The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD -_—- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_-— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR QONDON OFFICE or THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. \Subseriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. LY Fourteenth stroct v LA FILLE DAME ANGOT, at 8P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. Gane, Mile. Minelly. THEATRE COMIQUE, DE Mule. Wo, 14 Broadway. VARIETY, at 9 Mh closes at 10.9 eM. PARK THEATRE, y, between iwenty-iirsi, and Twenty-second | sires GILDED AGE, at 5 P.M. Mr, John’, Kay- fuond. BOOTH's TE RE, orner of Twenty-lnaad street and’ Sixth avenne.— MARK srr TIMONIAL BEAEFTI, at 12 o'clo noon CONNIE SOOGAH, at SE “30 P. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wiibam CS THEATRE, H's TeSTIMONTAL BEN NEES FOR LIFE, } WAL Proadway.—MAKK tlo’ciock P.M. P. jontague. BS GERMANIA TI Pourteenth street.—AN NIBL! ARDEN, Broadway, between !rince and Houston streets,—THE DSLUGE, at 8 P.M.; closes at 1 P.M. The Kiralty | ‘Family. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, at 5 P. M. ; closes at LL .P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis James, Charles Fisher. ROBLY) ON HALT, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— | VARIBTY, at 5 P.M BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue,—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, até P.M. Dan Bryant ROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8P. M. MRS. CONWA ROSEDALE, at 8 P. Wallack. YN THEATRE. atl P.M. Mr. Lester FRR HOUSE, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway. corner of Twenty-ninth sireet.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, ats P.M. AMERI E, Third avenue, beereen third and Sixty-fourth streets. —INUUSTIAL EXHIBITION, BAILEY’S CIRCUS, wot of Houston street, East River, at i P. M. and 8P. M, THE GREAT NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fighth avenue and Forty-ninth street. COLOSSEUM, Brondway, corner of Thirty-fifth street.—PARIS GH, at 7:45 P.M. WOOD’s MUSEUM, BY Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street—HANS AND CHRISTINA, at 2P. M. : closes at M. Messre. Hans | and Jotnson. A FLASH OF Li NG, at 8 P.M; ITN closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. FE. L. Davenport. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Exe 624 Broadway.—VARISTY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 BARNUMS ROMAN HIPPODROME, Weston’s Walk. STEINWAY HALL. _ CONCERT, at § P.M. Miss Sophia Heilbron. TRIPLE HE BT. New York, Tharsday, October a 1874. From our segues this morning ie sa prakie ies are thai the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain. ‘Tue Rearsreation of our city voters so far indicates a large State vote compared with that of 1873; but still a short vote compared with that of 1872. Anorner Russian Expeprrion to Turkes- | tan will doubtless soon be called for, the bar- barous tribes of that immense country having | established a-reign of anarchy therein, and particularly against the Russians. Ganes or Rovrriays, it is reported, take possession of the emigrant trains on the Central Pacific Railroad, between Ogden and San Francisco, and plunder and maltreat the helpless passengers without a show of remon- strance or objection from the conductors. What has the Central Pacitic Company to say in answer to this charge? for it must be an- swered or it will be accepted as true by the travelling public. “ Rocueronr 1s Parrnc tax Penauty of his unfortunate notoriety in being driven from pillar to post in the pleasant city of Geneva. The hotel keepers are disposed to be hospitable enongh, but their other guests threaten to desert them if they give shelter to the famous ‘‘Lanternier;” so he is banished from hotel to hotel and finally | into the streets, where he is hooted by the | mob. He onght to imitate the example of great princes and travel tarognito. Tae Srrmino Feature in the session of the Episcopal General Convention yesterday | was the sermon of Bishop Selwyn, of Lich- field, England. The reverend prelate dis- cussed at length the Becessity of of the Protes- tant pastors taking measures to ‘advange the | missionary work and prevent the advance of | creeds not in sympathy with Protestantism. The words of such a prelate should be heeded. When the missionary efforts of the Roman | Church lead to the conversion of men like Lord Ripon it is time for Protestants to be alert, Av THe Mezrrna of the Baptist Missionary Union, which was held yesterday, Dr. Fulton delivered an eloquent address upon the preg- nant theme, ‘Concentration of effort neces- sary to denominational success.’’ A man must be passionate and earnest to succeed in | the Church, and the time had come for a resolute struggle to save souls. Dr. Fulton called attention to what the Roman Catholic Church was doing in the missionary cause, and he implored the members of the Union to imitate the discipline and energy of that body. In the evening the members showed great en- thusiasm in their work, and sang the beautiful hymn “Work, for the night is coming.”’ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, erdy Johnson. Mr. O'’Conor’s admirers, and they com- prise all lawyers entitled to stand in the | higher ranks of the profession, will feel new pride in his intellect in perusing the vigorous | letter which we print to-day. His personal friends will be gratified to find that advancing age brings no decay of his great faculties, which shine forth on this occasion with the | unabated splendor of his most brilliant efforts. His legal admirers could hardly find in the whole record of his forensic arguments a more marvellous specimen of acumen conveyed in felicitous diction than is presented in the letter which we lay before our readers. Be- sides the abilities of a consummate lawyer | | and logician Mr. O'Couor has a mastery of | apt legal phraseology which makes him a | model in that kind of style. Perhaps no | lawyer of his time save Webster, and in | | the opinion of many competent judges | not even Webster, has surpassed him | in that kind of diction of which the great | | lights of English jurisprudence provide the | examples—examples which few American | lawyers have tried to emulate, and none, | unless Mr. Webster be an exception, with such admirable success as Mr. O’Conor. The | exquisite finish given to legal arguments by | this great accomplishment strikes the spec- | tator like the last polish and keen edge of the | | weapons employed by a different order of | combatants. Mr. O’Conor is also the greatest | | living master—he deserves to rank with the | greatest masters that have ever lived —of the veiled and courteous sarcasm which reminds | one of the famous executioner whose wife | | boasted that he could take off a head with so | neat a stroke that the spectators could hardly perceive that it was severed from the trunk until it dropped by seeming accident, Some ihe: Mr. O’Conor's nicest exhibitions of this | kind of skill will be recognized in his present | letter ; but obvious motives of courtesy forbid | |us to point them out. But the glittering | | polish of controversial weapons is something | | separate ‘from the sureness of stroke which | | leaves an antagonist disabled on the field. The public must not allow itself to be | dazzled by the brilliancy of Mr. O'Conor's | controversial tactics. The real merits of the controversy may be discovered by men less | wonderfully equipped for such gladiatorial ex- | hibitions than this consummate master of | legal fence. Mr. O’Conor's arguments must | | be weighed in the same impartial balance as | | those of inferior men. Some parts of his | | answer to Mr. Johnson seem triumphant, but | the public and the legal profession may | wisely suspend their judgment until Mr. ; | Johnson shall have been heard again. The | strength and stress of Mr. Johnson's last | argument rested on the assumed consequences | of a reversal by the President of his first de- | cision. Mr. O’Conor argues, with great force | and cogency, that those apprehended conse- | quences would not follow; that all private rights which accrued under the Kellogg ad- | ministration would remain untouched it he | should be deposed. Until a successful reply | is made the opinion of Mr. O'Conor on this | | point would seem to be correct; and if so | | Mr. Johnson’s position would seem materially | weakened, if not quite undermined, The | | | authorities cited by Mr. O’Conor on this point | } seem very pertinent, and we are curious to see | | how Mr. Johnson will parry them. | Itmay perhaps seem presumptuous in us to hold decided opinions on points which divide these great lights of our jurispru- | dence. But, since they differ, our freedom of | judgment is not restrained by authority, and | when learned doctors disagree reason and not | authority must be the umpire. Before pro- ceeding to state additional reasons in support of the views we expressed at the outset of this controversy we trust we may be pardoned | | for criticising one point made by Mr. | O’Conor in the letter printed to-day. He says that the constitution ‘‘confers no express power on the President or even on Congress ; | | it is the ‘United States’ that must protect the true State governments ‘from domestic vio- lence. Mr. O'Conor seems to have over- looked one of the most important, and, as re- gards this controversy, most pertinent pro- visions of the federal constitution. We claim | no originality for the point we are about to state. It is often presented in the works of | | Mr. Calhoun, with an emphasis which attests the importance which that profound constitu- | tional reasoner attached to it. The point is that every undistributed or unassigned | power conferred on the federal government is | | vested in Congress. The provision which that | great statesman and masterly logician per- | petually quoted in support of this view is | this : —‘Congress shall have power to make | all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof.’’ The argument which Mr. Calhoun deduced from this part of the constitution admits of no successful answer. All the implied powers of | the federal government, all powers vested in | the United States without defining the mode | of their exercise, belong to Congress, No | other department or officer of the ie foderal gov-. | ernment can take any step toward putting | | them in execution until Congress shall have passed laws conferring the requisite anthority. | This seems so plain on the very face of the constitution that the opinion of Mr. Calhoun, who laid such a constant stress upon it, can | add nothing to its intrinsic foree. Every power conferred on ‘the United States’’ or on the | federal government without defining the de- | Mr. O’Comor’s Second Letter to Rev- | although it is the main hinge of the question. | been convinced that Mr. Calhoun’s arguments | the existing law, but what action Congress | action on the part of the authorities. A num- | nationality to exclude men of another from | When the constitution pledged “the United States’’ to protect each State against domes- tic violence it clothed Congress with a su- | preme discretion as to the manner in which | the pledge should be fulfilled. We have long | on this point admit of no valid answer. The proper hinge of the controversy is not, there- fore, what the President is bound to do under ought to take in view of the new complica- | tions. We think we can successfully defend the position taken by the Hzraup when Kellogg was suddenly ousted by the Penn movement. Our position was that the President was | bound to support and reinstate Kellogg in spite of the flaws in his original title. We have seen nothing to shake our confidence in the grounds of that opinion. In the first place, it is the dictate of common sense, and common sense is the foundation of most opin- ions which a public journal is compelled to have been printed in letters of gold form on the spur of a sudden occasion. But and distributed to __ every postmaster in careful investigation convinces us that the land. We admit the argument might in this instance, at least, common sense and the constitution are in perfect ac- cord. The very purpose of that part of the constitution invoked on this occasion was to prevent changes by force and violence in the government of a State. Revolutionary | violence, such as the supporters of Penn re- sorted to, is the precise thing against which | the constitution meant to set up a barrier. On this point also we prefer to cite Mr. Cal- houn rather than any other authority, because of his great and deserved weight in the Soutb- | ern States. He discussed the various ques- | tions growing out of the federal guarantees to the States with greater logical precision than | any other statesman or any jurist who ever | undertook to handle the subject. ‘The quota- tions which we will insert from the sixth vol- ume of his works are a correct statement of | the purpose of this part of the federal consti- | tution, and they fully vindicate the position taken by the Hznatp at the time when the re- cent Louisiana disturbance arose. If there is some repetition in the extracts it shows how | deliberate were that great statesman’s convictions on this point. Speaking of | a faithful enforcement of the guarantees Mr. Calhoun said:—‘'The great and leading effect would be to put an end to all changes in the form of government and constitution of the States originating in force or revolution.’ And again:—‘‘But very imperfect, indeed, would their task have been lett if they had not adopted effectual means to guard all the paris against the lawless shocks of violence and revolution.’’ And still again:—‘‘But while | the framers of the federal constitution thus protected the system against changes by the rude hand of violence and revolution, they were too experienced and wise to undertake | to close the door against all changes,’’ We | could multiply such quotations to almost any extent, and could match them with abundant language of the same purport from the Feder- \ alist. Unless Hamilton, Madison and Calhoun totally misconceived the purpose of the federal guarantees they were intended to prevent changes in the State governments by force. The Penn movement in Louisiana overthrew a de facto State government by force, and we still believe the Heranp was right in the prompt stand it took in favor of peace and order against revolutionary violence. Labor Troubles in Pennsylvania. The trouble between the Welsh and Irish miners in Moosic has necessitated vigorous ber of men supposed to have been concerned in stopping the work were promptly arrested and carried off to prison by Sheriff Whitaker | and his posse. No resistance was offered to the representatives of the law, but the feeling against the Welshmen seems to have been deepened by the action of the authorities, and some apprehenston is felt lest, as soon as the Sheriff's posse withdraws, the disturbances will be renewed in an aggravated form. It is to be hoped that these fears aro unfounded and that the miners will recognize the folly of their attempt to dictate to the com- pany who shall be employed or’ dis- charged. The attempt of men of one the right to labor must in the end react unfa- vorably against those making it. In addition to its wickedness, in the present case it is re- markably silly and without any of the usual justifications of national jealousies, But the mutual dislikes of men who have found ahome in this country must be restrained within the limits of legality, and any at- tempt to use violent measures in the settle- ment of disputes must inevitably call for the prompt and vigorous interference of the authorities. So far the arrangements for preserving the peace in Moosic merit the highest praise, and we hope to see such precautions adopted as will save the dis- trict from the disgrace of mob violence. An exhibition of resolution on the part of the authorities is the best guarantee of peace and order, as the evil-disposed will think seriously before venturing to come into deliberate con. flict with the law backed by adequate force, ae Count Von Arnim’s Imprisonment, A lively sensation, intensified by mystery, has been created throughout Europe by the imprisonment of Count Von Arnim on the charge of secreting important papers of which the German government wishes to gain pos session. There is more curiosity about the contents of these documents than on any other point, for Bismarck’s great anxiety to partment or officer charged with its execu- get hold of them indicates that they are of a {we serve The Republic, that the reason the | Heraxp does not approve the ‘‘bosom friend- ; But he is an American and should know better. | the editor of the Herarp than this—that the Emperor William, who is at Baden, had no knowledge of the arrest and has required ex- planations. Should the papers be published it may turn out that concealment of their con- tents from the Emperor was more important to Bismarck than concealment from the public. Words with Friends. The deep interest which the Henatp takes in the fortunes of the new administration organ, The Republic, leads us to be somewhat sensitive as to the tone of some of its com- ments. The Republic, as our readers well know, is the accepted organ of the President, and although somewhat indefinite in the expression of its views on leading themes, like the third term, we recognize the wisdom and gallantry which mark its devotion to the party and true party mterests. In yesterday's issue there was an article defending Collector Arthur, Surveyor Sharpe, Naval Officer Laflin, District Attorney Bliss, and Davenport, the enfant terrible of the Ring, which should be made that nothing could be more ungracious than to defend an official like Col- lector Arthur, for instance, whom no one had ever attacked. Something, however, must be permitted to the new-born enthusiasm of a journal which comes bounding into the arena full of love and loyalty, and willing to live ‘or die, but preferably to live, for the administra- tion and the incumbent at Washington. But it is not pleasant to be told bya journal that we are striving to serve, as earnestly as — ship” principle of politics which now controls the Tammany Ring is that its editor has not been nominated for Mayor. If the editor of The Republic were an English- man simply sojourning in New York to study the institutions of the country we could un- derstand how such a mistake could be made. There is no fact more clear to the mind of journalist who enters politics commits suicide. The founder of this journal, nearly forty years ago, in laying down the principles which have never ceased to govern the Hera, said, in the first number that was ever published: — “We mean to be perfectly understood on this point, and, therefore, openly disclaim all steel traps, all principle, as itis called, all party, all politics. Our only guide shall be sound, practical, common sense, applicable to the business and bosoms of men engaged in every- day life. We shall support no party, be the organ of no faction or coterie, and care noth- ing for any election or any candidate, from President down to constable.” These golden words were written in 1835. They control the policy of the Herap now as absolutely as when they were written by its | venerated founder. The Henatp of 1874 cares no more for the mere evanescent John Kellys and John Morrisseys of this day than the Heratp of 1835 cared for the ruling, but now long forgotten, spirits of the Tammany of that day. When The Republic, in the excess of its administration zeal, intimates that tho editor of the Heratp would have supported John Kelly had that ‘bosom friend”’ ‘thrown the handkerchief” in the form of a nomina- tion to office it utterly fails to comprehend the inexorable policy of this journal. We recognize a contract with the people— to serve them with honesty, enterprise and candor. We find the news if news is to be found on this revolving globe. We comment upon it in a spirit of the utmost courtesy and sincerity. The people respect this purpose by giving the Heratp the premiership in American journalism. We could certainly make no baser response to this confidence than to go gadding around among the ‘‘bosom triends” of Tammany for an office that has been filled by a Havemeyer and may be filled by any vagabond in the city, or, indeed, for any office under the government. Office to a journalist is suicide. Bryant saw this and declined a first class mission. The founder of the Heratp saw it and re- jected the French mission when it came from Abraham Lincoln. Neither Greeley nor Ray- mond would see it, and to them the end was very sad. For ourselves we cherish the tradi- tion of the Hznanp—‘‘We shall support no party, be the organ of no faction or coterie, and care nothing for any election or any can- didate, from President down to constable.” Tae Jenome Park Races.—With splendid weather and a track in good condition six spirited races were yesterday contested on the American Derby. Interest was lent to the events of the day by the unexpected vic- tory won by old Fadladcen in the first race for a purse of $800. Preakness was the favorite and the winner scarcely quoted. The Hunter's Stakes, too, were won unexpectedly by Madge, one of the well known Australian stock, The day’s sport was brought toa close by a spirited steeplechase, won by Trouble, a descendant of Mickey Free. The contest be- tween this horse and Vesuvius was very close and exciting. Fortunately the light rain in | the afternoon delayed long enough not to interfere with the enjoyment of the sport. Tue Lorp Mayor or Dvsin and several members of the Irish team sailed for Ireland yesterday on board the Abyssinia. His Lord- ship was attended by numerous friends, and carried away with him the regrets of a large circle of acquaintances. During his stay in this city the Lord Mayor received the customary civic hospitalities and acquired the esteem and friendship | of those with whom he came in contact. | be sure, it bore a sort of mythical char- tion is a power vested in Congress, and can | compromising character, and that their pub- be exercised only in conformity with laws | lication would be especially awkward for passed by that body. If Congress had passed | him. Von Arnim has been subjected to strict | no law relating to the guarantee against do- | prison discipline as a means of extorte mestic violence the President could have | ing either the papers or a statement | taken no action whatever on the subject. | of the place where they are secreted; but if This power of interference is precisely what Congress has clothed him with, neither Tue Atapama Ch AIMS Commsstoxens de- | cided one or two points yesterday, se’ titling the greater nor less. It is within the constitu- | interpretation of the law but exposing its in- | tional competency of Congress to repeal that | he has fortitude enough to stand out the | arrest and imprisonment will prove a great mistake. The missing documents have been justice to a deserving class of claimants. The | most numerons sufferers by the depredations of the Confederate cruisers were the captured seamen who were thrown out of employment, lost their wages, and were de- tained in foreign lands. The machinery ot the law is adapted to the cases of the Keavy claimants, such as shipowners and insurance companies, and it operates as a substantial | denial of justice to the seamen. The law will probably be amended at the next session ot Congreas. so sensationally advertised that it they should ever be published they will be universally read with eager interest, whereas they might otherwise have attracted little attention, they contain damaging tacts Bismarck is taking the surest way to spread and extend the | law and enact another enlarging, abridging or modifying the power of the President in such cases at pleasure. Congress is the su- preme authority in this whole class of ques- tions, and one of the most useful services Mr. Caoun ever rendered to our constitutional | injury unless he can extort their return by the jurisprudence consisted in his establishing | severity he is practising on Von Arnim. A | this doctrine on impregnable grounds. The | Berlin despatch states that they have probably | complete subordination of the President to | been conveyed to England for safe keeping, | Congress in executing the federal guarantees | and, if #0, they are beyond reach or recovery, is a point which both Mr, Johnson and Mr. | unless the contumacious Count can be re- O'Conor have lost sight of in this controversy, | duced to submission, It is rumored that the If | General regret has been felt at the shortness | of his visit, and we hope that the example svt | by the honorable gentleman will be followed j action, We do not seo that his reply has any by other civic dignities of the Old World. A Fresu Examrre of the heedless stupidity, or revolting inhumanity, of our | police, is presented in the case of Thomas Weiger, who died at Bellevue Hospital from injuries received in some unknown man- ner. Coroner Eickhoff is to hold an inquest, and it will probably appear that the poor man, who was given to intoxication and had fallen | from o shed, had his ribs and collar bono | | broken by the fall before he was taken up by | the police and arraigned on a charge of | | drunkenness. It is a piece of criminal and | brutal carelessness that injuries so severe and which resulted in death should not have been discerned by the policemen. Such instances of revolting neglect of the ordinary offices of humanity are quite too common in our police | | farce, | tended to silence political discussion, but | | counting of the votes, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Worcester Convention, The republicans of Massachusetts, for the first time in several years, had a quiet and un- exciting State Convention yesterday. During the war period and the reconstruction period the great feature of these annual gatherings was a trumpet-tongued speech by Charles Sumner, calling on the faithful to gird up their loins for the conflict. Yesterday there was @ commonplace party speech by Mr. Dawes, the President of ih» Convention. For the last two or three years the inevita- ble Butler, that enfant termble of the Massa- chusetts republicans, has raked the fires under the overboiling caldron of strife by pressing his claims to the Governorship; but this year he sent a letter declaring that he was not a can- didate, thereby divesting the Convention of all interest by withdrawing the great bone of con- tention. It was, accordingly, as flat and tame as any cut-and-dried affair could well be. ‘Talbot had a majority on the first ballot, and his nomination was thereupon declared unani- mous. The liquor prohibition movement is likely to be feeble and insignificant; the demo- crats, who have put up an excellent candidate for Governor, are in ahopeless minority, and the republicans will sail to success on stagnant water. Butler's pet prolégé, Collector Sim- mons, will find nothing to disturb his serenity, ‘i gud he need borrow no trouble about the can- vass. It is to be regretted that parties are not more equally divided in the Old Bay State, and that there is nothing to infuse life and animation into the political contest. So tame an election has no tendency to educate the people on public questions, The platform ot the Massachusetts republi- cans is a string of platitudes. It protests against inflation, as if Grant’s veto and the great abundance of money for this fall’s busi- ness had not killed inflation stone dead. It denounces the White Leagues ot the South, but it would have done better had it de- nounced the abusive and oppressive mongrel governments which provoke a suffering people to resist! The best proof of a good govern- ment is a contented people. ‘Lhe platform recommends honesty in public stations, but every party makes these cheap and lavish professions. It flatters the laboring popula- tion, but does not tell what it proposes to do for them. It declares that the republican party repudiates and punishes its own scoun- drels, but we wish this might come true of its 1apacious and remorseless carpet-bag scoun- drels in the South, not to mention some others who are, as yet, ‘“unwhipped of justice.’’ Its sixth and last resolution isa fulsome lauda- tion of Governor Talbot, who was last year thought adequately rewarded by the nomina- tion for Lieutenant Governor, became Gover- nor by Mr. Washburne’s election to the United States Senate, and is now renominated for the Chief Magistracy of the State. Like their political brethren in most of the other States the Massachusetts republicans are silent on the third term question. The Comptroller and the Record Job. In fighting the City Record job the Comp- troller does good work for the people and de- | serves a medal, even though it should only be | of leather made from the hide of an animal raised on Ryan’s farm. In the old Ring days the Transcript was the organ of the municipal magnates. There was something gorgeous about the Transcript, like Tweed’s diamonds and the Americus badges. It flashed before the eyes of the people now and then in the tax levy for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was a placer yielding enormous nuggets of pure gold, and people regarded the mysterious organ with reverential awe. To acter. Few persons saw it or knew whence it came or whither it went. But the boldness of its raids on the public treasury entitled it to the respect that one feels for such magnificent operators as Dick Turpin and Swartwout. The City Record is tho organ of the new Ring. It is a petit larceny swindle on the citizens of New York. The idea of its origin was no doubt suggested by the knowledge of the Transcript | plunder; but the boldness that marked the Transcript job is lacking in the City Record. The latter is run by a supervisor, who is paid five thousand dollars a year. This office pen- sioned off first a clerk of a legislative com- mittee on account of a republican Sena- | tor, and next o former secretary in Mayor | Havemeyer’s office. Every dollar paid out of the public treasury for this organ, whether for | supervisor, assistants or printer, is an imposi- tion upon the taxpayers of New York. Its | publication is a direct injury to the city, since | no person sees the paper, and advertisements for bids for labor, supplies or loans on city bonds and stock that appear in its columns | are thrown away. If Mr. Green, by fighting | the publisher's contract, can destroy the City | R«cord the people will be very well sutisfied. As to the matter of expense in publishing the | | city advertising, if the proper authorities will send to the Heratp the notices of bids for public works, supplies and loans, we will publish them as news free of charge. ‘They | will thus secure a circulation somewhat larger than they would have enjoyed in the City | Record, and the small leakage from the treas- | ury that now drips into the City Hail cellar | | will be stopped. A New Muppre m Lovrstana has arisen out of the address of the conscrvative State | committee, which has provoked Governor Kellogg to make the reply telegraphed from | New Orleans and printed this morning. He accuses the conservative committee of ripping open old sores and misrepresenting his own tendency to produce the harmony which he professes to desire. The arrangement agreed on in the conference was not in- | only to secure a fair election and an honest | The McEnery party and the Kellogg party remain as free to ex- | pose and denounce each other as if no such | arrangement about the registration and voting | had been made. It is ridiculous ond childish for Kellogg to complain that he con- tinues to be criticised by the conservatives, It is an election that is to take place, not a com- promise. One party or the other will be out- voted, and each is entitled to use all the custom- ary weapons of political warfare. bound itself to relinquish any other advan- ‘tage than the dishonest one of cheating at the polls. Kellogg is very foolish in claiming exemption from the ordinary attacks made on ‘wnblic officers bv theit political opponents, Neither has | Battons. Commissioner Disbecker proposes to mod- ify the “buttons” order, so far as the police are concerned. Uniforms, under his revised rule, are to be worn when on duty, by the regular platoons and the reserves, and by all policemen whenever there is oc- casion to suppose that the services of the off duty men may be required. When not om duty, with the above limitations, private clothes may be worn; but men on the force, whether uniformed or in citizen's dross, are to be subject to police regulations and to do duty when required at all times, Commis- sioner Disbecker and Commissioner Matscll differ in their views of the new proposition. Disbecker pronounces the rule requiring the policeman to shut himself up at all times behind his buttons as tyrannical; while Matsell believes that the policeman must be “an automaton” if the discipline of the force is to be made perfect. Disbecker has a poet's view of liberty and tyranny, inspired by his literary labors on the (ity Record. Matsell, who is almost as old as Have- meyer, cannot get rid of the impression that the police force of New York ought to con- sist of one hundred good and true men, armed with rattle, lantern and blunderbuss. Whichever rule may eventually become per- manent the force should be required to obey without murmuring. Policemen in New York are not like the military forcein France or Germany. They can resign at any moment if they do not like the occupation, and thou- sands of men can be found ready to step into their places, When shields were first pro- posed the men objected, and when uniforms _ were introduced there was nearly | a revolution in the force. Now comes this new opposition to orders. After all, why should the police- man be ashamed of his buttons? They ought to be evidence of good character. And do they not make their wearer the hero of areas and doorsteps—the admiration of nurses and the pet of cooks and housemaids? A sensible policeman shouldbe as proud of his uniform as a peacock is of his tail or as Havemeyer is of his famous aerial ladder. Tue Brinceronr Recarra came off yesters day, and, in spite of some bungling in the arrangements, was interesting and spirited. The course was laid out so that the spectators could watch the progress of the race from the beautiful Seaside Park. At Yonkers the boat clubs Vesper and Palisade rowed for the champion pennant, and quite unexpectedly the Palisade crew came in ahead. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Nismes will erect a statue of Guizot. Now, then, for a Russian expedition to Turkes tan. Bishop Gregory T. Bedell, of Ohio, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Miss Neilson, the actress, has apartments at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. Montgomery Blair, of Maryland, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Cook, of the steamship Russia, is resid- Ing at the Brevoort House. Bishop J. W. Wiiliams, of Quebec, yesterday ar- rived at the Windsor Hotel. Senator John W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, has arrived at the New York Hotel. Hon, W. Maxwell and Hon. H. Loftas, of Eng- land, are at the Brevoort House. Governor Dix reviewed the Twenty-fifth brigade, N.Y.S.N.G., at Rochester yesterday. Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermont, ts stopping at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Rear Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Stephen Preston, Haytien Minister at Wash- ington, 1s registered at Barnum’s Hotel. Another parson in trouble out West. gravings in the case. Got tipsy at a horse race. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, of Hartford, ta among the latest arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel. Don varios, it would appear from the lodgement of that bullet, evidently had a “stomach for the fight.” M. Charles FE. K. Kortright, British Consul at Philadelphia, arrived last evening at the Brevoort House. Judge Theodore Miller, of the New York Su- preme Court jor the Third district, is staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, is in town in at- tendance on the Triennial Convention. He is the guest of Dr. Washburne, of Calvary church, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, of tne United States Supreme Court, arrived from Washington yesterday morning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Right Hon. W. E. Forster and Sir T, F. Buxton, of England, arrived here yesterday in the steam- ship Russia and are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. A notable sporting book, called “The Noble No en- | Science,’ by F. P. Radcliffe, will soon be repub- lished by Routledge & Sons. scarce, Mr. Jacob Thompson, of Tennessee, formerly United States Secretary of the Interior and after- ward a brigadier in the Coniederate army, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. M. Rénaud, who is not a restorationist, has put forth at Paris “Les Crimes des Bonapartes; It has long been | guivi d'un abrégé de i’Histoire de France et de Napoléon aux Enfers.”” There is some discrepancy in the reports of the | forthcoming marriage of Colonel Grant and Miss Honore. One statement fixes it for the 200n inst, | another for November 2, It is clear that the single function of The Repub- lic thns far is to parade the great Mambo Jumbo of Southern outrage with which to frighten little republican voters in the rural districts. As a result of the recent eruptions of Etna a fise sure three miles long has been opened on the northern side of the mountain, in the course of which several minor craters are formed. Open war in France between the Empress.and Plon-Pion, Prince Charles Bonaparte, who runs against Plon-Pion in the Corsica election, 1s.sup- ported by the Empress and the Prince Imperial. The Republic is trying to make @ catalogue of federal office-holders in this city not suspected of corrupt practices, It gives four names; and as to | some of these—well, well, it’s a censortous world. “gcientific London,” by Mr, B, H. Becker, wilh be @ nook devoted to an account of the Royal So- ciety, Society of Arts, Royal institution, the Statia tical Society, the Royal Geographical, the Geo- logical, and all the other scicntife institutions and societies in the metropolis. Judge Pierrepont is personally satisfied that Grant does not want @ third term, and feels called upon to explain why Grant makes sucn 4 secret of @ tact in which the public necessarily take great interest. His explanation is, that Grant, like Faistaf, will not “give reasons on compal- sion.” An unpublished romance of Alexander Dumas the father is known to exist, and may shortly be given to the public. It has a pecuitar history. Dumas, though he recetved a great deal of money, never retaimed much. And he Wished late in life to provide fur a third child, an illegitimate daugh= ter, who was likely to be left penniless in case of his doath, He wrote this romance, therefore, for her fortune, and certainly she is well provided, for. Ex-Governor Hoffman and his family, who, haver | been in Europe for the last two years, arraved in the Russia yesterday. The ex-Governor in the alter+ noon proceeded to Sing Sing, where his.relatives: reside, His tour seems to have been @ beneficial! | one to him, a8 he is much stouter than when he | left and jooks ruddier aud healthier than he hag looked for several years. During the brief stay | he made at his hotel in the city neveral of his Now York Irionda Called to nay their reaneaca,