The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1874, Page 6

— 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. dAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR | Govermer Dix and the Third Term. | It is stated that Governor Dix, in reply tos | serenade to be given bim some evening this | week, will speak of the third term project in language of strong reprobation. We incline to regard this statement as apocryphal. In | the first place, the friends of the Governor and the republican press of the State are not agreed as to the expediency of such a step. The Times, which advocated it for three or four days, began to fall back on Monday and | | yesterday dropped the subject. The other | | leading journals of that party have steadily | deprecated it, and with the opinions of his | supporters so divided the Governor will | = | naturally hesitate lest he should expose him- | | self to a charge of weakening his canvass by a | | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and /orwarded on the same terms w York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. authority the substance of imperialism is es- tablished. The horse is saddled and bridled and only awaits o rider. General Grant is the first President who has encountered this sednetive temptation, and it is hardly in human nature that his political virtue should not have been shaken if he had penetration enough to perceive so great an opportunity, His aspirations are so new, and therefore give so violent a shock to traditional feeling, that his foot is pretty sure to be struck out of the stirrup; but the danger will nevertheless re- main unless the Hzraup’s remedy of a con- stitutional convention to readjust the relations of the federal government to the States shall be accepted. The third term aspirations of President Grant are only a symptom of a deep- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1874.~-TRIPLE SHERT. Too Late. The republican party would seem to be in the position of the French army at the battle of Waterloo after the arrival of the Prossians. The compact, fighting array that seemed strong enough to save France sudden- ly yielded to a panic. The cry cf despair arose in the ranks; the soldiers rushed here and there, striving for safety, but only to be captured or sabred by the allied horse- men. Only yesterday and the republican party seemed defiant and irresistible. It claimed to rule the country, dictate the measures of reecnstruction and compel the acquiescence of the people in a violation of the spirit of the constitution simply to serve the ambition of General Grant. The demo- | hazardous change of front in the face of the | seated disease, for which there is no other enemy. In the next place, all the reasons | remedy than a national convention, The de- which have restrained him from making sucha | feat of the republican party in the recent declaration at a more suitable time exist in full | elections proves that the political sentiment APO | force now. It he has been held back by fear | of the country is, as yet, sound to the core. of offending the President and alienating the | But the country must not delude itself with Custom House there is no reason why that | the idea that merely to shove General Grant motive should not operate with as much | out of the field puts an end to the danger. COLOSSEUM, | strength now as heretofore. His chances | We shall have a new crop of Grants unless a way. comer of thirty-n/tn street STORM OVER | have grown so doubtful that these people national convention shall remove the soil in *. “| gould have no difficulty in punishing him, | which they take root. | The fault we are compelled to find with ee SAN FRASCISCO MINSTELS, Brosdway, corner of ‘wenty-ninth street.—NEGBO MINSTRELSY, at 5 P. M.: closesat 0 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and sixth avenue.—MUCH ABOUT NOTHING, at’ P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Nelison, Mr. Barnes. ween ~ixty- tow! DUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, ne yhird aven' wtreets.—1N. bread PARIS and M. and 7 45 poe WOOD'S MUSEUM, _| whereas, had he made such a declaration two | bw deer setOE Me, KART RU ANE MRE iclosenat | weeks ago, it would have brought him such | Governor Dix is that he seems to regard the 6) =a a hoe ag lala an increase of popularity that he might have | third term question as a mere transient phase OLYMPIC THEATRE, | safely defied them. A tardy declaration | of our politics, having reference only to the et eee met pene the third term in the sath condi- | individual man who happens at this time to tion of his canvass would bs so evidently ex- | be President. Grant is a mere bubble gn the torted by alarm that a successful handle | surface of politics; the real danger is in the PARK THEATRE. would be made of it by the democrats as a | state of things which encourages the hopes of Droste Oe Ton ats te ees ariOSOr | signal of distress or an act of desperation. | every accidental pretender who gains posses- soled lament | As he did not venture on the experiment at a | sion of the Executive office. The only secu- | time when no member of his party would | rity tor the country is in nipping such pre- ‘have dared to complain we shall be snr- | tensions in the bud, and Governor Dix has prised if he does it now, at the risk of failed ina great duty by his neglect to wara UHEATRE ¢ MIQUE. re Broadway.—VARIcTY, at P. M.; closes at 10:30 Fourteenth street - LL, yULL' CARE, at 8P. M.; closes at l0P. M. F e. Maccabe crate were despised as ‘copperheads’ or rebels. The statesmen in power scemed anxious only to gain wealth. General Grant sweptaway all the traditions of the Executive office, and used it, as he did the chief command of an army, as a simple military post, with the office-holders as an army, the Cabinet as his staff, all bent to the execution of his will. Notwithstanding these changes and violations of the constitution; notwithstanding the misery that came upon the South, making reconstruction a disgrace anda crime; not- withstanding subsidy schemes and wild finan- cial experiments, and blunders that under other circumstances would have brought shame and confusion upon any party, the leaders, arrogant with war victories and wat powers, continued on and on, and believed they lad only to go to the polls to wina victory. When the Henatp, eighteen months ago, pointed out the tendency of these phenomena, and argued with a logic which, whether sound or unsound, has never yet been answered, that GERM KATRE, | Fe th stree.—CATO VON EISEN, at8P. M.; closes Z ¢ . ee . re oP i loosening all the tongues in the Custom House | and instrnct the country in a crisis which | and exciting the regret of many sincere sup- | would have made his voice potential. His | BOOTH'S THEATRE, raf Sixth _ “e * . z :, . HENRY Vir ats PM. closes at 1030°P- Me Mise | porters. Still another reason for distrusting | election is a very small matter in comparison rn — this reported intention of a serenade tofurnish | with the good he might have done ; but ho | Proadwa: L-THE KOM Oe oH x oor yorxa | the occasion for an anti-third-term spcech | could have secured his election had he spoken | Saas. closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Ads Dyas 4 nears in the attitude of the Albany Evening out on this subject at a time when no citizen ACADEMY OF MUSIO, | Journal. Governor Dix’s relations with that could have doubted that his convictions and | Fourteenth streets —liallan Opera—L& SONNAMBULA, | paper are intimate end confidential, and if he | not his fears prompted him to raise a voice of | atsP.M. Mile. Emma Albani. | i | ‘ A i le | had such an intention as is ascribed to him he | warning and send it far and wide through | sr n EN ston streets.—-THE | would have given a hint of it to the party | the land. | i Slons ay 1 PM. dhe Biraly | oryan at the State capital and saved it from | 4 i the awkwardness of opposing in advance | what it would feel bound to justify as soomas |. 1. : | diwan hae | indications usually accepted as premonitory | 4 Fale | New Jersey will be carried by the democrats To be sure, there is a finessing kind ot | in November. ‘The vote of Essex county (in- | speech which Governor Dix might make with- NIBLO Broadway, between F DELUGE, at 8 PLN. Family. New dJerscy Politics. As far as it is possible to judge from the | M : closes at Il P ara Jewett, Lonis BROOKLYN THEATRE, sati0:30 P.M. Jos. k. Emmet. | | cluding the city of Newark) bears the same | | out embroiling himself with the Custom | yejation to that of the State that the vote of | | House; but he should speak boldly if atall. | pennsylvania has hitherto been believed to | If he were merely to proclaim his disbelief; hold toward Presidential elections. The re- | if he were to brand the third term fearses | cont charter election held in Newark showed 4 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, idle and causeless; if he undertook to clear | 9 jgrge democratic gain, and though the re- No, 565 Broadway.--VAKIETY, at 8 VM; closes at10 | General Grant of cherishing such sspi- publican newspapers would fain produce the rations and to offer this as the jus- | conviction that this result was wholly due to tification of his previous silence, the | jocai causes the fact will not be without effect | Fae gaa public would be entitled to demand | in the State. A severer blow at the republican | EET, | tt srounds of his opinion. The public | prospects was unconsciously struck by the | . | would inquire how he became so much better | recent Republican Convention at Newark, 874, | formed on this subject than Grant's cromies | called for the purpose of nominating edunty —. ; and tamiliars. It is not believed that the | officers, including a Sheriff and Register. | President has made Governor Dix s confidant | Both these offices sre lucrative, and it was in or bas communicated with him on the third | ¢,, power and to the best interests of the | term question at all. Governor Dix has 20 | gonvention to give them to good and power- other means of information than the country | ful men, who would assure success in the at large. His asserted disbelief would go | county and strengthen the ticket in the State. \ for nothing unless he supported it by evi- | Failing to appreciate the urgency of such a | dence. The only evidence on which General | course, the Convention adjourned after making | Grant can be acquitted is a public declaration | nominations that, though not essentially un- Bi A tf et Fifth jxteenth street. between bro Way’ at avenae.— VARIETY. ata DM. sri SE, veune.—-NEGRO . M. Dan Bryant. | | | TONY PASTO! Wo. 201 Bowery. —VARIETY Steerer TRIPLE USE, )PERA HO! t3 P.M. oses at WP. M. ae SH Sew York, Wednesday, Oct. 21, ul NOTICE T0 THE PUBLIC. Owing to the great pressure on our adver- | tising columns, advertisers would favor us by | sending in their advertisements early in the day, This course will secure a proper classifi- | too late—too late! cation, helping the public and the Henazp. 4dvertisements intended for our Sunday issue may be sent with great advantage in the earlier days of the week; it will prevent confusion and mistakes arising from the immense quantity of work to be dove Saturdays. Advertisements will be re- ceived daily at this office, the branch office, No. 1,265 Broadway, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second streets, ond the Brooklyn branch office, corner of Fulton and Boerum by himself so absolute and unequivocal as to | | bind his personal honor and make it a breach | of sincerity and an act of perfidy to permit | the use of his name for another nomination. | | Of course Governor Dix has not this kind of proof to offer. His professions of disbelief would, therefore, be a trifling with the public patience if not an insult to the public intelli- | | gence. Such a speech would have satisfied | nobody, even if it had been made close on | the heels of the Utica Convention. What he | | ought to have said then, and should say now, ‘ | if he makes a speech on the subject, is streets, up to nine P. M., and at the Harlem | evident enough. It should be nothing | bronck office, 124th street and Third avenue, | Jess than on explicit declaration of his im- | up to half-past seven P. M. Let advertisers | movable hostility to a third term and of his | remember that the earlier their advertisements | Conviction that it would be the knell of our a st fi | free institutions. Had he intrepidly said this se 3 ft aie potter fool within ten days of his recent nomination its selves and for us. - | effect on public fecling would have been mag- From our reports this morning the probabilities \ ical and electric. The universal, enthusiastic are that the weather (o-day will be clear or partly | plaudits with which it would have ; been cloudy. | ee would pid turned ae gia gat 3 PETRIE GR | stron; in rovernor ix's favor Nett) Sraser Yeerexpax:— Mocks | were | nai could have reversed it. It would | weak and the market without feature. Money | have established confidence in him as astates- was a trifle stronger at the close. Gold was | man of remarkable sagacity, patriotism, inde- eee Oe Pay TI pendence and political courage. But it would A Convention of delegates from a number | be no proof of courage, sagacity or indepen- | of Western States met in Louisville yesterday | dence to make the declaration now. The pub- to consider the best way to have the national | jie would think he had been scared by his | capital removed to the Mississippi Valley. | fears into an act which he failed to do from The great cost of the Capitol buildings, im- | wise and forecasting free will. Even his sin- perfect as they are, will keep Congress and | cerity would be open to question, whereas the Executive in Washington for years to | nobody could have doubted it if General Dix’s come. | sagacity had not got so unfortunately belated. | This third term question has a deeper sig- on Tae Tarr of the alleged conspirators in the safe burglary caso in Washington was | nificance than those of our contemporaries | who at first scouted and have since echoed our begun yesterday, notwithstanding the efforts warnings seem to perceive. It is not, as the to obtain a postponement on the ground that important witnesses for the defence were ab- | sent. The government appears to be confi- | dent of success and indisposed to allow any | more trifling. Taz News from Louisiana is to the effect | that because the federal authorities have ar- rested certain persons charged with murder | General Grant's personal ambition. It goes far deeper. The main clement of danger, to a philosophical view, lies in the conjuncture of circumstances by which such ambition is inspired ; the safety and stability of our insti- tutions depend on the absence or removal of this class of temptations. There is no coun- | pride and swiftness. We must meet Casorism | Henap understands it, a mere question of | it 1s proposed to have another revolution, and | that there is to be a meeting and more white | leagues. If there is any more of this madness | the democrats will be again defeated in the North and reconstruction postponed. There | is one ghost that never can be summoned again in the South with impunity-—the ghost of rebellion. ‘A Henatp Proryecy.—On July 5, 1873, the Hzrax., in the first article on Casarism, in opening the discussion of th said :---The attributes of the Pr office, prerogatives possit over-inereasing jower yearning of a cultivated « for court honors and court life, the desire ot tain power aad reward whether a strong EF. the Republic, must iu tin important in our politics. of Cesarism continues to assume 4 uspect we shall have an issn: n d decide and more essential in i) propt mination to the national liberties than any éhat has gone before."’ Does not the question seeta to ‘ava asauraed @ menacing asnect? the as class piendor. lw beeome Uae “Li this 4 now t to letor try in the world where ambition will not leap | into the saddle if the horse stands before it ready and caparisoned. In raising the third | term alarm we simply gave General Grant credit for sagacity enough to perceive the | possibilities of a situation which, though dan- | gerous tothe country, might be of personal | advantage tohim. The great Athenian orator, in reproving the thoughtless levity of his fel- low citizens, told them that the sensational reports they were fond of cirewlating, that Philip was deud, would be of no consequence } sre true, because their want of | { even if th patrioti lance would raise upunew Philip | jig parallel in gravity since the foundation of if tie ambitious King of Macedoa should die. | the government.” “A declaration from Gen- iu iil ner the condition of our country | oral Grant now that be would aot be a caudi- tends to awtken such aspirations as General | date for reeclection would be an of mag- | Grant has been led to entertain. Tt is not so | nanimity on his part.” If the President had | b his faul that of the policy of his | made such a declaration at that time Centen- » poliey which inevitably tends to im- pial Dix would not now he so anxious to checked and corrected. The y in the South, introduced ais unle sro suprema th per u b nie , creates a constant necessity for iederal interference to preserve the peace aud uphold civil order; and when local tranquillity eur | is made vermanentiy devandent om conial hasty, ill-considered reconstruction | popular in themselves, will incline to divorce powerfal influences from the republican cause, materially weakening the support of Mr. Hal- sey in his own city and county. A Hezarp Prorzzcy.—On July 7, 1873, the Hezaup, in the second article on Cesarism, said, in advice to the republican party:—‘“‘We can name twenty Marc Antonys in our city who would carry the crown of a third nomination to President Grant with | now, not by postponing this question out of deference to the feelings of General Grant, but by meeting it, discussing it and searching out public opinion. If our public men have no views upon the subject or are silent and non- committal we must educate them now.” If this admonition had been heard at the time the republicans might not now bein their condition of extrome anxiety and despair.” Tae Vincrstus Cxamts.—We are informed, through our Washington correspondence, that the interchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Spain on these Vir- ginius claims continues, but with no prospect of a settlement, and that it is probable that the subject will be submitted to arbitration, according to the terms of the Fish-Polo proto- col. The question recurs, Why continue this correspondence when there is no hope of | reaching a settlement by this process? Why | not proceed to the arbitration provided for as a last resort? England puts in her demand, | and the money is paid; but why should Mr. | Fish attempt to follow the example of England when he is barred in the outset by his protocol for arbitration? He is ouly wasting time and showing his hand in his letters for the infor- mation of Serrano. Tae Ancrntine Insurrection appears to be getting stronger, broader and boider from day today. But the issues involved do not | as yet appear to be anything more than those | of most of the South American revolutions of the last fifty years. In short, this appears to be only an armed conflict between the party | in power and an outside party for the public | plunder, and so, whatever the result, it will, to the outside world, be all ti Aine, i | | A Henatp Propnecy.—On July 8, 1873, the Henan, in the third article on the subject of Casarism, said:—‘The men of whom Mr. | Colfax may be regarded as the most promi- i nent example, the Praetorian guards of the republican party, have made ( ble in our time, aud have coimpell an issue with the people whi usto open has not had | address a band of music ia opposition to a third term. St. Domtxco bas succecded in obtaining o | \ treaty of recognition, pe amity, com- merce, navigation and extradition with Spain, the inevitable result would be an agitation for a third term, there were only ridicule and mockery. Eloquent orators valiantly defended Grant from any tendency to Casarism. Mr. Nast recalled the genius of Hogarth in a series of caricatures of the ‘new sensation." The Henatp was held up to scorn. The Pres- ident would not speak. Somehow the | subject was ‘‘beneath” him, although | it had not been beneath Washington, Jefferson or Jackson. He would not speak, nor his friends for him. In time the Hezatp showed from incontestable evidence | that a majority of Senators and Representa- tives were prepared to accept if not willing to welcome the third term. This reve- lation came upon the country, and the answer was promptly returned by Indiana and \ Ohio. Suddenly all was changed. Silent men found speech. Pig Iron Kelley, who was a trimmer while conversing with our corre- spondent, found a voice, and in tones of thunder denounced a third term. Robeson made an occasion for a speech, and, although he said little, it was thought to be enough for New Jersey. Belknap found some onein ao railway car to report him as mildly deprecating the discussion. Keen and wise | Henry Wilson feared the “burden” would overload the party, and events have shown how wisely he reasoned. And Centennial Dix is said to be waiting fora band of music to enable him to issue another order to ‘‘shoot on the spot’’ the Casarism seasation. But it is It will never do. Silence was crime; speech now would be cowardice. When the Hzraxp spoke it was deemed to be the warning of Cassandra. Our admonitions were despised even as the admonitions of Cas- sandra. Now every one is only too eager to listen. But it is too late! The republican party must carry this burden to the end, and it is a burden that bids fair to drag it to dis- honor and defeat. Taz Geant-Hoxore Weppric.—We pre- sent to our readers to-day a detailed descrip- tion of the nuptials of Colonel Frederick Dent Grant and Miss Ida Marie Honoré, which were celebrated in Chicago yesterday and which constituted the social event of the sea- son in the Lake City. Fashionable weddings, especially when the family of the Chief Magis- trate of the nation is interested, never fail to attract universal attention. The toilets on the present occasion were exceedingly hand- some and presented feaiures of novelty that will be readily appreciated by our modistes. The ceremony of marriage according to the Campbellite ritual was very solemn and im- pressive. The President and Mrs. Grant and } some of the most distinguished personages in the country honored the event with their presence. It will be something for Chicago circles to gossip over for a month to come. A Henatp Propaecy.—On July 9, 1873, the Ceesarism, said :—‘‘It is, moreover, a painful and extraordinary fact that while every politi- cian in America is thinking over the problem whether General Grant will or will not bea } candidate for re-election no leading repabli- can has dared to say that such a candidacy would be practically an avowal of the failure of republican institutions." ‘We contend that all sentimental issues in our politics should be postponed until we have decided the fandamental questions.’’ Vice President Wilson evidently thinks so when he fears that | the issue thus earnestly presented to the republican party eighteen months ago now threatens to destroy it. initely proposed to the great Powers the adop- tion of a general international maritime code. And why not, when Germany is aiming to be agreat Power on the sea as well as on the land. She seems to be casting about in both hemispheres for such unappropriated or pur- chasable islands as may be useful as naval depots or stations. She evidently means, henceforward, to secure a portion of that commercial and naval power which is the strength of England at home and abroad; and hearing in the establishment. of a general maritime code? Bismarck evidently holds that his mission in the reconstruction of the German Empire is not limited to the Euro- pean Continent. Te Cuvan Insurrection still keeps the Spanish authorities on the alert. Incen- diarism will be punished with severity, | according to the latest orders, and a slight skirmish in a cattle farm constitutes the news from the field. A proclamation of amnesty to _ and is consequently hanov, fore Christmas is in contemplation. Henaxp, in the fourth article on the subject of | TERS a Gznmany on an InTzRwaTionan Manrrowe | Copr.—It is reported that Germany has def- | The Reform Movement, The revolt ogainst Tammany Hall came to ® head last evening by » mass meeting at the Cooper Institute, The large snd en- thusiastic character of the sssemblage shows the existence of those electric elements which, under proper management and with really representative merchants and citizens enlisted, could have been fused into » thunderbolt for the destruction of Tammany Hall. There was probably never a time when the spirit of dissatisfaction was 80 rife. Men of all classes see that under the arrangement proposed by Kelly and Morrissey we pass from one ring to another; that it is only Tweedism in a different form; that we shall have in time the worst features of the old Ring. Inthe pungent and forcible speech of Mr. Creamer these points were presénted, and we have assurances that, if elected, the new candidates will really be reformers. This is a good deal, especially if we could see any hope of theirelection. Reform has never been more injured than by the accession of bastard reformers to office. We have always felt that if genuine reformers ever gained power New York might become a city worthy to be the emporium of America, We should be giad to see the candidates nominated last evening under trial, for reform is a business that we think should be tried again and again until we learn whether it is possible ever to have honest men in office. The nominations of the Cooper Institute meeting are certainly unexceptionable and in every way an improvement upon the ‘fammany candidates. For Mayor we have Oswald Ottendorfer, the editor of the leading German paper of the country. The nomination of Mr. Ottendorfer is a double compliment to the German classes, of which he is an honored representative, end to journalism, of which he isan honored member. We do not know whether he will accept the rule observed by Mr. Dana and Mr. Marble, and now, as it were, a canon in journalism, to the effect that no editor should accept office. If he feels that his duty leads him to accept, his candidacy will have on impor- tant effect upon the German vote. For Register we have General Patrick H. Jones, a republi- can. General Jones is an Irishman, and was appointed Postmaster of New York by Gen- eral Grant at the request of Horace Greeley. When the lamented Halpine, better known as ‘Miles O'Reilly,” died the incumbent of this very office of Register, General Jones was appointed to succeed him by Governor Fenton. He held the office, per- formed the duties and turned over all the receipts to the family of Halpine. The sum thus accruing was enough to preserve the family in comfortable’ circumstances. It seems almost poetic justice that the General should now be nominated for the office he once held for the sake of a dead friend, and it will require some effort for Jimmy Hayes to defeat » man ~who hassuch a claim to the sympathies of Irishmen as General Jones earned by his treatment of the family of “Miles O'Reilly.’ The reform ticket, there- fore, goes to the people with candidates espe- cially strong with the Irish ond the Germans. We are afraid, however, it is too late. It is very hard to open a reform canvass at the eleventh hour. All the organization is with Tammany. Therepublicanssre apathetic. No one knows whether they will indorse Otten- dorfer. Although General Jones is a repub- lican it is quite uncertain whether he will be altogether welcome to the Custom House. We understand that Mr. Roya] Phelps would have taken thé Homination for the Mayoralty had the republicans agreed to support him. But the leaders of that party have held off, and there is a fear even now that they will sell out for aid in the Assembly nominations. If the republicans were serious in their desires for municipal reform and would go honestly to work they could do a great deal towards the success of the Cooper Institute ticket. But it seems to be too late tomake any headway against the Kelly-Morrissey Ring. The move- ment, however, has our best wishes for ite suc- cess. Ina day or two ve can see what Mr. Creamer and his allies will do. A Henarp Prornecy.—On July 10, 1873, the Hrnaxp, in the fifth irticle on the subject of Cesarism, said:—*Itis not too late. Gen- eral Grant has an untivalled opportunity, while at the same time le is menaced with a fascinating, terrible damyer. Let him throw aside the temptations tc Cmsarism that now pervade the republican varty. Let him show that power has not tauglt him ambition, which we are told is the lat infirmity of noble | | minds, and in giving us a generous policy build o monument mre enduring than the Column Vendéme, a maument that posterity will honor and not striv to root out and de- stroy.” It was not too atein 1873, too late now. | Bat it is | Pennsylvank Senators, As the goming electio: in Pennsylvania in- volves the @ttestion of achange in her ropre- sentation in the United3tates Senate it may not be amiss to say awed (if our friends of | | both parties please to mke itso) of warning—. | aword as to the pastand the present, It | seems to be taken for grnted that the actual republican Senator, MrJohn Scott, is to be displaced, either throug selfish intrigue in his own party or the suzess of his accredited antagonists. It is difficlt to understand why republicans should dese; Mr. Scott, in view of | his fidelity to the pany, chiefly attested by | his activity in getting u tbe Ku Klux phan- tasmagoria; but so itis Democrats had no | reason to blush for theiState as ropresented by a man of talent a4 pducation like Mr. Scott, Still his doomwe fear, is heralded, and, unless the Camero faction should sud- denly change, thei: plans will be re- | lentlessly executed. as it ever occurred to the historical studexto think of the long reign of intellectual miliocrity which in this why, then, should not Germany move fora | matter of the choice oSenators in Pennsyl- vania has continued abroken? It is per- fectly lamentable. H first choice in the treshness of her constitional relation was a rich merchant of Philselphia, William Bing- | ham, who as a publicman had no promi- | nence, and whose chi¢ distinction is that he | was the father-in-lawf another merchant, | Mr. Baring, who becav an English peer. Mr. Gallatin was for on year a Senator, and Robert Morris, thenaore occupied by land speculations than stasmanship, was Senator | for a full term fror 1789 to 1795. James Ross, the last of the feralists, elected in 1794, | | ) insurgents who will lay down their arms be- | wasanable man. Ton began the unbroken Lweign of medigcrityLaclay. Grege, Smilie and Findley and Roberts end Leyoosk and Marks and McKean (not the Governor, who was @ man of mark) and Sturgeon. [ brightened « little with the two brothers-in- law, Wilkins and Dallas, the latter cleverly called, from his deportment, ‘the pageant of ;” but neither amounted to much. The only trained and really able man who held his own at a time when there were “giants in the land,” and served two terms, was Mr. Buchanan. All else is sad to think of. When republicanism became triumphant, by a sort of accident a singularly able and accomplished man—Edgar Cowan, of West- moreland—was chosen, and his career iu the wretched perplexities and involutions of An- drew Sohnsonism ended in most undeserved discredit, he seeking a retirement from which no influence seems able to draw him. ll the while Cameron held his seat and is there yet. An accidental democratic success sent a scholaz and statesman to the Senate in Mr. Buckalew, and he, in turn is sacrificed to Scott moritura, We have collated these dreary memories of Pennsylvania’s past in the faint hope (and we speak to both parties) she may do better in the future. Tre Ricuts or Ramwar Passexcrrs —A number of indignant railway passengers of Paterson, N. J., have brought suit against a: railway company for heavy damages for exe pulsion from a train on refusing to pay fare for the time they were compelled to stand in the car. They acted upon the rule of ‘no seat no fare,” and upon this issue we hope the judgment of the Court will establish this rule as the law in Jersey; for then we may hope that this same rule will some day be dew clared the law in New York, even for our overcrowded and suffocating street cars, Upon this point all good citizens will go with Mr. Bergh in the ‘prevention of cruelty te animals.” Mz. Docrszar has written home from Spain that he is ignorant of what his fate isto ba, but that Mr. Cushing has sent him an encoure aging telegram. He should not be too ex acting. Our goverament moves with grave deliberation, as it did in the Virginius case, and Mr. Dockray must not forget that he isan American and not a British citizen. A Henary Prorzecr.—On July 11, 1873, the Henarp, in the sixth article on Cesarism, :—So with the other members of the Cabinet. They are nothing to us but as men who labor in the vineyard ag best they may, only to pass away when the sun goes down and be followed by new laborers to-morrow. So long as they work well and avoid the con- stable we do not see that they concern us in any way whatever. The question whether we are to have Cwsarism or republicanism does concern us, as it does our children. In that contest we are enlisted, and we shall serve to the end of the war.” It would seem now that this war is at an end. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Collector W. A. Simmons, of Boston, is et the Fitth Aveoue Hotel. Father Hyacinthe’s new book wiil be entitled “ Catholic Reform.” Ex-Congressman James M. Ashley, of Ohio, nas quarters at the Astor House. Ex-Governor William Bigler, of Pennsylvante, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. President Andrew D. Whi f Cornell Univer sity, 18 staying at the Hoffman House. General Henry Brewerton, United States Army, is quartered at the Sturtevant House. Bishop Jobn Sharp, of Salt Lake City, bas taken up his residence at the St. Nicholas HoteL State Senator Henry C. Connelly, of Kingston, | N. Y., is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel, Congressman ©. L. Merriam, of Locust Grove, N. Y., is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Professor Masson has written a book on * The Three Devils; Luther’s, Milton’s, and Goetne’s."’ Mr. Mahlon Chance, United Staves Consul at Nassau, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General George 8S. Batcheller, of Saratoga, is among the latest arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel. The Heury Wilson who was “stabbed with a razor’ in Boston tne other night was not the Vice President. Ex-Governor John T. Hoffman arrived in this city yesterday from Albany, and is at the Claren- don Hotel. Messrs, George W. Chlids and a. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, have apartments at the Fifvh Aves nue Hotel. Count B. Tyszklewicz, of Russia, who arrived from Europe in the steamship Parthia, is at the Windsor Hotel. Franz Keller’s “Amazon and Madeira Rivers, from the Note Book of an Explorer,” isin the press of Chapman & Hall, The Rev. Mr. Marks built an English church in Burmah, and His Majesty the King of Burmah hag sued Marks for the value of the timber. Senator William McMaster, of Toronto, and Mr. L. 8. Huntington, of Montreal, members ot the Canadian Parliament, are at the New York Hotel, Professor Corssen has at last publisned the first volume (containing more than a thousang pages) of bis great work on “The Language of the Etrum cans.” There {s no truth in the cabie report of the assassination of Mr. Bucklaod, an American news ; Paper correspondent, and Mr. Jerrard, represene tative of the English Carlist Committee, by the Spaniards, The Western papers say that Miss Mattie Woods son, ot Vicksburg, who isa great farmer and has planted her own crop of cotton, “deserves — statue.” It should be one of a kind that wears boots. The London Athen@um wants to know why, in the devil’s name, Scribuer’s catalogue of books ree lating to the devil contains vante’s “Divina Com Media,” Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” and Shaftes- bury’s “Characteristics.” It is reported from Chattanooga that Powell Clayton said to a fellow delegate to the rogues’ convention, “Our only hope is in bayonets. We must have bayonets in the South before the elew tions or we are ruined. What we must work for 1s bayonetse—bayonets |” A New York correspondent of the Ohicago Times, in an elaborate article attacking thé style of writing indulged in by the newspaper reporters of this city, remarke:—“Men capabie of wring nice English cannot be had cheaply.” With such an example beore us, we shouid say not. Autobiographies are among the most fascinating productions of literature. We are soon to have Macready’s “‘Autobiographical Reminiscences,” William Godwin's autobiography, in two voinmes, and the aatoblography of Dr. A. B. Granvilie, a noted London physician, and author of numerous books on the spas of England and the Continent. Atrocious misgovernment and flagrant vioia- tions of plain law such as Grant and his Attorney General persist in are not in themselves reasong for despairing of popular government; but ifthe Party (hat put those men to power could still ree ceive the support of the people at the Dolls, despite such misdoings, the case might then be bad for government by the peuple, Figaro criticises an ancient custom. “Our tradi« tions require that if one atvides @ peach with another he should proffer by preference the halt to which the stone adneres, Why? since the stone adheres that half must be the least ripe, and intelligent politeness shoud, therefore, give tn stena the other half.” But this is a problem that Cannot be solved till some one tells the origin ef the usage a first stated,