The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1874, Page 6

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COLOSSEU™M, Proadway, corner of Thirty-ifth street.—STORM OVER PARIS and MES. JAKLEY’S WAX WORKS, at 2:30 P. | M. and 745 P.M WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broaaway, corner of Thirtieth street—DONALD Mc- KAY, at 2 P.M., and at& P. M.; cioses at 10:45 P. Oliver Doud Byron, ANUW YORK STADT THEATRE, Bowery—German Opera Bouffe—LES BRIGANDS, at8 P.M; closes at 10:40 7. M. Migs Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Bo Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8P. M.; closes at 10 45 1 forwarded on the same terms } NEW YORK AERALD, FRIDAY, WU President Grant Respect the WuUl of the People? Thore is a widespread conviction among intelligent men that the recent overwhelming elections ought to have some immediate prac- tical effect on the course of the government. This feeling, in itself so just and so well grounded, and which must in the end prove as efficient as it is earnest, finds expression in various crude propositions, which will be abandoned to give place to a well considered demand for such changes as will stand the | light of discussion. One set of ideas has been promulgated which is weakly querulous. {| We refer here to the disparaging comparison of our political institutions with those of Great Britain, in which a change of Ministry immediately follows a defeat in the elec- tions, and the helm of the government pa: t once into the hands of the suc- cessful party. Even if this criticism on our | constitution were well founded it would be futile, since nothing can be more idle than complaints against an evil for which the critics suggest no remedy. It is quite true that our government must remain for some time in the hands of the republicans, but it by no means follows that nothing can be done to bring it into better relations with the public sentiment of the country. Another set of ideas, seemingly, but not really, more practical, finds expression in a demand that either the President, by proclama- tion, or the present Congress, by a law passed at its next session, shall secure the convening of the next Congress as soon as practicable after the 4th of March. It the House of Representatives possessed the whole power of legislation this would be a sound proposition, But no new law can be passed and no existing law repealed without the concur- rence of the Senate, which is not froshly elected and would be pretty certain to block | all the measures passed by the new House. If | both branches of Congress had been revo- lutionized an immediate scasion after the 4th of March would be the soundest of possible propositions, The tendency to look to Congress alone for _ relief, which is manifested in this proposi- | tion, is a consequence of the impotence of | the Executive Department since the assassina- tion of President Lincoln. Under his imme- diate successor the Executive was without in- finence in consequence of a violent quarrel PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between, Iwenty-fest and Twenty-second pireet GILLED 3 ‘M.; closes at 10:30 P. r. OM. | ty 5a Brondwag. Vv ARIETS: ee M.; closes at 10:30 | OOTH'S THEATRE, turd ae and Sixth Spar 3 P.M.; closes at 10:30 P. orner of ‘Twe: AR WISKLE, detferson. \CADEMY OF MUSIC, alan Opera—RIGOLETTO, at 8| Foorteenth . str uses HIPPODROME, | Iwenty-cixth © urth avenue.—Afternoon and | evening, at - LACK’S THEATRE, | OF A POOR YOUNG MAN, at M. Mr. Moniague. streets. <THE M. The Kiralty E. roawaye MASKS AND P.M. Miss Panny Daven- port Mr, Fist i THEATRE, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, at 8 Davenport. NIA THRATRE. Fourteenth & SERIOUS FAMILY, at8P. M.; loses at 10:4 ‘Ixteent!) stre ON HALL, 1 cn Broadway and Fifth avenue.— VARIETY, a | 5 OPERA HOUSE, th avenne —FEGEO -3 Closes at 10 P.M. ¥ West Twenty-th r INSTRELSS, &c.. come TRIPLE “SHEET, “New York, ‘Pridey, aaa 13, 1874. | From our reports this morning the ‘provi ies tre that the weather to-day will be cold and tear. Wars Srerer YrsTerpay.— generally firm; money was easy at 2 and 3 per cent on cal, and gold 110}a 110% A good investment demand exists for first class | securities. So Morz Ir Br.—President Grant is re- | ported as declaring the other day that there | shall be no more proscription, with his con- between it and Congress. During the six years that President Grant has been at ; the head of the government the Executive | has been powerless fora different reason. | The President, being no statesman himself, and failing to supplement his deficiencies by | a strong and able Cabinet, has exerted no | Positive influence on legislation. By his veto | of the inflation bill he exerted for once a strong negative influence; but it isan imbe- eile administration, which merely prevents mischief but is impotent to carry affirmative measures. Up to the time of Andrew John- } son great legislative measures originated with | | the Executive, as they do in England. But | ander Geueral Grant the Executive ascendancy has been lost, and it is not surprising that in- | telligent public journals look to an extra ses- ' sion of Congress instead of a change of the Cabinet for a recognition of the just authority | of the people in the new political circum- | stances, It is, nevertheless, a mistaken view. President Grant hes so egregiously failed because he has totally disregarded the plainest requisites of political success. When Mr. Gladstone was Prime Minister of England he | | put into his Cabinet the most eminent liberal | statesmen of Great Britain. When Disraeli succeeded him he composed his Ministry of | the ablest men on the conservative side. But | President Grant, though utterly wanting in | Gladstone's and Disracli’s political talents, has always preferred a Cabinet of political nobodies. It is not in this way that political infinence is built up and consolidated. An administration can be strong only by combin- | gious failure is the necessary consequence of his disregarding the most obvious rules of po- litical success. We might go through his Cabinet in detail and point out the unfitness of every incum- bent. But let us take Mr. Fish as the most favorable specimen. At the time of his ap- sent, on account of the rebellion. Syow rm Encranp and unusually cold weather is y lay’s report by cable. Here, too, it was unusually cold—a coincidence which indicates the general approach of winter , from the frozen north. Justice IN Pennsyivanisa.—We print else- | where an account of the execution of three | murderers in Pennsylvania yesterday. The details of the crimes for w: these wretched | men paid the penalties of their s and the manner in which they accepted their awful doom sre given in full. Justice seems to have demanded the death penalty in every case, and we cannot but commend Governor Hart- ranft for the firmness with which be performed ® most painful duty. Taz Anmy anv tHE Ixpians.—General Sheridan reports the bringing in upon the | i Plains of sevéral additional gangs of Indians taken on the warpath. The war season on the Plains may be pronounced as ended for this year; but with the return of the grass in the spring there will, we apprehend, be more fighting and more scalping and burning of white settlers, unless the Indians « med over from General Howard's singing schools to the care of General Sheridan’s peace. | makers. Tae Henatp ayp THE GroerapHtcar So- ctety.—In « report of the Geographical Society published London yesterday, mention is made of ““nunificence” of the Herauy’s expedition into Africa, and ‘admiration’ is expressed for Mr. Stanley's success in discov- ering L gstone, society a5 learned and renowned as the Geo- graphical Society of London is, of course, very gratifying to the Hrraxy. also the progress made in modern journalism when the press has the power | to do what in the past has only been done by governments, A great newspaper becomes more and more like a government. It isa Commonwealth itself, independent, self. equipped, with large revenues and vast The appreciation of a | | this State, and from that day to this he has | been as much separated from the politics of , ! New York as if he had been laid in his grave | when he retired trom the Senate of the United States a quarter of a century ago. But a Cab- | | inet officer ought to be a man who influences the politics of his own State and section. It | | is only by taking statesmen from various parts of the country, who exert an ascendancy over | the politicians and members of Congress of | their own sections, that an adiministration is ever strong. the Cabinet, bas had no more influence in the politics of New York than the humblest citizen | who casts vote, and this remark is equally true of every member of President | Grant’s Cabinet ‘in respect to his own | State or section of country. Cnbinet officers who have no influence with their local con- stituencies can exert no control over the mem- | bers sent by the same constilue to Con- | gress, and, accordingly, the administration of | President Grant has been without influence | in the legislation of the country. The important thing for Lim to do now, when his administration has been rebuked by the public voice, is to reorganize his Unbinet | in accordance with the principle on which lish Ministry and every rational an administration is constituted—the principle, namely, of composing a govern- ment 0! the ablest and most trusted statesmen of the party in power. If President Grant would form an able Cabinet, even at this late day, be might retrieve his worst mistakes. | His greatest blunder was in the composition of his Cabinet. | been to strengthen his administration by men | whose talents and character would enable | ' sections. that his Cabinet can be any stronger than the collective strength of the men who compose it. | The member from New England should be a man whose ascendaney and weight of char- acter would enable him to coxtrol the politics responsibilities, In the main it discharges of his party in New England—a description these duties with courage and justice, and | which inciudes neither Boutwell nor Bichard- from year to year we find a disposition among som nor Jewell. The member from New York journalists to clevate their calling and prove | should be a statesman of influence in the politics of Now York—a descrintion which | einea Concha. and his ganiua at the head of | tionarics auite as adeauately, themselves worthy of ita power and duty, pointment he had no political following in | Mr. Fish, since he has been in | The true method would have | It is the President's duty to discard the idea | does not include Mr. Fish, And 60 of other parts of the country. An administration composed of statesmen who are looked up to as political guides in their respective sections would exert such-a moral influence over the members of Congress from those sections that it could control the legislation of Congress on many questions with almost as much certainty as the British Ministry does that of Par- liament. The first duty of President Grant is to dis- miss his Cabinet and appoint a new one consisting of the great republican leaders. He ought to have a Cabinet capable of exert- ing ® commanding influence over Congress at its next session, and of advising him wisely respecting his recommendations to that body, | and with ability enough to secure the success | of the measures which they permit him to hazard his reputation in advising. If it were @ matier of doubt what recommendations he ought to make to Congress at the next ses- sion the wise counsels of a new and able | Cabinet would solve the doubt. In the new circumtances which have arisen the Presi- dent cannot take a step in safety without more sagacious advice than his present Cabinet is capable of giving him, He needs a body of counsellors who are in closer con- | tact with the currents of political life. Presi- dent Grant has so many times professed his deference to the popular will that he will belie all his professions if he does not now reorgan- ize his Cabinet in obedience to the public de- mand. This is the only means by which he can even partially recover lost confidence. We are aware of the subterfuges by which this plain duty will be sought to be evaded. There is quite a catalogue of them, the most prominent being an attempt to excite popular interest in Cuba and enlist public enthusiasm in support of an aggressive attitude toward Spain. We warn President Grant that no such weak device can succeed. If he had been an honest friend of the Cubans he has had opportunities enough to show it, He can- not make a new-born zeal for their cause a set-off to the condemnation pronounced on him by the people. If he will form a new Cabinet the country will listen with respect and interest to what it advises him to do about Cuba and on all other subjects. But the peo- ple will have no further patience with any- thing the present incompetent Cabinet advises the President to do on any foreign or any domestic question. The country demands a change, and although the constitution does not permita change in the Presidency or a change in the Senate, it allows the President to change his Cabinet at once in obedience to the will of the people, and all the pressure of public opinion must be brought to bear on that cardinal point, Oriental Blunders. Two of our contemporaries are having a lively tilt over Chinese and Japanese affairs, each, it would seem, anxious to display its minute ignorance. One of the journals seems never to have heard of the horrible tortures inflicted on Sir Henry Parkes and his companions by the Chinese in 1860, and the other, in crushing its adversary by an extract from ‘‘Appleton’s Cyclopedia,” falls into an error, which an examination of the original authorities— easily accessible—would have enabled it to avoid. It says:—‘‘The ‘Cyclopedia’ 1s perfectly accurate, though not minutely full, as to the details of this miserable affair. Mr. Parkes was tortured by the process of tying the thumbs behind the back and then lifting the sufferer upon the tips of his toes, Mr. Lock and Mr. De Norman, who were with bim, as well as several Sikhs of the expedition, were never definitely heard of again; but there is reason to fear that their fate was inexpressibly dreadful. Mr. Braba- zon, we believe, escaped.”’ Now if, instead of relying on a cyclopedia, our contempo- rary had taken the trouble to read 8 wees y rit Lord Elgin’s recently published private ing within itself the most powerful political | “Diary,” or that most interbele ae talent available in its party. Grant's egre- volume (who that has looked at will ever forget it?) Mr. Lock’s ‘Personal Narra- tive’’—he being one of the victims of Chinese brutality who survived—it would have found that not only De Norman, Lock and Parkes | were tortured, but that Mr. Bowlby, a Times correspondent—an unhappy Stanley of those days—and Licuteuant Anderson were put to | death by the rack, and that Captain Brabazon | and a French priest were beheaded at or near the Palikao Bridge, The story—we quote it | for the benefit of our neighbors—runs thus:— “It now only remains,” writes Mr. Lock, | «to relate what information he obtained re- | specting the death of Captain Brabazon and | the Abbé De Lac. All the Chinese who were | not government officials agreed in asserting | they were beheaded, for the reason and on the | day already stated. The Chinese authorities de- | nied that they had been put to death, saying | they had died, like the others, from natural | causes. They, however, failed to produce the bodies, which was an argument in favor of the | statement of their having been beheaded. The | | Russian mission, which had good sources of | | information, was of the opinion that the Gen- _ eral commanding the division of the Chinese | array at the Palikao Bridge had ordored their | | execution, This has been since contirmed. | Some months later a spot was pointed out by | some Chinese as the place w the bodies | had being buried. On sea ig made, | | besides bones, a piece of cloth, with a red | stripe, and a small piece of silk found in | the grave. They were sent to England, and the former was declared to be part of an artil- lery officer's trousers, while latter was | supposed to be a part of a neh ecclesias- | tic’s dress. No skulls were found in the *' The Henaxp, after all, is the only “AVE, | sure reliance—Orientally and ( lentally, A New Spantso Propirw.—There is a strange story from Spain to the effect that Marshal Bazaine has arrived in Madrid tor the purpose of organizing 2 movement in | favor of the return of the son of Isabella to | | the throne. It is said that the movement will It shows | them to control the public opinion of their | paye the co-operation of Serrano and the members of tue Serrano government, and that in the event of its success Marshal Bazaine will have an important command in the Spanish drmy. This story is so Spanish in its tone that it is plausible. Marshal Bazaine’s wife is of Spanish blood, and would naturally incline to active interest in Peninsular affairs. Bazaine can have a career in no country save Spain, even if he finds one in Spain, But he has great military capacity, such as no Spaniard has shown a Spanish army would enable him to solve the Carlist problem as it was solved by Espar- tero many years ago. Republican Mutiny. The defeat of the republican party in New York does not seem to have taught the ad- ministration leaders wisdom. Already we hear hundred recriminations and evidences of mutiny and disintegration. There are three administration newspapers in the city, and they spend most of their time in contro- versy. The friends of Centennial Dix allege that the old Governor was sacrificed to gratity the ambition of Mr. Conkling, who dreaded him asa rival for the Presidency. The friends of Mr. Conkling, on the other hand, say that the Governor was a burden; that he lacked sym- pathy with the party; that the ‘boys’ did not know him, and that his republicanism was like a pair of easy gloves, which he only wore when it suited him. In New York there are constant accusations of treachery, and some of the hungrier of the party who have not been “appreciated” or ‘‘recognized” clamor for the removal of all the tederal officials, on the theory, perhaps, which led to the execution of Admiral Byng, that when an officer loses a victory he for- feits his head. But away up in Oneida county, the home of Lord Roscoe himself, there is declared and open mutiny. In this county Mr. Ellis H. Roberts was defeated for Congress—a note- worthy and regrettable event of the canvass. Mr. Roberts is an accomplished and influential journalist, and when he left his chair as editor for his chair as Representative he added to his reputation and became a leader in his party. In explaining his defeat he attributes it to Senator Conkling, his townsman, associate, and, for a long time, political Mentor. It seems incredible that Mr. Conkling should have struck such a blow at Mr. Roberts; but the facts, as the Utica Herald reports them, do not destroy the impression, ‘Scott Lord, the successful candidate is,” Mr. Roberts says, “the law partner of Roscoe Conkling, and a persistent effort has been made to create the impression that Senator Conkling desired his election, while Mr. Conkling did not lift a finger to correct that impression.” This is a serious charge coming from a leading Congressman against a leading Senator, and Mr. Roberts goes on to name federal officials who took active part against him. “His regret,” he now says, “is pro- found for a great party broken down by those whom it has honored and pampered;’’ in other words, by Mr. Conkling. So that we may assume that between these two leaders there is open war. Mr. Conkling, like Seward, has found his Greeley, and it remains to be seen how far the rupture will influence repub- lican policy in this State, and more especially the political fortunes of the Senator. Defeat generally leads to political disinte- gration. Even Butler finds he has been ‘‘be- trayed by hus political friends,”’ and threatens to found a new party. We hope the General will persevere in this purpose. A Butler party would make our politics lively, and at the head of it the General might become as important a man in politicsas Brigham Young is in religion. At the same time it would not be a bad idea for the General to imitate Brig- ham Young, and go with his party to some of our wide open Territories, to Arizona or Alaska or Lower California, where they would have room to grow. ll these signs of mutiny show that evil days have fallen upon repub- licanism. The Austrian Arctic Explorations. The unusual interest which has been ex- cited in the Arctic discoveries of the Austrian expedition in the Polar regions shows how much the world is always disposed to admire a spirit of adventure. We print elsewhore an article on the subject from the pen of Dr. Petermann, the celebrated German writer, giving usa narrative of the results of the ex- ploration. “Scarcely anybody,” says the Doctor, ‘‘could have accomplished greater things in this line than the Austrian ex- pedition.”” Beforg the explorers reached the scones of their discoveries they suffered the most terrible calamity a Polar crew could en- dure, being caught in the ice stream and driven to and {ro in the Siberian Polar sea for fourteen months by the pack ice, in constant danger of being crushed to death. The actual discovery of the new regions to be hence- forward known as Francis Joseph Land is only a part of what has been done by the in- trepid Austrians. New light has been thrown upon many scientific problems, and we have a large amount of new information upon what nature has in store for usin this mysterious land. The principal result of the expedition is the impetus it gives to the spirit of Arctic dis- covery. The combined energies of the civil- ized nations seem bent upon solving the prob- lems of the Pole. This is a nobler emulation than in deeds of war and conquest, and the achievements of the modest and intrepid men who, have written his name on the Arctic Continent thau would have come from a suc- cessful campeign in the battle field ; peace hath its victories no less renowned than war. Let us rejoice to see the nations in the great strifes of peace. The General Spinner’s report of the condition Treasury Report. | of the national money chest is another repe- tition of the same straightforward document we always get trom this practical and efficient officer. He touches the subject of reduction tion as to one reduction in our financial estab. lishment that might very practically be made. This is the abolition of the superfluous office of Secretary of the Treasury. General Spin- ner is Treasurer, and is the only financial secretary we need. Our political operations have split this office into two unequal parts. It had o practical, financial side and a political side. Politically the Secretary had always to get a politician who had in him honesty and arithmetic enough to be a finan- cier. real duties of the office—the financial duties— and the Secretary does the ornamental part and amuses the politicians. All his duties might be safely left to the President, who eould deal with collectors and similar func- Francis Joseph will win more renown from | for | of expenditures and the increase of force in | his office, and thereby gives rise to a reflec. | | to keep his office in relation with the policy | of a party ; practically he had to manage the | finances ; and it scems to hava been difficult | NOVEMBER 13, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Defeat of the Carlists, We print this morning a special despatch from Hendaye,a small French town on the Pyreneean frontier of France and Spain, giving an account of the attempt of Don Carlos and his forces to capture Irun. Irun is a Spanish town, just over the river from Hendaye, and is important as controlling a seaport on the Bay of Biscay as well as one of the principal passes through the Pyrenees, It is on the great road between France and Spain, and its possession by Don Carlos would be an important element inthe cam- paign of the Pretender. But in the effort Don Carlos has failed, and he has been com- pelled to raise the siege and retire with heavy loss. If Spain were well served by her armies there might now be an end of Carhsm. But the country is unfortunately cursed with an army that, under the corrupting influences of the later Bourbons, has become a military caste, having few interests in common with the nation. It does not so much lack courage as honesty and patriotism. Like all privileged classes corruption has so eaten into its vitals that it cannot understand that its best inter- est lies in the peace and prosperity of Spain. Its trade is war, and for its own ag- grandizement it will allow a riot to grow into an insurrection and an insurrection into a civil war, in the selfish hope of profiting by the strife. So ingrained is this spirit that men willingly risk their lives in | campaign in the hope of obtaining more rapid promo- tion. Had it not been for the absence of strict military honor among the Spanish offi- cers the Carlist insurrection could have been easily crushed in the beginning. But in order to embarrass the Republic, which threat- ened to disband the army, Spanish officers winked at the insurrection they pretended to suppress. The same disgraceful state of affairs continues to-day. In the graphic letter | from our special correspondent, published recently, we saw how the commandant of an important fort allowed the Carlists to pass | their supplies across the frontier under | the very guns of the fortress with- out making the slightest effort to prevent them. The most noteworthy fact in this connection is that this conduct, which must have been notorious, did not ex- | pose the traitor to punishment or even to | reprimand. In almost any other army such | manifest dereliction of duty woild be followed by a court martial and a military execution. But in Madrid they seem grateful to the com- mandant that he does not hand over the fort to Don Carlos. In reviewing these circumstances we feel inclined to think that the government | of Spain is engaged in a political bue- | lesque. Four or five thousand riflemen, | with a few mountain howitzers, under the | command of a resolute and active officer, | could soon put an end to the contraband trade in munitions of war carried on along the frontier and cut the Carlists off from all | communication with the outside world. But not one of the military mountebauks who | seized on power in Madrid have either brains | or honesty enough to put an end to the war. They know that with peace their lease of power would expire, and so, like Nero, they | keep fiddling while Spain is consumed by | civil war. The Winter’s Charities. The letter of Dr. John Hall on ‘The Winter's Charities,’’ published in yesterday's Tribune, and the earnest appeal of the St. John’s Guild for aid to enable its members to | continue this winter the useful work they | performed with such gratifying results last | year, will each have its beneficial effect. Although Dr. Hall’s admirable suggestions may smack somewhat é@f the late Horace Greeley’s kindly advice to the suppliant tor assistance who had a sickly wife and seven helpless children on his hands and no money | in his pocket—‘‘Go West, my man; go! West !"’—they cannot fail to produce some good results among an intelligent people. It | is doubtless true that many hundreds of men | who will be unable to obtain employment in 1 New York this winter might secure at least | comfortable homes and maintenance in re- | turn for their labor in the farming counties of | this and other States; that mechanics and | others who cannot get work at full wages might be more successful if they would | be contented with half the customary | rate of compensation, and that in both | cases the alternative would be better | and more honorable than dependence upon public charity. Every self-respecting man | whom this counsel may reach must naturally | be impressed with its soundness, Equaily | indisputable are Dr. Hall's propositions in | regard to the evils of chronic pauperism; | the danger of providing ina great city “the | carcass of an open and indiscriminating re- | lief;” and the prudence of improving the | machinery and enlarging the means of the established charities, to which Dr. Hall would | have every case of suffering ‘severely left.’ The efforts that have been made to secure co- | operation among all the established aid soci- | eties, by Dr. Hall and his associates, in order that the work of charity might be more effi- cient and imposition be rendered more diffi- enlt, have always received and will continue to receive our encouragement and support. | But the appeal trom the St. John’s Guild presents facts which strike the mind with appalling force; facts which sweep away in- viting theories as a tornado might uproot and scatter a row of nicely arranged trees. We are told that seventy thon- sand men and women are now out of employment in the metropolis; that | “though the bitterness of extreme cold has not been added to the torture of hunger which racks many of the victims of this unfortunate condition of things, still the suffering is beyond the power of pen to picture ;" that “in many of the poorer quarters whole tam- ilies are without the barest necesvaries of life ;” and that “where sickness exists the | suffering is exaggerated till if becomes almost | insupportable.”” ‘This picture is drown by | hands which expend every dollar they re- | ceive in the actual relief of the poor, deduct. | ing nothing for services or for the cost of | | distribution and ‘“‘not taxing any public fund So the Treasurer has settled into the |: one cent for salaries or office rent.’ Its | fidelity is guaranteed by the names of those | who answer for the charity and receive con- | tributions on its behalf—such names as Claflin & Co.; Drexel, Morgan & Oo.; Morton, Bliss & Co.; Howland & Aspinwall, S. B. | Chittenden, August Belmont, Augustus Schell, Henry G. Stebhina Thorlow Weed | intransigentes had seized a man-o!-war, | Ordered home and tried by court-martial. Since | Demosthenes, | lation of Congres ‘and others of equal note, And even whik wo fead the story the wind comes chargef with the bleakness of winter to remind us that the hour of extreme suffering is already at hand. The appeal from the St. John’s Guild does Rot come too soon. It is time for the chari. tably disposed to be up and doing, and in order that their efforts may be the more eff cient we again urge the importance of a tem- porary and immediate relief organization, composed of such citizens as we have already suggested for the purpose. It is desirable that an efficient system should be adopted by which death and suffering may be averted, The co-operation of the police in the distribu tion of food to those who are perishing of hunger should be sufficient safeguard against imposition. ‘True charity has.eyes to see as well as to weep with,” it is true; but she would scarcely use them to search for testi- monials of o year's residence before putting food into the mouth of a starving fellow crea ture or giving warmth to the freezing limbs of a helpless child. . These are the cases with which charitable citizens will be called upon to grapple in the approaching season of frost and snow, and no theories, however pleasant and useful, should divert their attention from the work, The President and the Finances, We are glad to note that the President de- nies the story that he purposes to abandon the ground he assumed on the inflation ques- tion, and seek popularity by becoming the advocate of an increase of currency. In other words, that he meant to punish the hard money men who defeated him by espousing the creed of the repudiators. There is no doubt that the President could, if he wished, make an alliance with the inflationists, whe | now control both branches of Congress, and secure a measure of finance that would be disastrous, But such a proceeding would be | an indelible stain upon his fame. His attitude on the inflation question is the noblest feature of his administration. He then struck the popular heart of the country. If he had been governed by the same common sense in other matters he would now be the head of a victorious party and not of a defeated and crumbling faction, If he will show the same common sense for the next two years he will largely retrieve his fame and, perhaps, | enable his party to regain some of its squan- dered power. To embark upon any policy | of repudiation like that suggested, simply | from a spirit of revenge, would be to belittle | and degrade him and stain his name with an | infamy which even his military glory could not hide. Tue Annim Conrnoversy.—We print else» where a letter addressed to us by Count Arnim-Schlagenthin, the son of the famous Count Arnim, denyjng the story that his father was in any way concerned in the publi- | cation of Lang’s famous pamphlet. The sub- stance of this pamphlet was given the other day in a letter from our Munich correspond- ent, and our readers will remember that it was rather an extravagant political specula- | tion than a development or disclosure of any value. The Count also assures us that his father does not entertain ultramontane views, and that the story to that effect is an inven- tion of the cfficial press, intended to injure his father. We have a cable despatch announcing the rearrest of the ‘Count and his imprisonment ina police station. Prince Bismurck is cer- tainly driving his distinguished antagonist to extremities, and he will succeed in making him the most popular man in Germany if he continues his extraordinary course. PERSONAL INiELLIGENCE. Prince Bismarck has returned to Berlin after am absence of several days. General J. C. Pemberton, of Virginia, has apart ments at tne New York Hotet. Captain KE. simpson, United States Navy, ts quartered at the Everett House. Ex-Covernor James E. Efigiish, of Connecticuy 1s registered at the Gilsey House. Congressman H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachasetts, yeaterday arrived at the Windsor Hotel. General Charles Ewing, of Washington, nas taken up his residence at the Hoffman House. It 18 @ pity for Moulton about his counsel, for luck {s evidently against General Ben this year. Protessor L. H. Atwater, of Princeton College, {sg among the latest arrivals at the Astor House. Mr. George Forester, conservative, has beem | returned to the English Parliament from Wenlock, Marquis de Clermont Tonnerre, Secretary of the | Prench Legation at Washington, is at the Brevoort House. Lieutenant Commander C. J, Barclay, United States Navy, has quarters at the Sturtevans House. Colonel John N. Macomb, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, id residiug at the Brevoort House. Assemblyinen Thomas G, Alvord, George & Batchetler and George M. Beebe are at the Fifth | Avenue Hotel. “rhe wil of the people ts the law of the land,” | satd Grant in 69, For particulars as to the will: of the peopie see recent election returns. Now, then, for the application. Captain Werner, of the German navy, inter fered in one of the Spanish ports when the He was, the German government has taken a hand tn Spanish politics he has been made an admiral. Like the stories of ‘*Wiliiam Tell’ and “Cinaer- ella” and “Whitington and His Cat,’ &c., the | story of the benevolent old gentleman who pays the postage on letters turns out a mere myth, Mr. J. Gayler, of the Post Ofice, reduces it to the | prosaic reality of a circular which the postmaster sends to persons to whom such letters are ad- dressed, thus giving them an opportunity to re- deem their letters betore sending them to the “dead” department. Mr. Charie@ Greville, in his “Memoirs,” dee ‘scribes a party at Lord Cowper's seat of Pan. shanger. Lord Brougham came on Saturday ana remained till Monday, and ‘rom the hour of hts arrival to that of his departure never ceased talking, When he jeit samuei Rogers said in his sarcastic way—This morning Solon, Lycurgas, Archimedes, Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Ohesterneld and @ great many more went away tn one postchaise!”” As the best china tea set goes “in hideous ruin and disaster down” there is the familiar and aw- ful noise of @ withering smash; then there is @ moment of dreadful silence, and on that silence arises the voice of the small boy with the general declaration, “It wasn’t me that did it!” Just now Grant comes forward as the national small boy, eager to make up the record of exculpation. Aw to this recent smash of the best republican crock- ery, “he maintains that his administration nad nothing whatever to do with it.” Nay, it not only was not him, but he knows who it was. It wae the cat! “It la directly traceable to the bad legis- 3” and, furtner, ‘to local troubles in several States over which the admin- istration could possibly have no control.” As to “Jocal troubles,” did this innocent little Executive Aver heart Atrarnay Geparal Williams t”