The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1874, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD - . BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘ Secettiees LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, Fubecriptions end Advertisements will be received and /orwarded on the same ‘terms ae in New York. 5 Wotume XXXIX.. AMESEMENTS TO-NIGHT. booths THEATRE, went bard street and’ Sixth asyenue.— LE 5. CON O'CAROLAN'S DREAM, woes Wo Pom Mr and Mes. Barney ore e758 5. WALLACK’S THEATRE, —PARTANRs POR LIFE, ats P.M ue. H, J. Montague. closes at — er NIBLO's GARDEN between irince and Houston streets —THE a8 FM closes at YM fhe Kiralty FIFTH AVLNUB THEATR we street Broadway. ~THE 1a @ OF THE CRANE 11TEC, ot PMc choses at Mim Save Jeweu, 1PM Miss F *« James, Charles ROBT street, bei ween SON HALL, eroadway and Firth avenue.— » OPERA HOUSE, t_ near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO 4 Brvank : AN THEATRE nt road "ay ples, at 5 PMY closes at 10 HRA HOUAR, 38. M.; closes at W P. TORY Past an y 7 wf Yer ah ORS a 0: Bowery NOTSCO MINSTRELS, ( twenty oineh stree.—NEGRO M THEATRE Kin avenues. -LA FILLE DR OPM. (closes at WS P.M Mile. CAN INSTITUTE, tx ia elvees Sixtythirt aad Sixty-fourth » nial EXH ON 1 Bt gown over erw-fth street—PARIS BY tat P.M and 700 PM Woon s MOSRUM, Re > oth street —IDLEWILD, at 2 ~ : DER TM) GASLIGHI, at tem a ie M. Mr. Eb Davenport, « v HEATRE. | Yo aiS PM; closes atte wre y K crroves. Lenya Porty-ainan etree mar er. Mt and es CONWAYS BROOKLYN THEATRE A M cloerat@P M Jus & Emmet THEATER MIQUR adway.— SARL OT. aS PM: closes at 1030 ov = PARK THHATRE, | r ween \wouty-ire, and Twenty cond % ED AGE, ats PM closes ac il Ye SWAY HALL. Poe AND CONCERT at8P Mo Miss no Fore Hevoron € A THE. Four wenth street — eMa» ) we QUADRUPLE SHEET. New Work, Tuesday, October 13, 1974. . From our reporis thus morning the protutvilicies ere that the weather ‘0-day will be colder, rar and frosty. Watt Sramer Yewrenpar.—Stocks were B@teady, government and railroad bonds in Bood request, money easy, and gold ranged From 110} to 109], the closing price. ‘Tue Wares of the steamer Cambridge ap- Pears to have been on sccident in the true sense of the word. Fortanately no lives were ost. A Sap Stony of the murder of a woman by her drunken husband comes to us from Union Hill, N. J. It ix the old story, too—ram, poverty, crime. ‘Tax Puesmeyt bas added another speech to his pocket volume of oratory. This time it was made to the Indians, who, as every one knows, can talk when they want to almost as well as they fight ‘Tax Frexcn Exectioxs ror rae Councis- Guyenat have terminated. The republican party wins in the total number of members zeturned, the monarchists coming up very close on the next count. Taken by districts the monarchists Love carried more electoral divisions than the men of the Republic. Tax Wan i Sram is still adverse to the Carlist canse, so far as the reports of battles reach us. The government in Madrid is be- coming more confident. The Ministry has spoken officially, in vory plain terms, to Presi- dent MacMahon relative to non-observance of neutrality by Franc: Gexzxat Burien received his latest vindi- cation yesterday from the people of his dis- trict in the shape of a renomination to Con- gress. It was expected, notwithstanding the bitter opposition to lim, for the General is bard to beat. Simmous was not present, but General Butler referred to bim touchingly | when he said that he forgave his iriends and had no enemies to panish. Ovrn New Crri Post Orrice is to be for- mally opened tor business on the Ist of Janu- ary next, an event which, through all Man- hattan Island, will add greatly to the general rejoicings of our “Happy New Year.” The transfer of the immense business of our city Post Office from the inconvenient, cramped, dingy and dirty old barrack of Nassau street, to the new, commodious and magnificent structure of City Hail Park, will indeed be an event worthy of an imposing inangauration, including procession, music, an oration, a | collation and @ general celebration. Tus Sovrnwaerzan Inpuws.—General Mac- kenzie, one of the most effective of all our fighters of “bad Indians," has been giving the warlike Cheyennes, near the Red River, « sur- prise and @ pursnit which will doubtless finish the war in that quarter. General Grant in the Indian Territory has been hailed meantime as the “Great Father’ ona mission of peace, and, doubtless, peace will follow, tor bis red chil- dren everywhere meet him with his own peti- tion—‘*Let us have peace.” Some or Turse Dars there will be an acci- of it But now, in advance of the accident, we ask attention to the fact that the habit of racing on this river is attended with danger to the boats and the passengers. Races be- tween the rival steamers take daily, and we concede that sometimes are qnite ex- citing. But some day they will cause more excitement still NEW YORK v It is now nearly eighteen months since the Hexatp, in the discharge ot what seemed to be the imperative duty of an independent journal, shadowed forth the existence of a sentiment in the ruling party of the country which threat- ened a change go radical in the institutions of the country as to indicate a new and grave de- parture from the fundamental principles ot government laid down by the fathers. We showed the dislocation of fixed traditions, the unhinging of old customs and constitu- tional ideas, that came with the war. That mighty tempest, which swept over the coun- iry with desolating force, uprooting and tear- ing down, left the country in a strange condi- tion. The necessities of the war had clothed the Executive with extraordinary powers. It had become possible for a President to suspend the sacred right of habeas corpus and to send worthy men to jail by the stroke of a bell. | From this came a familiarity with extreme and excessive power which grew into a political sentiment and found expression in what | our political cant was wont to regard as the necessity of a strong central power | at Washington. We called attention to the fact that the Presidency was in the hands of a man who had a personal popularity enjoyed by no President since Washington. In the first place, he had the prestige so dear to the mind of men, the prestige of military renown. His sword had saved the Union which Wash- ington had founded, and the instinct of na- tional gratitude for this, as well as our pride in his victories, made him so much stronger than any party that his nomination was im- posed upon a party which neither sought nor desired him, and which would have been only too happy to have passed him over, content with his oommand of the armies, and selected a statesman of approved merit and service. Itso happened that this man showed in government a capacity that astonished even his warmest admirers. But he entered upon the Presidency with principles at variance with every tradition of the constitution. The mili- | tary sentiment of personal authority ruled in | the administration, It had been the constant custom of Presidents to regard their Cabinet 48 80 many statesmen, selected from the party, who had had wide experience in affairs, and had risen to high place in the party councils, and whose nomination would not only secure efficient service in office, but political support | tothe administration. Although the Presi- | dents named their Cabinets the general sense of the party indicated the names, The Cabi- net was, therefore, in some sense a represen- tative body, and its attainment became the goal of the highestand purestambition. Gen- eral Grant, however, advanced the principle that a nomination to the Cabinet was wholly a personal prerogative, that he should select his secretaries as a general selected his staff or a young man dis bride, and that he was in no | way responsible to the party for these nomi- | pations. In other words, the Cabinet was simply a nebulous body, without substance, form or dignity, all real authority resting in | the central, shining star. The President, we say, announced this principle, and has never deviated from it. The Osbinet is simply a political staff. Heretofore men sought the Cabinet from the Senate and the House. Now Cabinet officers feel honored if they can escape into the Senate or the House, and we have seen how a Senator declined the Treasury and a member of the House the Post Office. The Presidency has assumed a strength never intended by the constitution. The Cabinet assembles to hear decrees, not discuss them, and in a matter as important as the veto of in- flation the first intimation the Cabinet had of the President's action was when he read to the members his veto message. In appointments to office the same principle was manifest. Men were sent abroad as ministers or given important offices at home simply because they had in some way become pleasant to the eyes of the President, be- cause he felt bound to recognize an old friend- ship or kinship or comradeship in the army. ‘These are not very grave errors, and we see them in a more glaring shape, ao far as the nomination of relatives to place is concerned, in the English government. But the prin- ciple from which they spring has always been foreign to our institutions. These indications show the tendency to personal government which has always marked the Presidency of General Grant. In this he was aided by a Senate which had also as- sumed extraordinary powers. This body has grown up to be something like the oligarchy which ruled Athens. Its members claim un- usual and unwholesome prerogatives. The “etiquette of the Senate,” which binds the members to reject any nomination to an office that may be unpleasant to the Senators from the State furnishing the candidate, is one of the gravest abuses that has ever crept intoa constitutional government. Other abuses have followed it, and the Senate to-day is as much ao anomaly in our Republic as the Presi- deney, as much opposed to republican sen- timent a# the septennate of MacMahon. All strength, authority and the true powers of government have been slowly moving | toward the Executive, which is now simply a military post, and to the Senate, which is an oligarchy. The House is a flaccid body. All life has gone from it It is in a condition of atrophy. It simply consents to the wishes of an administration and echoes the decrees of the Senate. Behind this personal President, this irresponsible Senate and this atrophied House we have » perty which is as completely under discipline as the communes of France were under the Napoleonic Empire. Its leaders, with few and rare exceptions, are silent or aequiescent. We print this morning the views | question that arose naturally and logically out of the condition of affairs which we bave thus briefly sketehed, that of the third term. The student of politics will read this roll-call with astonishment and interest. Here are the views of the leading men of the country —the Execu- tive, the Senate and the Honse. mainly for party reasons, term. In the Senate we Senators in favor of the twenty-nine who are trimmers, lesving twenty-seven in pronounced Opposition. the House the third HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1874.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Third Term—Oalling the Roll. | trimmers, while only one hundred and seven- teen are opposed, or would oppose Grant if nominated. A few conspicuous republicans, very few indeed, openly oppose it, and avow they will not sopport Grant if renominated. This number is very small—not so large as the miserable detection in 1872 which was called the liberal republican party. The large ma- jority of the party are either willing to see Grant again nominated, or they protest against @ third term, and say they will abide by the will of the Convention. In other words, they stand toward (his new and grave issue very much as they stood to Grant when he was first nominated. They did not want Grant, but they accepted him. Théy do not want » third term, but if Grant is nominated they will support him. Here and there « brave spirit may stand out as Sumner and } Schurz stood out and supported Greeley. But as the republican party now stands, and more especially a8 we read its opinions in the opinions of the Senate and the House, there is no escape from a third term, once the machinery of the organization moves on | in its favor. We have nothing to hope, then, from the party. Some of its leaders, like Conkling, mock the idea; others, like Dix, are afraid aud dare not speak; others, like Butler, boldly avow their wishes and their purposes. Secretary Robeson in his recent address inti- mates that we must depend upon the mag- nanimity of Grant for a solution. So the whole question is really reduced to the mag- nanimity of Grant! The party which pro- claimed emancipation, which drove Lincolu against his will to a vigorous prosecution of the war, which defeated McClellan when the darling of the army, which brought Johnson to the verge of impeachment for opposing its ideas—this party which drove Chase, Sumner and Greeley from its ra.ks like mutineers for presuming to think, now stands abashed and silent #& presence of Grant, patiently waiting upon his magnanimity as our only rescue from one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the Republic. Never have we seen @ party, once so great and proud and re- spected, fallen so low. We had hoped when Congress came to speak on this question that it would be in the manly and strenuous tones of American freemen. As it is, we read the opinions of this roli-call with the astonish- ment and pain that we read of the subservi- ence and abasement of the Senate of the latter Roman Empire. Nothing stands be- tween the Republic and Omsarism—but Cwsar. Nothing, unless happily the better sentiment of the people should speak. Is it too late to hope even for that? Kellogg’s Offer to Resign. A New Orleans despatch, which we print this morning, gives an interview with Kel- logg, in which he offers to resign his position as Governor of Louisiana if a committee of five, to be appointed by President Grant, shall decide, after investigation, that he was not properly elected. This offer has a semblance of fairness without the reality. Such a com- mittee as he proposes could not satisfy or tranquillize the State. The facts connected with the election of 1872 are as perfectly un- derstood as they can ever be, ind the public judgment on them cannot be changed by any report of one-sided committee such as Presi- dent Grant, who has supported Kellogg throughout, would be likely to appoint. Even if an impartial committee were selected | everybody would distrust it except those who are already committed to Kellogg. What Kellogg owes to the State isa prompt and square resignation, depending on no other condition than a simultaneous resignation by McEnery. If the State offices were all vacated, the new election which would necessarily fol- low would enable the people to fill the vacan- cies with men of their choice. If Kellogg should decide to be a candidate again he could find whether the people of Louisiana want him or some other citizen for Governor. It is properly a question for the people of the State, and not for a committee selected by President Grant. The confusion and distrac- tion which prevail in Louisiana can never be removed so long as Kellogg continues to exer- cise the functions of Governor. His in- dorsement by a committee selected by Grant would be treated with no more respect than the original indorsement of his claims by Grant himself. The shortest way out of the existing muddle and turmoil is by a resignation of both Kellogg and McEnery and all their subordinates, But, failing this, Congress at the beginning of its next session should declare that neither was legally elected and provide for an honest elec- tion. Kellogg knows well enough that his present offer cannot be accepted, and go idle & proposal reflects no credit on his good inten- tions. If he desires quiet, order and tran- quillity let him resign at once and give the people an opportunity to elect a State govern- ment. Ma. Fonsrex.—The interesting interview we printed yesterday from the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, one of the most prominent and distinguished of the English statesmen, should command general attention, both from the views expressed by Mr. Forster and his kind references to our country. The errand of this gentleman to our country illustrates the earnest desire of English statesmen charged with high duties to seek the trath. And be- tween nations as nearly allied as America and England nothing is more necessary than truth. A complete understanding between these nations will come when they know one another. It is well to remember also that this eminent and honored statesman, who is our guest, was, of all English statesmen— with the exception of Bright and Cobden—the friend of America in its time of sore need. Mr. Forster makes a modest reference to this in his interview, but we have not forgotten it, Our best wishes go with him in his journey through America and in his tuture career at home—a career which promises at no distant day to culminate in the Premiership of Eng- land. Tux Persomnet of the Conservative Conven- tion of South Carolina is described in our letter from Columbia to«lay, and the scence which occurred when the members took the first official step in the plan for the redemption of the State are full of significance, That colored men should join m this movement is a revelation, for nothing but the strongest evidence of republi- can robbery could persuade them to abandon the republican ranka The October State Hilections. Elections are held to-day in the four States of Obio, Indiana, Towa and Nebraska. In Nebraska alone is the election of any particu- lar significance in State affairs, as a Governor | 8 not to be chosen in any of the other three. ; But members of Congress are to be elected in | all these States, and the result will afford data | for conjecturing the political complexion of the | next House of Representatives. The election | in Nebraska is of slight importance, that new | State being entitled to only one member of Congress. Iowa likewise excites little curi- | osity, nobody doubting that the State will be | easily carried by the republicans. Carpenter, its present republican Governor, was elected, in | 1872, by a majority of 22,256, and, although | the opposition ticket this year does not call itself democratic, but anti-monopoly, nobody bas any doubt that the republicans will carry the State. But in Ohio and In- diana the elections are of greater national interest. In these States the two regular parties are pretty evenly balanced, Governor Allen having been elected last year in Ohio by 4 slender majority of 817, and Governor Hen- dricks in Indiana, in 1872, by a majority of only 1,148. In these two important States the contest is really doubtful, and the returns of the elections now will have a close bear- ing on the success of parties in November. It is diMioult to say whether Ohio and In- diana should’ be classed as republican or democratic States. Both have, at present, democratic Governors, and in this view they would be ranked on the democratic side; but, on the other hand, both gave large majorities for Grant in 1872, and might therefore be claimed by the republicans. Their present elections will show how they stand at pres- ent. If both should go strongly republican, or both go strongly democratic, the result will have considerable influence on sub- sequent elections, and will determine, among other things, the contest in New York. Both in Ohio and Indiana the democratic State con- ventions indorsed the Pendleton heresy of paying the public debt in greenbacks, and if the democratic party can succeed in these States with such a load to carry it will be con- elusive evidence that the political tide is run- ning strongly against the republican party. In reasoning on such subjects we always assume that the same general causes which operate on the elections of one State will have a similar influence in others, and if the new cry of Southern outrages saves the republican party in Ohio and Indiana we may expect it to be equally potent in New York. At any rate, the effect of elections in determining subsequent elections is one of the most strongly marked features of American politics, and the result of to-day’s voting in several Western States will probably decide the political campaign of the present year. Mayor Havemeyer’s Reply Kelly. We print this morning as much as we can find space for of the Mayor’s voluminous but not very luminous answer to Mr. Kelly's de- fence against his arraignment. Mr. Kelly's statement was regarded by the public as, in the main, a satisfactory vindication. The Mayor is compelled to acknowledge, in his tedious, wordy reply, that he fell into mis- takes in his first letter, particularly in his total omission of the convictions in the police courts. There is a statute which declares that the police courts shall be regarded and classed as courts of Special Sessions for cer- tain purposes, and making it the duty of the Sheriff to include the convictions had in them in his returns. The chief impression of fraud made by Mr. Havemeyer's first statement de- pended on this inexcusable omission, for which he makes a lame apology in his reply. The number of convictions in the Special Sessions proper is very small as compared with the number returned and charged for by Mr. Kelly ; but the convictions in the police courts, which the law declares to be courts of Special Sessions for that purpose, is enor- mously large. By sinking the latter out of sight, and treating them as non-existent, the Mayor made out what seemed a strong case of fraud. Mr. Kelly's answer toppled it down like a ten-strike in a bowling alley, and the Mayor has not succeeded in setting up the pins. Instead of wasting so much space in cavil- ling on small legal points and dragging in irrelevant topics of invective the Mayor should have kept close to the real gist of the controversy aud have relied on facts instead of legal quibbles to support his case. He made a bad beginning, and does not reach a very creditable ending. It is understood that Mr. Kelly will not again address the public on this subject, relying for his final vindication on the Court before which his libel suit against the Mayor will be tried. This is a wise decision, and meanwhile he is entitled to be held innocent until he is proved guilty by a tribunal competent to judge of the law and the facts. Mr. Dana and the Mayoralty, We print elsewhere a correspondence be- tween a committee of the Industrial Political Party and Mr. Charles A. Dana. The com- mittee tender to Mr. Dana the nomination for the Mayoralty, as a “patriotic man,” an “anti-monopolist,’’ and a candidate who would unite all classes and pursuits in his support. Mr. Dana acknowledges the compliment in a letter, which is a model of terseness and can- not fail to have its effect upon the canvass. He ‘alludes to the ‘‘progress of municipal debt and the alarming increase of taxation,” “If,”’ he says, with keen force, ‘Tweed and Connolly were more rapid, Green and Havemeyer are none the less sure.” This text embraces the whole gospel of the testament of reform, and upon it the campaign should be made. Mr. Dana, however, declines the nomina- tion. ‘Whatever I might be able to do for youas Mayor,” he says, “I can serve you more efficiently in my present occupation as editor.’’ In other words, this clear-sighted journalist sees that in his calling he has a higher function than any suffrage can bestow. He sees that as a journalist he is forbidden the temptations, the allurements, the compro- mises of office. Upon him, as upon all of us, hag fallen an obligation like that vow of celibacy which unites the clergy to the faith of Rome. He must forego the decorations, the vanities, the ambitions of the mere world. He must lead and not follow. He must teach and chasten and punish. He must undergo obloquy, misrepresentation, rebuke; the alien- ations of friendships, the impatience, of tha to John multitude, the arrogance of power; the ostra- cism of party. His recompense must be in the sense of high duty and self-denial, which to the true journalist is the only reward. We commend Mr. Dana's motives in declin- ing this nomination. At the same time we regret that we shall not have so capable and fearless a man for Mayor, The Two Chattanooga Conventions. Eleven years ago this month a national convention was held at Chattanooga. A large delegation had arrived from Iuka, over two hundred miles away, with General Sherman at its head, and another had come from Vir- ginia with General Hooker. There were a great many others from Nashville and Knox- ville, and from the Southern States there was quite a full sttendance. In fact, there were so many delegates gathered to- gether that Chattanooga could not hold them all, and thoy were scattered in the neighbor- ing hills and valleys, numbers of them, in- deed, sleeping without shelter in the fields and woods. They had assembled to decide several extremely interesting and important questions, about which there were strong dif- ferences of opinion. One of these questions was about the passage of the river. The delegates from Iuka said it should be crossed, while those from Lafayette and other Southern points were equally earnest that it should not. Another question was as to the ascent ot Lookout Mountain. Many delegates believed this could not be done. A third question was whether Missionary Ridge could be crossed. Grant and Thomas thought it could. The debate which followed was quite exciting, and, in fact, noisy and sometimes disorderly, as may well be supposed when the Convention was composed of one hundred and forty thou- sand delegates, There were eighty thousand who took the affirmative side of each question, and they took several other things beside, for instance, several thousands of the minority members, some guns and banners, five or six mountains, a river or so and a few towns. This was a Soldier's Convention. To-day another convention will meet at Chattanodga. Heaven knows where all the delegates come from, and some of them do not know themselves. Sherman is not with them, nor Sheridan, nor Hooker, nor Hazen, nor would Thomas be were he living now. Grant, it is to be hoped, isalso not with them, though some people imagine he wants to be. Many of these delegates come last from Arkansas, where they have been visiting. There is Senator Clayton, who is said to have bought a fine seat in Washington, and Senator Dorsey, who has been extravagant in the same way. There is ex-Governor Brooks, who lost his seat, and Judge McClure, who is looking for another. All of these gentlemen carry carpet bags with them to Chattanooga, just as they have been carrying these useful substi- tutes for trunks all over the South for years. There is but one member of this delegation, 80 far as we know, who was born in Arkansas; that is ex-Oongressman Bowles, whose pres- ence is an insult to his companions which these haughty emigrants are not likely to en- dure. Then there are a few delegates from Nashville and perhaps some New Orleans statesmen -and a crowd from other cities, The majority of them travel on free passes, without which it is not likely they could travel at all. They come to Chattanooga prepared to take all they can get, and in this quality only resemble the delegates of 1863. They are all the time ascending Lookout Mountain, but it is to look out for No. 1. This is the Sutlers’ Convention, With the lesson of this brief contrast the Convention of Southerners at Chattanooga needs but little further notice. The sutlers who compose it have gathered to pick up tho crumbs of the war—the spiked guns, the plunder of the slain, the dead mules and the lost provisions. They profess to consult over the condition of the country. Itisin a very bad condition down in that section, and they have been the cause of it. What they will do it is difficult to predict, and it is doubtfal if the most of them know for what they are assembled, besides the general pur- poses that appertain to sutlery. We advise them to go home; that is if they have any homes. But their doings have this much value for the North, that they will show what the sutlers of the Southern States most want and what means they will take to get it. “Honors Are Easy.” _ We do not see that either party in this State has anything to gain by assailing the personal character of the opposing candidates for the Governorship. Governor Dix and Mr. Tilden are equally respectable and es- teemed, and there is no citizen of New York who would not have the fullest confidence in either as the guardian of orphans inheriting a large estate, as a trustee of property in litiga- tion, or in any other of the numerous fidu- ciary relations which arise in the transactions of civil society. It is absurd to attack either for his railroad connections in the expectation of making political capital against the other. Both have done business for railroads—one as the counsel and the other as the officer of such corporations. General Dix was the President, first, of the Union Pacific, and afterwards of the Erie Railroad, and Mr. Tilden has been re- tained as the legal adviser of quite a number of railroads outside of the State of New York, but bas never, a6 we are informed, accepted a counsel fee from the Erie, the Central, the Hudson River or any other New York rail- road. Itisasingular fact that each of the political parties attempts to connect the gubernatorial candidate of the other with the infamous Crédit Mobilier. The democrats charge Governor Dix with complicity in the Hoxie contract, and the republicans accuse Mr. Tilden of having given advice favoring the legality of the Crédit Mobilier scandal. The accusation on both sides is founded on inci- dental expressions made by witnesses in the well known Crédit Mobilier investigation, and is made out by inferences so strained and cir. cuitous as to have little effect. Neither party can gain votes by this kind of warfare, and for the sake of decency both parties ought to abaralon it, Tne Tamp Dar of the autamn meeting at Jerome Park was unnsually brilliant. There were five races, and the winners were Kadi, Mate, Vandalite, Hyder Ali and Preaknes, all, more or leas distinuished names. A Suggestion to Weston. Weston’s latest failure ought to be his Inst, unless, indeed, he can be persuaded to use his powers as a pedestrian to the advantage and relief of the people of this city. It is plain enough that he can never accomplish the feat of walking five hundred miles in six days, though it is with no great difficulty that he walks one hundred miles in a day when he is in good condition. The trouble is that he is very soon out of condition. He has swift ness without endurance, and he shows such persistence in undertaking what he cannot accomplish that he is making a nuisance of himself. For years he has been attempting the impossible, and as he certainly will continue to attempt it we hope his next effort may be made in a practical direction. He can select the point of the compass toward which he will goif only the direction is away from New York, for, un‘ortanately, he has lately com- fined himself to going round and round « circle, Six days’ steady walking would take him a very respectable distance from this city. We hope to hear that he has undertaken such a feat as this, and that there is to be no retura match, If he will do this—in a word, if he will go away as far and as fast as his legs can carry him and stay away till somebody sends for him, we shall never call him a humbug or @ nuisance any more, but calmly forgive and forget him. If Sergeant Bates could be in- duced to go with him and stay with him it would invest his retiroment with a peculiar glory and rid the world at one time of the twin annoyances of the epoch. Trovptes on THe Mexican Borper,.—Cor tina, the famous Mexican dealer in Texas cattle, is at his old tricks again. He is even said to be meditating a raid which will clear the Rio Grande of the United States troops guarding the river, and make a grand haul of beef from the Texas cattle fields. The border Texans are preparing to give the expected in- vaders a warm reception, and a lively little border war is considered imminent. It is to be hoped that President Grant, while on his present excursion to Texas, will so far look into these border troubles as to discover and do what is required to put aa end to them. Now, We Presuax, mosquito bites will be called a Herarp sensation. Let it beso, if it must not be otherwise. But that it is also a popular sensation is shown by the letters we print to-day from Hackensack, Communipaw, Harlem flats and other places where mosquitoes abound this year in numbers greater than before. We print those letters as evidences of the general suffering from these little pests. Their publication will not hurt the mom quitoes, but it may be of some relief to the writers. Ex-Presment Turers has made a full pro fession of his belief in the permanency of the unity of the’ Italian nation as it has been com- pleted by Victor Emmanuel. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge J. D. Caton, of llinois, is sojourning at the Windsor Hotel. Judge J. T. Bigelow, of Boston, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Governor Henry Howard, of Rhode island, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Mayor Joseph Medill, of Chicago, is stayiag at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr, William J. Maguire, of Quebec, is temporarily residing at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor William Aiken, of South Carolina, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bishop C. T. Quintard, of Tennessee, has takea up wis residence at the Coleman House. Commodore William Ronckendorf,, United States Navy. vas quarters at the Gtlsey House. Mr. Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, 1s among the latest arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel, About 8,0 Chinese proverbs will be publisued at Shanghal by the Rev. W. Scarborough. Ex-Governor Alexander H. Bullock, of Maasa- chusetts, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mayor Stokeley, of Phitadeiphia, made his first appearance at his office yesterday since his severe illness, There has deen some thought of nominating Thurlow Weed for Mayor; but he’s hardly old ‘enough, Mr. Robert E. Carr, President of the Kansas Pacific Rat!way Company, is registered at the Hofman House. Rear Admiral James A. Strong and Captain J, H. Upshur, United States Navy, are quartered at the Everett House. The Rev, Charles Kingsley 's last book is entitiea “David; Five Sermons.” Taere is no light in it oa the Beecher scandal. Lieutenant Governor John C. Robinson arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening from his home at Binghamton. Fancy an agitation in a free country against people making cigars in their own houses. Has Bergh taken hold of this subject also? The Belgian organ of the international is called “The Mirabeau.” Do workingmen fancy that Mirabeau was particularly fond of them? Judge Theodore Milier, of Hudson, N. Y., the democratic candidate for the vacant position on the Court of Appeals bench, is at the Metropolitan Hotel, In Mr. Beecher’s sermon on Sunday his argue ment Cuiminated in the exclamation, “Away with the everlasting impertinence of logic!’ Sorry he feels 80 bad about logic. Rev. J. P. Dealey, 8. J., the spiritual director of the late American pilgrimage, has returned. Whtie in Rome he was granted many personal in- terviews with His Holiness, Lawyera ougnt to be long lived. It is said thas the number of volumes of American Reports now exceeds two thousand, ana that they are increas Ing at the rate of a hundred per year. Dr. Anthony Rappaner, of this city, has beem appointed an honorary corresponding member of, the Vienna Imperial and Royal Society of Phy- sicians. The letter accompanying his diploma is signed by Rokitansky. John McKeon says that Tilden ‘is the great con» solidator and organiser of the railroad system.'™ Why, that's just the sort of capacity we want at headquarters to consolidate and organize tue. government of this State. The Rev. Dr. Berkley, who ts the delegate to the. General Convention to the Protestant Episcopat! Church from the diocese of Missouri, and who was the Warm personal friend and pastor of the Hon, Heury Clay for many years in Kentucky, is tie guest of Barnam’s Hotel, Weston has walked 100 miles a day, and that ts @ ement. If he will only start thee with his face toward Canada, and. walk 300 miles a day and keep at it, we shall re- gard him as the greatest success of moderm time, He may take Sergeant Bates with him ta carry @ flag. Swallowing & thermometer seems to be @ tolerabiy sure way of getting one’s self permae nenuy cooled of, and that may have been what, waa thought by # patient in the Montpelier Hose. pita!, who, being ancomfortably hot with @ fever, treated bimnaeif to a thermometer leit by the doo! tor on the bed. Fougerays, a Parisian journalist, remarkable OD epparent [odiference to everything, was bia pulled avaciad. He inquired why, and was told that many gentlemen nad opposed him because( they thought nim too cold, “Ani! be sald, “that would be ressonabie i I had come before Shom as 0 dish of eoup.”