The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD ve =! BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. bah neces JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR HE DAILY HERALD, day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- published every wual subscription price $12, | ee es ‘LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. = Wolume XXXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING —_———- ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Matinee at 1:30 P. M.—Italian Opera, AIDA. Mme, Potentinl, Miss Cary, Signor Carpi, Signor dei Puente, Signor Fiorini. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street. —EIN ERFOLG, ats P. M.; closes at 10:30 8. M. ROBINSON HALL, ‘Sixteenth street, between Broadway aud Fifth avenue.— VASLETY, ats P.M. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, x West Twenty-third street, near -ixth avenue,—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, ac. at 8 P.M; closes at 10 7.M, Dan | "Bryant, Matinee at2 P. M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, | ‘No. 685 Broadway.—VARIETY, ac 8 P. M.; closes at10 | P.M. Mauuee at2 P.M. TONY PASTOR’ Ro, 21 Bowery.—VARIET OPERA HOUSE, ats P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. © MINSTRELS, Broadway enty-nin'h street.—-NEGRO | MINSTER UD closes at 10 P.M. Matinee at | 2PM. | LYCEUM THEATRE. | Fourteenth street and sixth avenue.—GENEVIEVE DE | RASANT, at 8 P, 61046 PM. Miss Emily olden. Matinee AMERICAN INSTITUTE, ‘Third avenue, between Sixty-third aud Sixtv-fourth streets. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-fitth street.—STORM OVER PARIS anc MRs, JABLEY'S WAX WORKS, at 2:50 P. | A, and7 45 P.M. WOOD'S MUSEUM. | Broaaway, corner of Jhirtieth street.—BEN McCUL. | LOUGH, at2 P.M. end at S P.M. closes at 10:45 P.M. | Oliver Doud Byron. y YORK STADE THEATRE, | an Opera Bouife—BARBE BLEUE, at 8 | Bowery—( P.M. ; Closes at 10:30 Miss Lina Mayr. ° E. ff Broadway. M.; closes at 10:45 | M. Matinee at | P AIRE, | Broddway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second | streets, —GILUED AGE, ats P. M. at 0:30 P. by ats P. Mr. Joho T. Raymond. ‘Matinee at | : THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, ats P. M.; closes at 10:30 | P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M, STEL ALL, Fourteenth street.—TH DORE THOMAS’ SYMPHONY CONCERT, acs P. M.; closes at ll P. M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty third street and Sixth avenae.—MAC- BETH, at 8 P.M: closes at 10:30PM. Matinee at 1:30 P. M—GUY MANNERING. Miss Cushman, | ROMAN HIPPODROME, ‘Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and | evening, at 2 and 8, 3 THEATRE, [EB OF A POOR YOUNG 0:30PM. Miss Ada Dyas, PM. NIBLO'S GARDE Broadway, between Prince and H DELUGE," at 8 P.M. Family, “Matinee at 1) n streets. —THE Mo The Kirally | FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. | Twenty-eichth street and Broadway —THE BELLF'S | STRATAGEM. at 5 P. M.; closes at ti 88 Fanny | ern Miss Jewett, Louis James, cE TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Saturday, Nov. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be generally clear | and cool. Watt Sreezr Yestenpay.—The stock | market was barely steady. Gold opened at | 110} and closed at 110. Money was easy at recent rates. Governments firm. Tae Prestpent’s Conunprum—‘‘It is only | &@ newspaper sensation, and what does it | amount to?'’’ Answer—‘‘Be brief; I am | sick!” A Goop Marcu for observant mothers-in- law—our Governor elect. Waa H. Stixer, journalist, has been | nominated and confirmed as an excise com- missioner, and he is well qualified for the position. Ix tue Roman Repveric bachelors were placed under a ban. In our Republic we make them Governors and Presidents. Does this show progress or reaction in our civilization ? Consotation For Governor Drx.—When | the people have become incensed against the corruptions of the partyin power they do not stop to make nice discriminations. Ivy Ma. Trxpen’s state of single blessedness | had been known before the election he would | not have been so warmly supported by Mrs. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the women’s | rights party. Mz. Mossy, who nominated General Grant | for a third term, has had a talk with the Presi- | dent about the elections, and they agreed that the third term had nothing to do with the result, But the result will have something to do with the third term. Sravcx sy Licutxixc.—A men was struck | and killed by ligntning at Ogdensburg yes- terday. A thunder storm on the St. Lawrence | in November is an extraordinary occurrence, but not more remarkable than a democratic | tidal wave sweeping in a single day over the | whole country. | Taz Pzorte’s Tarvmps.—How little the | politicians contributed to these late great anti- administration victories is manifest from the | Beneral surprise among the wisest prophets on both sides. The democrats are wild with delight over their unexpected successes and the republicans are bewildered by their un- expected defeats, —__ Tae Powrrican Srrvation mw France is very thoroughly reviewed in our Paris letter this morning. The independence of all parties which the government attempts to secure has resulted, according to our corre- | spondent, in isolation. Neither the Bona- | partists nor the legitimists are pleased with MacMahon’s policy, and as for the republi- cans, they never were satisfied with the Presi- dent. One strong point of the government is its successful financial management, which | helps to avert the danger, which is still feared, that France, under certain circum- | tone and NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHERT. Moderation im Victory—Mr. Tilden’s Speech at the Manhattan Club. Whether Mr. Tilden possesses tho talents of an officient administrative officer is an un- solved problem. He has never held a high official trust, and it would be hazardous to predict how a man so untried in executive responsibility will acquit himself. But he is | unquestionably a man of great speculative ability in Politics, and nothing could be more sound, just and pertinent than the sentiments he delivered in his speech on Thursday even- ing at the democratic glorification. Mr. Til- den has a “‘Jeyel head."" There is an advan- tage in electing to high office a gentleman who has achieved distinguished success in private life, who has been the trusted adviser of great pecuniary interests and has been accustomed to look at things with the large- ness of view which results from wide connec- tions, But such an adviser may have no ex- perience in the details of ordinary manage- ment, and is quite as likely to be weak as strong as a practical administrator. While, therefore, it is not yet possible to feel much | confidence in Mr. Tilden as an executive offi- cer, we are constrained to admit that the views he expressed in his recent speech are such as no statesman need be ashamed of. The advice he gave to the democratic party is eminently wise, sound and judicious. Whether he shall prove on trial to be an able executive officer or not nobody can dispute his sagacity as an adviser of his party in the flush of victory, which so easily unsettles weak | intellects and causes men without ballast to make a foolish and fuddled exhibition of thoughtless exultation. In Foily’s cup still laughs the bubble joy. We are glad to find that Mr. Tildeh is too solid a man to go off in shallow effervescence | over a sudden political victory. He feels the responsibilities which accompany power. The wonderful success of his party in the re- | cent election has a sobering effect on his mind, constraining him to consider the public duties imposed by political success. The best proof that Mr. Tilden is equal to his new situa- tion is found in the solidity and sound judg- ment he manifests in the leadership to which he is sowuddenly promoted. Men of sense of all parties will commend the absence of frothy exhilaration, and the wisdom, dignity and sobriety which he manifested in his re- cent speech, when the temptation was so strong to make an empty spread-eagle dis- play. Political power, brings heavy. and anxious responsibilities, and in the position of leadership to which Mr. Tilden is suddenly elevated we are glad to find that his head is not turned and that a sense of duty sobers the exultation of success. The democratic party was never in-s0 dan- gerous a position as it isto-day. If it gives way to idle and foolish joy; if it fancies it can safely overturn the great results of the war; if it assumes that power .in prospect is the same as power in possession; if it attempts to turn back the hands on the political dial plate and undo all the republican party has accomplished, the condition of the country will be worse than if the recent great victories had not been achieved. Everything depends on the democratic party being wise, moderate, considerate ; on its paying proper deference to the settled public opinion of the country respecting great questions which have been decided once for all; on its recognizing the fact that since the war the country has passed into a new era, and that our politics can never be restored to the condition in which they existed previous to the great contest. Mr. Tilden gives reasonable evidence that he “understands his epoch.’’ The best thing in his speech at the Manhattan Club is his frank recognition of the fact that the recent democratic victories are indebted to republi- can co-operation, and can be maintained only by keeping the republican support to which they are due. The following passage from Mr. Tilden's speech is a full recognition of the duty of democrats to conciliate their late opponents :—‘“Many republicans voted with us, and, if we are wise in our future policy, they will generally remain as permanent co- workers in our cause. Many thousands of republicans who have not had the moral courage to break away from their party ties slept more tranquilly on the night after the election. In our success they felt a sense of relief. They saw the dawning ot a new hope for their own personal prosperity and for the rescue of the imperilled institutions of our country. Let us, then, in the midst of our congratulations, not forget to be magnani- mous toward our adversaries in the recent contest."’ These excellent remarks should sink deeply into the hearts of thoughtful democrats. It is so evident that the demo- cratic party succeeded in the late elections | only by the assistance of former opponents, and that the victory can be maintained only by their contiuued co-operation, that it is a manifest point of prudence to confine demo- cratic action within such limits as will not shock honest republican feeling. The whole future of the democratic party depends on its following these prudent suggestions of Mr. Tilden. The great results of the war, in- cluding negro rights, must be accepted without question if the democratic party expects to gain control of the government, and the reforms proposed must be of such a | character that honest republicans as well as honest democrats can indorse them. Mr. Tilden perceives, what all intelligent men must perceive, that nothing could be so fatal for the democratic party as to attempt, in the flush of sudden success, to reverse the policy adopted by the country as a mecessary conse- quence of the war. The republicans who aided the democrats in achieving their recent victories assumed that the democratic party accepted the main results of the war as a finality, and unless the democracy stands on this ground the recent successes will be a quickly exploded bubble. Mr. Tilden per- ceives this, and no advice could be sounder and wiser than that which he gave to his party in his recent apeech. There is another great point on which Mr. Tilden advised the democratic party wisely. He seems deeply impressed with the degenera- tion in political and official life which has been going on for the last twenty or thirty years, and he professes a wish to raise the elevate the standard of official morals, He exprosses himself on this subject with such evident carnestness that it would be titancea, may repudiate her enormous debt + ty hard to doubt his sincerity; but yet, as pro- fessions are 50 much casior than practice, we | think it prudent to wait and see how Mr. Tilden discharges his duties as Governor be- fore accepting his fine professions as payment. He will have the earnest moral support of the whole community in attempts to raise tho tone of official life; but Mr, Tilden, who is no neophyte, has had too much experience to expect his fellow citizens to set much value on fine words until they are justified by performance. But it must be conceded that his advice to the democratic party is excellent. The party is in great danger, in the intoxication of sud- den success, of hurrying into extravagant re- action and enabling its opponents to recover all they havo lost. It is a- proof of Mr. Til- den's sagacity and of the solidity of his judg- ment that even in the flush of victory, which turns weaker heads and sets shallow demo- crats all agog in the elation of success, he preserves his mental equipoiae and secs that these elections can have no permanent value unless the democratic party frankly accepts the results of the war and pursues a policy in which honest republicans can unite. It will be a satisfaction to the steady part of the community to see that Mr. Tilden keeps his mental balance under circumstances which would have hurried weaker men into foolish political gush and spread-eagle exultation. If the democratic party shall have the wisdom to make a wise use of victory it will easily gain possession of the national government. Carlist Prospects.” Tn attacking Irun the Carlists are playing bold game, but one which in the presence of a resolute and skilful enemy might expose their cause to complete overthrow. We learn from private sources that, though the position of the Carlists is far from desperate, there exists a great deal of want of confidence among the supporters of the Pretender. Sus- picion of treason seems to be pretty generally entertained, and were it not for the incom- | prehensible stupidity of the so-called generals commanding the Madrid forces Carlism would long since have ceased to be a national danger. But the generals commissioned by the Madrid government display more talent in the manufacture of high sounding de- spatches than in carrying out the operations ofa campaign. Since the death of General Concha no one appears to comprehend that the first and vital necessity of the campaign is the recapture of Estella. Through sheer in- Lesson of the Day—For Both Sides. One of the most valuable, but to a hasty or faint-hearted citizen one of the most vexa- tious, qualities of the American people is their patience. * “They are as long-suffering as though they were forty millions of donkeys,’ said an irritable statesman once of his coun- trymen; and short-sighted philosophers, who caunot see beyond the abuses of the day, per- petually imagine our liberties to be in danger because some wrong is not remedied or some ring broken up as soon as it is discov- ered, Well, Tuesday showed once more, as many previous November Tucsdays have shown, that the patience of the American people is the pationce not of dull or weak sluggards but of giants. They bear long with misgovernment because they feel themselves strong. They are generous masters, but it is because they know themselves to be masters. They give their trust slowly to new policies or new party leaders; but also they withdraw it slowly. ‘They are long-suffering, ready to for- give much to their servants, generous to make allowance for inexperience, not quick to pun- ish blunders or waste, if only they believe the motive honest. But their patience has an end, and on Tuesday once more the American people showed that they, and not the poli- ticians, are masters of the country. The peop'e of the United States rule. That is the lesson of last Tuesday. When they bear with gross abuses such as have disgraced tho administration of General Grant, with the appointment of scandalonsly unfit persons to high office, with jobbing, with cor- ruption in the capital, with the spectacle of a President consorting with jobbers and attempting to reappoint them to the places they had misused; with atrocious misgovern- ment in.the Southern States, supported by the President's friends and relations, and by the federal army—when they bear with these accumulated offences against good govern- ment, it is not because they are weak or fa- tally careless or unpatriotic, but because they are conscious of their power to punish, and because with this they have one of the most important characteristics of a free peo- ple, a great love for stability. Unlike the French, our people have a horror of change. They are by nature conservative. They pre- fer the thing that is even to a better thing still untried. They clung to the old demo- The capacity it was allowed to fall into the hands. oratio pirty until that aspired to mastery, then of the Carlists at a time when they were wholly unprovided with artillery. By nature it is one of the strongest positions in Europe, but the carrying out of General Concha’'s plan of operations would force the Carlists to abandon the town or be caught like mice in a trap. Instead of adopting this effective means of dealing with Oarlism the govorn- ment generals fritter away the lives of their men in endless skirmishes, which have not the slightest effect on the campaign. Should the Carlists succeed in capturing Irun they would have free access, not alone to the French frontier, but also to the sea. We have a striking example of the tenacity with which they maintain themselves in positions once acquired, and should they succeed in their new attempt we might look forward to an in- definite prolongation of the war. At present the forces ot Don Carlos are well furnished with field artillery, having supplied them- selves since the battle of Abarzuza with some forty-eight steel cannon and sixteen brass rifled field pieces. The position of Don Carlos is therefore a strong one, and, judging by what his partisans have accomplished by they discharged It summarily. They bore with the republican party until that in turn forgot it had a master in the people, and now they have flung it aside. Nor should the successful democrats forget one other trait of the people. When they are once convinced they do not readily change their convictions. The democratic party long held power as the conspicuous friend of the Union. When a large part of its leaders\, turned against the Union the party was at once cast off by the people. General Grant's platform was, ‘Let us have peace,” and on that the people elected him. But when, after six years in power, they see that he does not let us have peace, but the contrary, they dis- miss his party, and their contemptuous treat- ment of his third term intrigues will long re- main a werning to politicians to study mod- eration, or, at least, the appearance of it. Whatever platforms and speakers may pro- fess or conceal, the people are sincere and in earnest. They hold their rulers to the bond. The democratic leaders have promised peace, prosperity, a better currency, economy in ad- | ministration; let them beware how they trifle their courage and indomitable pluck, it would | with these promises. Tne people are not only be rash to prophesy an early termination of } masters, they are hard masters. They do not the struggle. It even looks as if the North- | look narrowly after the means, but they de- ern Spaniards, or, as they proudly call them- selves, the true Spaniards, might again sweep down and impose their will oz the less vigor- ous inhabitants of the South. There is some- thing remarkably chivalrous in the untiring devotion of these Carlist mountaineers to the cause of their chief which must command the admiration even of those who would look on the triumph of their cause as a misfortune for Spain and a check to the development of human liberty. Arnim and Bismarck. The more we learn of the circumstances attending the arrest of Count Arnim the more we are convinced that, instead of being a personal persecution, it will become a strife for power. Bismarck is too much of a statesman to have aimed a blow at Arnim for revenge, or to vindicate the laws, or ina personal pique. He must know, as all the world sees, that in the very nature of things there can be no case against Count Arnim of a criminal nature, for this nobleman is a mem- ber of a great family and has held high offices in the Empire, and the offence charged against him is akin to petit larceny. So that unless upon the intelligible hypothesis of a struggle for power there is no explanation of an event that astonishes Europe and the world. Arnim has made himself the champion of conserva- tism. He is much in the same position as Tilden, the leader of a victorious party, The difference is that Tilden appeated to the peo- ple, Arnim to the caprices of an absolute monarch. In monarchies, as was geen in Tudor times, statesmen often reached power through the prison door, and public life may be said to recall what Byron said of the Bridge of Sighs, ‘‘a palace and a prison on each hand.” We are curious to see how the contest willend. Thus far the victory seems to be with Arnim. Bismarck has wounded but not destroyed him. To wound and not destroy in a contest like this is to lose half the battle, Drp Our Bacneton Governor elect ever ponder over the sentiment of Tennyson, that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Waar Wau. He Do Wira Ir?—We refer to the splendid house which General Butier is building as for a permanent residence, on Capitol Hill, and alongside the Capitol itself, in Washington—very convenient for a member of the lobby. Tae Latest Exouisn any German Lite- RaTURE is discussed in our interesting letters from Frankfort and London. We hoar more of Eckstein’s bitter complaints of the un- grateful manner in which his country treats her authors, and # condensation of Mr. Henry Reeve’s ‘Anecdotes of British Queens and Kings’’ presents much that is new and entertaining. mand success. If this great democratic vic- tory should be followed by new disorders in the South; if, in the next Congress, demo- cratic leaders should be found incompetent or corrupt; if, this winter, democratic Legislatures should choose improper pcr- sons to the United States Senate; it the policy and spirit of the party should prove to be unfavorable to peace, to a re- newal of industry and commerce, to a sound currency, to an economical and purified ad- ministration, not only in the federal, but in the State and local governments, the people will as surely cast it off two years hence as they have just flung aside the impudent third term jobbers and Southern political gamblers, and with them a number of honorable men who were unfortugate enough to be found in bad company. Epistolary Joy. Many of tho letters which were read at thé Manhattan jubilee were remarkable specimens of epistolary joy. Horatio Seymour and Fran- cis Kernan are both comparatively cold in the terms in which they express their emotions, but Asher P. Nichols is red hot. We area little afraid of Mr. Nichols’ joy, however, for while there is something grand in his call upon the club to ‘‘jubilate” we fear there is something rather too significant in his declar- ation that he is ‘getting ready for the next campaign.” It is a phrase potent in doubts. Mr. David A. Wells relieves us, however, by his figurative joy over “general results.” And then there is Tarbox, who assures the Man- hattan democracy that ‘Massachusetts has again rocked the old historic cradle for the new birth of Liberty.’ Mr. Charles H. Thompson, who defeated the dramatic Butler, is prosaic but not dull ; every word is a barbed arrow for the friend of ‘the poor boy.” McEnery finds Louisiana's shackles gone as if by magic; Proctor Knott presents Kentucky thrilled with joy, and Henry CO. Semple tells us that Alabama has seen this day and is glad. L. Q. C. Lamar is comprehensive but brief, and George Ticknor Curtis long-winded in his joy. Some of the writers are oracular and not a few aro statesmanlike. But all of them are full of rejoicings, and well they may be, for the democracy has had no such reason to be happy in fourteen years. ‘Year after year,” said Senator Stockton—who did not write a letter, but made a speech—‘‘they had hoped fora change; year after year they had pro- dicted a change; year after year a few small victories were all they had had.” With a great triumph now (a transcendent victory Peter Dox calls it) why should they not re- joice? It is not wonderful, with such results,” that there should be this groat outburst of epistolary joy. Cowrnadrion on Inriation, hard money or more paper currency, it has been all tho same | a faithless wile, an immense fortune myste- Another Sationa: Convention. There were many funny things in the can- vass, yet it is singular that so many persons do not find them amusing. The man who laughs is certainly not a republican. There is an appearance of gloom about the republican party to which we are not accustomed, and its leaders look like men who had just attended @ funeral, and, no doubt, that was the fact. ‘The hilarious levity of the republicans took place before the election, when their risibility was aroused by the absurd victories in Ohio and Indiana, and now the democracy are smil- ing audibly about New York ond Massachu- setts, One broad democratic smile extends over the country from Boston to New Orleans, with dimples in New York, Baltimore, Trenton and other towns. It has been 80 long since the democratic party won anything that was not its own that its successes appear actually ludicrous to itself. Mr. Tilden would no doubt lInugh at the oldest of Joe Millers, while it would take a bold man to ask Gov- ernor Dix the simplest of conundrums. One would hardly like to ask bim why the repub- lican yacht was so far behind in the race for fear he might imagine that some offensive al- lusion was meant to scudding under bare polls, or somo other nautical impropriety. But while the democracy may laugh, and all the more heartily because mirth is a sensation to which they ara unaccustomed, we think the republicans should look at this matter seriously. It is really an important event, and it would not be worthy of the party to pretend “it's of no consequence,” like Mr. Toots. For this reason we advise that a National Convention of Defeated Candidates shall be held to confer’ upon the situation and devise plans for the future government of the party. Such a conyen- tion might be compared to an assemblage of foxes which had lost thoir tails, but that petty sneer could be passed by in silent con- tempt. It would be a convention of men of great wisdom, vast experience and thorough knowledge of the wants of the people. Indeed, they know better now what the people want than they did a week ago, and this would be an advantage which ought not to be despised. Look what a splendid array of intellect and influence such @ convention would present. There would be Governor Dix, the hero of a hundred victories; Governor ‘Talbot, one of the most astounded men in tho country; Mr. Halsey, who was nearly Governor, but not quite; General But- ler, @ man of wonderful ability; Mr. Hayes and his friend Mr. Morrissey, the powerful statesman; Dr. Ayer; Mr. Robe- son, whom New Jersey has decided to keep in the Cabinet; ex-Governor Morgan, whom New York will not send to the Senate; Isaac Jump, of Delaware; Horace Maynard, Judge Poland, and many, many others, who are scarcely tess illustrious. What 2 convention this would be, including as it would so much ‘of the intelligence and morality of the repub- licen party, so many statesmen, chastened by a'efeat and anxious to reform their errors ! Indee.4, the President might be an ex officio member, ~and Senator Conkling, Senator Car- penter, M:™ Blaine and other eminent repub- licans, for «Wen though they are not defeated candidates they’ might forcibly claim seats in the conventior> on the ground that they helped to lik the others. We are sincere in advising this course, for we think it is just what“the republican party needs to enable it to succeed hereafter. The objection that it would b.* such a large con- vention, that no single buildi. "6—20F even the Hippodrome—could hold it, is Weak. If one hall would not do, why not two, oF three, or four? What the peoplo would like \ Would be upon the lessons of the late elections a.™ the ably led, we do not know exactly wha’® - convention of defeated republican candia. 18 to see all these gentlemen consult .‘sether future of the great party which they have‘#0 Tho Next Speaker. The most important office now undor the government is the Speakorship of tha next House of Representatives: The first duty of that body will be to examine into the whole course of Grant's administration, and not only Grant's, but the whole time of republi- can ascendancy. The duty of selecting the men to do this will fall upon the Speaker, When the republicans came into power under Buchanan their first business was to appoint the famous Covode Investigating Committee, The report of that committee was made the basis of the campaign for republican ascen- dancy. Yet when we look over it now and see how beggarly and mean and small were the much-vaunted ‘“Covode revelations” com- pared with the astounding and self-confessed frauds of so many departments of Grant's ad- ministration, we see how great a task now lies before the next House, and, above all things, how important it is to have a brave and wise Speaker. We must have a man who will not dally with the administration, who will not be influenced by personal considerations in mak- ing appointments, who will be above the fears and hopes of power. It will be a brave man, indeed, who will resist the blandishments of Grant's ddministration, the seductions which rest in the hands of a President, who even now with the Sonate has absolute control of the patronage of the country and commands a civil army of sixty thousand office-holders. ose CR EDT IR A Cusrovs Enron was made in the report of Senator Stockton’s speech at the Manhat- tan Club. The Senator, who indorsed Gov ernor Tilden’s wish for a return to the doo trine of Jefferson, was made to advocate a re- fufi' 16 the doctrine of Jefferson Davis. In this case, at least, there is something ina name. Tux Treaty between the United States and Italy for the surrender of fugitives from jus- tice was made in 1868. The question now comes up in our courts whether an Italian can be sent back to his country for an offence committed in 1867. It is claimed that the treaty bas no retrospective force, and the point raised is certainly interesting. Taz Duc Ducazes, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, bas replied to the Spanish note, denying the charges preferred in respeot to the frontier violations, and even acquitting Bismarck of inspiring the Madrid complaint. POMS NT Ties ADE Tay Taree Wanps have been counted in Phila- delphia county. This is at the rate of a ward a day, which is evidence of on unwelcome task. The officials who are charged with this arithmetical work can no longer quote the familiar verse, “The labor we delight im physics pain.” Tuar Was a Noruz Passace, which we print | to-day, from Senator Gordon’s speech at At- lanta, Georgia. They were golden words he uttered, and the South will do well to heed them. ysis ial PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bismarck reads all the papers. What is the matter with James Hayes? Offenvach has received $400,000 on three operas since September 1, 1873. Jt would be funny to see Thiers appear as Prime Minister under MacMahon. . General John E. Mulford, of Richmond, ts resid- ing at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. Hamilton Harris, of Albany, eveniog at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. fx-Governor William Bigler, of Pennsylvania, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Senator Alexander McDonald, of Arkansas, 1s registered at the St. James Hotel, “Jonn Jones, the button maker,’ has arrived and is stopping at the Hofman House. One volume of Theodore Martin’s biography of Prince Aibert will be published this year, & Senator Lot M, Morrill and Judze R. 4%, Rice, of Maine, have apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. i i Congressman James Mm. Leitch, oF North Caro- arrived last would terrify the democracy, as it wou.4 show them how big the administration party still is. A Fins Prot vor a Pray. —The young Amer- ican dramatists who are anxiously looking for that most difficult part of a play, the plot, are respectfully requested to read the romance which is contained in our New Haven letter to-day. Here is a chance for a four act drama, with plot, characters and all complete. There is a rich merchant, a beautiful octoroon, riously deposited, and, in the end, virtue re- warded and vice punished, just as Miss Cushman tells us how Bertram’s right and Bertram's might shall meet on Ellangowan’s height. There is nothing, therefore, to pre- vent the perlormance of a play founded upon this stary, excepting the want of @ manager. A trifle of that kind should not be permitted to interfere. The dramatist should emulate the noble exai¥ple of Robinson Crusoe, who built a ship, thogh he was not able to launch it, Still he had the satisfaction of knowing that he had done his duty, and so we say to the dramatist, Write your piay; then, if tho manager refuses to produevit, upon his head will rest the terrible responsibility. Tae Last Democratic PRestpent was a bachelor. But Mr. Buchanan's success does not seem to justify # repetition of the experi- ment. No Tnx to Lose.—Republican mentbers of Congress are, it appears, already begin- ning to drop into Washington to discuss the political situation and the business of the coming short session, They have no time to lose, for on the 4th March next their long, unbroken reign in the House of Representa- tives comes to an end, and at the next session the books will be opened against them. Tux Yean or Junrex it is to the democ- Tracy, and President Grant has named the 26th of November as a day of general thanks. giving. Journauistio Enrerprisn.—It is rumored that a democratic daily is to be started at once in Washington, in order to hold the ground for the new democratic House of Repre- sentatives, which will meet in December, 1875. Tae Crvm Rioxts Bri.—Unless General Butler can work through the House at the coming session that aforesaid Civil Rights bill he may retire with it in his pocket on the 4th of March, and devote at home at least the next two years to its revision. to the republicans, from Massachusetts to Missouri, all is but a presuming public servant and that Nna, 1s among the recent afrivals at the Windsor | Hosel. Captajn R. T. Renshaw and ‘Lieutenant R. Be eck, United States Navy, are quartered at the Ho. ‘Tman Hotise. Thy Sisters of Arthur Orton (the Tichborne t) have petitioned Queen Victoria to re- claima. . prothe from imprisonment. lease then | rast In-Uan in custody suspected of one petite ab has (een removed to Cawnpore being Nana .™. tigation aé to bis identity. Bu hae als ‘gynan bet that he would smoke In Faris 8 gent ovening. He was taken sick twelve cigars in ons nersisted and won his bet. on his eighth cigar, but , ralled to attend him the Professor Chevalier WaS+ 44 save his life, same night, but not in time pes chment of Andy One of the points in the IN “4 epithets with a | Johnson was fhat he “bandte was wanting im jeering mob;” t fact, that he ‘uarantee him | dignity. Grant’s “dignity” will g | against impeachment of that sort at te An old Frenchman, very rich, was at off his nephew “with @ shilling” a8 ®& §& yoars nothing; but upon learning that in tho’ fiwe had during which they had n¥t met the nephow tear’ succeeded and grown very’rich he left “thes? boy” his whole fortune. ? It 1s understood that as Mr. David Didtey: F Veld has returned from Europe he wilt be called ta3lo °°, | Judge Davis to bear his share’ of the fine ime" posed upon the lawyers of Tweed Wt alleged’ cy 'R-! | tempt of court, Mr. Field was one .of these lax’- yers censured by Judge Davis, butt Was absemé from the city when the action of the court was an- nounced. This will bring up an interc wting: legal\ question. i , ‘The Edinburgh Scotsman says that the™ present’ English government are prepared, for political: Feasons chiefly, to be very liberal in rega: @ to ar- vangements jr the dud representation 0. Great ibrithin at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 18 16 16 ig\Bot improbable that the Prince of Wales w, ‘ll 0c cupy the position he did at Vienna as head oj * the Britast Commission, and the itst of noblemen, W4 gentiemen who have consented to their nomu tion is distimguished and large. Moltke does not like “improvised armies; tha s is to say, he does not like an armed people, and no professional soldier ever did. Here are hi views, which he presents with a humanitari aspect:—“It 1# bad enough when armies must’ lacerate one another. Let not the people be set against one another; that is no progress of civil- ization, but a return to barbarism. A rogular war ia like @ thunder storm, which In great biowe devastates tracts of land, but also tertilizes, A struggle, however, such 9% goes on now in Spaim jasting thick fog, which destroys entire Improvised armies can, however, not carry on any other kind of struggle,’ The Brussels Conference decided on the prohibt- tion of poisoned arms, as well as oi the murder of any disarmed man, tie use of explosive projec+ tiles and the declaration of ‘no quarter.” uses de guerre are considered lawiul. Fortified places alone can be besieged aud open towns are not to be bombarded. In & bombardment all buildings consecrated to religion, art and charity must be apared, as well as ttospitals; but they must bear @ flag or other visible sign, No plundering 19 al- lowed. Those only are tu be considered ag spies who, under ialso pretences, seek to gather news with toe intention of commanicating such infor mation tu the enemy, Newspaper correspondents and reporters can be made prisoners, but abalt NOt be treated a4 apices if Lhey powess a certificate vut to cut vod-for- the neovle are maaters ot tha United States, (rom & CoMvetons “ULROFILY Draving the aWalitye