The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1874, Page 6

.* NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR —E LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as@ New York. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, NIBLO'’S GARDE Broadway, between Prince ana Houston streets —THE DELUGE, Family, at SY. M.; closes at iv’, M, The Kiraily FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, shih street and J vay.—THE SCHOOL DAL, atSP. M.; closesat 11 P.M. Miss Fanny . Charles Fisher, Mr. Lows James. Davenport, 3 MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THE ATRE. ELEANOR: OR, THE FATAL MARK SP. M.; closes at 10: P.M, Mrs. Bowers, J. € MeCollom ROBINSON HALL, Bixtoenth atreet, between Broadway and Fifth avenue,— VARIB1Y, ats P.M. BRYANT’s OPERA HOUSER, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTKELSY, &c., at 8PM; closes at lv P.M. Dan Bryant METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Mj closes at 10 No. 58 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 I’, P.M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY, at § P. M.; closes at 10 P, M. SAN FRANC INSTRE: Broadway, corner of & ty-ninth street.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at 8P. M.Peloses at 10 P.M. Ly Fourteenth street a BRABANT, at 5 P.M. Boldene. M THEATRE, Sixth avenue.—GENEVIEVE DE P.M, Miss Emily AMERIC. Third avenue, between Sixt UTE, anita aba Sixty-foui streets. —INDUSTRIAL EXHL areca TION. COLOSSEUM, Brosdway, corner of Tnirt PARIS and MKS. M. and 7:45 P, M. fifth street.—STORM OVER JARLEY'S WAX WORKS, at 2:30 P. WOOD's MUS) Thirtieth SIX DEGREES ACROsS: ONTINENT, at 8 | P.M. Oliver Doud Byron, ‘Miss | a iis a closes at OLYMPIC THEATRE, iy 624 Broadway,—VARIETY, at $P. M.; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE, Broadway. between Twenty-first and Twenty second | streets —UILDED AGE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1030 P.M. Mr. John T. Raymond. OMIQUE, , at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 | HEAT No, 514 Brosaway. OVA RIE! PM STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth strtet—BEGONE DULL'CARE, at8P.M.; | closes at 10 P.M. Brederic M: ooabe. BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue ary MANNERING, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss ‘Cushman. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Pati rae 8 poeat and Fourth avenue.—At 8 P. Mj, ) ALLACK’S THEATRE, ROMANCE OF A POOR youna | M.; closes at 10:30P, M. Mies Ada Dyas, NaN orey PM ae ir. Montague. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1874 From our reporis this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and | hazy. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEKY. The Amendments to the State Con- stitution. The apathy with which the popular mind regards those political questions into which party spirit or personal passions do not enter as a prevailing element is illustrated by the indifference felt toward the important amend- ments to the State constitution submitted to the-vote of the people at this election. That there is urgent need of amendments is con- ceded by intelligent men of all parties. The people of this State have been engaged tor eight years in attempts to amend their consti- tution, and they have now an opportunity to accomplish what they have so long desired. The constitution of 1846, under which, with the exception of the judiciary article, we are still living, has proved, in many respects, a lame instrument. In 1866 the Legislature passed an act submitting to the people the question whether a convention should be called for revising it. The people indorsed the call, and in the summer of 1867 a convention was assembled, consist- ing of the ablest, most distinguished and most experienced men of the State, of both political parties, who spent many months in discussion and deliberation. The republican party then held ascendancy in the State, and the new draft of a constitution failed chiefly be- cause it was framed under republican auspices. But the failure of that particular plan did not extinguish the want nor discourage further efforts. Governor Hoffman, in 1871, made a recommendation to the Legislature to author- ize the appointment of a commission of thirty- two members, one-half to be selected from each political party, to renew the task which had miscarried in the hands of the Constitu- tional Convention of 1867. An act was passed, and, in accordance with its provisions, Gov- ernor Hoffman appointed a respectable and competent commission, consisting of sixteen democrats and sixteen republicans, who prose- cuted their labors with great diligence, ability and intelligence. This Commission availed themselves of the labors of the Convention of 1867, recorded in a dozen or fifteen printed volumes of proceedings, reports, debates and statistics relating to every important State in- terest. With this fund of already collected information the Commission pursued its la- bors under great advantages, and the results are to be voted on in this election. This brief sketch of the history of these pending amendments raises a strong prima facie presumption of their merit, and entitles them to at least a candid examination. If all the labor bestowed on the suBject, first by the | Convention of 1867 and afterward by the Conmtsslo& of 1871, has produced no valua- | ble results, how can we hope that the acknowl- edged defects of our present constitution can ever find a remedy? But, after all, these pro- | posed amendments must stand on their own ; merits. The ablest lawyers of this city, the Board of Aldermen, the Chamber of Commerce and the best opinion of all our intelligent classes, concur in a nearly unanimous ap- proval of the amendments. So strong a body of indorsers is entitled to great weight and respect; but still every citizen must form his | ‘Watt Srneet Yesrerpay was emphatic in | its dulness. Gold was strong at 1104, and the | rate for money on call stiffened from 2 to5a 6 per cent. ‘Tue Dmecr Caste to the United States, which was lost while being laid by the Fara- day, bas been picked up in perfect condition, | and it is likely the work will soon be success | fully completed. Art rm Evnorz.—The progress of the fine arts in Europe is depicted by two letters from our correspondents, one descriptive of the biennial! exhibition in Berlin and the other of | the annual exhibition in Ghent. Tue Exection in the Pas de Calais yester- day for the Assembly resulted in the choice of a Bonapartist. France does not seem to be yet weary of the imperial family, whose rule to many of the workmen is associated with the idea of material prosperity. ‘Tue Ertscopan Convention yesterday con- tinued its debate upon Church services, and determined that they should be shortened. A resolution for the appointment of a committee to examine the whole subject of rubrical re- vision and report to the next Convention was rejected. Tae Racres—The Newmarket races are graphically described in our London letter to- day, and we also publish full accounts of three | trotting contests at Fleetwood Park, which were won by Willie, Red Cloud and Knapp, and of the trotting at Trenton, N. J., yester- day, when Goldsmith Maid made three efforts to beat her record of 2:14, and failed. Tue Porr’s Apvicz to young men, as em- bodied in an allocution delivered before a so- ciety in Rome, is published in our columns to-day. The Supreme Pontiff says that ‘The good example of a layman is worth more than asermon from a minister at the altar,” and perhaps this confirmation of common sense | by the highest spiritual authority is as much needed in New York as in Rome. Evientiy up to this time the great de- | siderata in milk have been that it should be | pure and that it should come from the coun- try; but we may change this latter point, | all the revolution against swill milk stables to the contrary notwithstanding. There is some evidence, apparently, that country milk is not | the best milk, and especially in districts where | the pasturage is poor. Dr. Walker, of the English Royal Agricultural Society, seems to | establish by experimental observations that the milk produced in the large stables near London is better than any milk that comes from the country—et least where the stables are kept with judicious regard to all the re- quirements. His reasons for the superiority of the milk—which he declares as a fact—are that the cows are better fed and better cared | for in comfortable houses, less exposed to the weather and less subject to the whole range of | disturbing influences. By better milk he | means richer milk. Doubtless if a better diet | than distillery swill is given to stabled cows | the product may be good, and there is evi- | dently room for improvement in this latitude; | bat the world will still believe, and rightly, that the country milk is the healthier article. | The notion of ‘‘better’’ milk than that which the cow produces in her nataral condition seems to vitiate the case by going a step too | far. That better milk is a consequence of a more stimulating diet, and so is a departure from the right line. own judgment, and his own approval or dis- approval ought to determine his vote. Our own opinion concurs with that of the highly | respectable bodies we have mentioned, and with that of the two successive Legislatures | who have indorsed the work of the Commis- sion, But we will resort to none of the arts | of advocacy, and simply make a brief, un- colored statement of the principal features of the more important amendments. It must not be forgotten that these amend- | ments are eight in number, and have no necessary dependence on one another. Any citizen who approves of any one of them or any two or three of them, or any seven of them, can vote for that one or those two or three or seven, and against the otherse There is an opportunity for choice and discrimination, and we should be sorry to think there is any intelligent elector | who can find nothing to approve of in the | whole list. We will not describe them in the order in which they stand, but in the order of their importance, as we estimate it. Precedence should undoubtedly be given to the second and third of the amendments, which must be considered together in order to understand their value. One of these relates to the Legislature and the other to the Gov- | ernor; but as the Legislature and Governor | act conjointly in the passage of laws these | articles are appropriately classed together os | parts of the law-making power. The article regulating the powers and duties of the Legis- lature comprises all the best provisions of the most recent revised constitutions of our sister States, particularly Illinois and Pennsyl- vania, whose new constitutions are most admired. One of the best fea- tures is the stripping of the Legis- lature of the power to pass private and | local bills, which uproots the lobby, prevents that class of legislation for which money is diminishes the number of laws, Other temptations are removed out of the way of our lawgivers. Instead of the pitiful compensa- tion of three dollars a day, which is only two- thirds as much as the members pay for hotel bills and is a constant temptation to the lower grade of members to recoup themselves by illegitimate gains—instead of this con- temptible pittance the members are to receive a salary of $1,500 and a fair allowance for | their travelling expenses. They are forbidden | to hold any other office during their legisla- tive terms, and appointments or votes for | them are to be void if to a State office, and vacate their seats if to a federal office. The power of the Governor over bills | | passed by the Legislature is essentially modified. One of the best changes is that | which gives him authority to veto particular items of an appropriation bill without defeat- ing the others. This is a grand specific agninst one of the worst abuses of legislation. Nothing is more common than for expert rogues to tack knavish items to necessary appropriation bills in the last days of a session, and compel the Governor to accept them at the risk of stopping the wheels of the government by vetoing the annual supplies. If this amendment is adopted all rascally or doubtful items can be vetoed without em. barrassment to great interests. The salary of the Governor is raised to $10,000 and that of | | the Lieutenant Governor to $5,000, and their | terms are extended to three years, We trust that these two amendments may be adopted, even if the others fail. The fourth amendment. which authorizes | hopes than at any time during the last fifteen | usually paid, and simplifies the character and | the sale of the worthless and expensive lateral canals and forbids extra compensation to contractors, is wise and ought to be adopted. The fifth contains one pro- vision which causes difference of opinion. It prohibits any gift of the money or property and any loan of the money or credit of any county, city, town or village to any individual, association or corporation. It is a wise and salutary pro- vision on the whole, but religious sects, whose charitable institutions have received aid from such sources, will naturally disapprove it. The sixth amendment is of minor consequence, It forbids any compensation to State cflicers beyond their salaries, which shall not, be in- creased nor diminished during their terms. The seventh contains a form of oath, by which all officers are to swear that they practised no sort of bribery to secure their election. The first also contains stringent provisions against bribery of voters and betting on elec- tions. All these are very well, but we place no stress or urgency on any of the amend- ments except the two capital ones relating to the powers of the Governor and the Legisla- ture, It would be discreditable to popular intelligence to have these important amend- ments fail. The Eve of the Battie. The intense excitement of the night before the battle is not always perceptible or noisy. The general has made his preparations and has retired to his tent; the troops are dis- tributed in the various places, and the army awaits in silence the day which, before the sun has set, will be brilliant with victory or darkened with defeat. So it was upon the eve of this momentous election. Whoever looked for excitement and enthusiasm last night failed to find the object of his search. The city was quieter than it had been for days. There were no great meetings, no fireworks, no speeches. Oratory and gunpowder had dazzled and exploded to all possible good purpose, and were succeeded by the significant silence of suspense. At the republican head- quarters there were a few political leaders, resting like men who had done all they could do, and anxiously awaiting the event. There was no one at Tammany nor at Irving Hall. But all over the city the lieutenants and adjutants were busy in a quiet way. The As- sembly districts were canvassed for the last time, and active men saw that the sentinels were at their posts. Thus the eve of the battle passed away in something like the stillness which often precedes a storm. The Louisiana Election. Both parties in Louisiana claim to have car- ried the State, and their estimates are presented in our despatches from New Orleans, Gov- ernor McEnery thinks that the democrats have a majority of 5,000, have elected the Treasurer, the only State officer voted for, have elected the six Congressmen, with the possible exception of Broux, and that they have a majority in the Assembly sufficient to impeach Kellogg. On the other hand Gov- ernor Kellogg and Marshal Packard declaro | that the State has been carried by the republicans with 10,000 majority, that they have elected at least four Congressmen, and that they hold the Assembly and have ten out of eighteen State Senators. But it is evident that the democracy have made large gains, that a large negro vote was polled for their ticket, and it is likely that when the returns are complete they will show that the revolu- tion Penn attempted by force has been peacefully effected by the ballot. Third Parties and ‘Reform” ments. Move- This Day’s State Elections—The Straggle for the Next Congress. Twenty-three States this day elect each a fall delegation to the House of Representa- tives for the next, or Forty-fourth, Congress, and Vermont, as the twenty-fourth State, par- ticipates in the day's proceedings in the eloc- tion of a Congressman to filla vacancy. We give in the following table, omitting Ver- mont, the roll of the members to be elected to-day, and the delegation from each State of the list as divided between the two parties (republican and opposition) in the present Congress: — House of Forty-Third —Congress.— Full Delegation, Rep. Opp. 33 Er 9 8 6 3 4 3 1 ne - 1 2 2 > 9 2 1 9 u“ 5 3 8 > - 10 - 10 + 6 2 4 m1 ul - 9 9 - 3 3 - 13 4 9 a: 6 1 I - 1 a1 . 2 6 2 2 = + 5 4 1 > 9 1 3 9 4 5 8 6 2 133 3 The whole number of representatives in the House is 292, of which the republicans in the present Congress have 200 and the opposition 92; republican majority, 108. In the elec- tions which have taken place for the next Congress in Ohio, Indiana and other States the opposition have gained 16 members, an opposition gain and a republican loss which reduces the republican majority to 76. To overcome this majority 39 members will have to be taken from the republicans and given to the opposition in this day’s elections. The democrats, basing their estimates on the re- sults in Ohio and Indiana, entertain the hope of such gains in New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas and other States as will give them these additional gains required tosecure the next House of Representatives. The results, however, are very doubtful, and particularly because of the doubts as to the extent to which the causes that have prevailed in Ohio and Indiana will opefte in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the elections for Congress, Should the democrats gain the next House of Repre- sentatives, however, with the Speaker and the standing committees of the body and tho power to order and conduct the investigations of select committees, and with the control of the appropriation bills, &c., it will give them a strong foothold for the Presidential campaign of 1876, Whether the republicans will this day have lost or retained this strong position in Congress our readers will probably know from the election returns in the Hzraun of to- morrow morning. In addition to the 133 members of the Pore lar branch of Congress the choice of 12 members of the Senate will depend upon this day’s elections, Each of the State Legislatures to be elecied in Delaware, Florida, Massa- chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Penn- sylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin will have the important duty to discharge of the election of a United States Senator ; but as there is no present probability of sny serious disturbance of the heavy republican ascendancy in the Senate (republicans 49, democrats 18, liberals 5) as this body now With all its drawbacks and shortcomings | the canvass of this year has done much to | clear the political atmosphere. During the two preceding years parties seemed falling | into disintegration and anarchy. The liberal republicans aspired to form one new party, | the Western farmers and anti-railroad monop- olists another, the municipal reformers in | cities another, and everything seemed to por- | tend general division, disruption and disor- | ganization. All those side movements have disappeared in the canvass of the present year, and our politics are pretty fully re- established on the old basis of two great parties, into one or the other of which all the minor streams are absorbed. It is already quite certain that the pre- dictions, of which the air has been | so full since the war, that the democratic party was destined to dissolution, and that some new organization would take its place, were false prophecies. Two years ago, when the democracy humbly sailed in the wake of the Cincinnati Convention and supported Mr. Greeley, the predictions of its scoffing enemies seemed on the eve of fulfilment; but the lib- eral republican organization has disappeared like a morning cloud, and the democracy re- mains with greater strength and brighter years, The farmers’ granges, which loomed up at one time in such imposing prominence, have left no trace on the political movements of this year, and now that the gloss of novelty is worn off we are likely to hear but little more of them. The municipal reform party started in this city, and even Mr. Tilden seemed inclined to risk his old party relations to become one of its leaders. But he is at present the regular gubernatorial candidate of the democrats, and Mr. Have- meyer, who was elected as the ‘‘reform’’ Mayor, is about to retire forever from public life with his personal popularity and that of | the cause he represented utterly shipwrecked. Even the republicans of this city, who are in a minority and ordinarily court alliances, scorn another coalition with the discredited reformers whom they courted two years ago. Everything tends toa redrawing of the old party lines and a square, vigorous contest in the next Presidential election between the crippled republican party and the rejuvenated democracy. ‘Tue Cantist War, and especially the recent campaign in the Biscayan country, is de- seribed to-day in a picturesque letter from | our correspondent at Urnieta. Arren Neasty 4 Yan's burning the Empire Ooal Mine, near West Pittston, Pa., has been | extinguished. Our account of this successful experiment will not only be of interest to the public generally, but of importance to all per- sons who are occupied in mining. After all usual methods bad been tried in vain the fire eral. Thus, in New York the election of the State Assembly—upon the political com- plexion of which will depend the choice of a United States Senator in the place of Mr. | Fenton—is considered by many of our poli- | ticians the most important issue of the can- vass. Andsoitis in New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Missouri and in each of the other States directly concerned in the choice of a Senator. In these States the Senatorial issue may more or less control the general results ; but the leading national question involved to the country at large is the next House of Representatives. Don Carlos and Cuba. By a special cable despatch received from our correspondent at the Carlist headquarters we have information of a curious negotiation | between the Pretender and the national gov- | | spur and always the spur results in surg ernment. Three delegates from the Spanish party in Cuba had arrived to propose the sending of all prisoners of war held by either party to Ouba, where they might be utilized against the insurrection. In making this proposition the Madrid government displayed considerable tact, as its rejection or accept- ‘ance was calculated to injure Oarlism. Should the Pretender refuse to accede to the proposi- tion the government at Madrid could denounte | him as a bad Spaniard, willing to sacrifice the | territorial integrity of the nation to his own am- bitious schemes. A refusal would also involve the loss of his popularity with the Cuban planters, from whom it is notorious he has de- rived large pecuniaryaid. On the other hand, it is a grievous violation of the Spanish con- stitution to send any Spaniard from his country unless he is a consenting party. In the case of the Biscayans and Navarrese the outrage would probably be resented, as it would be such a violation of their fueros, or state constitutions, as no modern government has ever attempted. Were Don Carlos to con- sent to the forcible expatriation of any of his followers his standard would soon be without supporters, and he might con- sider himself lucky did he escape with his life, It is not generally understood that Biscay and other northern provinces of Spain are in reality small semi-independent republics attached to the Spanish monarchy, and that one of their chief reasons for opposition to the liberal parties in Spain springs from 6 disinclination to give up their local independence and come under the general laws of the ‘country. For their own purposes the Spanish kings have always encouraged their Northern subjects to stand apart from the rest of the nation; and as they have little to gain by exchanging their present semi-independenco even the prospect of a republican form of gov- ernment cannot tempt them to abandon rights which they have enjoyed from the earliest ages, and which they have been always ready to defend with heroism. It was o great was subdued by forcing steam into the depths of the mina mistake on the part of Don Carlos to allow the Ouban delegates to present their stands, the public interest ot the day in re- | gard to the Senate is rather local than gen- | proposition, Even the seeming assent he has given to it will bo likely to injure him in the minds of his followers, while the rest of Spain will cry out against his lack of patriot- ism. In Cuba the immediate effect will be to alienate the slaveholders’ sympathy; for theso gentry have no sentiment to waste on those who are not willing to aid them. Probably Don Carlos imagined he had drawn as much money from Cuba as he could hope for, and with true kingly ingratitude sacrificed the planters to his immediate inter- esta. Whatever may have been his motive he may count on the future hostility of the Casino EspafioL That patriotic body fur- nished him with money to carry on the civil war when Castelar’s short-lived Republic talked of giving freedom to the slaves, and now he refuses to aid the friends who helped him to his present position because he fears to imperil his popularity. If there were any doubts of Don Carlos’ Bourbonism his con- duct in this matter would conclusively prove his descent. If tho Madrid | government was composed of abler “men “and more énergetic the Carlist war would soon be numbered among the things of the past. The Von Arnim Affair. The arrest and imprisonment of Count Von Arnim is something more than a mere personal controversy between Prince Bismarck and an Ambassador. If this were all it would be an important event, The scandal of a controversy between two great and powerful nobleman, of world-wide repute, who had held high place under the Empire and had been largely instrumental in the regeneration and consolidation of Germany, is itself cal- culated to excite the largest measure of inquiry and wonder. This is more than an ordinary quarrel. Bismarck, like Wolsey and Riche- lieu and other statesmen of vast influence, has raised up against him extraordinary antagonisms, It isin the nature of such a map, and almost inseparable from his policy, that there should be controversies. When we look at the full measure of the work which Bismarck has done, when we see what Ger- many was a few years since, an aggregation of fragments tumbled together into a diet, at the mercy of Austria and Prussia, and what she is now, a compact, powerful Empire, sway- ing the destinies of Europe, we can under- stand how difficult the work must have been and bow the enmities it necessarily fostered may feat to his fall. The position of a Minister who depends upon parliaments or party support for his career is precarious enough, but not so precarious as that of a Minister like Bismarck, who is only strong so long as he has the affections of t@ king. Therefore this controversy between the Chancellor and the Count is most likely a struggle for the King’s affections, There is a rumor in one of the foreign journals that Count Arnim spoke of his imprisonment as a step toward the Chancellorship. In other words, Bismarck the thrower will himself be thrown, and Arnim will take his place, This ending of the controversy would bean ex- ceedingly important event. The fall of Bis- marck would produce more results in the Con- tinent than the fall of any man since NapoleonL German unity in its present fresh moistened and scarcely hardened condition would receive a severe blow. There would be anend of the Italian alliance. The temporal power of the Pope would return, the progress of the religious question would be arrested, and there would result no end of complica- tions with Russia. Prince Bismarck seems to be one of the most difficult of servants—hard to keep and hard to dismiss. Foran Emperor who loves a quiet life, and an Emperor nearly eighty years of age would be apt to yearn for peace, his constant restlessness and stirring activity and facility tor making trouble make him the worst of all chancellors. But for German unity and the consoldation of the higher purposes of German policy no man would do as well. Yet there comes to all nations, even as to men, a time when the body craves rest. Heroic, radical ’statesmanship will do now and then, but we gradually wish for conserva- tism. We seo how England passed from the radicalism of Gladstone to the conservatism of Disraeli, and in America we have been slowly passing from the radicalism of Lincoln to more conservative purposes. We can well understand how Germany should weary of Bismarck. It is well to put the spur into the side in the fierceness of the strife; but the mutiny and exhaustion. Germany has felt | Bismarck’s spur since 1859, and we can well | believe she would now long for the gentler processes of a chancellor like Count Arnim. Presidential Dignity. In 1872 there was some thought that Grant might decline to bo a candidate for a second term. Some people, apparently with no very profound knowledge of the Presidential char- acter, apprehended such an event and were alarmed at the possible consequences, They hastened to write to Grant on the subject and Grant hastened to answer them and. to assure them explicitly and distinctly that if he was wanted to cccupy the office of President he was ready. It did not occur to him that it was in any way derogatory to his dignity to settle doubts on that subject in the shortest and simplest way. public mind to be harassed with anxieties on such a score. Recently, however, there has what is the President's real position in regard to the next nomination for the office he now | holds. But the doubt now has a different aspect. It is not an anxioty lest he should re- fuse a nomination; it is an apprehension that he wants one. And there is a difference in the result of inquiry, for he declines to answer. His dignity has sealed his lips. He could write in "72 that he was ready to take a nomination, and his dignity was none the worse; but in '74, when he is called upon to declare that ho will not accept anothet term of office, his dignity rises in revolt and will not let him touch a pen. Dignity has a strange influence over a’ man. As to this Presidential dignity which has so lately come forth as a factor in our politics, we must note that it is singularly adroit, It leaves the, President certain liberty, but seems to play his liberty as it were with the skilful mastery that a good sportsman has over his trout. It lets the President ran up stream and down stream and all over the open water, but turns him at the nicest conceivable points on all sides. Thus he is not compelled to absolute once more been a great deal of doubt as to | died shortly after. a2so2:s sp i eee nine itil iain ies ign negcmraga stesiapgeni eatin catalan tat uicscitstahanmatanitienri iar tinlanaaytectahaiinaianiethineet ain aie. silence in regard to athird term. He can disy cuss it in Cabinet councileven, He canexpreas his opinion on it to different persons. He may say how he believes the apprehension of his third candidature arose. He may even vilify the persons whom he holds responsi- ble for keeping the discussion on foot. Alb these things he can do, and dignity gives him no check; he does not even feel the weight of the line. But the one thing that he cannot and must not do—that dignity will not suffer on any pretence whatever—is to make a sim- ple, straightforward declaration that he be- lieves the third term wrong in principle and will not accept it forhimself. Altogether this dignity is ® queer quality, but convenient, exceedingly convenient. In the old times, when inquiry became awkward, men “had the gout,”’ and so kept out of the way. Talley- rand wondered at Vienna what it was that in- duced a certain statesman to have the gout on acertain day. Now it seems gout is old fash- ioned, and they have dignity, to the same purpose, Tt is ingenious, What has been the matter with our statesmen that they have. not had more use out of this idea? One cath fancy that Ben Butler should have discovered it years ago. What a piece of capital it would have been for Oakes Ames and Schuy- ler Colfax when the country wanted to know about Crédit Mobilier ! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. “6 Rev. Hugh Smythe, of Cincinnati, ts stopping at the Everett House. Rev. Dr. A. H. Vinton, of Boston, is residing at the Windsor Hotel. The Empress of Russia travelled from Odesea te London in sixty-six hours. General B. H. Grierson, United States Army, is registered at the Hoffman House. Miss Martineau, aged 73, wrote tne biography of Barry Cornwall for the Daily News. Lord and Lady Dufferin were expected to arrive in Montreal, from Boston, last night, General Guzman and staf have returned from Puerto Cabello to Caracas, Venezuela, Judge George Hoadley, of Cincinnati, is among the latest arrivais at the Windsor Hotel. Lieutenant Uommander John Schouler, United States Navy, is quartered at the St. James Hotel. General Duncan 8. Walker and Mr. George B. McCartee, of Washington, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Von Arnim is said to have been made, in his days of favor, the repository of Bismarck’s plans against Russia. Mr. E. A. Rollins, of Phila elphia, formerly vom missioner of Internal Revenue, has apartments as the Fifth Avenue Hotei. Mr. H. H. Honoré, father-in-law of Lieutenant Colonel Fred Grant, arrived at the Fitth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Scott-Siddons arrived from Eng: land in the steamship Oceanic yesterday, and have taken up their residence at the Clarendon Hotel. The sweetest thing in earrings is a miniatore aquarium of rock crystal filled with water, in which swim miniature whales, lobsters and shrimps. And the Republican State Committee can only say, “There is reason to believe that a victory awaits us.” Is not that rather feeble fora battle cry? At @ grand ball given at Quillota, Chili, om the occasion of the 18th of September, @ sword was presented to General Quesada, the Cubam patriot. A banquet was given to Baron Schwarz-Senborm last evening at the Union League House, Philadel- phia, by the Commissioners to the Vienna Exposi- tion from that city. Mr. Beecher argues that there are “modes of a0 tivity’? of which there are positive evidences, but of which science has no knowledge. Science, then, must have regarded these modes as beneath her notice, Bishop Cummins preached at St. John, N. B.. on Sunday, and administered communion to the members of the new church organized there. He will visit other parts of New Brunswick where the movement has extended. Hon. B. R. Stevenson, Surveyor General of New Brunswick, left St. John on Saturday last for Ottawa, to represent the local government in the Emigration Conference, called by the Dominion government, to meet on Wednesday next. Once more here is the great West up in front. While Bismarck was thundering through Europe for his 1etvers the great West had them. That, however, 18 4 Small matter. The startling fact is that the great West kept so qutet about it. General W. T. Sherman arrived in this city yes- terday morning and took up his quarters at the Astor House. He is on a visit to his son, Thomas E. Sherman, who has been seriously ill for several days past, but is now in a fair way to recover. “Tremendously dangerous” to vote for the dem- ocrats. This is the party cry of the republicaus to the people; but the people don’t scare well. Indeed, this cry seems to add a new reason in favor of the democrats; for, a8 @ people, we like | danger. If Bismarck’s letters to Von Arnim contain any unguarded expressions which may be interpreted as showing @ want of respect for the sacred Maj- esty of Emperor William it is natural that Von Arnim shouid strain @ great many points to hold them until he can use them with effect. The steamer arriving at Lima, Peru, from Panama, on the 9th ult., brought M. Pradier Fodéré, with his family. This scientist has been engaged by the Peruvian government to estabush certain courses Of political economy, the science of statistics and administration in the University of St. Mark of Lima. M. Fodéré was received with great attention and appeared to be well satisfied witb bis new home, There is a half concealed endeavor to make po- litical capital out of the visit of the Prince of Wales to some of the French nobles, if not for France against other Powers, at least for the up- holders of royaity against other politics. The Chatear pierre, near Rambouillet, was mag- nified into veritable royal progress through the country, and was apparently aimed to dazzle the people with its splendor and to awaken sentimen- tal remembrances of other times. At Giessen, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darm- stadt, a quarrel took place in the ratlway refresh- ment room between an Officer and a civilian. The | Prince's bs to the Duchess de Luynes, at the | tatter having seizeu his beer glass, dashed it in He would not permit the | the face of bis opponent, whereupon a comrade of the officer, who happened to be standing close by, drew his sword and cut down the civillan, who ‘The hero of this adventure was acquitted on the ground that he had only done his duty. One must not quarrel with soldiers where Prussian rule is paramount. A machine, of the torpedo class. has been con. | structed for the British Navy which will move ats speed of nine knots an hour for three hundred yards and at a lower speed for no less a distance than a mile. Itwill matotain any direction im- pressed upon it, and it can be launched either from @ boat or an iron-clad, by night or by day. In short, tt isa@kind of explosive fish, which, im obedience to its masters, will swim for a mile toward any adversary at which it may be directed and will sirike a dangerous, if not a fatal, blow.g Ayoung lady resident in the famous Peruvian city of the Incas, Cuzco, applied lately to the proper authorities, asking permission to enter the law school of that capital, an institution sup- ported by the State, as a student of jurisprudence and at the same ume inquiring if her sex was an -obstacle to the obtaining of a degree of master of laws provided her acquirements were suffictent. The Minister of Justice replied, in an official despatch, that all Peruvian citizens should enjoy equal rights, that women were virtually con- sidered by the laws in force as on the same footing with men, as far as the privileges to be accorded by the Republic were concerned, and that it wae ® matter of peculiar pleasure to the Administra. tion to improve the opportnaity of meking ‘wie ack @ declaration.