The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, 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 Cespatches must be addressed New Yorx Hiznanp. Letters ard packages should be properly | election. That is an advantage ; for the time Sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ‘urned. arciiiendamnicte nied LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. ‘Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | The received and forwarded on the same terms | for as in New York. No. 297 AND EVENIN uM, 9 roadway, corner of Thirty-Jtth street —STORM OVER ba Is and MES, JARLEY'S WAX WORKS, uts:30 P. i. and 745 P.M. woop's M Broadway, corner of Thirtic M. ; closes até 30 P, M. om, street —EAST LYNNE, CARPENTER OF ROUEN P. and MOSK, até P. M.; closes at 10:0 P.M. Lucille eater: Be OLYMPIC THEATRF, Ro Broadway.—VARIBTY, at 8 P. AL; closes at 10 45 y. M. Matinee at2 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, Do. 54 Broadway. TY, ats'P. M.; closes at 10:39 YOM Maunee wi PARK THEATRE, Rroatway, between Twenty-drst and Twenty-second Brest SGIEDeD AGE wt #P. Me: closes at 10:30 FM. +, John T. Raymond. ” Mati OP. M. Toarteenth stree’ © uses at 10 P. Bi ® BINWAY HALL, t—BEGON® DULL CARE, at8 P.M; Frederic Maccabe. Matinee at2 P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Yonrteenth street. —rdB SERIOUS FAMILY, at 8 P. M,; wloses at lu 0 P.M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue — PAOBETA, at8 P.M: closes at 10:3) P.M. Matinee at DvP. M.—deNRY VILL Miss Cushman. WAL! THEATRE, Broadway.—THis CE OF A POOR MAN, atSP. M.: closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Ad: Mr. Montague. Matinee at 1:30 P.M. LACK" 0 YOUNG a Dyas, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—italian Opera—RUY BLAS, M.; closes at 430 P.M. Mme. Potentini, Miss arpi, Del Puente, Fiorini. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Breadeay, between" Prince and Houston streets.—THE A amily, Matinee at 1:50 P. M. ‘30 The Shadows of the Canvass. We are in the last days of the canvass. The lines have been drawn. The forces are in battle array. The campaign has been mapped out. All the issues are presented. The State will decide whether the Governor will be Dix or Tilden. The city will be called upon to accept its destiny from one of the three bosses, Murphy, Morrissey or Creamer. The poli- ticians have spoken, and the people will be permitted to speak. It is really not much the people have to say in our elections, but we have enough of the re- publican sentiment left for them to say something. It will no doubt be a fair was, and not very long since, when even the machinery of the ballot was only another feature of the machinery of the canvass. It | will, we think, be a decisive election. There | | are more points to be determined than we | have had in any canvass since that which@ | resulted in the election of Mr. Lincoln. national government is at stake; if the democrats win Congress in | face of the opposition of the administration | with its meredible patronage it will be hard to elect a republican President. So that the ultimate prize of the Presidency may be lost or won at the polls in November. The State government, with its vast influence in deter- mining the political complexion of the coun- try, must be decided. More than all, New York, metropolis of the nation, emporium of the Atlantic coast and city among cities, must now say which of the bosses she will accept. Here isa matter of more than thirty millions a year—larger than the revenues of many a pretentious European Power. Who will spend it, and what needy politicians will become enriched with the spoils of an already plundered treasury ? Shall we have Creamer, with his Germans, Murphy, with his republi- can coteries, Morrissey, with his bosom friends? . New York, not at all insensible to these considerations, now asks which of the masters will become the arbiter of her fate. This is an important question. Only the other day and Tammany seemed to be master of the situation. She could make and un- make our political rulers. But many shadows have arisen in the canvass. The people of New York do not seem to be very anxious to accept bosom friends, They recognize the affection that should exist among friends and the wisdom of that Scriptural maxim that declares him to be worse than an infidel who fails to provide for his own. But there may be something too much even of this; and when it comes to remanding a great city like New York to the undisturbed ELUGEK,’ at § P.M; closes at 1LP. M. The Kiralfy FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, TTwenty-eighth street and Broadway.—mOORCROPT; OR, THE DOUBLE WEDDING, at 3 £. M.; closes at 1 iPM. Miss Fann: wanes, Matinee at MRS. CONWAY'S BROUKLYN THEATRE. FRITZ, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1030 P.M. Joseph KE. Bomet ROBINSON HALL, Rixteenth street. between Broadway and Fifth avenue,— ARUBTY, at 8 P.M. BRYANT'S OPE®A HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &e. at 8 P Bryant. Matinee at 2 P.M. M.; closes at 10 P.M. Dan METROPOLITAN THE. Yio, 985 Broadway. -VARIELY, at 8 * M. Matinee at2 P. M. ATRE, P.M; closes at 10 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE Na Di Bowery.—VABI#: Y, at &P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. SAN FRANC: CO MINSTRELS, roadway, cornr ot Twenty ninth street.—-NEGRO i jegrRelsx, atoP. M.; closes atl0P. M. Mutinee at LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—ROMEO AND ULIST, at 8). M.; cioses at 10:i5 P.M. Miss Nelison, cr. Barves. AMERIUAN INSTITUTE, Third avenue, between Sixty-third add Sixty-fourth btreeta—INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION New York, Saturday, October 24, 1874. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. eve dectneeitnserniaes . Owing to the great pressure on our adver- tising columns, advertisers would favor us by sending in their advertisements carly in the | casion to admonish Mr. Cornell of the folly of day. This course will secure a proper classifi- becoming a confirmed pouter, and we looked cation, helping the public and the Hznaxp. Advertisements intended for our Sunday issue y Davenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Louis is a natural protest. We learn that Mr. control of Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Kelly there Wickham is the tool of one ring and Mr. Wales the tool of another. If Mr. Ottendorfer is really an independent candidate then it will not be the fault of Mr. Creamer; for the argument is made against this ambitious and resolute leader that his success will be the entrance of new tenants into Tammany Hall. The misfortune of all these reform movements has been that reform meant sim- ply the kicking in the door of Tammany Hall, one party going out and the other going in, and it we are to credit Mr. Morrissey, who comes to us this morning with an elaborate and definite statement of his intentions and views, the success of Mr. Ottendorfer will only be a success like that of the Young Democracy two or three years ago. As the campaign now looks the next Mayor will be Mr. Wickham, the next Register Gen- eral Jones. General Jones is the shadow in the canvass. He is the bar to the rising hopes of Tammany. It will be hard to defeat the friend of Horace Greeley and the pro- tector of the widow of Miles O'Reilly in a city with so many Irishmen as we have in New York. Many shadows cloud the republican State canvass. The party is rapidly sinking into disintegration. Some days since we had oc- for a canvass of alacrity from himself and his | of that wise policy which President Grant proclaimed in his veto of the | great Inflation bill,” is one of the principal obstacles against which Mr. Tilden has to contend. The democratic party is suspected of planning the issue of | more irredeemable paper money, and these | Western victories are thought to have in part | been won upon the basis of inflation. Mr. \"Tilden finds this shadow thrown across | his fears, He has but one way to dis- ; pel it, and that is to boldly utter | those words of fidelity to the financial | principles of his State, the true prin- | ciples of the whole country, which his fellow citizens have aright to demand and which Governor Dix in his letter to General Grant emphatically sustained. But no shadow comes to him from the Southward. Tales of revolution, Ku Klux, another rebellion, have no effect in this canvass. Mumbo Jumbo is like the man in the story who had no shadow. The Capture of Nana Sshib. The report that Nana Sahib is alive and has been captured will recall one of the most hor- rible crimes of our time, the most inhuman which occurred in British India since the Black Hole of Calcutta was the scene of dread- ful torture. This Indian was at one time high in the confidence of some of the British officers in India, and abused his position for the advantage of the rebels in 1857. On the 26th of June of that year he captured Cawn- pore, and, by deceiving Sir Hugh Wheeler, obtained possession of all the British in that town. The story of the massacre that fol- lowed, in which neither men, women nor children were spared, and the cruelties he in- flicted upon his prisoners, though it is seven- teen years ince the bloody deed was done, are still remembered with hor- ror. The entire civilized world was sickened and shocked, and in Groat Britain the popular indignation amounted to an abso- lute fury. Nana Sahib was the acknowledged author of that massacre, and extraordinary OCTOBER 24, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. The Eclipse of the Moon To-Night. Tho total eclipse of the moon, which will take place to-night, isan event which is not to be compared in importance with the transit of Venus in December, but it will have far more interest to the majority of persons. The phenomenon is one sufficiently unusual to command attention; it transtorms the appear- ance of a familiar celestial object; its causes are easily understood, and it is visible to the naked eye, The moon, which is the constant companion of the earth, ‘‘the lesser light which was made to rule the night,’’ puts on garments of mourning and fear, and moves through the sky like a red and appalling me- teor. It is no wonder that ignorant nations tremble before such a strange transformation, for there is no visible cause for it; it appears to them as an actual change in the condition of the moon itself, When a far distant planet passes over the disk of the sun none of these picturesque revelations of light and darkness are seen by man. Tho passage would indeed be unknown were it not for the precalcu- lations of astronomers, and unstudied were it not for the scientific discoveries which it alone makes possible. The eclipse, therefore, is an event of universal interest, and the tran- sit of Venus simply one of scientific value. Those who observe the eclipse of the moon, which will begin at forty-eight minutes past eleven o'clock, New York time, to-night, and will end at fifty-six minutes past three on Sunday morning, will find their pleasure and taeir wonder increased by a comprehension of the laws which govern it. Science, which destroys fabled beauty, creates beauty far more marvellous, as the heaven of Copernicus is infinitely nobler than the ialse, delusive sky it banished. To merely see the moon become as blood and again array herself in her celestial glory, without comprehension of the laws which cause the ancient miracle, is certainiy to lose half of the grandeur of the spectacle. The public will therefore find in the letter which Profes- sor Henry M. Parkhurst addresses to the edi- efforts were made for his capture. His army was defeated by Sir Henry Havelock in 1857, but he escaped. If he still lives—and the British government has received from India confirmation of his capture—the report of his death in 1858 may have been spread by him- self in order to obtain a greater degroe of safety. But that for sixteen years this man, on whom a nation has wreaked its uttermost hatred, should have been able to avoid dis- covery is wonderful. He will not escape again, and his fate is certain. The English press demands the immediate trial and execu- tion of Nana Sabib, and even his ignominious death will hardly satisfy the English people who burn to avenge the cruelties he com- mitted. There is joy in England that the grave has not yet hidden from long delayed justice this traitor of Cawnpore. Morrissey Speaks. The Hon. John Morrissey gives us in another column his views of the canvass and especially of Mr. Creamer, the leader of the anti-Tammany party. Mr. Morrissey witha true statesman’s instinct secks the Hrnaxp. He has seen the discussion between Mr. Rev- erdy Johnson, Mr. O'Conor, Mr. Curtis and Mr. Black on the Louisiana question in the Henaxp, and he follows their learned example. Mr. Morrissey thus shows a fihe conservative sense. A discussion with Mr. Creamer in the colamns of the Hzratp will be more interest- ing than his proposed discussion with that gentleman under the columns of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘here will certainly not be the same danger from the police—a class of public servants who have not always looked kindly upon the discussions, open air debates and public controversies of the great Tam- many leader. Mr. Morrissey comes to time with accus- tomed promptitude and goes for Mr. Creamer Mr. with zeal. Kvidently the bosom friend means war. He does not intend that Jimmy Hayes shall be destroyed without some interference. This is frank on Mr. Morrissey's part, although if his proclamation means anything it is that friends. But no one has heard of Mr. Cornell since the State Convention refused to nomi- may be sent with great advantage in theearlier | nate him—actually Alonzo B. Cornell— days of the week; it will prevent confusion and mistakes arising from the immense quantity of work to be done on Saturdays. Advertisements will be re- ceived daily at this office, the branch office, No. 1,265 Broadway, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second streets, and the Brooklyn branch office, corner of Fulton and Boerum streets, up to nine P. M., and st the Harlem branch office, 124th street and Third avenue, up to half-past seven P.M. Let advertisers remember that the earlier their advertisements are in the Hxrnaxp office the better for them- selves and for us. From our reports this morning the probabiliies are that the weather to-day will be c'oudy. Wau Srreer Yesterpay.—The change in prices was unimportant, although dealings were somewhat increased. Gold opened and closed at 110}, and money continues easy at 3 and 3} per cent. Vormrss Suovunp REMEMBER that to-day is | speech. But silence, and only silence, and | the country asks earnestly for a reason. What their last opportunity for registration. Tae Turxs in Montenegro are said to con- tinue their outrages upon Christians. Ovr Massacnvserrs Lerrer shows that the republican politicians are alarmed about their Prospects, especially in the Congressional districts, Cottrctor Smmons has proposed plans for the reorganization of the Boston Custom House. The most important plan, the resig- nation of the Collector, has probably not oc- eurred to Mr, Simmons. ‘Tar ‘Races.—The annual tall meeting at | Pimlico Course, in Baltimore, closed yester- day, and three races were run, Vandalite, Kadi and Jack Frost being the respective win- ners, There were also trotting matches at | eclipses, falls upon Mr. Tilden. i 2 \ f the W where the democratic sun Fleetwood Park, Zephyr winning the first in | from e West, | three straight heats. | upon the financial aspect of the Western | State like New York is to be lost through in the place of the old Roman Cen- tennial Dix. Mr. Cornell’s silence we have attributed to the natural obstinacy and reserve of his character. But it really seems to be part of a well defined policy; for the silence of Cornell has been followed by the silence of Conkling. Roscoe Conkling is a distinguished and able man, with rare gifts of reason and oratory, and a temperament that secks controversy. Yet in the most im- portant canvass that has been held in New York since the election of Lincoln he has preserved complete silence. Not even the defeats of the republican party in Ohio and Indiana have seemed to arouse him. He might make a speech, for instance, elections, showing that the triumph of the democrats in Ohio and Indiana meant the success of the pernicious dogmas of inflation and repudiation, and so call upon every busi- ness man and every holder of a bond to rally and stifle repudiation. No orator ever had a better chance, and no orator now in our public life could make a more effective motive can Mr. Conkling have for sulking like Achilles in his tent? If there is ever to bea republican succession to the Presidency he will stand high on the bead roll of candi- dates. But of what value will such a roll be if there is no chance for a republican triumph? And what chance of this if a apathy and neglect? Is General Dix actuaily being sacrificed for the ulterior ambitions of rival leaders in the State? May he not say to Conkling, suiking and silent in Utica as Richard III. said of his faithless general, “Cold friend tome! What does he in the North when he should serve his sov- ereign in the West?’’ Another shadow, for this is the time for It comes he does not feel aasuzed of the election of his bosom friend. If he thus fails it will be his own fault. Mr. Hayes is a rich man who does not need the office, a rich man who never spends his money and who has no claim upon any party. The anti-Tammany men nominate General Jones, an Irishman, a soldier, the friend of Horace Greeley and a poor man, who once held the office for the benefit of the family of Miles O'Reilly. Of course all the Irishmen propose to shout and vote for him. Morrissey might save the canvass by withdrawing Hayes and nominat- ing some worthy democrat who had a claim to the office. But he is not a man who readily throws up the sponge, and we suppose he will stand by his man until he wins his fight or is knocked out of time. Tue Sznrano Troors have captured an important position at Cineta and intend to make it their basis of operations against the Carlists in Cuenca and Valencia. Ovr Sovrnern News is interesting to-day, and includes the unexpected tact that Gov- ernot Moses has taken measures to obtain a fair election in South Carolina. He has issued his proclamation making changes in the Boards of Election Commissioners, so that each Board sball have one regular republican, one independent republican and one conservative. This, it is thought, will secure an honest counting of the vote. A letter from Columbia gives some sketches of the social changes since the war. From New Orleans we have corre- spondence giving the details of the Coushatta arrests, and of the failures to obtain a just compromise between the opposing political RO sis i te Mextco—Tae Aorrarion or 4 Seconp PREst- pentuat Tzrm.—While the people of the United States still are left in doubt as to the views and intentions of General Grant in reference to @ third Presidential term the question of a second term to President Lerdo has given rise to a considerable agitation of the subject, and an earnest opposition in the Mexican Congress to Lerdo’s re-election. has risen, as the republicans expect it to | set in the East. It may be so, indeed, for | ‘Waen France last bad anything to do with | democratic victory in Indiana and Ohio is the Eastern policy of Russia she opposed it in | darkened and made repulsive wherever the Crimea. But since then that policy has | it was founded upon the delusive promises been changed, and France has been revolu- | that | success of the democracy generally might support | mean in the end the tinkering of Congress tionized, and now it is rumored in Berlin she will, upon certain conditions, frussia on the Eastern auestion, of the inflation party. The dread that the \-with our financial law. and the destruction One of the members, Dr. Velasco, of Tamau- lipas, a strong friend of the President, took | decided ground against his re-election. This, | too, when the administration of President | Lerdo has been eminently promotive of peace | and prosperity and remarkably popular. Bat tor of the Henaup to-day an explanation of the eclipse which will add intellectual deligiat to the pleasure the eye takes in observing the gradual change. This distinguished astrono- mer, whose obscrvations and predictions of the course of Ooggia’s comet were so valuable, has the rare faculty of clearly unfolding scientific laws to a a non-scientific public, and of this his able letter is a remarkable example, Any intelligent person who reads Profossor Park- hurst’s explanation and studies the‘appended diagrams will be prepared to watch the eclipse, not as a meaningless freak of the moon, but as revelation of the laws which control the solar system. Ho can verify the predicted changes hour by hour, and enjoy to its fullest extent the luminous beauty of a rare astronomical demonstration. It is to be hoped the moon will get through with this performance all right, and not disap- point the millions of people whose eyes will be turned heavenward from all parts of North America. That she will be strictly punctual there is no doubt, for there is, no record of a planet’s being late, aot least not since Joshua’s time, The principal danger to us is the uncertainty of the clerk of the weather, who may be said to be in the government servics, and, like other officials, does not always comply with the popular wish. If he chooses to do so he can spoil the whole display. He may hide it from our view with a curtain of clouds ora gloomy wall of rain. But if the local atmospheric conditions are favorable, as we hope they will be, the people of New York and her adjacent cities will see the moon pass through many and suggestive changes. They will see her enter the earth’s faint penumbra and veil half of her features like a bashful maiden; then her whole disk will be doubtful and dismal like the city canvass, till at two o'clock, when the total oclipse is reached, her face wiil resemble nothing so much as the republican party in Ohio. Finally, when the morning approaches, and freed from trouble aud darkness, the moon glides, full orbed, splendid and triumphant into the tranquil sky, we shall behold in her a celestial image of the nation, when its glory is no longer eclipsed by Crédit Mobilier, back pay, carpet- baggers, Mumbo Jumbo in the South and ring rule in the North, and when the shadow of the third term shall be thrown only into empty space. Primary Education in Art. The necessity for art culture in many trades is absolute; and yet, though we boast of the completeness of our educational system, there exists no well organized public school in this city where the craftsman can learn the first principles of art. The schools of the National Academy of Design are intended exclusively tor artists, and a Chinese tule of exclusion is adopted against those who seek the aid of art only as om assist- ance in the perfection of their handicraft. Yet it is in its relations to the latter class that the practical value of art is most felt. There is in the National Academy no law which prevents the mere craftsman from entering as a student, but an amount of skill in drawing from the round is required to enter the school, which, if, the craftsman possessed, he would not require to enter at all. No provision is made for the numerous class who would like to acquire the elementary princi- ples of drawing. With the exception of the Cooper Union School, which is inconveniently over-crowded and not over well managed, there does not exist a single public school where per- sons of either sex desiring to receive elementary instruction in art can do so. In London and in Paris every district has a school devoted to teaching drawing and modelling. No examimations have to be passed to enter them, and all who desire instruc- tion can procure it by the payment of a small fee. These schools, though much at- tended by students who intend to devote themselves wholly to art, are principally for the benefit of artisans. England found that Germany and France derived so much benefit from the art education given to the working classes that she resolved to adopt the system of | popularizing art by means of a general method | of instruction. Massachusetts has followed that wise example and organized a system of art schools somewhat on the English system. We hope our own State will before long take steps to supply this great need, so that | the Mexicans, from their severe experience, | primary education in art may be placed would by in the National Academy of Desig. * only showing proper public spirit lishing classes one or two nights week, where students might be ims in the, elementary principles of dm wing. ‘These classes should be open at night for beneftt of the working people. If the artin ® would display in this way a little public spirk they would secure for the’ National Academy of Design an amount of popular sympathy it does not now enjoy. Miss Cushman’s Farewell to Stage. Only a few weeks ago the public of Paris were called upon to assist at Mme. Dejazet’s farewell to the stage. The generation that had first welcomed this actress to the stage had passed away, but like other great figures she had known how to conquer the admira- tion of the new generation. The demon- stration was as remarkable for its enthusiasm as for its grace and delicacy. So grent a number of persons distinguished in art and literature as flocked to pay homage to a genius that seemed to set time at defiance has seldom been assembled even im Paris. All that the exquisite taste of the French capital could imagine was done to render the event of Mme. Dejazet’s withdrawal from the stage the an episode that would leave pleasant remem- brances in the mind of the actress that only death could blot out. This homage to genius does infinite credit to the Parisian public. It is just that we should ask ourselves if at this moment we also could not do ourselves some honor by paying a well deserved tribute to the genius and worth of the greatest actress America has yet produced. The last night of Miss Cushman’s present engagement will be her final appearance on the New York stage. She will then bid a long farewell to the pomp and circumstance of the mimic world, in which, for a generation, she has reigned su- preme. At sucha moment it would bo em- inently fitting for the members of the literary and artistic professions to mark in a ‘public manner their regret at the loss the stage will suffer on Miss Cushman’s withdrawal into pri- vate life, and their admiration for an honorable career closed, after years of struggle, crowned with unrivalled triumphs, No doubt the lead- ing actors and actresses of the metropolitan theatres would seize eagerly any opportunity offered to them to show their respect and ap- preciation of a lady who does honor to the stage. The initiatory steps, we feel, ought to come from some of the literary clubs of the city. The Century, the Lotos, the Palette, the Arcadian ought, singly or in combination, to et; tracted Commissioner Wheeler evinced @ disposition to cut down the amount, and opposed the Comptroller's attempt to force hurried action. But their economy should not be a halfway measure. It is about time that political ap- propriations should be dispensed with, and that the departments, one and ail, should be placed on a business basis. Me. Hammon at Home.—When a man ca ™mits a murder the first trouble that con- fro ‘8 him is what to do with the body. When 8 ectable man absconds with public funds he soon ‘finds his greatest difficulty is to know what to & ? With himself, We haveseen many of our pata ic defaulters come back because they had me Place to go, and Mr. Tweed did not even a ttempt to escape, preferring New York, evem © the Island, to Paris or Brazil. Now Mr. ~ Alexander D. Hamilton, the defaulting Trem& ‘ter of Jersey City, vol- untarily returns from . his extended travels, only because they beeam "e Wearisome, and is now comfortably quartered, ‘2 jail. Those are singular illustrations of thy’ Conclusion of Goldsmith's sensible traveller, . bat no matter where we roam ‘The firat, best country alwaysite at, Lome. Tax Present, from his late ex,‘ensive Western excursion, has returned to the \Vhite House. It is understood that with, or shor, ‘ly after the meeting of Congress, his: family’ circle will include Mrs. Sartoris (late ‘oan Grant) and her husband, and Lieutenant Frederick Grant and his bride, and that ae- cordingly the Washington fashionable season this coming session, though ending on the 4th of March, will be unusually active and brilliaxt. Tae Episcoran Convention yestesday re ceived a report from the Committee on Canons, which condemned and prohibited ritualism, and the subject was made the order for discussion on Monday. This is the most - important question the Convention bas thus far chosen to consider, and will reopen the old and unavailing discussion. Unurss Some Dectpep Cuance occurs the downfall of the Argentine government is only a question of time. The wholesale desertion of its troops and the treachery of! its leaders are rapidly reducing its military and moral strength. It appears too weak to offer battleto the rebels under General Mitre, yet every moment of inaction gives the latter an advan- tage. Tue Boarp or Poxrom ordered yesterday that a record of meritorious acts of officers take steps to organize such a demonstration as would adequately mark public admiration for Miss Cushman's worth and genius. We feel certain that it is only necessary to call atten- tion to this matier in order to secure suitable action on the part of the numerous admirers of the great American actress. A Good Chance to Begin Reform. Two years ago the people of New York heard a great talk about municipal reform, and were assured that by the election of the buoyant and waggish Havemeyer they would secure a government of the old-fashioned, honest type. Taxes were to be reduced, the public debt was to be decreased, economy was to be enforced, bargains and intrigues were to be discarded, and the citizens were to enjoy asort of municipal biennium, during which the Satan of political profligacy was to be bound hand and foot and official holiness was to prevail throughout the metropolis. The result has not come fully up to the anticipa- tions then cherished by the hopeful. Some little difficulties in the shape of Grand Jury indictments and presentments have marred the reform picture, and the people turn from the official Charlicks, Gardners, Matsells, Disbeckers, Nosey Quinns and Sterns of Have- meyer’s creation, to contemplate a debt in- creased more than forty millions of dollars and a proposed tax levy of over thirty- five millions of dollars for the next year. This is not the entertainment to which they were invited just before the election of 1872, and they would now likea change of pro- gramme with the coming in of a new city ad- ministration. We can have no real reform in the muni- cipal government unless we begin at the foundation. The estimates for the year are the groundwork of economy or extravagance, of political profigacy or of honest business habits, on which we must build, and on the character of the estimates will depend what sort of structure we erect. If we deal out the public money with a liberal hand for the personal benefit of a set of scheming politi- cians who ran the municipal departments for their own profit we shall continue to increase our debt and heap up the growing pile of taxation. Ifwedemand that the business of the government shall be managed as a prudent merchant would manage his own private affairs, and allow the departments only such sums as are necessary to do the work assigned to them, we shall insure honest government and shall be enabled to pay our way as we go. When the heads of departments find that they are only allowed enough money to do their official work in a straightforward, business manner, they will leave off scheming for power and quarrelling among themselves to the detriment of the public in- terests. The Board of Apportionment, which has the power to cut down the departmental estimates, is, therefore, the source from which must come the first groundwork of a real re- form. If they are honest and conscientious officials they will perform this duty without fear or favor. But their economy, to be useful, must be substantial, A few paltry thousands saved here and there will give the people no proper relief. Nearly every department is too Prison’’ set down for thousands of the public money. run for one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars at the outside, the Park Department can be well cut down four hundred thousand dol- lars, the Public Works two hundred and fifty thousand, the Charities and Correction four hundred thousand, and so on throngh the list. ‘This is the sort of reform the taxpayers re- | quire in the outrageous and dishonest esti- | mates for 1875. Will the Board of Appor- | tionment act ap to its duty in the matter, ‘or will it fritter away its time in silly | squabbles over the pretended saving of a few | thousand dollars? The budget presented by the Comptroller yesterday foots up to the | have learned to distrust the policy of a second | within reach of every one who desires to | enormous sum of nearly thirty-nine million | tarm to thair President, | obtain it, In tha moeantima we think | dollars. The Mayor, Alderman Vance and extravagantly managed. On the estimates as | printed we find such jobs as the ‘Now City | The Finance Department can be | should be kept hereafter, and the indications of the meeting were that the objectionable uniform order will be modified to suit the wishes of the officers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. And now will Parliament pay Wales’ debts? Will the republican ballots for M.yor be prints of Wales? If the republicans should be defeated they'll have their plubber. If Jones should deprive the democrats o/ their Hayes will they go to grass ? Captain W. P£. 8, Sanger, United States Navy, is stopping at the Astor House. Paris had 9 pumpkin in her market the other day which weighed 136 pounds. Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, ts staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Commander G. C. Wiltse, United States Navy, is quartered at the Sturtevant House. Secretary Robeson returned to Washington yes- terday and will remain unull to-nient, Now the republicans have got their Wales. They have had their Jonahs this long while. The Count and Countess Chambord are visiting the ex-King of Hanover at Gemunden. President M. B. Anderson, of Rochester Univer- sity, has apartments at the Everett Hoase. Hon, sion Cameron returned home yesterday, after an extended trip to the Pacific States. Prize onion in spain; weight four pounds. “Ye that nave tears prepare to shed them now.” Derregaray’s successor as Chief of Staff to Don Carlos is General Mendiri, Count of Abarzuga. General James L. Wonaldson, United States Army, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Shakespeare’s ‘‘Othello’’ has been done tate Hebrew. This literary curiosity is published at Vi- enna. Captain W. J. Twining, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, has quarters at the Glentam Hotel. Ex-Senator John B. Henderson, of Missouri, is among the recent afrivuls at the Filth Avenue Hoiel. People out West who have been to see Olive Logan in the ‘‘dry goods drama” are “pining for a circus.” The life and unpublished works of Samuel Lover, by Bayle Bernard, will appear im London, ia two volumes. Mr. James F. Joy, President of the Michigaa Central Railroad Company, has arrived at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Joseph Price, general manager of the Great Western Railway of Canada, is sojourning at the Brevoort House. Mr. Thomas G. Cary, Manager of tne Zoologicat Museum, at Cambridge, Mass., is residing at the Hoffman House. Mr. Orlow W. Chapman, Superintendent of the New York Insurance Department, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. How would you like to be bitten by a rattle- snake as @ cure for your hydrophobia ? Perhaps it is hom@opatnic. ‘The learned work of Dr. E. Zeller, on ‘‘Plato and the Older Academy,’ will be translated and pub- lished by Longmans & Co. An exceptionally large group of spots ts now visible on the surface of the sun, and some people say they can be seen through smoked glass. The Diet of Lower Austria has voted a gift of 8,000 florins and the City of Pesth a gilt of 3,000 florins to the members of the Austrian poiar expedition. Professor Benjamin Pierce, of the United States Coast Survey, arrived trom Europe in the steam- ship Cuba yesterday, and is at the Brevoort House. ‘As to the republican candidate for Regist it may be said that Pat is a good and reliabie nam but then Jones is a littie doubtful, What if he should be # Welshman after ali? Simple Simon having discovered the exact point to which the law attaches guilt in criminal cases, nas determined that when he makes up his mind. to kill his enemy ne won't premeditate it, ‘Tne iuxury of the age {8 reflected in the muitt- tude of books published about diamonds and | prectous stones. ‘The latest is Westropp’s ‘Man- ual of Preaious Stones and Antique Gems," As it 18,80 commonly an aunoyance to the pub | Ite that ratiway oMicials will not let them go to the. | cars to see their friends off on a journey, i is pro. posed toissue station tickets that will give this | privilege for a trivial sum. | ‘pne Count Arnim-Bottzenberg who has resigned hie position as Governor of the conquered prov. inces is @ relative of the Countess Harry Vom Araim, and not of the Count. The Countess 1s Sow | phie Adelaide Von Arnim-Boitzenberg and is a sees ‘ ond wife, The Count himself ts of a far lesa im- | portant branch of the Arnim family and ts am At- nim-suchow, | Garidaldi’s new work, ‘I Mille,” nas appeared at ' Turin in the form ofa handsome volnme, consist- ing of 450 pages, having @ title page inacribed with Petrarch’s lines :— Virtu contra furore Prendera l’armi e fla {| combatter corto, Che Vantico valore Neg!’ italtco car nog & ancor morta,