ To thia we decidedly object, for it is clear that the integrity of tue race.” Rather thin irom Plom Pilon, _ ee ee NR et Mp Sa nN Ree eee ee