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

————— — Fe eee. ees 6 NEW YORK HERALD i BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Aa THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy, An- nual subscription price $12, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX — .No. 379 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT. at8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mule. Aimee, Mile. Minelly, OMI THEATRE UB, No, 514 Broadway. —VARIBI'Y, at 5. AL; closes at 1030 PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between ‘iwenty-first. and Twenty-second a AGE, at 3 P.M. Mr. Johu tT. Kay- wow BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and’ Stxth avenue.— CONNIE SOOGAH. at 8P. M.; closes at 10:30 7. M. Mr. aud Mrs. Barney Williams. °§ THEATRE, FOR LIFE, Mr. H. J. Mon- WALLA\ Broadway.—PARTNERS tague. NIBLO’S GARDEN, between Prince and Houston streets—THE .M.; closes at 1 P.M. The Kiralty ATRE. LSP. M.; closes at 1 iss Sara Jewett, Louis Fl THE SCHOOL OR SCANDA P.M. Miss Funny Davenport, James, Charles Fisher. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— VARIETY, ats P.M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near sixth avenue,—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at P.M. Governor Dix and the Third Term. The Convention which nominated Gover- {| nor Dix for re.election with such hearty unanimity and warmth of admiring applause committed a sin of omission in taking no no- tice of the third term question. It is one of the foremost political topics of the period, and a party convention always evinces either @ want of sagacity or a want of courage when it fails to make a frank declaration of its sen- timents on any important subject which agi- tates the public mind. Besides other objec- | tions to the suspicious reticence of the Uiica Convention there was a want of fairness to | Governor Dix in putting him into the canvass with a platform which leaves it in seeming doubt whether he approves or disapproves of a third election of tho same President. As | ; the republican State Convention ought | | to have foreseen, a great handle is | made of this omission by the democratic | journals, Their most popular topic of invec- tive against Governor Dix is that he stands | virtually committed to the supposed aspira- } | tions of President Grant. Governor Dix is put in a false position by the party which pre- sents him as its candidate, or, rather, the re- | publican Convention left the door open for his political opponents to plausibly handicap him | with the third term folly. There is no rea- | son why he should carry this weight, but | many good reasons why he should throw it | off. The most popular thing the Utica Con- vention could have done was to follow the ad- | Vice of the Herap, not merely declaring | against a third term but proposing an amend- ment to the federal constitution, limiting every President to a single term of six years. If the Convention had had the forecasting | boldness te do this the republican canvass | in this State would have run itself. A dec- | laration so popular, which so chimed in with | the tendency of public sentiment, which would have brought such immediate relief to NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEKT, seize the occasion to make himself the most applauded man in the United States by a bold expression of what is moving multitudes of patriotic hearts. Our Latest Disappointment. It is all settled, and we confess our disap- pointment! Wickham is to be Mayor; Jimmy Hayes to be Register. When the saints of the reformed Tammany came into the high places of the synagogue, their hats labelled with honesty, like cabmen at a ferry, and all the world ran after them, cheer- ing ‘‘Honest'’ John Kelly and “Honest” John Morrissey, the Hznawp followed and cheered with the crowd. For how could we resist the | sweet, seductive blarney, the cooing and the purring of these transformed saints? We not | only cheered, but, in the fulness of our new- accused persons who had not been arrested might make their escape ; persons would thus be deterred from voluntarily going forward and informing of crime before them.” It is to be hoped that the members of the Grand Jury will see the advisability of co-operating with Recorder Hackett by causing the arrest of any one daring to corrupt or influence the decisions of the Grand Jury. Girardin. It is not alone in America that wa are about to return to that state of primitive simplicity and trustful confidence when only the aged are allowed authority. It would seem so from the honors paid to Centennial Dix, not to speak of his venerable contemporaries, Have- meyer and Tilden, who are also in office or candidates for office at an advanced period of born love, we aided and advised, and | life’ The same thing is observed in France, | went so far as to name certain prominent | where Girardin is announced as having as- and able men whose candidature would | be a recognition of worth and a gua- | rantee of popular approval. For we be- | lieved in the saints! The Heraup has always been a confiding paper, apt to regard gilt as gold until it hears the metal ring. We for- got, however, in the ardor of our precipitate affection, that there was more than one side to | Tammany Hall questions ; that while honesty, | probity, character, experience and popular | fame wero desirable qualities in a candidate, | sumed care of anew newspaper. Girardin is not as old as these venerable statesmen, being only in his seventy-second year; not an ad- vanced age in a country where Thiers was President at seventy-six, while Guizot died, an aspirant for the Presidency, at eighty-seven. Disraeli, approaching seventy, governs Eng- land, although Jenkins tells us he has to sit in fur boots to keep his feet warm, and Lord Russell would welcome an opportunity to suc- ceed Disraeli, notwithstanding his eighty-two years, Our liveliest and youngest politician there were other qualities far more important. | We did not remember the golden rule of mod- | ern politics, no less powerful in Washington | than in New York, that office is not for the | people nor for eminent fitness, but for one’s | self first, and, after, one's cronies and bosom friends. We might have remembered, if wo had not been so heedless in our enthusiasm, that this was also the maxim of our absent Tweed; that under the reign of that leader it was | | necessary to be a brother-in-law or a son-in- | law or a fellow bummer ina fireman’s bunk | is Thurlow Weed, whose years go back to the administration of Washington, while the three most important men in Europe are Gortscha- koff, the Chancellor of Russia, who is seventy- | six; Kaiser William, now seventy-seven, and the Pope, who is eighty-two. We can understand how Girardin, who is | one of the keenest of living men, would feel | comforted as he studies these facts, and believing that the world is at last coming to worship experience, buckle on his editorial armor and begin another newspaper. } Sultan. the foreboding fear of the country, would have been worth fifty thousand votes to the republican party of the State. It would have spiked the most formidable gun of its adver- saries and have enabled the party to moy; smoothly on to an assured victory. uti By the failure of the Utica Convention to follow the advice of the HERaLp qi , METROPOLIT. ZATRE, No, 585 Broadway.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at $P. M. BROOKLYN THEATRE, ONQUER, at SP. M.; closes at ll Mack TONY PASTOR No. 201 Bowery.—VARIE MRS, CONWA’ SHE STOOPS IC P.M. Mr, Lester OPERA HOUSE, atee. M. SAN FRAN Broadway. corner of MINSTRELSY, at 8 P, M. MINSTRELS, Twenty-ninth street —NEGRO | to receive recognition, and that in the blazing | In some respects journalism is like the | days of the Americus Club there was always | tarantula of whom Poe wrote a weird story. a domestic ait about Tammany, a sense of , Whoever is once bitten by it must always kinship among the candidates that made | dance. Whoever smells the lampblack and everything comfortable and pleasant, Some- | the midnight oil, or knows what it isto edu- ' thing like this we saw in our national adminis- | cate public opinion at two o'clock in tho tration when our incumbent Washington began | morning to the chorus of a thundering press, Dickens E, Third avenue, betw aid Sixty-fourth een Sixty-third streets. —INDUSIAIAL EXHIBITION. IRC BAIL! vs, er, atl P.M. and SP. M, TRE, and Third avenues.— KING DABO. THE GREAT NEW YORK crRcus, Fighth avenue and Forty-ninth street. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of ihirty-fifth street—PARIS BY NIGH(, ai 745 P.M. WoOoD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner ot OU RISTINA, at 2 P.M. : closes at 4:0 P.M. and Jopnson. A FLASH OF closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. E. Messrs. Huns HTNING, at 8 venport, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Jo, 0% Broadway.—VARIETY, at SP. M.; closes at 10:45 TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, October 6, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, Guatemata has been visited by a violent earthquake, and houses were thrown down | 4, Governor Dix to breast the current. If he | in the capital, with the loss of many lives, Tae Ixsverection in the Argentine States is | evidently formidable, and had the immediate effect of producing in London a panic in South American stocks, Ar Deenroor Park yesterday a fine race took place between American Girl and Copper- | bottom, the latter being a pacer. The former was the winner, five heats being required to decide the contest. A Wan or Races is threatened in the coal mines near Wilkesbarre, and this time it is to be between the Irishmen and the Welsh. It is the old question between men who will strike and won't let other men work. Tue Dexays in the Courts yesterday were in several cases not creditable to the lawyers, | who, having had ample time to arrange their cases, are delinquent in impeding the progress of justice. Tar Arrest of two Italians in this city charged with committing murder eighteen months ago in Sicily is a forcible illustration of the difficulty of escaping justice in modern days. Flight is almost useless when the whole civilized world becomes the pursuer of the fugitive. Bors m tae Crrx.—The excellence of our police arrangements was fully shown by the splendid hunt of the Texan bulls which en- livened this city on Sunday evening. During several hours a few steers kept the populace in a state of excitement bordering on a riot, and the worst and most excited among the crowds were the police themselves. When the news was received at Headquarters, had a few mounted police been ordered on duty with Jassoes much damage and fright to the com- munity might have been avoided. THE Ispux Wan.—The news from the Indian Territory is not encouraging. Gen- | position to third term, and the Custom | eral Miles has been compelled by the Chey- ennes to retreat from his advanced position, and dangerous raids are expected on the | Kansas border, Such troubles and disasters the country must continue to expect till the Indians are placed under the control of the | army, which is the only power that can deal | with them justly and effectually. The present policy pretends to be one of peace, but is really one of the principal causes of continued and unnecessary war. Tue Herarp axv tar Newsprarers.—We receive many complaints from residents up town that they frequently find it impossible, after eight or nine o'clock in the morning, to procure a copy of the Herp at any of the news stands in their neighborhood, and that, thus deprived of their favorite morning jour- nal, they have no alternative but to take some other one or wait till they can get the Henanp down town. These short supplies of the up- town deulers are, to 4 considerable extent, due to the risk, which is theirs, in their purchases from the office, Their extreme caution thus often results in a loss to themselves, with the disappointment of their customers, Hence- forward they must endeavor to mect the calls apon them for the Heratp; for otherwise, apon satisfactory evidence against him, the party failing in this duty as our factor will be bubetarded, » P.M; | 1874. | portunity was lost; but it is in oe General Dix to recover it. If a ned toathird term there is no good reason why he should not make his opinion known. Should the citizens of this State be brought to believe that he favors President Grant's supposed aspirations nothing would be more certain than his deteat. He cannot acquiesce in such a project; he cannot even be suspected of indifference on a subject which the country regards as fraught street HANS AND with so much danger without weakening his | hold on public favor. | one question on which Governor Dix cannot | aftord to trim in a conjuncture when his | political adversaries are making it the chief | engine of their assault on his popularity. | Public feeling has been too deeply stirred on this question, the sense of danger is too real, ored custom of which Washington set the | first precedent, is too steady, the shock which | has been given to public feeling by the appre- | hension that this safe custom may be broken is too violent for even so popular a statesman | were believed to favor a third term his defeat would be inevitable. If he were thought in- | different his apathy would be a heavy drag on his canvass. If it can be plausibly charged | that he shirks so grave a question from mo- | tives of expediency the public estimate of his | courage will be lowered. If he is opposed to a third term he owes it to his fellow citizens, whose votes he solicits, to frankly say so. If the Convention by which he was nom- inated had made a declaration on this subject | he would have been bound to accept the plat- | form or else decline the nomination. But | the Convention has left him free. He is at | perfect liberty to express any opinion he may | hold on any public question upon which the | Utica platform is silent. If asked his opinion | on the third term question it would be inex- cusable for him to practise any reserve or dis- guise, and if no occasion is offered for the ex- pression of his views he ought to find or to | make one. Why should he consent to be howled down by his adversaries as a represen- tative of opinions which are not his own? | Moreover, why should he decline to render the great service to the country of putting, as he might, an extinguisher on the third term controversy? If Governor Dix, in his present | position as @ republican candidate, should | boldly declare his opposition to a third term he would not only relieve his canvass of that incubus but would remove a great obstacle from the path of the republican party in the approaching Presidential election. Governor Dix has nothing to fear from the Custom House clique in making such a declar- ation, They cannot afford to withhold their | support or to exhibit coldness on such a ground. By doing so they would publicly con- yict General Grant of the third term aspirations which he is, as yet, reluctant to acknowledge. They would spoil his game by showing his band. If Governor Dix should declare his op- i} House politicians should thereupon grow cold | or turn against him, Generel Grant's secret, betrayed. He is not yet prepared to give the adversary 80 plain asight of his cards. He would be constrained to tell the Custom House people that they must not relax their efforts for the election of Dix. Nothing could be lost in that quarter, and outside of office- holding circles a repudiation of the third term heresy would add more to Governor Dix's strength than anything else he could do, No act of General Dix since he has been Governor so intrenched him in public confi- | dence as the high ground he took last spring the attachment of citizens to the time-hon- | so far as he tries to make it secret, would be | | to make his nominations to office from the | | family Bible of the houses of Grant and Dent. | It might have occurred to us that, although Tweed is absent, his spirit remains. Napo- | leon was an exile in St. Helena, but Napoleon- | | ism dominated France. Tweed is an exile | | on Blackwell’s Island, but Tweedism rules in | | Tammany. We do not see the diamonds, the | | tiger’s head, the club houses, the rosewood | stables, the Americus balls, or court houses | costing a thousand dollars a brick, for there | | are later phenomena, and we must. not expect We | mean Tweedism in a political sense, especially in its illustration of the departed leader's | golden maxim that office belongs first to one’s | self and then to one’s relatives, cronies and | bosom friends. So it is all settled, and the Hznaxp is out in | the cold like the rest of them, and the saints This is precisely the | the pupil to rival his master in a year. | of reformed Tammany are parcelling out | their offices to bosom friends just as Tweed | and Sweeny did in the old days—keeping | | the best slices for cronies and throwing a | bone or two out of the window to the Irish- | men below. Mr. Tilden was nominated for | Governor against the best party sense, be- | cause he was a bosom friend of Kelly. |Mr. Wickham is to be nominated for | Mayor for no other reason than to gratify the affections of the admiring John. Jimmy | Hayes, who is a rich man, is to be nominated | to an office that would be a comfort and a | blessing to many poor men—to turn out the gallant Sigel from his beer money—simply be- cause he is the bosom friend of Honest John | Morrissey. It is the old, old way, just as it | was in the happy days of ‘Big Six.’’ The | saints take all the tenderloins and juicy | morsels to themselves and cronies, and throw | the bones out to the howling crowd who wait | expectant under the windows. It is the old, old way, and will, no doubt, end in the old, old fashion, Reformed Tam- many will live about as long as Tweed’s Tam- many and fall as it fell. One dynasty simply succeeds another! Tweed is dead—long live | Kelly! The exile is more powerful in his | St. Helena of Blackwell's Island than he was when he waddled through the gilded saloons of the Americus Club and all Tammany hud- | dling at his heels. Men die or go to jail, but | principles live, and the honest men who now | rale Tammany have too much respect for their | master to ignore his teachings. Weall thought | they would do so; hoped for it, at least, and | believed in their political honesty as we be- | lieve in a cabman, who has ‘‘hack” written on hig hat. Honest John Kelly, like Colonel | Mulberry Sellers, looks upon Tammany only | asa speculation. ‘There's millions in it.’ | Millions for his friéads and relatives and cronies—for ‘Honest John Morrissey,’ “Honest Jimmy Hayes," ‘Honest Ned Shandley” and the ten tribes of saints who have transferred to him the affection they once lavished on Tweed. And we, with ail of our | suggestions, and hints, and words of en- couragement and sympathy—why, we are out | in the cold, with the crowd who know that the saints are giving the fat slices to bosom | friends, and waiting until they throw them the bones. jackett Lobbying. In his address to the Grand Jury Recorder | | Hackett cails attention to the practice of lobbying which has been introduced to the | jury room from political assemblies, and | points out forcibly the danger of permitting any tampering with justice. There would seem to be a law by which whatever was | brought into contact with politics became | defiled. The introduction of political squab- | bles to the law courts has turned the attention | Recorder Grand Jary i} can never escape the fascination. tells us in one of his stories that when Newgate was burned the prisoners who escaped were | nearly all retaken, because they would linger about the ruins. So with journalism, The editor may wander off into all manner of follies. He may enter Congress or the Senate, or become a soldier, or run for the Presi- dency, like poor, dear Greeley; but he will always come back to his first and most fervent love. Girardin has been an editor all his life. Greeley once said of him that he was the greatest living journalist, and that at a time when many great journalists were alive. What more natural than that ho should renew this career at seventy-two? This renewing our life in our career is not without its compensation. We forget who it is that tells us we live our own lives over again in the lives of our children. Most | probably it is Byron; for that poet also tells us that our children are ourselves reformed in | finer clay. An editor's children are his news- papers. They spring from his intellectual loins. When he loses one or it grows beyond him he seeks for another with the overmas- tering instinct of paternity. Girardin has created many journals. There was Le Voleur, which, unlike many journals, told the truth in its name, for it copied from the other newspapers. Then came La Mode, a journal of fashion and taste, which flourished under the smiles of the Duchess de Berry. More than forty years ago he printed his Journal | des Connaissance Utile, a newspaper of useful information, a monthly affair, sold for about six cents a number, and which reached a vast circulation, Like his admirer, Greeley, Gi- rardin had farming fancies, and established model farms, which were more profitable than Chappaqua. Then came almanacs, an atlas with penny maps—a literary Pantheon, which was to embody in a hundred volumes the best literature of all countries. His genius and industry were insatiate. But his real career as a journalist began when he founded the Press, in 1836, a daily paper at eight dollars a year. This brought upon him the wrath of his rival editors, who were as un- friendly then aos they are now. But Girardin | did not content himself with calling his on- tagonists pigs. He conquered his peace with # pistol and kept his career. The Press became a vast newspaper, was the beginning of cheap newspapers on the | Continent, and reached a hundred and fifty thousand circulation daily. It was the most famous newspaper of the period. Its.motto was, in clear English, one thought a day, or one idea at a time, and its success arose from the fact that the editor knew the mind of France. Girardin discovered the great jour- nalistic secret that a newspaper is printed every day. Critics called him inconsistent and grieved that he supported at one period or another all dynasties, all. parties, all gov- ernments. He basked under the Bourbons, counselled Louis Philippe, was radical in the Revolution of 1848, powerfully sided Louis Napoleon's election, only to oppose the Em- peror so resolutely that he was banished from France, But he printed newspaper every day, and therein was his strength. Then came his career in La Liberté, his effort to make the Empire popu- Jar, his loyal exertions for Franee when the | dark hour came, his support of Thiers and | his present advocacy of a republic. As a poli- tician Girardin has always been sincere, but not successful, for, like all real journalists, he was too good an editor to be a politician, His throne was his press, and whon he sat there he was supreme. Now that he reascends his throne his supremacy will retarn. In person Girardin resembles Tilden, the ‘‘bosom friend”’ | candidate of the democracy for Governor. He | against threatened inflation. That increase | of the reckless and conscienceless men who | has profound love for America, ‘If I wero of popularity was due partly to the fact that he was right, but chiefly to the fact that he expressed the universal sentiment of the citi- The vigilance of the worthy Judge has not would go to America,” zens of this State. It is in his power to make as advantageous a stroke on a question which is even more important, since it touches the | should abound in politics toward the corruption of not Frenchman,’ he said, “I would be on the courts in order to serve political ends. allowed the mew tactics to pass un- | noticed, and we feel confident that any of the men engaged in erusade against pubhe stability of our republican institutions. If this outrageous Governor Dix should declare his opposition | virtue be detected and brought before the | toa third term in language as vigorous as he | Recorder the public may be assured they will | employed against inflation he would be not go unpunished. Pointing ont the im- | equally right in principle, and would equally | portance of checking this evil, the Recorder | express the public sentiment of the State. It | said: ~The reasons which required secrecy is not only the most popular but the most | American, If I could not live in France I In this he resembles the best intellect of France, reminding us of the illustrious Guizot, who wrote a better lite of Washington than any American has ever succeeded in composing. His return to jour- nalism is an international event, and we salnte him in this new phase of his useful and remarkable career. The Nows from Europe. The news from Europe to-day is more than usually interesting. The Danish Parliament was opened yesterday by King Christian, who delivered in person the speech from the throne, and referred to his recent visit to Iceland, expressing his pleasure in the warm reception he met, A more important point of the royal address was his hope that the Schleswig difficulty would be peace- fally settled. The grounds for this belief were not given. Bismarck does not seem to be in a very agreeable mood, for he has had his old opponent, Count Von Arnim, who, it will be recollected, some time ago revealed State secrets in reference to the Council of In- fallibility at Rome, arrested by the police. This arbitrary measure required the friends of Von Arnim to make a direct appeal for the interference of the Emperor. In France the elections of members of the Councils General in several important departments have resulted in some republican defeats and also in some Bona- partist victories. These are indications of the change of feeling in France which we have been forced to prophesy and deplore. It is said that the state of parties will not be materially altered, The management of the government is unfortunately not wholly for the advantage of republicanism, and the Bonapartists have made advances which a year ago seemed almost incredible. The visit of ex-President Thiers to Italy is not improbably made in the interests of the Republic. Italy maintains her position with respect to the existence of a chronic deficit in the Treasury. The Minister of Finance hopes that this unpleasant hiatus will be filled up by the imposition of new taxes and an equitable adjustment of the fiscal dues, It will require about eleven millions of gold dollars to do this. Turkey is excited by the important matter of tho illness--of. the His Majesty isin a precarious con- dition of health, The question of the | succession to the Ottoman throne is perplexing to the household at Stamboul and it is likely to give rise to very much trouble should His Imperial Majesty be called off by | death, The view of the very possible con- | tingency opens again to the eyes of the world the question of the East. It may be that the | very gleam from the Orient is an exciting | cause of the State agitation which is evidently | commencing to rufile the temper of the gov- erning classes in the Old World. The Magic-Comet Race. vicinity will be treated to a friendly contest between the schooners Magio, Mr. William T. Garner, and Comet, Mr. William H. Langley, of the New York Yacht Club, that bids fair to be the nautical event of the year. On that day these rival yachts will sail over the club course in racing trim to decide which of their owners will become the custodian of the Commodore's | Challenge Cup of their class until next season. | The question of supremacy between them has | evoked considerable discussion in aquatic cir- cles, and much delight is expressed that the coming contest will take place under circum- stances exceptionally auspicious, such as the time of year, which brings to us breezes that raise the gray-bearded young billows off the Hook. The prize is a much-coveted guerdon, In the Magic all yachtsmen have an old and valued friend, and even outside of aquatic circles but few will fail to remember her. She has an eventful history, and her victories have been numerons, the grand- est of them all being that memorable triumph when, in August, 1870, she led the numerous fleet to the homestake in our bay and secured the victory over our English cousin which kept the Queen’s Cup in its old and comfortable resting place. At that time she carried the private signal of Mr. Franklin Osgood, afterwards Rear Commodore of the New York Club and owner of the yacht that | on frequent subsequent occasions caused Britannia to lower ber pennant to Columbia. It was on the deck of the Magic, in her early days, that Mr. Garner, as friend of Rear Com- modore Osgood, grew fond of this noble and | health-giving aquatic recreation, and, per- | haps, acquired some of the knowledge of sea- | manship and of the technicalities of naviga- tion he so well understands. Since that period his zeal and ardor in yachting matters | have been evidenced on many occasions, and as we have much reason to be proud of our supremacy in this amusement—involving as it does the twofold excellence of yacht building and seamanship—it is to such representatives as Mr. Garner that we must look for the main- tenance of the position we now hold. The Comet obtained possession of the Cup | by default, the Tidal Wave refusing to de- | fend it when challenged under the rules of the club, although the latter won it in the Juno regatta of this year. Though new, the Comet | has demonstrated that she is fast and entitled | to be classed among the ‘‘crack” schooners of | the club. Her owner, though young in years, is an old yachtsman, having cruised many | years in the saucy little sloop Addie. Al- | ways ready and willing to sail any kind of race, he has set his heart on the Comet win- ning this match and is doing his utmost to ac- complish it. Ifthere is the hoped-for wind on Tuesday next—just enough to make the yachts show their mettle—we warrant there will ensue a race between the representatives of the old and new schools of modelled pleas- ure crafts that no yachtsman can find it in his heart to murmur at. A Cloud in the English Sky. Tf we carefully read the official announce- ment from the London Times which was printed recently in reference to the debts of the Prince of Wales it will be seen to be of the utmost importance. Tho exact words of | the Times’ article are worthy of republica- tion: — At the present time the debts of the Prince On Tuesday next the yachtsmen of this | enostnaheneteiahienatie things the Prince cannot live within his in« come; that his excess of expenditure over hia receipts is taken from his private imcome—an income received from the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall, but that in time these Tevenues must be exhausted. In other worda,, the Prince of Wales, the heir to tho British Crown, is compelled to sustain the dignity of his rank by spending more money than he receives, He gives the income of the saving» of his economical father to “sustain the dig “nity of the Crown." ‘This is, therefore, something more than a mere statement or a denial. It is an argu- ment on behalf of the Prince, and prepares an application to Parliament for an increase of pay and allowances. The two command- ing facts are that the heir to the throne of England cannot live on his income, and that the Queen will not give him what is necessary to sustain his rank. If thero is. anything im royalty certainly the first peer of the realm: should not be a pauper; and it is very diff! cult not to regard a man asa pauper, be he’ prince or footman, who spends more than his income, and from day to day exhausts his principal. It is, of course, idle to speculate upon these contingencies. ‘The Parliament of the richest nation of the world will not be apt to grudge a few hundred thousand pounds. to the Prince of Wales, and certainly if a Prince of Wales is worth having he should be supported. But there is a spirit: alive in England that will not acquiesce in the demand for more money as quietly as a former Parliament assented to the request of his ancestor George IV. We print to-day some interesting facts about the debts of that eminent personage, and of those of* Prince Frederick, the eldest son of George IL, which will be found interesting ‘in this connection. There will come the question also that has been agitated for ten ‘years in every English circle, as to the disposi- tion made by the Queen of her enormous wealth. We do not see how this matter can pass without an agitation that must produce a prodigious impression .upon the mind of England. People will ask whether it is the best form of government that allows laborers to starve in the fields of Lancashire while a» royal Prince is squandering hundreds of thousands annually in London. Republicans at home who have growled over back pay, and increase of salaries to our own ralers will find food for thought in the circumstance that. under monarchies the same peculiar legislation - is necessary, and that, after all, model Eng. land is not much better than America. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Has anybody seen a buil on the street ? Tolerably rapid transit for those Butlalo balls, Treasurer Spinner will retura to Washington: to-day. Woere was Mayor Havemeyer when the bulls were lively ? Bishop W. H. Hare has arrived at the Fifth Ave- | nue Hotel. Ex-Governor William Denison, of Ohio, 13 at the Windsor House, ‘Weston is the worst bad penny the public ever had on 11s hands. Secretary Bristow returned to Washington from this city last evening. Bishop Alfred Lee, of Delaware, is residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Vice President Henry Wilson has apartments at the Grand Central Hotel. Bishop Theodore Lyman, of North Carolina, i¢ sojourning at the Brevoort House. Colonel Jonn H. King, United States Army, ts | registered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. H. R. Linderman, Director of the United States Mint, is at the St. James Hotel. Major Henry C. Bankhead, United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Rear Admiral Oliver S. Gilsson, United States Navy, 1s quartered at the Astor House. The Academy o! Fine Arts at St, Petersburg had no less than 305 students during the year 1873, Commander Theodore F, Kaue, United States Navy, yesterday arrived at the Hoffman House, Treasurer Francis E. Spinner arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday irom Washington, © Associate Justice Ward Hunt, of the United States Supreme Court, is at the Filth Avenue | Hotel. Lieutenant Governor John C. Robinson arrived at the St. Denis Hotel last evening from bis home at Binghamton. A Mr. W. Hepworth Dixon arrived from London yesterday in the steamship Republic and i3 at the Brevoort House. amount to alittic more than one-third of bis an- | nual mcome, and include scarcely any bills due | longer tan a year. ‘The Prince's balances at his | bankers’ to-day will more than suffice to meet | every claim. Itis true that the Prince is unable | to live within nis income, but the excess is pi | vided Irom atund which is his private proper’ | This fauna, which accumulated during the Prince's | mmority Irom vhe revenues of the Dachy of Corn- Wall, 18 still sufficient to meet the yearly deficit in his expenses, though the time may come when this resource will be exhausted. | Here are certain facts: That the Queen has | not paid the debts of her son; that theso | | debts are not very large, scarcely more than | one-third of his income, say about a quarter | of a million of dollars; that of these debts are of a nature looking to the public good, | the propriety of modifying the rule requiring | none are more than a year old; that thero is useful thing he could do in this juncture of | because, it the Grand Jury could leave their | the officers to wear their uniforms when | as much money as is required to pay these | affair, We would fain hope that be will | room and discloso what (hey were doing, off duty. but no conalusion wag reached, claims in bank to his credit; that among other | the Fire Department there, | way of disappointing expectation.” Judge E. R. Hoar says that General Grant has “a Ab, yeast What fine things we all expected of him, Sheridan, Pitt and Fox, says the Atheneum, all drank hard and worked hard. The pet states men of the past generation, they were all greatin the council of the nation, but not one of them could rule his own housenold, General Sherman left Washington last evening for St. Louis. He will stop a few days ta Cincim nati to place his children at school there, Will Mr. Bergn immediately prosecute all thé cruel people who annoyed and (rigntened these poor Texan steers ald then killed them, withoat gloves on. The Boston Public Library is about to issa¢ the catalogue of Mr. George Ticknor’s Spanish brary, presented to that institution four or five years ago by the nistorian. Dr. Newman went to the place where the daughters of Judah nanged their harps on the willows, and found by @ single remaining specimes that they were only Jewsharps, i ;; i ‘The inexhaustible Joho Timbs has now. done “The Abbeys, Castles. and Ancient Halla of Eng- | land and Wales; their Legends, Lore-and Popular History,” in three volumes. j Is is credibly reported that Mr. George W. Childs, ' of Philadelphia, 1s avout to purchase The Republic. It will be @ fine medium for his obituary poems, Brether Dana has probably not heard of this, Proiessor Von Hoist has uttered at Dusselb’ dorf an interesting lecture on the administration of Andrew Jackson. He takes rather dark views of onr civil service and of General Jackson's agency in debauching it, Beecher said on Sunday, “Thare is a great distin tion to be made between the disgrace of voluntary sin and the mistakes that come from infirmity.' If aman absolutely couldn’s help it, you know, that will be taken into consideration, M. Gravier, a French geographer of ability, hag just published a work, entitied “Découverte de VAmérique par les Normands au Xieme Stdcie," which gives a masterly summary of the evidence in favor of the pre-Columbian discovery of Amer. toa. General Shaler stated to a Chicago reporter that ‘under no circumstances would he take controi of He announced hia purpose to examine into the workings of the de- partiment yesterday and to-day and start for New York to-morrow. | Ithas been very diMenit for Mr. Beecher to be “saved from his friends.” Injudicious and um timely demonstrations of over-zealous champions | have done him harm all througn—even as he pointed out himself, 1s this Brooklyn indictment another fact of that sort, American Press Association despatches appear | In Tne Republic aixo. One more recruit, therefore. One of these days that association may get enough papers On its list to give ita pretty income, and then it will only need a little brains, and we aon’t see why it should not Lave ag good deapatches as BLY One cise