The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business ee news letters and telegraphio | despatches must be addressed New Yore Heavy. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—FAUS/, at 1:30 P.M. Mile, Heilbron, Miss | Cary, Signor Carpi. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:30 VOM, Matinee at 2 P.M. | PARK THEATRE, | Broadway, between iwenty-first aid Twenty-second mreews.—GILDED AGE. at 8 P.M. Mr. John T. hay. mond, Matinee at 2 P. M, BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-tuird street and CONNIE SOOGAH, at $ P. M.* closes at 10:30 P. and Mrs. Barney Williams. Matinee at 1:30 P. M Sixth avenue.— MOM. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—PARTNERS FOR LIFE, at P.M. Mr. J. Montague. Matnee at2 P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—DR, WESPL’S COMEDY, at 8 P. M NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houswn streeta—THE DiLUGE. at 8 ¥.M.; closes at il P.M. The Kiralfy Fawily, Matinee at? P.M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. THE SCHOOL |) OR SCANDAL, at 1:0 P.M. THE HANGING OF THE CRANE and THE ORIIC, av 8 P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis James, Charles Fisher. ROBINSON HALL, fixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— VARIETY, at 3 P.M. BRYAN OPERA HOUSE, Weat Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINBTRELSY, at 8 P.M’ Dan Bryant Matinee at 2 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway.—VAKIELY, at2 P, M. and 8 P.M. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, at 2 P. M.- ROSEDALE, at SP. M.;closesatll P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack. TO} PASTOP’S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 BoweP¥.—VARIKTY, ati P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, . corner of Twenty-ninth street.—NEGRO -LSY, at8P, M. Matinee atz P. M. en a STRIAL BXHIBITION, Px gue coLosskuM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-Afth street—PARIS BY NIGHT, a 29) P, Mand 745 P.M. Broadws MINST! ‘Third avenue, sueets.—INLU WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner oi Thirtieth street —& FLASH OF LIGHTNING, at 2 P.M; closes at 4:30 P. M.; and at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. E. L. Davenport. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 024 Broad way.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at2 P. M. BARNUM’S ROMAN HIPPODROME. Weston’s Walk. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixtn avenue.—LA PILLE DE | MADAME ANGOT, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mile, ‘aimee, Mile. Mineliy, Matinee atz P.M. NEW YORK CIRCUS, hy a avenue and Porty-ninth street—At?P, M and | E SHEET. Octo! TRIPL New York, Saturday, x 10, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—The market was active and lower. Stocks declined with- out an exceptional instance. Gold was steady at 110 a 1104. Ms. James Panton lectured last night, before the Liberal Club, upon ‘‘Our Scandal- ous Politics.’’ It would have been more ap- propriate had it been delivered before Tammany Hall. Tox Starz Scurursc Race was yesterday won by John Biglin, over James Ten Eyck, in the excellent time of three miles in twenty- three minutes. We give the full history of this exciting race. Tae Prrmovrn Cuvrcn Prarer Mezermna last evening was made more interesting by the presence of Mr. Beecher, whose address to the members upon their religious duties and the differences of the clergy and the laity is published elsewhere. Tae Parat Zovaves, who, a few years ago, fell in defence of the Papal power, yesterday received religious commemoration in the Ro- man Catholic churches of New York. The sermon of Rev. Father Preston is recapitulated to-day. As Anrrumerica. Prostem—lIf five hun- | dred men and boys, in the course of an hour, ata primary election, can cast five thousand votes, how much can they do if allowed a free course in a regular eleetion working all day on the State, city and county tickets? Brwance’s Onoan 1x Beri announces that the matter of Count Von Arnim’s arrest is not connected with politics, but is simply a matter of criminal prosecution with which neither the Foreign Office nor the German Chancellor have any concern. What, then, has the ex-Ambassador done? From THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION comes | news that the insurrectionary movement has | vssumed very alarming proportions at Buenos yres and that a battle was imminent be- veen the rebel force and the troops cf the ate. Citizens continued to flee from the me of disturbance in great numbers. the city of Montevideo was filled with the « fugees. Tae Catnouic Toran Anstixexce Conven- wtow of Chicago met the other day, and after veeeiving reports, which showed an increased membership, approved an address to Arch- bishop Manning expressive of the gratitude of Americans for the energy he has shown in the cause in England. There certainly can be no nobler, no more important mission than that of trae temperance, for our criminal reports show that nearly all crimes are the result of excessive use of ram. But for the abuse of whiskey we might dispense with almost half of our nolice, The Tammany Convention. The Convention to place candidates in nomination on the part of Tammany Hall will assemble this evening. The two offices that are most important are the Mayoralty and Registership. One would reasonably suppose that in nominating a candidate for an office so important as the Mayoralty there would be earnest competition and care in the selection ot representative men. But the Convention isa mere form. It is an emasculated body. It simply meets to record the will of two per- sons, The imperial power has acted, and these delogates only hasten to record its will. It is only representative so far as it represents the ambition or the purposes of John Kelly and John Morrissey. Mr. Wickham will be nominated for Mayor. Mr. Wickham is a pleasant gentleman, hand- some, manly, with clear blue eye and Saxon complexion, and would fill the office accept- ably. Mr. Wickham represents nothing. He is only an expression of John Kelly's friendship. So far as the possession of any actual power is concerned we might as well have for a candidate a wax figure of one of Artemus Ward's apostles. For Register Jimmy Hayes will be nominated. This office is one of the most lucrative under the American gov- ernment. Its revenues have been estimated at from seventy-five thousand to a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars a year. Itis now held by General Franz Sigel, who came hero from Baltimore to accept it. General Sigel has made a good officer—that is to say, he has drawn the money regularly and salted it down, let us hope, for rainy weather. There was some fitness in his nomination, for he is a German and a soldier, and & popular hero in the German mind. It would certainly seem that the wisdom which prompted the selection of Sigel would indi- cate the nomination of a man of his type to succeed him. But for this office we are to have Jimmy Hayes. Jimmy Hayes isa rich man and does not need the office. He will be nominated solely because he has transferred to John Morrissey the affection he showed for years to William M. Tweed. This, then, is the fruit of ‘reformed Tam- many Hall.” Thisnew, purified, holy dispen- sation, which was to have regenerated the democracy in the city, and by that means carried the State, and so insured success for the party in the Presidential year, only proves upon the first practical test to be another form of Tweedism. The great Tammany chief is in exile. He has found his St. Helena on Blackwell's Island; his glory has passed away; his diamonds have lost their splendor or glitter on alien bosoms. The tiger head no longer glares from the ban- ners of the Americus Club. The Blossom Club has failed ; the summer halls of Green- wich no longer echo to the tramp of his fol- lowers. His friends are as widely scattered as the marshals of Bonaparte after Waterloo ; but his spirit lives in Tammany, just as the spirit of Napoleon lived in the reign of Louis Philippe, and it would not surprise us to see his long pro- jected statue erected on Tweed plaza, just as Louis Philippe erected the statue of his great predecessor on the top of the Col- umn Venddme. We do not know how far Mr. Wickham may represent the personal wishes of the departed leader so far as the Mayoralty is concerned. It is possible that there are many other democrats who would be far more acceptable to Tweed, for Mr. Wickham was a professional reformer. But the principle which inspires his nomination is the principle which Tweed engrafted on the gospels of Tam- many—namely, that office first belongs to one’s self, and then to one’s cronies, relatives and bosom friends. This is « beautiful principle and makes our offices harmonious groups, and gives the City Hall that same air of affection and kinship and friendliness which we saw when Sweeny reigned, and all his relatives by blood and wedlock reigned with him ; which we see in Washington, where a President celebrates his domestic affections by messages to the Senate nominating his relatives to office; which we see in the Mayor's office now, during the reign of the fond and fondling Havemeyer. In private station nothing is more grateful than these affectionate dealings between man and man. But the mistake is that offices are for the good of the people, for the discipline and efficiency of the party, and our ruling men have no more right to distribute offices among their friends in requital of friendly offices than they have to aistribute the bonds in the Treasury. What is more, this is the general feeling among the masses of the party. The people who vote for Tam- many nominations—the rank and file; the sturdy Irishman of the east side; the patient, thrifty German, who cares only for good gov- ernment and prosperous times—these know well the motives that dictate the nomination of a rich man like Jimmy Hayes to the lucrative office of Register. They know there can be but one motive. They know that itis a motive like those that governed Tweed, and which led to his rank and ephe- meral greatness, only to end in his fearful and appalling catastrophe. So compact is the Tammany organization and so rigid is the con- trol of the party over the masses that Mr. Kelly may do these things ; but how long can he dothem? He isastrongman now. Heis a leader, Grand Sachem, chief of the Ring, boss, whatever title, or all the titles; but is he more so than Tweed was in 1870, when he was master of the revenues and property of | this city; when he aspired to succeed Mr. Tilden in the national councils of the dem- ocracy; when he was the partner of Gould and Fisk in Erie, and when, flushed and ar- rogant with power in this metropolis, he looked proudly upon the transfer of his au- thority to Washington, and aimed to rule and | roba great nation as he ruled and robbeda | great city? The leaders of Tammany in bygone days now and then shoved a bosom friend quietly into place. They did it silently and under cover as a thing that should not be done. | Tweed and his ring made it a system, and this system Kelly and Morrissey follow with craven acquiescence. They sacrifice the party | to their friendships. Tammany might have | led the way to a victory for the democratic party in the State and the nation. As it | is weak candidates are nominated. Mr. Tilden’s canvass will be weakened and | not strengthened; instead of Tammany helping to carry Mr. Tilden, Mr. Tilden will | be compelled to carry Tammany, and, for | the sake of the vulgar, selfish and meretricions triumph fn New York, for the sake of gratify- ing the vanity of Kelly and adding to the large gains of Morrissey and Jimmy Hayes, all the splendid results that are within the grasp of the democracy will be imperilled. There are a hundred men whose nominations to either of these offices would honor the party and the metropolis. A. T. Stewart, William Butler Duncan, John K. Hackett, William Cullen Bryant, Royal Phelps, Charles A. Dana, William B. Astor, Manton Marble, Charies O'Oonor, Oswald Otten- dorfer, General McClellan, August Belmont, are among the men who could with pro- priety have been chosen. The canvass is rich with opportunitios for selection. Some representative Irishman or German could have been named for Register. We do not mean a political huckster who trades in his birthright as a means of political advancement, who would buy or sell it for a mess of pottage ; but some citizen of eminence and probity, whose selection would be accepted as a compliment by the whole German and Irish community, and not merely as a compliment, but as an encouragement to their citizenship and pat- triotism. This is what Tammany could do were its leaders wise. But we see no wisdom, only selfishness, personal advancement, a dis- regard of the will of the people, the submerg- ing of a great party and its hopes in the perso- nal ambition of a clique of leaders. Tweed is in prison, but his dynasty is in power. ‘Tweed is dead, but long live Tweedism, It ig to oolenekte ca sentiment that the Tam- many Convention will meet this evening. What Does It Meant A large part of the sessions of the Episcopal General Convention for the last two days have been occupied in discussing one single rule of order comprised within three lines. The uninitiated could not comprehend the vast importance of the rule as the majority of the Convention seemed to see it, and hence it was by many persons looked upon as a useless discussion. Not so, however. It was the in- auguration of a policy or a principle hitherto almost unknown in the Episcopal Church. The rule, as adopted, makes it obligatory on the Convention to go into secret session whenever any personal matter shall come up for discussion. It takes out of the hands of the two-thirds the right to say whether they will shut their doors or not, and leaves them no discretion but todoso. The rule is not only contrary to the genius of republicanism, but is opposed to the practice of deliberative bodies, civic or ecclesiastical, and in the hands of demagogues may be made to work infinite mischief to the Church and to indivi- duals, But a despatch from Chicago throws some light on this discussion when read in connec- tion with it and with the usages of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church in the selection of bishops. While a diocese may choose its own chief shepherd, the theory of the Episcopal Church gives the House of Bishops and the House of Clerical and Lay’Deputies the con- stitutional right to accept or reject him. This right has been rarely exercised, but the sharp contest now going on in the Church between Titualists on the one hand and radicals on the other has made each party suspicious of the other, and every candidate for episcopal honors must stand the ordeal of a cross fire from the guns of both parties. His qualifica- tions and his personal character will be tried as by fire, and if he escapes he is fortu- nate indeed, in the present temper of the Church. Dr. Seymour, of this city, lately elected Bishop of Ilinois, has now, it appears, be- come inimical to the low churchmen of that diocese because of his known ritualistic ten- dencies, and petitions to this Convention are in circulation against his confirmation. Is this rule 17 designed for his special benefit? Or is it designed as a ‘‘gag” on the freedom of speech and of the press? What does it mean? And why did the Convention yester- day refuse the act of common justice to him, or to any other candidate, of access to full re- ports of discussions on their personal char- acter, whereby they might be able to defend themselves against their opponents? There are about fifteen bishops to be chosen or con- firmed by the present Convention, and yet not one of them, under this rule, unless he isa member also, will be able to know what is said, either good or evil, about him. The Convention has just said that it loves dark- ness rather than light, secrecy rather than pub- licity, for its utterances. Far better that all its sessions should be open to the public than that that which is spoken in the ear in closets should be subsequéntly proclaimed upon the housetops to the ultimate confusion of those who now desire the secrecy of the Star Cham- ber in their deliberations. We Pamr To-Dar some further discussions upon the Louisiana question in reference to the letters of Messrs. Reverdy Johnson and Charles O’Conor. Anprew Jounson.—Ex-President Johnson has made a statement to the effect that who- ever understands him as in any way favoring the repudiation of our national obligations, or of anything that may be said to resemble repudiation, does him an injustice. This ex- planation was hardly necessary, although we hasten to give the ex-President the benefit of his declaration. Mr. Johnson made many mistakes when President, notably in his failure to comprehend the temper of the party which elected him and of the country which that party ruled. This brought him to the verge of impeachment. But no one has ever seriously questioned the absolute integrity of the man, his devotion to duty, his belief in the Union and the constitution, his pride in the United States and his anxiety that its credit should be unsullied by even the sus- | picion of repudiation. Formenty Boys were taught to become sailors in the hard school of good old Robinson Crusoe, who has made more sailors than the English navy ever impressed. Ths narration in our columns to-day of the advantages on board of the new school ship at this port will be read with interest by landsmen as well as seamen. The terms upon which admission can be had to the tuition on board of the St. Mars are fully detailed in our report. due from the good old Puritan republicans of Massachusetts in consideration of the trouble | avoided and the peace and harmony secured in the happy family by his humane with- drawal this time aa @ candidate for Governor. NEW YUKK HHRALD, SATURDAY, OUTOBER 10, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, The War in the East. The rumor that war has been declared be- tween China and Japan, which comes to us from London, may be untrue; but there have been so many disagreements between these two countries that an outbreak at any time would not surprise us, The Formosa question has never been actually settled. China and Japan, in the cant of modern diplomacy, are about entering ‘‘into the family of civilized nations;"’ and as the elementary duty of civi- lization is to fight we can understand why there should be a war. The Oriental mind is peculiarly subtle and imitative; and, since war seems to be the aim andend of modern civi- lization, what more natural than that they should go to war? We could better understand the threatened war between these countries if we knew how far their policy was influenced by the diplo- macy of Europe, and especially of England and Russia. If we recall the progress of the Indian power in Asia, we remember that when- ever England found it necessary to advance her power she tostered a quarrel between two of the local princes and then “took sides."’ A curious illustration of this habit is seen in the just published correspondence between Pal- merston and Henry Bulwer, when Bulwer was English Minister in Madrid, at the time of the Spanish marriages. Lord Palmerston inti- mated to Bulwer that if no better way offered of preventing the marriage of Montpensier with the sister of the Queen of Spain then an insurrection might be of value. In other words, the English Minister was perfectly will- ing to see disorder in Spain to serve the pur- poses of English ambition. There can be no sincere war in the East, and especially between countries that have so many el. ments of accord and se few points of discord as China and Japan, unless it is stimulated by the policy of England, Russia or France. It would be a pitiful sight to see countries as interesting and civilized as China and Japan busy cutting each other's throats merely to serve the ambition of European Powers. We have never entirely compre- hended the civilization of Ohina and Japan. We have evidences every day ot a higher art, & more exquisite finish in mechanics, further advancement in agriculture and the science of living, and more general education in these countries than we have yet found in America. The deeper we go into the Oriental times, and especially their literature and theology, the more we see our dependence upon the East. Our very nursery gods are seen to come from Persia and China. Max Miiller showed the other day that Dick Whittington and his cat were Eastern phantoms, and that the bells which rung for his return were most likely the bells of Ispahan, and not of London. These people are not warlike, and there can be only one result of a war, to make easy the advent of European power and ambition. In this question the United States cannot be really a neutral. We are more closely identified with the East than any of the European Powers—the East so far as China and Japan are concerned. We are their neighbors, for between us rolls a sea that may be crossed in a short time. The com- mercial relations between our Pacific coast and the East are growing more and more. Thousands of Orientals come to our shores, and the number increases. In a few years we shall have a large body of Chinamen and Japanese as our fellow citizens. Thus far the barriers of race and sentiment have pre- vented any amalgamation of nationality or citizenship; but in time these must pass away, as they have vanished with the negro. America already possesses a vast and national influence in China and Japan. If our dip- lomacy had been enterprising and wise, if instead of barren adventures in Alaska and St. Domingo it had been steadily directed A Vore or THangs To GenenaL Buruze is | toward the East, we should now be the arbiters in any war, and without our permission no war could take place. It would be better for civilization if this should be so, and if America were power- ful enough to protect China and Japan from European intervention. This whole problem of American influence in the East is one of transcendent importance. It grows from day to day. If Burlingame had lived he might have shaped a career in China as marked as that of Hastings in India. If we had sent a minister to China worthy to suc- ceed him this influence might have been re- tained. As it is, our power in the East has been neglected, and our natural, legitimate and much needed influence upon China and Japan has been usurped by European nations, ok ies no purpose but ambition, aggran- dizement and the greed of empire. Bergh and Green. Some people pretend not to like historical They say they are deceptive. Men of undoubted capacity and judgment—with fine critical perceptions, too—will tell you that when Plutarch runs an accurate parallel between an irrepressible Greek and an insup- portable Roman, that it is all vanity, moon- shine, mockery—that it depends, in short, on the state of Plutarch’s mind, and not on the state of the facts. This is the very midsum- mer madness of historical criticism and can- not deeply or permanently affect literature ; and personal parallels of the great figures in the history of a famous age will charm and ‘instruct the future as they have the past. One of the most striking parallels ever known will be discovered by the future writer of the history of our own time between Mr. Henry Bergh, of the Society for the Prevention, &&., and Mr. Andrew H. Green, Comptroller of the city accounts. Not merely that they are equally handsome, open, amiable, jolly and approach- able persons; their similarity to one another is far deeper than the vulgar one of a hand- some person and a festive manner; for, in fact, they are not alike in person and neither of them is handsome. But they are alike in soul—as like as if one soul had been divided between them—and there are people who hold that the quantity which each possesses is not inconsistent with the possibility that such @ division really occurred when the souls were served out. They are both stern and uncom- promising men—hard, harsh and inflexible in the line of what they suppose to be duty—and each equally ridiculous in misconception of what really is the duty of = man in such circumstances, Green believes that it is his duty to economize the city funds, and he frequently causes the city en expenditure of @ thousand dollars in order } to wave fifty cents. Bergh understands it to be his duty to prevent cruelty to dumb animals, and his injudicious pursuit of his notion has resulted in making whole sections of the pop- ulation the secret and sworn enemies of dumb animals; for they confound the animals, some- how, with Bergh himself, and take a constant satisfaction in “giving it to them.” Our space will not permit us to indicate all the | points of this most curious of historical paral- lels, but there is one point we cannot pass. It is the identical impulse with which these two strangely made up men blunder, each in his course of opposition to pop- ular opinion, upon some happy thought, Some act of such unqualified honesty and splendid moral elevation that it compels public approval. Mr. Green recently had this fortune in his course with regard to the City Record, and now Mr. Bergh has had an eqniv- alent success in his assault on a cider mill. It was not a windmill mind you. It was a treadmill—and a poor old dog was broken on it. Recorder Hackett swore as a witness in this famous case that he had the personal acquaintance of four hundred dogs and he was satisfied, from the knowledge thus ac- quired, that that poor old dog must be tired ‘in the legs ;’ and Mayor Hall, who had observed dogs less extensively, but more accurately, swore to the same effect. With such author- ity on his side it is no wonder the Recorder was able to compel the cider grinder to take out the dog and put ina colored man, named Washington. This is one of his least equiv- ocal suceesses—one of his @appiest strokes. Now that the war is over and the voice of Wendell Phillips is heard nomore in the land, we do not know who is to come to the rescuo of the colored man in the mill, but we aro rejoiced that there was somebody to come to the rescue of his predecessor ; for, as we are not so fond of cider as’ sind people are, we did pity that dog. The Season of Target Exoursions. We have it from o wise man of the East, a king, philosopher, preacher and poet, that “to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heavens,” and that “the thing that hath been it is that which shall be, and that which is done is that which shall be done,” and that even the wind, which “whirleth about continually, returneth again according to his circuits.” In short, there is a season for everything, and everything comes round again in its season. So with October returns the target company, with its target excursions and its reign of terror in the saburbs. With the return of the season of target ex- cursions to the unfortunate yeomanry whose apple orchards come within short range of a target company, it may be truly said that The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year. The sufferings of the farmer and the horti- culturist, however, from these ruthless inva- sions are trifles compared with the forced con- tributions to the target company from its im- mediate guild and its Assembly, Senatorial or Congressional district. The target company is a legacy which we inherit trom the good old times of the volunteer foot fire depart- ment, In those halcyon days the fire company, “Big Six,’’ for example, was not ‘‘the thing” without its warlike attachment of a target company, and the target excursion to the “Big Six” was the day for which all other days were made, With the abolition of the old fighting volunteer fire department it was hoped by many a victim of these target excursions that they too would be gathered to their fathers. But, founded upon the rock of patriotism, they still survive and flourish, their only change being a change of base. The great newspaper offices, factories, foundries and other establishments employing large num- bers of able-bodied mon are now the places from which our target companies are chiefly drawn. And their supplies? Of course the supplies are the main question, and demon- strative patriotism is at all times a costly luxury. How and where these supplies for the equipment of a target excursion are raised is as well known to the contributors as is the approach of our annual State election to the clerks in the Custom House. We will sup- pose, for illustration, that we have a Heraip target company. For its proper equipment (a hundred men) large contributions are necessary. Prizes of silver-plated cake bas- kets, pitchers, coffee-pota, gold or silver watches and jewelry, are cash articles. The assessor takes the work in hand. He calls upon the Heratp paper merchants and type founders and ink suppliers, and so on through the whole list of our business connections, and for the honor of the establishment they all feel bound to come down handsomely. The company is happy in its presents of splendid prizes and refreshments and those greenbacks defined by Senator Schurz as ‘4rredeemable paper money.” That they are so when loaned in these cases we are inclined to believe. The company, we will suppose, returned from ita festival last night, and with the absentees from the press room and from the forlorn visages of the hands present wo infer that the boys have had a good time with the border rufflans of Jersey, With all the host of candidates now in the field for the suffrages of the people our tar- get companies and target excursions are reap- ing a rich harvest; and the butcher, the baker and corner grocery will bear us out in this idea. The evil ‘‘has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished.” Creedmoor points out the way of relief from the present target excursion. Can we not have the advantages of Creedmoor, under some general regulations and a self-sustaining system, extended to all our young men ambitious of the distinction of sharpshooters? They may thus be made useful for war, without being in their target excursions an unwelcome tax upon their neighbors and Goths and Vandals to the sur- rounding country in times of peace. Tux Op Wortp.—Under this title we group to-day a number of news letters which will, we think, repay the intelligent reader for his study. They deal with French and Spanish affairs and with the Catholic pilgrimage to a noted shrine, which seems to be not discon- nected with the cause of the legitimist party. From Frankfort we learn of religious persecu- tions, which, unfortunately, seem to be as frequent in Germany as in other countries. Constantinople is also in- cluded in our review, and Ohicago should take warning by the fires which in that uninsured capital are so frequent. New Uvrivileges have bean granted to Americans in Turkey. An interesting account of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, is furnished by our correspondent from Azpeitia, the birthplace of that famous churchman and now the great foundry of the Carlists. We learn something here of the strength of Don Carlos’ army,in artillery, and our English letter furnishes a fine sketch of the ancient Cathedral of Chi- chester. Tae Democratic Panty.—The Opelika (Ala.) Times, in discussing the proposition to hold @ national convention of peace and re- construction, says that, so far as the South is concerned, ‘‘no solution emanating from the republican party will be received or acted upon, South, for the potent reason that, while playing the réle of reconstructionists, they have ruined the South.” According to this editor relief can only come ‘‘from the demo- cratic party, and no convention, whether it be State, sectional or national, in which opposi- tion to the republican party is not in the ascendant can accomplish any results worth the trouble of the effort.” This is a thoroughly mistaken view. We do not like to admit that the Sotith is actually ruined, or that the repub- lican party is in all respects to blame. A good deal of misery, for instance, came from the fire on Sumter, which can scarcely be called a republican proceeding. As to the demo- cratic party being able to help the South, this is moonshine, There is no democratic party in the North worth depending upon outside of New York city, and in New York the leaders of the party are more interested in Mullingar and Tipperary than in the South. The democratic party may learn the wisdom that leads to victory in the next century. It shows no sign of doing so in this, The only hope of the South just now is in the repub- lican party. Those who love the South and wish it well will do all in their power to com- pel that party to enter upon a just and brave measure of reconstruction. Tue Spanise ReMonsTRaNce TO FRANOA relative to the violation of the neutrality laws by the supply of contraband of war to the Carlists has produced an effect in Paria. President MacMahon’s Ministry has given an assurance to the Madrid Cabinet that the French authorities are about to take effective measures for the stoppage of the traffic on the frontier. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Senator Reuben E. Fenton 1s at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. Longfellow’s crane doesn’t hang so high as the democratie goose. Ex-Congressman Roswell Hart, of Rochester, ls staying at the Gilsey House. Major O. B. Cocks, of the British Army, is regis- tered at the Clarendon Hotel. Count de Jarnac’s mother was a Geraldine, sister to the present Duke of Leinster. Assistant Bishop William Pinkney, of Maryland, is sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. State Senator William Johnson, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., bas arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary Robeson arrived from sWashingtom yesterday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Moreau, conaemned to death in Paris, is very sick in prison, but they say he is “in no danger.” Major George Gibson and Major G. G. Huntt, United States Army, are quartered at the Brevoors House. Professor Spencer F. Baird, of the Smitbsoniaa Institution, has apartments at the Filth Avenue Hotel. |They have found at Herculaneum the bust of a woman in solid silver, It weighs fAlty-eight pounds. Attorney General A. F. Judd, of the Sandwich Islands, 18 among the recent arrivals at the Albe- marie Hotei. Mr. Frederick A. Sawyer, late Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury, has taken up his residence at the St. James Hotel. Chies Justice Saniord E, Church, of the Court of Appeals, arrived in this city last evening snd ws as the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain J. H. Selwyn, of the British Navy, ia a¢ the Brevoort House. He will sail for England to- day in the steamship City of Richmond, ‘The English Dialect Society has made ita début by a volume of “Reprinted Glossartes,’* containing north of England words, Yorkshire provincialisms, &c. Princess Anne Migg‘siaw Woronleczky, widow of the Commander of the Honveds, is in & hoa pital at Pesth, and has lately gained a livelihood in that city asa laundress, The English literary journals are quarrelling over the new Shakespeare «Society, whicn, it appears, has not redeemed its promises to the public as to the issue of its publications. Ex-Governor Hoffman and family reached Albany yesterday afternoon ana were cordially welcomed by namerous friends. He will remain at Congress Hail until bis residence in that city is fitted for oc- cupation. If those letters withheld by Von Arnim contain, as reported, Bismarck’s scheme for a reorganiza- Uon of the government of France they are good reading; but there can then be no doubt that they are government property. The best history of England during recent times 1s Molesworth’s three volume “History of England trom 1830 to 1874,” which John Bright says is honestly written, and would give great in- formation to all young mea, if they could ve pre- vatied upon to read I. The Princess Czartoryska, sister of the Prince Czartoryska, who is son-in-law of the Duke of Nemours, has reached Paris, where she will enter the Convent of the Carmelites, having »een com- pelied to leave a similar establishment at Posen on account of the Prussian laws, An accomplished German has written and pub- lushed @ book on hotel administration, published at Zurich. Switzerland is the paradise of hotel- keepers, and Herr Edward sSuyer, suthor of the book in question, has liberally illustrated it with views of hotel construction and ground plans. General P. M. B. Young, member of Congress, of Georgia, and a member of the Military Committee of the House of Representatives, visited the forti- fications of New York Harbor yesterday, in com- pany with Generals W. S. Hancock, Gordom Granger and Banard, and Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution. Tne Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has compelled the sweet cider man up Broadway to take that dog out of that cider mill, and he nas substituted « “cullud pussou.”* It was cruel to the dog, but it ts all right for Samoo. Has the negro no friends im this com- munity? Where is the Civil Rights bill? Geographical problems from foreign parts:— Given Lysa—to find Nancy. Given Caen—to find mustard. Given the Rhone—to find the chestnut, Given Florence—to find Walter Gay. Given Turin— to find soup. Given Reims—to find quires, Given the Meuse—to find the song. Given Ktel— to find Hull, Given the Oder—to fina the smelt. Given Aix—to find the cure. Given Irun—to find steel, Gtven Laybach—to find lean forward, Given Burst—to find the pieces. We lately recorded that an English member of Parliament said there were “some Irish chaps im the House of Commons of whom the larger numoer were the greatest rascals he ever saw.” One of these Irish chaps, it scems, immediately “sent a friend” to the member, and the consequence is the | following letter :— E1suaM Hat, Lincoinshire, Sept. 14, 1876 Sir—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th inst. and to state thet I did make use of the expressions to which you refer, and the request of your friend, the gallant member for Wexford [ hereby withdraw thom, { remain, air, : Cour gbedient servegt, ‘ J. De