The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN 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 or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Henavp. 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. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S THEATRE err —PAKTNERS FOR LIFE, ats P.M. Osu P.M. Air, He J. Montague, ; closes at NBL rye streets. —THE Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets. —" DELUGE ac r-M.; closes at UY, M. The Kirally Family. ¥ FIFTH AVENUE THRATRE, eet and Broadwov.—THE TWO Titweetie HiNGiNG OF TUR UR ‘and THE | ORITIC, P.M; closes at Li port, Miss Sara Jewett, Loui: nes, Charles Fisher. Sixteenth street, between proaaway ‘and Fifth avenue.— VARIBTY, at 5 P. BRYANT'S ori Woeat Twenty-third street, 1 MINSTHELSY, ats PeM. Dan Bryant METROPOLITAN THEATRE No. 55 Broadway.—VARIG1Y, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 by TONY PASTC No. 21 Bowery.—VARL OPERA HOUSE, atSP. M.; closes at 10 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner, of ‘Twenty-ninth street. NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at 8 P.M, LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street ang sixth avenue “LA FILLE DE | DAME ANGOT, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 1045 P.M. Mile. Ximes. AMERICAN I hird avenue, between Sixty su reste INUUSIMIAL EXHIB ITUTE, nird and Sixty-fourth | LON, col Broadway, corner of hie an _ street PARIS BY NIGH), at 240 P, M. and 745 P.M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—RUY BLAS, at8 /. M. P.M, Signora P oten’ .; closes at 11 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Rroadway, corner o: Thirtieth street ID WILD, at 2 P.M.; closes at4:% P.M. UNDER THE GASLIGHT, at SP. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mee L. Davenport. OLYMPIC THEAT iB oo Broalwase —VARISTY, at 3 Ee Se: closes at 10:45 NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fishin avenue and Forty-ninth street.—At2P. M. and CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. FRITZ, ity Mj closes at 10:30 P.M. Jos K. Emmet. THEATRE COMIQUE, Nos 514 Broadway.—VARIB1Y, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:20 PARK THZAIRE, Broadway, between iwenty-first and Twenty-second streets GILDED aGE, at § P.M. : closes at i020 P.M. John i, taymond. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street—BEGONE DULL'CARE, at 8P. M. Frederic Maccape. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—liEYDEMAN & SON, at 8P. M. BOOTHS THEATRE, ot Twenty-third street and’ Sixth Fale CIRCLE; OR, CON O'CAROLAN’S DREAM, t loses at 10:30 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Barney avenue.— TRIPLE | SHEET. New York, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1874, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that (he weather to-day will be partly cold and clear. Governor Drx paid a high compliment to our militia system in his last speech at Pough- keepsie. Wax Srneer Yesrexpay.—Stocks declined from } to1§ per cent. Gold was steady at 110 109%. There were no more rumors of commercial disaster. Bismarcx will shortly appear in a new rile, 48 witness against the poor fanatic who at- tempted his life. The latter has gained a cheap and extensive notoriety. ‘Tae Carumrts are having a hard time of it lately in Spain. There is a report that Gene- ral Dorregaray and his troops have sur- rendered to the national representatives, and that the Carlists watfered reverses in Biscay. Tax Ono Exaczibn Rarvans indicate that the democratic State ticket is elected, and that the same party carry the cluse Congressional districts. A rather significant hint trom the West. The returns from Indiana, Iowa and Dakota are meagre. Cocnt Vor Anntm’s cause has been taken up by his son, who denies most emphatically the soft impeachment of his father’s unfortu- nate literary labors. An ultramontane pamphlet is an ugly thing for a German Min- ister to touch nowadays. Sam Smmons—not Collector Simmons, Butler's protégé—is out with another letter against the Essex statesman in reply to his recent speech. Butler can afford to laugh at such small critics after securing the triumph- ant renomination for Congress which he has just received. Tar Annest or THE Burrato CovntEnrert- ens has developed the most extraordinary results. In addition to the seizure of highly finished plates and dies and other parapher- nalia used in perpetrating frauds on the gov- ernment, as shown by our correspondence published to-day, the Secret Service officers secured the large sum of a hundred and fifteen thousand in spurious bills which were ready for circulation. Tae Excuse Democracy ann tar Prince | unmitigated evil. The progross of the experi- or Wares.—The radical reformers of Bir- appear not to care very much for | lican party impossible in the majority of the royal visits. They have protested in public | meeting against @ municipal proposal to | ment was overthrown in Louisiana last month ‘illuminate the city on the occasion of the | the respectable property holding citizens | forthcoming visit of the Prince of Wales, | unanimously indorsed the revolution, showing | The Mayor is aceused of toadying to the Court in the hope of obtaining the distinc | tion of knighthood. The speakers were not vanny Daven- | ROBINSON HAL | | | great civil war; | policy The Chattanooga © mtion—The Re- Pablicam Party im the South. We print this morning the first day's pro- ceedings of the carpet-bag Convention of Southern republicans which assembled yester- terday at Chattanooga. This assemblage is of symptom of the lamentable condition of the South. It is meant asan appeal to Northern public opinion ; but the more industriously | prevail in the Southern States the stronger is the arument it furnishes against the practical | working of the reconstruction measures under which the Southern whites manifest so much discontent, A universal sense of grievance | | is the surest proof of bad government. Ii the | Southern people complain they do not com- | | plain without just cause. A convention | | called to arraign them for their mutinous dis- | content ought to incite the country to inquire | whether their complaints and dissatisiaction are well founded. This carpet-bag gathering at Chattanooga is | one of the most noteworthy symptoms of the | decline of the republican party in the Sonth- ern States. Its purpose is to act on Northern opinion by exposing the wrongs and outrages | perpetrated on the negroes by the Southern | whites, with a view to influence the Northern | elections. But its success in this object | would only advertise the egregious failure of the republican policy. If there exists in the South a reign of social disorder and bloody anarchy in the ninth year after the close of the war it is a conspicuous proof that the promises of the republican party have been forfeited and the expectations of the country disappointed. The republican party under. took to settle and pacify the country after a it undertook to restore the Union, maintain civil order, revive the shat- tered industries of the South and restore fraternal feeling by the reconstruction it adopted after the close of the war. It is too evident that its policy bas proved a melancholy failure; that little importance or significance except as a | it portrays the discontent and disorder which | | | Chattanooga Convention ought to have a very different effect on the Northern mind from that which its authors expect. Instead of | | rousing public sentiment against the Southern | whites and encouraging the republican party | to persevere in its measures of subjugation, it should teach the country that republican | reconstruction is an egregious failure. Aiter a trial of many years it is found to provoke | riot and disorder. The condition of the South is worse to-day than it was eight years | ago. All the harrowing descriptions which | the Chattanooga Convention sends forth to the | country are so many demonstrations that the | republican policy in the South has failed to bring peace and civil order. We believe there is no adequate remedy but in a national convention, called to establish order on the basis of justice. Attempts to | inflame the public mind of the North against | the Southern people, with a view to strengthen | the hand of oppression, will only intensify the evils and increase the embarrassments of | the present situation. The Chattanooga Con- vention may be quite correct in its statement of facts; but the facts which it sets forth and exaggerates only prove the necessity of revising the experimeat of reconstruction and making the newly acquired rights of the negroes con- sistent with honesty, economy, wisdom and justice in the Southern State governments. We do not see how this desirable object can be accomplished except by a national couven- tiou for revising the constitution. General Butler's Canvass. General Butler was renominated for Con- gress by his old constituency with such re- | markable unanimity that there apparently was | no need ot his taking the stump, but he is like a warhorse, who smells the battle from afar and neighs for the onset. He has already begun his canvass and is uttering his peculiar opinions with his customary boldness. Ono remarkable feature about these opinions is that most of them are diametrically opposed to the policy of the administration. While Mr. Fish 1s negotiating, or talking about ne- instead of peace, order, tranquillity, good government and the recementing of ancient bonds, the practical effect of the republican policy has been to introduce ‘‘confusion worse confounded.” It has not tranquillized the country. It has not obliterated the old mis- chievous distinction between Northern and Southern politics. It keeps alive the jealous, hostile feeling toward the South which pre- vailed during the war, and which dictated the reconstruction measures, The Chattanooga Convention is an electioneering movement intended to strengthen the federal govern- ment in its measures of subjugation. But such tactics at this late day are a conclusive demonstration that the reconstruction policy was a mistake. It is undeniable that the South is fall of dis- affection and is on the point of mutiny. But it cannot be said now, as was justly said at the outbreak of the great rebellion of 1861, that the Southern opposition is causeless and unjustifiable. Instead of rebelling against the mildest and most equitable government that ever existed, as the South did in 1861, the Southern malcontents have real grievances. The State governments which have been fas- tened upon them are systems of organized robbery. Instead of rebelling against the best of governments, as they did in 1861, they are protesting against legalized rapacity. The grievances of the South are too real. If Southern dissatisfaction expresses itself in irregular ways it is no more than should have been expected from a suffering, helpless people against whom regular methods of redress are closed. The republican party in the South has been steadily losing ground for the last six months. The Civil Rights bill, which passed the Sen- ate, but did not get through the House, aroused vigorous opposition, and was as unpopular with sagacious Southern republicans as with Southern democrats, Senator Brownlow and Southern republicans of his stamp opposed it as vehemently as the extreme conservatives. It was felt by all rational republicans that the party would be ruined in the South by con- ferring farther advantages on the negro pop- ulation. The reaction against the republican party in the Southern States has gone on since that note of alarm until all moderate, reason- able men who have heretofore acted with that party ‘eel that they cannot stand against local opinion. In States like Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, in all the Southern States, in fact, in which the ne- groes have not a clear majority, the repub- licans are discouraged and disheartened and feel that the party has no future unless negro arrogance is abated. The Louisiana troubles have contributed to the weakening of the re- publican party throughout the South, which has never been go feeble and depressed as it is to-day. The clective franchise was given to the Southern negroes, not because it was supposed they would exercise it with wisdom, but be- cause it was expected that the freedmen could be relied on as @ counterpoise to the demo- cratic party. Good government in the South was the last thing that was thought of. Uni- versal negro suffrage was adopted as a barrier against the old supremacy of the democratic party in the South. The motive which dicta- ted it meets a suitable reward. It has brought upon the republican party the disgrace and opprobriam of the ruinous carpet- bag governments, and has made it impossible for that party to sustain itself in the South in any State where there is a white majority. The republican policy haa failed, not only in the larger view of pacifying the South, but in the narrow party view of breaking democratic supremacy in the Southern States. Every Southern State, excepting the two or three in which the ne- groes are a majority, is in democratic hands; and the misrule and rapacity which prevail in those two or three States intensify the convic- tion that ignorant negro supremacy is an ment has made the maintenance of the repub- Southern States, When the Kellogg govern- that intelligence, character and property stood in solid array against the negro experiment. It would be the most wonderful thing in poli- gotiating, a reciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada, General Butler is arraying the sentiment ot New England against the measure. The Secretary of State will scarcely thank him for this, especially as ho went out of his way to say that the Treaty of Washington, upon which Mr. Fish must rest his reputation tor statesmanship, was a mistake. It was scarcely necessary, how- ever for Mr. Butler to thank God that he was not one of the Joint High Commissioners who negotiated that treaty, as we do not believe the Divine displeasure will ever fall upon the country so grievously as to commit so deli- cate a matter into his hands. On the cur- rency question General Butler is exceedingly humorous. He thinks the country needs more money, and he is willing to make it, but not entirely because the country needs it, The West wants it, and as the West is soon to govern the rest of the land, General Butler is anxious not to oppose the Western Empire. He is not so complaisant toward the South, however, and sees that the civil war is not yet over. This is significant, especially because it is the only question upon which he is in harmony with the party to which he belongs. Though we concede that General Butler is a very great man, we begin to suspect that he is also a politician. This is the more painful to us, since it was always so congenial with us to call him a statesman and all that sort of thing. The Frost King’s Arrival. The weather telegrams announced on Sun- day the probability of frost in the Northwestern and lake sections, and now we are having a general invasion of the Frost King. His arrival is always looked for most eagerly by all but the farmers; but, with timely notice, they have not so much to apprehend from his visitation. It is important to agriculturists generally to know that the gateway of American autumn and winter lies in that deep, broad furrow of the Continent, less than eight hundred feet above the sea, and stretching from Minnesota, northwestwardly, to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Through this long channel, several hundred miles wide, the winter winds and boreal conditions of the frozen North seem to advance southward at this season with the steadiness of a tidal swell, until they exercise a controlling influence on the weather of the United States. This fact, which has been fre- quently overlooked, affords an insight into the meteorology of this country, the value of which cannot be overestimated by those whose rural labor is dependent upon weather prevision. After the passage east- ward of the lake storm of Friday last the area of its low barometer appears to have been quickly filled up by indraught from the frosty regions of British America, and the indrawn masses of freezing air to have itiundated the Northwest and the country around the upper lakes, The farmers in these sections have, of course, less premonition of severe frosts than those in the Central and Middle States, but enough for wariness and energy to avert the destructive effects on outstanding harvests, The present frost wave, if it does not close the growing season for tobacco and some of the vegetable crops, ought, at any rate, to warn growers in the Middle and Eastern States not to delay harvesting everything that may be killed by frost, ‘There is an old saying that the weather repeats itself, which has, per- haps, some foundation in fact. At any rate, the present irruption of the Frost King will not improbably be repeated more vigorously and extensively within the next week or ten days. Let our rural population, therefore, be well forewarned, and employ the interval in carefully harvesting and husbanding what- ever is exposed in the field, THE Fiouttxo Factions of the republicon faith are now contributing something to en- tangle still more the Louisiana entanglement. The radical blacks no less than the White League appear to dislike Kellogg's compro- mise. The only compromise which will meet the necessities of Louisiana is a new and fair election for Governor and the other State of- ficers and Legislature. We hope this will be | the ultimatum of the President's annual Mes- sage to the approaching meeting of Congress. Torr Sporrs are now numerous and at- by any means choice in the quality of the | tics if the white citizens of the South did not | tractive. Yesterday there were trotting con- language which they used toward the heir exhibit symptoms ot mutiny against the apparent to the crown, and the scene was not, on the whole, by any means consoling to the | under negro rule. cnnse of vervuanent royally in Grvat Britain, | organized rapacity and robbery which prevail tests at Prospect, Deerfoot and Goshen parks, and to-day there will be a splendid exhibition of equine syeed and endurance at Jerome } ‘The uicture af disorder urewented by the Pathe OCTOBER 14, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Moving of the Waters. The deep interest which has been felt in the religious conventions in session in New York shows the tendency of thought- ful Christian people to look carefully into the present condition of the Protestant Church. There is a feeling of grave appre- hension in the minds of the best Christians as to the effects of the recent schisms and scan- dals. The Swing heresy trial has made a profound impression in the Northwest, and the withdrawal of Dr. Swing from the Pres- byterian communion was an act of revolt against that powerful and respected denomination. The case of Dr. Seymour, whose elevation is opposed on account of cer- tain tenets on Church forms and ceremonies, is also exciting great attention. Here in New York the refusal of Bishop Potter to recognize the Church Congress has had a dispiriting effect upon the Episcopal brethren. In Europe the agitation in religious circles grows from day to day. The apostacy of Lord Ripon from the Church of England has fallen like a thunderbolt, and now that all eyes are turned toward the Church it is seen that the Roman Catholic missionaries are working with a zeal reminding us of the time of Loyola. No themes are more eagerly discussed than relig- ious themes. The addresses of Archbishop Manning increase in fervor and zeal, and Mgr. Capel proposes to found a university which will enable the faithful to study science without losing their faith. Pilgrimages increase. The old shrines were never so much adored, and new ones are found from day to day. Re- ligious journals tell us of the ‘marvellous miracles’? at Lourdes. The whole Catholic Church seems incandescent with devotion and missionary zeal. In the Protestant churches division follows division and heresy treads hard on the heels of heresy. In the Catholic Church we see earnest, compact discipline—a people and a clergy who act as if they hada faith and be- licved in it. In the Protestant churches we see disintegration. And yet Protestantism attracts to its folds the genius of America. Its sons have long controlled this country, and even now it would be impossible for a Catholic to be elected to the Presidency. Outside of New York city there is no part of the country where the Catholic religion would not be a serious loss to the candidature of any man. So that practically the government, the so- ciety, the whole power of the United States are Protestant. There is every encourage- ment and every hope for Protestantism to assert itself. If it really has a faith let us see 1t made manifest by works. What is the present condition of Protes- tantism as we see it in so many phases? The worship of men, the adoration of genius and eloquence; no longer the worship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Subtle men, who speak of science with authority, like Tyndall, deal terrible blows at revelation, and the ministers of revelation are either silent or make a feeble response. Quar- rels in churches have become as frequent and more scandalous than rows in Tammany Hall. The effect of these is to un- settle the mind of the faithful, patient Chris- tian. The Beecher scandal has been a devil's harvest. We venture to say that no event since the close of the French Revolution has gratified Satan so much as this astounding revelation. It is painful to think of the souls that have fallen from breathing the poisoned air of this plague, of the thousands who have lost faith in religious purity atter reading these revelatiohs. Th8 Congregational Coun- cil has virtually rent the Church in twain. All the old spirit, the Puritan spirit, has faded away. Sentiment rapidly takes the place of religion and the worship of man the wor- ship of the Saviour. Men no longer go to church because of the meek and lowly Jesus, but because of Beecher and Frothingham, and Collyer and Storrs and Talmage and Hall. Congregations select their pastor as opera managers select their prima donna, The question is simply “Will he draw?’ We have many ‘‘drawing’’ preachers in New York and Brooklyn—none more so than Beecher and Storrs. Yet when these di- vines were last seen together in public it was in the attatude of pugilists. Unless this process of disintegration and mere man-worshipping is arrested the Protestant Church cannot sur- vive. An eminent and pious divine writes us his lamentations on the subject and calls upon the Hzratp to recommend to the churches a day of humiliation and prayer. It is not our province to enter into any matter of this kind. We are proud of the Protestant Church, and there are no names that we cherish more highly than the names of Bishop White, Francis Asbury, Jonathan Edwards and Roger Williams. But the spirit of decay seems to have fallen upon it. Our best hopes will be realized it we can bring home to Protestants a realizing sense of these facts, and induce an awakening of soul and a revival of the old Puritan and Methodist spirit throughout the land. The Great Tunnel Experiment in the English Channel. Strange as it may sound the great project of tunnelling the English Channel is, accord. | ing to late reports, in process of experiment, and the preliminary steps toward the stu- pendous undertaking are being steadily ad- vanced. Not an unfavorable omen for its prosecution is the withdrawal of the scheme from merely popular agitation and the quiet action of its originators. The first thing to be ascertained was the geologic formation of the Channel bed, with reference to the permeability of its strata. As the laying of the first Atlantic cable was dis- covered to be practicable by the discovery of the ‘telegraphic plateau’’ lying betweeu New- foundland and Ireland and furnishing a safe bed for the strand, it is claimed that the geo- logical survey of the Channel demonstrates the feasibility of the tunnel project. Mr. Prestwich, the leading English geologist, in an exhaustive discussion of all the conditions of the channel bed, has recently paved the way for a confident and energetic prosecution of the magnificent design to connect England and Europe. This cautious investigator thinks the scheme can be carried out and that the geologic conditions are | not unfavorable. He shows that the deeper rocks are protected by im- permeable overlying strata of great dimensions, and s0 compact as to offer the secure construction of a submarine strata have, at Whitehaven and Mons, been actually and safely worked at considerable distances under great bodies of water. So far as theory can throw light on the subject this has been done, leaving the question solely for the engineers, But, apart from Mr. Prestwich's researches, it is now known that the gray chalk—a mass of strata, five hundred feet thick and impervious to water—which forms the principal cliffs at Dover and Calais, strikes across the Channel and so nearly approaches horizontality that atunnel could be bored within its vertical limits. A high mechanical authority on the other side of the Atlantic states that the most eligible line for the tunnel is now pretty well concluded to run from St. Margaret's Bay, | South Foreland, to a point about midway be- tween Saugatte and Calais. This line of the main tunnel, which has been fixed upon by the promoters of the enterprise, is acciden- tally almost coincident with that of the Dover and Calais submarine cable. It has been selected after some hundreds of borings (which have been made by an ingenious ap- paratus for perforating the sea bed and bring- ing up the reck specimens) were examined anda complete geological chart constructed from the data. The greatest depth of water overlying the selected tunnel line is less than two hundred feet, and it is proposed to penetrate two hun- dred feet or more beneath the bed by long descents of four miles from either shore. This would make the total tunnel length about thirty miles, and would afford great security and ease of gradient to the structure. The whole perforation will be wide enough for a double railway. In an engineering point of view it is doubt- less a practicable undertaking, the only ques- tion being its financial expediency. This must depend on the action of President MacMahon's government, which, it is said, is favorable, and likely to grant the concessions asked for by the French and English company who have the matter in hand, The actual distance from Dover to Calais does not exceed twenty miles, and if the piercings on either shore could be nearer the sea it would seem that six or eight miles of the estimated tunnelling could be saved. This might save one-fourth of the estimated cost (ten millions of pounds sterling), and re- duce the expenses of construction within the limit of remuneration. The undertaking, even at these figures—which are said to be the highest estimates—would be cheap and inex- pensive, compared with our proposed isthmian canal, Foreign Views of America. The London Standard bas improved the Brooklyn scandal to give us its ideas about American society. We are blessed with some English journals at home whose haziness of view and wildness of criticism afford constant amusement. It is, therefore, not as necessary now as it was in the past to look to London for a foreign opinion of American affairs. Every now and then the impulse to improve current events here with ravings and admo- nitions about America seems to seize the English press, and of course we could not escape the temptation of the Brooklyn scan- dal. The Standard marvels at the prominence given to the Beecher case in the newspapers as “repulsive to English taste.” We can better understand English taste, perhaps, when we remember that the London news- papers for six months were compelled to sur- render their available space to the Tichborne case, in itself a social revelation that might be commented upon, hinging, as it did, upon the story gf @ cousin seducing @ cousin under promise of marriage. what Thomas Moore said of us when he came to America: —‘‘Rank without ripeness, quick- ened without sun;" that our ‘fruits were crude at the outside, rottenat thecore.” This sentiment was repeated and indorsed, so the Standard tells us, by Mr. Dickens, who quoted Moore's lines, ‘the only literary, quotation contained in the whole of the great novelist’s works.” Throughout the American character there runs ‘the curious vein of sentimentality’ which ‘contrasts so oddly with its eager, practical cleverness.’’ ‘The American wo- man in cities is suffused with sentiment; so very often is the American man when he is not occupied with business. The poetry which is read in America is nearly all sentimental; the very war songs are songs of sentiment.” Accordingly this Beecher business is nothing more than a phase of the national character. We can understand how critics are apt to form their judgment of other nationalities by what they happen to see. The typical Frenchman, og, seen with English eyes; the typical Eng- | lishman, as seen with French eyes; the typi- cal American, as we find him abroad, not to speak of our own ideas of the foreigner, are amusing caricatures of the true men as they really are. That a Frenchman drinks absinthe, eats frogs; that the Englishman drinks beer and gin, and has no other amuse- ment but to beat his wife; that the Irishman is really what Mr. Williams presents to us every night—a roaring, skipping creature in agray coat, witha pipe in his hat; this is | no more surprising than that the Frenchman | should form his impression of the Yankee from the types of our beloved countrymen | who may be seen in the courtyards of the Grand Hotel loudly wondering why Bismarck had not abolished the nation. ‘We cannot altogether marvel that the foreign mind should fancy that all Americans abroad, even our foreign Ministers, are agents for a sewing machine company. This is about as true and as probable as it is that all French. | men eat frogs. And we cannot be amazed, therefore, when we find our foreign critics calmly contemplating Mr. Beecher as a repre- sentative of our Christianity and Mr. Moulton as the representative American gentleman. ‘There is this criticism to be made upon the tone of comment, as seen in America and | England. We read the many books that have been written by Englishmen about America, and, with the exception of the work of Sir | Charles Dilke, there is not one that is not un- Moore came here seventy ; fair and unjust. years ago, and found us “arrived at maturit, | in most of the vices and all of the pride of civilization,” and. so far removed from its higher characterisfics as to ‘‘presage sure decay.” coarse and brutal assault on Jefferson, such on assault as no American writer could think | of committing on the Prince of Wales, evon after the Mordaunt trial. Dickens found forty We are reminded of | His poems were pointed with a | nn, Onr habita, our customs, our whole tono of thought and life are, according to our cities, at variance with the higher tone of the Old World. The general impression thus con- veyed to the English mind is that our publio men are thieves, our statesmen mountebanks, our merchants swindlers, our women—what shall we say? On the other hand, the books written by Americans about England have almost all, without an exception that we can now recall, been in the kindest and most ap- preciative spirit. Take Emerson’s “English Traits,” for instance, There is no nobler tribute to England and its character than what is contained in that volume. Hero is the first American of his time writing of Eng- land in a manly, sincere, kind way, without .an insult or a sneer, Where is the English writer of whom we can say as much so far as America is concerned ? The truth is nothing gratifies the American more than to receive attentions from his Eng- lish cousin. The English cousin cares no more about the American than he does about the Pole or the Roumanian. He comes here to see nature, to shoot and fish, just as he would go to Norway or Albania, Ho cares no more about our attentions than he would care about the attentions of a flock of ducks he was making ready to shoot. It is probably bestto have no trouble about the matter. We are what we are, with our sins and our merits, and no amount of criticism ean chango it. The best answer we can make to our critica is to see our errors and amend thep. It is rather difficult, we admit, to be sensitive about our foreign reputation when we think of the Emma mine and Erie, and the three hundred and fifty millions of railway bonds now in default. But things have been worse, and we must make them better. Brronam Youne has at length been bearded like “a lion in his lair’ by the hunters. The United States judicial authorities in their in- dictments against the saints for polygamy, murder and other high crimes are evidently this time not in the mood for further trifling, and there may be some exciting scenes in the ‘drrepressible conflict’’ in Utah before the winter is over. Judge McKean’s charge to the Grand Jury, a summary of which we print elsewhere to-day, torcibly illustrates the un- enviable attitude of the Mormons. Let wise counsels prevail, however, on both sides, and even the Mormon difficulty will be settled without an overthrow of law and order. ———_+—____—_—_. To-Day is the second day of registry, and it would be well for all who desire to exercise the highest and dearest privilege of a citizem to avail themselves of this opportunity to deposit a vote. The big bell and parti- colored wagon should not be necessary to call attention. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The Duchess of Edinburgh is ill, General Henry Brewerton, United States Army, 13 quartered at the Sturtevant House, President M. B, Anderson, of Rochester Unt- versity,:nas arrived at the Everett House. Mr. P. Mitchell, member of the Canadian Parita- ment, has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Jago, of the British Army, has taken up his residence at the Fiftu Avenue Hotel, Judge Martin Ryerson, of the Court of Commis- sioners of Alabama Claims, is at the St. Denis Hotel. Assistant Postmaster General E. W. Barber arrived at the Gilsey House yesterday irom Wash- ington. Mr. Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, and formerly Mayor of Chicago, ieft town last evening tor the West. Right Rev. James F. Wood, Roman Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia, is sojourning at the St Nicholas Hotel. it js the opinion of Mr. Dana, of the Sun, that public plunder under Green and Havemeyer “slow but sure.” That notaole politician of Massachusetts, Dr. Loring, has producea & book om the “Manage- ment and Breeding of Cattle.” Ex-Senator Cattell, who has been appointed Special Treasury Agent to negotiate the new loan, will be assigned to duty in London, President Grant and party arrived at Atchison, Kansas, yesterday afternoon, und were welcomed by an immense concourse of people, The resignation of Judge Dick Busteed nas been received and accepted by the President. Now for more sayings of Poor Richard, Susan B. Anthony is stumping Michigan for woman suffrage, and the Michiganaers come out numerously. Bessie’s name is never heard. Rev. H. W. Beecher delivered a new lecture, ea- titlea “Upper and Under,” at Music Hall, Boston, lastevening. He was entnusiastically received, ‘dhe Earl and Countess of Cavan arrived at Kingston, Ontario, yesterday, The Earl will preach in that city and vicinity during the next few days, Senator William Sprague and family, of Rhode Island, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Mrs. Sprague wiil sail for Europe to-day in the steamship Russta. The iourth and last volume of Professor S, F. Baird's great ‘History of North American Birds,” containing the water birds, will be published early in 1875 by Little, Brown & Co, The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the collectors of customs on the frontier to allow the Governor General and Lady Dufferin and suite to pass without the ordinary customs regulations, General Belknap, Secretary of War; Generals Heintzelman, Ekin, Fry, Beckwith and Collender, of the United States Army, and a number of otner army officers left Indianapolis last night to attend the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee ut Springfield to-day. ‘he great Shakespeare commentaries of Ger- vinus will be reprinted this month in London. Mr. Furnivail will preface them with a treatise on the succession of Shakespeare's works and the tests of spuriousness in works supposed to ve | Shakespeare’s. The book will contain no comiort for the Baconians. ‘The Earl of Dufferin, Governor General of Can- nd the Countess of Durterin, have arrived tn | this city and are stopping at the Brevoort House. | Their visit is entirely of a private nature, and will be only of a few days’ duration. Last evening the distinguished party visited the theatre and did not return to the notel till a late hour, The “repudlicans of the reconstructed States” in council at Chattanooga are charged with the | anty of agreeing among themselves how to mod- | erate their rogaertes tn the South, 80 as not to disgust the North too greatly, and also how to | provoke the South to violence, fo order that its | revolt may alarm the Nogthern people. Ex-Governor J. H. Clifford, of Massachusetts; ex-Governor W. A. Graham, of North Carolina; ex- Governor William Aiken, of South Carolina; Alex. ander 4. H. Stuart, B. Sears and Dr. Fultz, of Vir- gima; Judge S. Watson, of Nashville, and Surgeon General J. K. Barnes, United States Army, mem- bers of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Edu- ‘ cational Fund, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where a meeting of the Board will de held this afternoon. ‘The Graphic prints an admirable cartoon tilas trating the recent discussion between Reverdy | Jonnson aad Charles O'Conor in the columns of tne | Heratp, The two eminent jurists are represented | splitting hairs, illustrating the lines— They could distinguish and divide A hair ‘twixt south and soutnwest side. The manner, features and general appearance of | Mr. O'Conor and Mr. Johnson are admirably pre- served; and the whole cartoon is ao admiravie specimen of the art of this unlane and succesatul tunnel And be cites the fact that these | years later that Moore's estimate waa carreck | sournab —aeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe