The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YUKK HERALD + BBOADWAY AND ANN STREET. ie Shee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, prblished every day in the year. Four cents per Copy. An- gual subscription price § All business or news letters and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New Youre Henarp. Letters and pac! bealed. Rejected communications will not be re- 219, s should be properly turned. BN ds LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX. .No, 2784 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ATRE. BP. M, + closes at 10:45 HEATRE, xth avenue,—LA FILLE DE Mj closes at 10:30 P.M. Mile. MIQUE, BUY HE; closes at 10:0 THEATRE C pee Broadway.—VAKLELY, RE, and Tywenty-second streets —GILDED 4 Mr. Joho J. Ray- mond. | BOC S THEAT! 2 corner ot Twenty-ilind street Sixth avenue.— CONNIE SOOGAH, 4 M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Willams. 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Woop’ i | Broadway, corner o ct—& FLASH OF | ‘Th h LIGHTNING, at 2 P.M. sata well, RICHAKD IIL, at 5 P.M; Mr. E. L. Davenport. TRIPLE SHEET. 0PM, Mr. Lefing- Closes ‘at 10:30 PB. M. N York, Mouday, October 5, 1874, are that the weather to-day will be cool and partiy cloudy or clear. | We Prrxt To-Day an interesting report of acruise among the wreckers, and of singular adventures in a storm upon the coast. Tue Trovexes in the Argentine States have become more serious. The insurrection is | more dangerous, and the fleet has declared against the government. Somz or THE CiGanmakERs who live in tenement houses are opposed to the inter- ference of the Board of Health, and yesterday held a meeting and entered a protest, which we elsewhere publish. Tuat Moyey is the “root of all evil,’’ is | illustrated in the report of a riot in one of the | silver mines of Nevada. Four men were | killed and one mortally wounded in a fight for the control of a company. Mz. Brecuer yesterday prcached his first | sermon this scason at Plymonth church, and | its subject was the depravity of man. Sub- | jective or objective, as the Germans say, its | demonstrations were interesting and instruc- tive. Ovr Loxpon Lerren to-day contains a | full account of the great Doncaster St. Leger | meeting, the victory of Apology, and the withdrawal of George Frederick, the favorite, under circumstances which have caused con- siderable excitement in racing circles. Deymank has officially complained, so our | European despatches declare, of the expulsion | of Danes from Schleswig. The diplomatic | note to Berlin quotes existing treaties to show that Danish subjects are to have equal privil- | eges with Prussians under the imperial rule. It looks as if this protest would be unheeded. Tre Frencu anv Excuse Ambassadors to | Spain bave formally presented their credentials | to Marshal Serrano. It is noted in our de- | spatches from Madrid that no reference was | made to the Spanish Republic. Serrano was | merely addressed as the Executive of the national power. Tue Latest Porrric in this city is given to-day, and the situation thoroughly reviewed. The nature of the contest in the | Assembly districts is explained, with reference to the United States Senatorship, and the | chances of Mr. Horatio Seymour or any other democrat for an election at the next session. _taken in supposing that the difference be- | no support, either in principle or authority. | rejection of the theory of the President while h aistattartion (ae Sunofodnal lgvevene| aniesiinn | The President has assumed in all his Louis- jana messages that he possesses the very | authority which Mr. O’Conor claims for him. | Congress | gravity that we do not feel quite sure that Mr. | was in power. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, Reverdy Johnson's Rejoinder to Mr. o’Conor. The Heratp has become the forum of one of the most interesting juridical discussions that have ever taken place in this country. The importance, difficulty and novelty of the question in debate and the ungurpassed ability of the disputants will fix the attention of jurists, statesmen and enlightened inquirers into the theory of our institutions, It is not possible that the discussion can stop with Mr. Johnson's second letter; for, though his | argument has great force and eogency, it col- lides with such a mass of hitherto uncon- tested opinion in high official places as to | provoke and challenge the best legal ability ] in the United States. With our present lights we do not doubt that Mr. Johnson's | position is tenable. {t is at least certain that Mr. O'Conor has not yet dislodged him, and that eminent jurist will need all his wonder- ful equipment of controversial resources in this battle of legal giants—giants, however, who encounter each other with | knightly courtesy. Mr, O’Conor was mis- tween his views and those of Mr, Johnson were “such as @ joint conference and con- | sultation would have obviated.” | ance is radical, Their vari- Mr. Johnson closes his second letter by saying :—‘‘Upon the whole, | then, I conclude that Mr. O’Conor's view has | Of course @ question on which these great lights of American jurisprudence so dia- metrically differ, lies ier apices juris, among those heights of legal science where only great constitutional lawyers can feel sure of their footing. It shall be our humble task to point out | from a distance some of the difficulties of which the public will require further elucida- | tion. We regard these great masters who do us the honor to make the Henatp the vehicle | of their arguments as in a certain sense our guests, and must treat them with the same | deterential courtesy which they observe | toward each other. But we must also follow their example of independent criticism. We | will to-day practise this freedom toward Mr. Johnson, whose opinion we in the main | accept and whose letter is the present topic of | remark. Some of the logical consequences | ; of his position will surprise and almost | startle the public, although nothing could be | more free from the refining ingenuity which | often results in paradox than his masculine reasoning. The consequences to which wo | refer are not explicitly avowed by Mr. John- son, but we do not see how he can reiuse to accept them. ‘The first which we will name is his virtual | fully indorsing his recent practical action. Mr. Johnson's legal view stands in as sharp opposition to that of President Grant and his official advisers as to that of Mr. O’Conor. | The substance of what he said to Congress was that unless it acted on the subject he should continue to recognize Kellogg—a gratuitous and needless piece of information if be had no legal right to do otherwise. The whole tenor of his messages implied that, 5 i cretion, and that he was merely informing | in what manner that discretion would be exercised. His reason for con- tinuing to recognize Kellogg was that he continued to think him the legal Governor, leaving the inference to be drawn that he might change his official action if there was any possibility of his changing his opinion. Except on Mr. O’Conor’s theory of his power it was as useless for the President to tell Con- gress that he would continue to recognize Kellogg as it would be to send a communica- tion informing them that he would continue to enforce the judgments of the Supreme Court. On the strictly legal point, therefore, we are brought to the curious conclusion that | itis Mr. Johnson Who is opposing and Mr. O'Conor who is supporting the view of the President. This singular and unexpected interchange of attitudes is perhaps merely curious. But our next point will disclose a consequence of | Mr. Johnson's reasoning of such innovating Johnson will not hesitate to accept it himself. But it follows from his premises with such in- evitable logic that he cannot disavow it with- out discarding the most forcible arguments of his present letter. Although he does not deny in terms he certainly denies in substance that even Congress can overrule the decision of the President when it has once been made. Every calamitous consequence which Mr. Johnson states would follow from a re- versal of the President's decision by the President himself, would equally fol- low froma reversal by Congress. It would equally nullify all laws, divest all rights and vacate all official proceedings during the period while the deposed State government If the argument founded on these important considerations is valid it necessarily follows that the President's first de- | years there have been four such applications— counting two from Louisiana—and in the present condition of the Southern States they are likely to multiply unless the law is defi- nitely settled. In the present stage of the discussion we think the President was clearly right in grant- ing Kellogg’s second application, and we in- cline to the opinion—though with more hesi- tation—that Mr. Johnson correctly expounds the law which ought to govern him. There is a passage in Chief Justice Taney’s well | known opinion in the Dorr case that seems to | throw light on this question, although neither Mr. O'Conor nor Mr. Johnson have alluded to it. We referto the passage in which the Court states that ‘Congress might, if they had deemed it most advisable to do so, have placed it in the power of a court to decide when the contingency had happened which required the federal government to interfere.'’ For the sake of illustration let us suppose that Congress had done this. What would have been the legal effect of the | decision of a United States court ina case like that from Louisiana? It would have | been a judicial determination of the disputed question of the Governorship. If a federal court, clothed by Congress with the requisite jurisdiction, had decided that Kellogg was the | legal Governor, Congress having made no provision for an appeal, would the decision or | would it not have the force of a final ajudica- tion? Let us consider the extent of ground which such a decision would cover. By de- ciding that Kellogg was Governor the Court would decide that he was entitled to the office, not merely for the nonce, but for the whole unexpired portion of his term of four years. The decision would necessarily have that ex- tent, for the very point decided would be that he was Governor by the constitution and laws of the State, and by the constitution and laws the Governor holds for a definite period. Once legally in office his term could not be short- | ened by the decision of any court, nor by Congress itself. The only question would be whether the first decision of the Court, from which Congress had provided no appeal, per- fected his legal title to the office. If so, every department of the federal government would thereafter be bound to recognize him as the rightful Governor until the expiration of his term. Now, Congress having invested the | President with the same authority with which it might have clothed a court, it is a fair question for jurists whether his decision be not as permanently binding as that of a ju- | dicial tribunal. We have merely indicated some of the points which we would like to ; see more fully discussed as a means of en- lightening the public judgment. The subject is one of the most complex that ever engaged men of the ripe experience and pre-eminent professional standing of Mr. Johnson and Mr. O'Conor maintain opposite views the question cannot be thought free irom dif- ficulties, The Exploded Inflation Folly. The preposterous craze which seized the been pretty effectually cured by the business experience of the country since the adjourn- ment. We are in the midst of the most active | season, and it is found that the banks, both | until Congress should act, the course he | | would pursue rested in his own official dis- of the East and the West, have a great deal more money than their customers can employ. Senator Shurz, who did excellent service last winter against the inflation heresy, has re- the pretence that the West needed more bank circulation. He wrote to Mr. Knox, the Comptroller of the Currency, requesting a statement of the amount of addition made to the bank notes of Missouri under the act of June 20. Mr. Knox sbows in his reply that although that State is entitled by law to more than double its present circulation, and has free permission to increase it, it has been | diminished by more than a million and a half since the passage of the act. Several new banks have been authorized in that State, but mone of them have com- pleted their organization. No bonds have been deposited and there is no immediate likelihood that any new circulation will be taken out. On the contrary, three of the St. Louis banks have deposited legal tender notes and withdrawn bonds to the amount of | $1,599,600, proving that in the estimation of Western bankers the Western Congressmen raised a mistaken cry. Comptroller Knox states that the quota of bank circulation ap- | portioned to Missouri is $15,459,409, of which | $9,298,821 remains untaken, althongh it can | be had at any time by complying with the law. | The St. Louis Democrat, which was an infla- | tion journal last winter, has become convinced | of its error and is doing good service on the | other side. The battle against inflation has | been so completely won that it will never have to be fought over again in this country, but new contests, involving the same principle, will arise on the question of contraction when- | ever a serious attempt is made to restore specie payments. Tue Discracervt Scene was last evening presented in New York of a dozen or so wild Texan bulls loose in the strects. By our ree cision is as irreversibly binding upon Congress as it is upon the President himself. Further argument may establish this as sound con- stitutional doctrine ; but we do not employ startling. It runs counter to what has here- tofore seemed to be the unanimous opinion of Congress itself, and of the whole country. | The Louisiana question was ably debated in the Senate by the first lawyers of that body, at a period subsequent to the President's recog- nition of Kellogg, and no speaker on any side doubted the competency of Congress to decide the question anew after the President's action, If his decision was absolutely con- gress, upon everybody, there has been a great waste of time and debate on this subject. Tue Government frequently receives “con- science money,” but individuals who are | cheated seldom receive their dues. An ex- | ception to this rule is recorded in our columns | to-day. Mr. Meuris, who lost seven hundred dollars about five years ago, received fite hun. dred dollars of the amount last week through the medium of a Catholic priest. The bal- The views suggested in this discussion be- tween Mr. O’Conor and Mr. Johnson are too novel and remarkable not to enlist other jurists of great name and fame in the attempt to settle the abstruse and weighty questions that have been raised. comparatively unexplored — region our constitutional jurisprudence This of too strong a word when we characterize it as | | elusive and final upon himself, upon Con- | ports to-day it will be seen that they ranged the city almost as freely as they did their na- | tive plains. Over thirty persons were injured | by the savage animals, and ow ing to the excitement several policemen were | wounded by pistol shots. The authorities | should protect citizens better, and somebody | surely is responsible for this dangerous raid. Tae Vmorntus Case.—The rumor that the | British have effected a settlement in the Virginius case, her government having | received a large indemnity from Spain, seems to have excited much attention in Washington. We have an official statement to the effect that, notwithstanding what has | been concluded in reference to England, “our government is still pressing upon Spain | the importance of an arrangement | which will satisfy our people.’ We | can well understand the difficulty of bringing any Spanish government to a business deci- | sion, and we must, of course, consider the | unfortunate state of the country in accounting | for the delay. But General Grant must have an answer from Serrano or submit to a ance, he was assured, would be in a little | has recently risen to such high practical im- | defeat in our diplomacy of a most humiliat- while returned with interest. This is evi- | portance ag to require a complete survey of its | ing character, To indemnify England and dently a case of conscience in which the con- fessional has received a guilty secret and the priest has commanded an honorable restitu- tion, | boundaries and bearings. years of our history there was but one appli- cation to the President to aid a State against domestic violence, but within the last two In the first eighty | ignore the United States in a matter where | our claims are a hundred times more pressing | is an indignity that we should not suppose | that even Mr, Fish would endure | every offence charged against him, the argu- | the law. From the publication of Mr. Tilton’s ‘Western members of Congress last winter has | cently furnished a neat practical refutation of | The Brooklyn Business. In procuring the indictment of Theodore Tilton and Francis D. Moulton upon a crim- inal charge of slander Mr. Beecher has shown the sense that he failed to show when he did not call ina policeman to arrest Mr. Bowen as the bearer of the celebrated letter demand- ing his withdrawal from the pulpit, and Mr. Moulton as the carrier of concealed weapons. We read that in Washington the other day the criminal court sentenced a man named Murdoch to three years’ imprisonment for having carried to Fernando Wood a letter threatening him with exposure if he did not pay money. The letter which was carried to Mr. Beecher was similar in character, as it virtually commanded him to retire from his pulpit, his newspaper and his employments, and accept | ignominy and poverty, under the threat of infamous disclosures. We are glad to see that the law takes notice of these transactions in Washington ; for it is 8 crime to write or send or carry a threatening letter to any man, no matter what offence he may have committed. If Mr. Beecher had been guilty of a crime Mr. Bowen had the laws of his country as his remedy, and as a good citizen he should have invoked them. We cheertully note what has been done in Washington as astep in the | right direction for the protection of society. | Mr. Beecher should feel encouraged by this to | invoke the intervention of the law, and every | citizen, no matter what he may feel about the matter in issue, will rejoice that he has | done so. | ‘This Brooklyn scandal has phases which | have not been considered by any of our con- | temporaries. Society has rights which should | be remembered. If any citizen can go into print with elaborate attacks upon another citizen, without any responsibility for proof; if to destroy the reputation of one who | is inimical he can drag in entirely out- side parties, like Miss Proctor, whose sex, no matter what sho had done, should have | been her shield in the eyes of a gentleman; if we are to have a plague of slander, scandal, | existence, falsehood, obscenity, defamation, and no ‘redress from the law, can we be} | said to have any law? Even suppos- ing Mr. Beecher to be guilty of ment holds true. He is a citizen bound to be deemed an innocent man until he is proved guilty. His good name is secured to him by letter to Dr. Bacon two things have been evidera to us—namely, that there was no longer any compromise possible, and that Mr. Beecher would sooner or later be com- pelled to go to court. As to the issue of these trials it would be idle to speculate. Mr. Beecher has only one tribunal for whose opinion he need really cere, and by that tribunal he has been ac- quitted. He is to-day stronger in Plymouth | church than at any time in his ministry. | Plymouth church is in the humor that no | matter what verdict any jury may return it will support Mr. Beecher. The victory re- mains with him, so far as it materially affects his work and gains. He retains his news- paper, his pulpit, his revenues from the plattorm, and, as was seen by) his reception in New England, more than | | his old popularity. This is, to be sure, not | all, but it is something to have saved from the tumultuous wreck. He can never be | the Henry Ward Beecher that all Ameri- | cans once regarded with pride. He surren- | dered this supreme renown when he signed | his name to the letter of contrition. In the eyes of the outside world—we mean the world | beyond Plymouth church—the writing of this | letter was an act of degradation as deep as any offence charged against him; | and no ingenuity has been able to | reconcile it with any hypothesis of absolute and complete innocence of conduct unbecom- ing a clergyman. But all of this has been | forgiven, forgotten, condoned by Plymouth | church. That body means to continue its | worship of Henry Ward Beecher. His recep- | tion on Friday evening and at the Sunday i service yesterday shows that he is as much the Messiah of the new religion of sentiment as he | has been at any time of his career. This is something to have saved out of the | wreck. Mr. Beecher will accept our congratu- | lations upon what to him must be a strength- | ening and gracious triumph. Whatever his | errors, or sins, or crimes, his genius has no | superior in America, and he may yet do great | good. The best of us are better when the | Lord chastens, and Mr. Beecher will even be of more use to Christian society and his | ministry if he will teach the old truths | and shun those new, fantastic, pleasant, | but unwholesome teachings which form | the “‘religion of gush.” As for Mr, Moulton, the sooner he goes into bankruptcy in his ‘‘mutual friend’’ business, and returns to honest barter and sale in his downtown store, the better it will be fora gentleman who is just now the most seriously battered of all. If he has not parted with | that pistol let him keep it for any agonized | clergyman who may come to him with letters of contrition. As for Theodore, he is just now in the position of o fine intellect running | to seed. There was never such an illustration | of genius rusting for honest work. What | this young man needs is work, good healthy | employment, that he may earn bread for his | children. Cownecticut.—Elections for town officers, and upon a proposed amendment of the State | constitution regulating representation in the Legislature, will come off to-day. These are purely local elections, and yet it is possible | that the general results may be very sugges- tive in reference to our national affairs. Tre Crvcixnatt Exrosrrion, which has just closed, has proved an encouraging success, a handsome cash surplus over all expenses being reported. Indeed, all our State and county fairs and industrial exhibitions this season appear to be remarkable successes. Moral— | The country is not yet ruined, drought, floods, | grasshoppers, short crops and “hard times’’ to the contrary notwithstanding. Our State Camparcy.—Hon. Lyman Tre- main, our Congressman-at-Large, opened fire against the democracy in a regular broadsido at Albany the other evening. The thunder | of the artillery and the rattle of the small arms on both sides will soon extend along the whole line, and doubtless republicans and | democrats en masse throughout the State will be roused from their lethargy for the great | subject of the Rev. Father Mooney’s sermon. day of November. A New City Muddle. 4 The Legislature, in its wisdom, enacted a charter for the city of New York in which provision was made for the publication of an official journal. The important organ thus called into existence appropriately made its appearance from the Executive basement in the City Hall. It is an imposing sheet, in more senses than one, and measures about twenty inches by twelve. Its issue did not revolutionize the city press or seriously affect the circulation of the Hxnaup. Neverthe- less its twenty-nine subscribers felt assured that it would rise to fame and form the foun- dation-upon which the fortunes and the repu- tations of great historical characters would be erected, Both these predictions have been verified. Disbecker, its earliest supervisor, sits in the seat of honor and profit in the great Mulberry street tabernacle, at whose shrine | the devotees of the club and the pilgrims of the broom bow down in reverential worship. The litigious Green, the patron saint of the | pastoral Columbus and the skeleton in the | tenement house closets of poor scrub women | and laborers, is now resolved that the organ | itself shall win notoriety. Left alone, as an insignificant side crib at which the festive Havemeyer feeds some of his young cronies, no person would know of the existence of such asheet as the City Record. But Green, who fights almost everything and everybody except Columbus Ryan, Whittemore, Vaux and the aerial fire ladder, has determined to do battle with this spicy little official journal and to use it as a lever with which to topple over the whole municipal fabric. He finds that the organ has never been legally established. The contract for its publication is sent to him, in order that, in pursuance of his duty under the charter, he muy approve or reject the sureties on the con- | tractor’s bond; but he constitutes h’mself judge, jury and counsel, declares that the whole thing is a fraud and a myth, and that | no such journal as the City Record has legal | The charter requires that no resolution or ordinance of the Common Council shall be legal or operative without a specified publica- tion in the official journal; that no clerk or | employé in a public department shall be con- sidered legally in office until his appointment shal] have been published in that wonderful sheet; that no public improvements shall be undertaken until they have been advertised in the City Record; that city bonds and stocks | cannot be legally issued, contracts made or | bids accepted without previous publication in that important organ. And now comes the captious Comptroller, the marplot of the | municipality, to tell us that the City Record | is itself an illegality ; that he will not approve | or reject the contractor's bond; that he will | not pay the publisher his money; that the | sheet may discontinue publication as soon as | it likes, and the Executive basement be left without its paper. If the publication of the City Record should | be suspended its twenty-nine subscribers | might possibly bear the loss, but it is very | evident that the machinery of the city govern- | ment would come toahalt, This might be | | regarded as of little consequence, since under | the wonderful honesty and capacity | of ao Havemeyer and a Green all | | the progress we make, as the Lord | Mayor of Dublin would say, is in a backward | direction. Nevertheless it is significant of the | peculiar genius of Mr. Green that he should | have discovered in the insignificant litile | sheet that wastes its sweetness in a City Hall | cellar the means of creating this latest and | most startling of our city muddles, The Pulpits and Pews of New York. In the accounts of the sermons we print to- | day there will not be found, we think, a single | accident to a church member. Yet there were yesterday, in the quiet and beauty of a still October Sunday evening, when the pure | stars of heaven looked sorrowfully upon the | sinful earth, eleven wild bulls loose in the | streets of New York. These savage animals roamed the city seeking whom they might gore, and a large number of persons, as will be seen elsewhere, were found. How much better would it have been for these victims of the bulls had they been faithful attendants | upon divine service. To be ‘‘safeas a church”’ is an old proverb, which dates trom the time when the altar was a place of retuge, and last evening even Plymouth church would have been a good place to attend. Still better would it have been for the scattered crowds which the infuri- ated bulls pursued had they listened to the Rev. Dr. Alexander upon the nature of | true repentance, or the Rev. Mr. Frothing- | | ham upon a long life on earth. There were other topics which would also have been extremely interesting to religious persons chased by a bull, could they have stopped to hear them discussed. Thus, we may quote the Rev. Mr. Hepworth’s sermon upon “The Sinner’s Relation to Christ,’ and that of the Rev. Father Stumpf upon the enemies of the Church, The horns of Moses were referred to by another clergyman, and would have been preferred in this startling dilemma to other horns which were | more dangerous. The Rev. James Boardman | Hawthorne was installed as pastor of the.) Tabernacle Baptist church, and delivered an | address on infidelity. At St. Bridget's there | was an immense congregation, not brought | together, as might be supposed, by the under- | standing that Mr. and Mrs. Fitch would be | present, but by anxiety to know how to pre- vent “The Loss of the Soul,” which was the The Rev. Dr. ‘Taylor preached at the Broadway Tabernacle, and the Rev. Dr. Rylance at St. Mark’s upon “The Real | Presence.” It is to be regretted | that from these churches and others | of which the evening services are this morn- | ing reported, so many were absent. Consid- | ering the panic in the New York streets last | night there were even many Protestant sine | ners who would rather have endured the ter- rors of a Pope's bull than the charge of a | Texan steer. Tus New Rote requiring policemen to wear uniforms when off duty is strongly com- plained of by the men, They argue that it not only interferes with their own privileges, but is injurious to the public good. We do not care whether this rule is enforced or re- voked, so that the police force is made effi- cient by the Commissioners. But as they have made the regulation it is likely they will give it a proper trial, —- ssi esisaoeierent tet teeantreaaichississsiebsebibiia ih © Proposed Convention Governors, There has been a conference at Nashville between the Governor of Tennessee and the Governor of Kentucky on the proposition submitted to Governor Brown from nu- merous individuals in the Southern States for & conference of Southern democratic Gov- ernors as soon as practicable after the ap- proaching Republican Convention of the Southern States at Chattanooga, ‘with the view of meeting and resisting the anticipated incendiary pronunciamiento from that quarter.” The conference between the two aforessid Governors and other persons joining them was an agreement to recommend a meeting of all the democratic Governors, or of all the State Governors of both parties, North and South, for the purpose of a calm, earnest and patriotic discussion of State rights and State wrongs under the existing order of things of State | and the needful remedies for the wrongs com- plained of. We have no objection to submit against this proposed conference, for we think the parties concerned in it will soon discover that the work before them is too great for any representative body, except a national con- vention, representing all the interests of all the States and all the people of the United dtates. A Vorcz rrom Cauirornia.—The Grass Valley Union, one of the most intelligent journals in California, responds to the Henarp’s suggestion that there should bea national convention of peace and reconstruc- tion by a hearty indorsement:—‘Such a con- vention,”’ the editor aptly says, ‘‘would most surely put down the lies now being circulated for the purpose of keeping up or rather reviving the asperities created by the late war.’ This in itself would be a noble result. Most of the | differences and alienations between States and sections spring from passion and false- hood. There can be no surer way toward a good understanding than a communion of the leading men of all sections in a national con- vention. California especially is perplexed by the labor problem and Oriental emigra- tion, a problem that already has menaced its peace. Nothing graver looms up in our political future; and why not consider it now in a national convention? “Ler Us Have Peacez.’’—The Shreveport (La.) Times points the way to a practical and noble solution of the harassing problems now distressing the North and South when it favors “ national convention of all these States, the object of which should especially be the solu- tion of the Southern political problem.” The editor would welcome sucha convention as one summoned to “accomplish a great na- tional blessing,’ and he is profoundly con- vinced it “would find a happy solution of the grave questions now threatening the civiliza- tion of at least six great States,’” _ “Tur Bropau or tHE Earra anp Sxy’’—~ Yesterday, our beautiful first Sunday of Oo- tober. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Victoria recognizes Ireland by wearing Irism poplins. Dr. Austie, of London, died from the effects of sewer gas. Admiral David, D, ‘Porter and family have apart- ments at the Hoffman House. Commander C. 8. Norton, United States Navy, is sojourning at the Astor House. pir Alexander T. Galt arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from Montreal. The Rev. Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, preached in the Central church, in Boston, yesterday. Ex-Governor Joun H. Clifford, 01 Massachusetts, 18 residing at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Judge T. M. Bowen, of Arkansas, is among the latest arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. England has a famous submarine named Gash, who is now diving 1or the Spanish Armada, Pay Inspector G. E, Thorntou, United States Navy, has quarters at the Union Square Hotel. Secretary Bristow arrived in this city yesterday morning {rom Washington, and is staying at the Firth Avenue Hotel. In the summer a gentleman who called on the British Premier found him “sitting in fur boots before a large fire, trying, a3 be said, to get some heat into his legs.”” An old man in Alabama has a tree near his house overhanging the road which he wishes to cut, but is compelled to keep it standing for fear it should kill @ candidate Jor Congress when it fas. Guzman Blanco, 1n Venezuela, pulled down a church to erect @ statue of himself on the site, | and in some vaults under the church found @ treasure of $300,000, oi the churches? We lately reported that Chignon was dead, and Will he puil down the rest | the Boston Post says it “dou’t believe it.” Sorry, of course; but the Post should come on and go to the opera, and it would discover that the once mighty potentate no ionger ovstructs the view of the stage. In the old times they hanged such worthies as that Pomeroy boy on simple principles, and didn’t go into the psychology of crime to any great ex- tent—and that had one good practical effect. It stopped the breed in all cases in which the remedy was applied. Notwithstanding Iago's objection to wearing his heart upon his sleeve, the thing may yet happen to somebody, as people are making progress ta that direction, At Forestville, Chatauqua county, there isa baby which has Lts heart on the outside of its breast. Kiddderadatsch has a cut of Carlos and Serrano both down and struggling, and the Czar, being asked which is his man, says, “The one that shall | get on top.” No under dog in the fight for him— if the Germans understand him. Kladderadatsch would scarcely dare publish this if the view it takes were not agreeaole at headquarters, Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, who has veen spending the summer in Washington, leaves there to-day for Butler, Butler county, Pa., having accepted the invivation from the President and trustees of Witherspoon Institute to respond to an address of welcome to the graduates and for- mer students of that Institute on the occasion of | its twenty-flith anniversary on Wednesday next. Agrand reunion ts expected of all who have at- tended the institution since its opening, number- ing nearly 3,000, Mrs, Mitchell, Who has in a greas measure recovered ‘rom a long and painful illness, will accompany her husband. Dr. Mordtman, of Constantinople, puolishes im the Gazette Médicale de VOrient some curious de~ tails he has discovered in some old Oriental chronicles, tending to show that the Siamese Twins had prototypes in former times. Accord, ing to these Byzantine chronicles there came from Armenia to Constantinople, in the year 744, 4 monster, consisting of two cnildren, born of one mother, ‘These children were attached to one another at the epigastrium, so that they faced each other, the osher parts of their bodies being regularly formed. During their sojourn in the Byzantine capital numbers flocked to see this monstrosity; but as the twins were super. stitiously regarded by the ecclesiastical authort~ ties as being of bad angury they were expelled the city, to return again wuen a comparatively en- lightened Emperor ascended the throne of the Cresars, One of these twins died, and the most skilful! physicians endeavored to divide the sure vivor from the corpse at the point ot juveture, in the hope of saving his life. The operation, how- ever, ouly served to prolong its duration tor three daye