The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1875, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD} BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henaup will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters anditelegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorr Henratp. Rejected communications will-not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—GIROPLE GIROFLA, at B«P, My closes at W451’, M2 Miss Lina Mayr. TBLO'S, Broa¢way.—HERRMA» 18 P.M. ; closes at l0e45P. M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, ron 201 Bowery.—VAKILT ts P.M; closes at 10:45 HEA 1 Bro peri BIs_ BO. ses at lu :30 P.M, Mr, Fisher, Mr, Mrs Gilbert. FIFTH A ‘Twenty eighth stree NANZA, ats. 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Tee Cantist Wan.—Our special correspond- ence from the seat of war in Spain, which we | found to contain | graphic and interesting sketches of the scenes | be publish to-d will wh re the warring factions of Bourbons meet in mortal combat. [se Centenntan of American Indepen- dence has enlisted the hearty sympathies and urrence ot France, and the nation which ga a Lafayette to fight for us sends a successor and namesake to represent it at our great Expositi ve \ Gauuant Ponrer of a bank in Wall street deserves to be recorded tor his bravery in veating off three burglars who attempted to rob the The janitor of a building ig street has been arrested on institution. A Tanrarenep Sree on the Third Avenue road has t tion of the officers of en averted by the determi the company to pers in reducing the wages of the drivers and con- ctors. ‘The latter found that it was an un- vorable with his bread and butter nently, time for a man nd to quarr capital, conse: nined the vi y without bloodshed. The condition of t racks yesterday at ted Mr. Bergh’s attention, and he compelled the company on this line to put four horse teams to their cars. Consequently a further reduce tion in wages may xpected. Kine Kanarava did not have a very pleas- aut voyage to the Sandwich Islands. The Pensacola, on which he sailed, lost several of her most important spars gale. Stein- berger has sailed as United States Commis- er to the Samean Islands, but by what uthority he goes or why he takes a con- jemned howitzer with him we still remain ignorant. Nothing but respect for the officers and crow of the Tuscarora prevents ns from wishing him a storm to which King Kalakaua’s gale would be a zephyr. Steinberger will cer- tainly do me good to the Samoans, and his in- vasion may end in disgrace to the American pome. M. Tloees at 10:45 | Broad wey.--C ALLENDER'S | SP. ai. sgcloses at 10:45 | SEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAROH 21, 1875—QUINTUPLE SHEE’ Truth Strenger Than Men. We have noticed for many years that the religious enthusiasm of the community is somewhat intermittent in character. It does not flow on with the steadiness and certainty of a great river in which there are no_ breaks, but after the manner of a river in which, at one point, there is an eddy, where all the sticks and straws gather as in a stagnant pool, | | and at another a rapid, where the boiling wa- ters rush with a loud noise, and at still an- other a fall, where the waves dash themselves | into foam with a fervor and recklessness that is appalling. Sometimes the Church enjoys what is in the ecclesiastical idiom called a ‘‘re- vival,’’ when excitement prevails and mighty and stirring appeals are made to receptive and willing crowds, and sometimes it passes through what may be not inaptly termed a period ot hibernation, when it seems to be blocked in by ice, and when its only refresh- ment is the memory of its past victories. While looking over the general signs of the ‘times we have been constantly struck with \ this periodicity of religious zeal and indiffer- ence, and have remarked that these conditions are accompanied by certain premonitory | symptoms, which areas sure as the indications of the barometer concerning the weather, | Though particularly interested in those polit- ical and social movements which mark a@ change of base on the part of the people, and | point to the direction in which and the means by which progress is being made, we cannot | be wholly unmindful of certain pronounced peculiarities in the religious life of the city and nation. Hence we have noticed that for some reason or other the Church has been in a state of torpor for nearly a year. The elo- quence of the pulpit has not been less fervent, perhaps ; but the indifference of the people has been impregnable. This has been a mat- ter of universal complaint among clergymen. At their various gatherings they have unwil- lingly confessed the widespread lethargy, and sought its cause. It is admitted that the ; sermon, which in ordinary times would have stirred the pews to their depths, has fallen like snowflakes ona wintry ocean. Men seemed to have put the shutters up and gone off for a holiday. For some reason or other, which, perhaps, the social economist may explain, tight times bring men to their-knees. This is one of the traditions of the Protestant Church. Almost every financial panic is followed by a revival which sweeps over the country like a prairie fire. It may possibly be true that when men have nothing else to do they think of religion, | and that when the stock market is firm and money is easy and plenty they lose sight of their spiritual interests. Perhaps it is a little hypercritical to assert that men are generally | more willing to pray to the Lord when they cannot prey on each other, but it is, to say the least, somewhat suspicious and | not wholly a coincidence, that bad times fill up the broken religious ranks. Our recent panic, however, was so far in sympathy with the Brooklyn trial that it ‘took an exception’’ tothe ruling of history. In- deed, for a great many reasons we have been led to think that this scandal, which has filled the nation’s ears with the dust of a filthy procession of dramatic effects, has had some- thing to do with the general stagnation. For weeks the daily food of every house- hold this side of the Pacitic coast has consisted of five or six columns of fine print, containing details of which the large majority of readers should be entirely ignorant. ‘This trial has educated the boys and girls of this | generation in matters which spread a uni- | versal blush of shame on the cheek of the | American people. It has prematurely dee | veloped youth and disgusted old age. It has filled the Post Office with tons of obscene literature, and dug wide channels for a per- fect freshet of slang. Ten thousand sermons cannot rub out the foul impression already | made. So far-reaching is this pestiferous in- | fluence and so demoralizing is it that it 15 | the topic of conversation everywhere—in the | office, on the street and in the drawing | room; and men and women find themselves | | engaged in an animated controversy upon the | subject who a year ago would have colored to | the roots of their hair if it had been inad- | vertently alluded to. Tne moral tone of the | people has been let down by it, and as new and more nauseating facts are evolved out o: each day's cross-examination we begin to wonder if we are not, afte: all, trying to sound the depths of a bottomless bog. One is struck with surprise that such a motley group of human curiosities conld have been drawn around any single point of interest. There are no ordinary mortals among them. The common Norti American type ot human- | ity seems to be absent, and in its stead one | finds anomalous and abnormal developments, | each a perfect and priceless curiosity in him- | self, and the eloquent advocate of some new theory of social life, least, | strnet which would, to say the make radical changes in our present ure. Sucha gathering of over-cerebrated | men and women, each with a special variety of “inwardness,” and the happy possessor of ail the faults and weaknesses which belong to genius, has never been brought together since the green earth started on its career. There | is evidently a vast quantity of psychic force in this group, which exhibits itself in mani- fold eccentricities which other mortals would not dare to own. Verily, the whole crowd seems to have been evolved from a bit of pro- toplagm that was found hanging from the ragged edge ot despair. Yi of the laboring under a s chief rvosecntion appears to be ght hallucination as to the proper relation of the nd, intellectu- ally at least, upholds a degree of promiscuity which makes an old-fashioned thinker feel that the world is not coming to an end pretty ought to. He bears himself h gravity and plays the réle of sad visaged sexes, a ym, it Dio; 8, who looks in vain ‘for an honest man, to perfection. The great defendant, on the other hand, is sportive. He holds his divided reputation before the people, saying, Behold the rent the envious Casca made,” and then declar self happier than ever If this be true he presents for the in- vestigation of scientific mena psychological problem which they must despair of solving. ‘Lo be accused of a crime so grave that, after all that can be done has been done, he will come from the court room, in the eyes of many, not white, but of a dull gray color, is so terrible an affliction that the best he could hope to do would be to fight it out on the line of innocence with a stern, solemn and awful | dignity. But to try to whistle it down the , before. | great men are not as important as they think | as they please, principles will endure unshaken | our | that he will be delivered to an American de- | banished from the island of Cuba. | Our government should not permit Sharkey wind, as though it were an insignificant trifle | to set the Sunday congregations into roars of laughter, all this constitutes an enigma which only he who lives it can understand, but which even he cannot explain to the satisfac- tion of ordinary men. Te say that Mr. Beecher is responsible for the spiritual indifference in the churches during the last year is equivalent to saying that men are worse than foolish in pinning their faith to the life of any man. It is a curious fact, however, that a great many men feel as though religion itself were being tested in the person of the Brooklyn pastor. His life is regarded as one of the evidences of Christianity, and if that life is proven im- pure then the whole structure of religion falls to the ground. Such a position is not, of course, the result of reasoning. No man who has brains eaough to fill a magpie’s skull will think less of honesty or personal cleanli- ness because a popular preacher is reported to have on a soiled suit of clothes. No one rejects a genuine dollar greenback because a certain thousand dollar bill is suspected of being counterfeit. Mr. Beecher and any half dozen other men of equal calibre might step down and out without affecting in a percepti- ble degree the general approval of a virtuous life. Christianity is not upheld by men, but stands of itself. It may not flatter our egotism ; but it is, nevertheless, true that they are, and that when they take their leave others equally gifted will make their appear- ance. Within the last few weeks we have noticed a larger degree of activity on the part of pas- tors all over the country. It may be that the old impression is wearing off, or it may be that the nauseating details of the court room are producing a reaction. When water is im- pregnated with a strong solution of alum a very slight stirring will cause it to crystallize. The better feelings of the people, their re- ligious faith and zeal have been held, as it were, in solution during the Brooklyn afflic- tion, and the recent shaking of the jar by Mr. Varley and those who second him may serve to start the process of crystallization. At any rate the Church does not need to be told by laymen that Christianity is not like a pyramid, so nicely balanced on its apex that when a heavy manor a strong society falls from its inverted base it tilts, totters and tumbles. If it is what we have always supposed it to be, it is like a pyramid firmly planted on its ample base, immovable by whole armies of good or bad, and so secure in its position that such a melodrama or comedy or tragedy as that which is being enacted on the Long Island shore is nothing more than the breath of a summer breeze on Sandy Hook. After all, we fall back with immense satisfac- tion on this truth, that men may live and die and forever. The Arrest of Sharkey. We have in our special cable despatches from Havana the important news that Shar- key, an escaped murderer under sentence of | death in New York, has been arrested | in Santiago, whither he had ‘fled; but | we have had no infcrmation that | government requested his ar- rest by the Spanish authorities. This seizure appears to have been their voluntary act, and as such it will gratify the American people. When it was first made known that Sharkey was re- | siding in Havana, as no extradition treaty exists between this country and Spain, the Heraip suggested that the government should ask his return, not as a right, but as an act of international comity. We cited ample precedent for such a course, and pointed out that no civilized nation would deliberately connive at the escape of | the condemned criminals of a neighbor. But so far as we have learned from Washington this request was never made, and it appears that the Spanish authorities have arrested | Sharkey upon the abstract principles of inter- | national justice to which we called the atten- tion of onr government. Onr accounts differ as to the disposition to be made of the fugitive, one despatch saying tective in Havana, to be brought to New | York, while another asserts that he may be We trust that this latter plan will not be adopted. to wander over the face of the earth, and Spain having so honorably fulfilled a moral obligation without being asked, the United States should perform its plain duty without further delay. The Vineland Shooting. The power of the press is so great and is so often given over to imprudent or inex- perienced persons that the wonder is not that it is abused, but that its abuses are not im- measurably greater than they are. Even journals which are comparatively useless in the good can be used with immense effect forevil. It is as easy for an obscure sheet to start an immense scandal as for spark to kindle the fire that) shall destroy a city. Every paper that is | printed is like a sword, which once drawn’! cannot be sheathed again. What is said can- | not be unsaid, and there are few conscientious | and experienced journalists, who do not pro- foundly feel their responsibility and hesitate | in attacking measures and men lest they | ignorantly destroy what cannot be easily | restored. | It is impossible, we think, not to ascribe the shooting at Vineland, N. J., to a false theory of journalism. We need net enter into the original merits of the difficulty to discover | this. No public acts that Mr. Landis may have committed justified Mr. Carruth, the editor of the Independent, in making him and his family for six years the objects of personal promoting a This Mr. Carruth is said to have | certainly the article which en- Mr. Landis, and was the imme- diate occasion of the crime, should never have been published, It was coarse, untrue, malicious. Its purpose evidently was not to fit the community but to pain an enemy. There is nothing so mean as to use a great power like the press to gratify a personal | hatred. There is nothing so cowardly, for it | is not often that the person attacked by a | paper can reply to it with effect. Vindica- | tion, says William Godwin, is itself an evil, for it circulates anew the slander it is intended | to destroy, bei by Mr. Landis is unnecessary. He was guilty of a crime, for which the penalty 1s affixed by the law. His offence must not be excused because of the offence of his enemy. But that which makes this case dif- ferent from the majority of such cases is that the enemy was clothed with extraordinary power to goad and torture. It was not what Mr. Carruth said that wrought up Mr. Landis to the perpetration of the deed, but what the Independent printed. The editor was within reach of his arm, and thus the false journalism, which used its strength to gratify a personal hate, taught bloody instruc- tions, which, being taught, returned to plague the inventor, The one used his paper to stab his enemy, and the other retaliated with the pistol. The Public Schools—Shall They be Sectarian or Secular? Under any ordinary. circumstances we “should profoundly regret a revival of the much debated question respecting the partici- pation of Catholic children in the privileges of our admirable free schools. The question has never yet been discussed without evoking, on both sides, a display of theological rancor and bigotry which reflected discredit on a religion whose chief inculcation is charity, and which assigns to this gentle virtue the primacy of all the others. ‘And now abideth faith, hope, charity ; but the greatest of these is charity."’ This wise ranking of Christian virtves by an inspired apostle has been so utterly lost sight of in all past controversies in this city relating to secular and sectarian education that we cannot look without anxiety and apprehension on any movement, however honest and well intentioned, which may open, in its progress, all the sluices of embittered religious rancor. Vicar General Quinn’s pro- posal to the Board of Education for the ap- pointment of a friendly committee of confer- ence on the school question is so innocent on its face that we do not see on what ground it can be reasonably objected to; but we, nevertheless, have fears that if the conference leads to no mutually satisfactory result an excited and recriminating controversy will fol- low, serving no good purpose and fanning the embers of a profitless religious strife. We are, therefore, inclined to think that Vicar General Quinn's proposal to the Board of Edu- cation is ill-judged and unwise unless his sur- vey of the ground and amicable private con- ferences with the other side give him reason to hope that a friendly adjustment, on a basis which will satisfy both parties and public opinion, is probable. It would be the height of unwisdom to agitate a subject which, on all former occasions, has proved so exasper- ating and so fruitless in good results, uniess he has a reasonable assuranc? that this move- ment will not prove abortive. Itis the differ- ence between reopening an inflammatory question in order to heal and settle it ona wise practical basis, soothing and satisfactory to all parties, and turning the floodgates for a new flow of the old waters of bitterness. We assume that this last is not the intention of | Vicar General Quinn, butif such should be the practical result he will have made a re- grettable mistake. Nothing is more evident to observers who are in a position to gauge popular sentiment than that no attempt to subvert our common school system, whether openly hostile or covertly insidious, can have the slightest chance of success. popular institutions which is so strongly in- trenched in the affections of the people as our system of free schools.» It can never be over- thrown, and all ecclesiastical opposition to it will be dashed and shattered like the waves of the ocean against a rock-bound coast. We credit Vicar General Quinn with too accurate a knowledge of public opinion to suppose that he would engage in anything so futile as to stem the irresistible current of popular senti- ment on this subject. Our system of free schools, so endeared to the popular heart, can never be shaken, either by direct assault or by the more artful attempts of insidious sap- pers and miners. If this, or anything like it, be the object of Vicar General Quinn's propo- | sal to the Board of Education, he is destined to encounter a mortifying failure. We would fain hope that his examination of the school laws and his private intercourse with members of the Board of Education | have enabled him to see his way clear toa fair and satisfactory adjustment which will put this unfortunate school controversy to sleep for an indefinite period. This invincible reserve as to the propositions he intends to offer leaves us so much in the dark that we cannot form an intelligent opinion on his scheme ot adjustment, if he has a definite scheme to offer. But if he has no precise propositions of such a character that the Board of Education might accept them with- ont violating any statute or excitimg popular clamor, we do not see how he can be excused for disturbing the quiet into which the public | mind had settled on this important subject. | Not knowing what his propositions are to be we can form no opinion as to whether they are consistent with the laws of friends of the common schools, who form a preponderating majority of this community, It Vicar General Quinn's proposal, whatever it is, can be regarded as indicating a disposi- tion on the part of the Catholics to lay down thetr weapons of warfare and recognize the value of our free school system all fair- minded cilizens will rejoice in this evidence of growing liberality. What Father Quinn and the Catholics who support him ask is that the parochia: echools “may be admitted to the benefits of the com- mon school system, subject to its laws as re- gards the course of instruction, the methods of discipline and the general management.” Whether there legal obstacles to sach an arrangement is a point which we defer for future discussion. Bnt, laying the legal ques- tions out of view for the present, it wonld not he difficult to suggest a practical adjustment which might be accepted by liberal Protes- tants and liberal Catholics. The first and in- dispensable requisite is that the Catholics con- sent tosurrender the control of their schools entirely into the hands of the Board of Educa- tion. The school authorities must examine their teachers as they do those of the other | schools, and no teachers must be employed without a regular certificate of qualifications. The Board of Education must prescribe the course of studies, which must be precisely | the same as in the common scbools, without addition, abatement or variation. Censure of the course impulsively adopted | The sectarian religious instruction, which is There is no part of our | the State, or | | whether they would be acquiesced in by the Sanaa SOREL eS Sd ben emaee ACen osrnere strictly prohibited by law in the common schools, must be equally operative in the parochial schools, During the six hours of each school day devoted to instruction the parochial schools must follow, without varia- tion, the very same routine as the regular common schools. Why, then, it may be chial schools and come into the common school system without conditions? The obvious answer is that they wish to reserve the privi- lege of giving religious instruction out of the regular schoolhours. The legal basis of such an arrangement as we have imagined would be a limited lease of the parochial school buildings to the city for the six hours of ench secular day during which the common schools are in session. For these six hours the paro- chial schools would be, in name and in fact, regular common schools, conducted in all respects like the other common schools. But ‘the parishes would retain control of the school buildings during the unleased hours, and the pupils could remain after three o'clock to receive religious instruction. It 1s only on this basis, if on any basis, that an adjustment seems possible, and we have serious doubts whether it be practicable at all. The Massacre at A: alco. We doubt very much if religion is ever dangerous to society excepting when it is as- sociated with political power. It is not the difference of belief, but itis the nature of organized bodies to dispute the possession of power with their rivals, There are a great many religions in the world, but they rarely | come into conflict excepting where they jostle inthe struggle for the conquest of the things of this world. Neither Protestants nor Cath- olics in this country feel any par- ticular hatred of the Mohammedans, the Buddhists, the Fire Worshippers, the adorers of snakes and monkeys or the Africans who offer sacrifice to the devil. But bigoted Catholics and bigoted Protestants are intensely jealous of each other. The truth must be admitted that when religion is united with ecclesiastical rule and the ambition to extend it it requires a great deal of piety | to make a rigid sectarian a tolerant and fair. minded man. i The terrible massacre at Acapulco, Mexico, the details of which are given to-day by our correspondent in that town, illustrates this truth. There, when a peaceful congregation was worshipping God according to its own way, the church was broken into by members of | another congregation who believed that way to be the wrong one, and in a short time the house of the Lord resembled a place for the work of the fiends. Men and women were ruthlessly struck down in the church, or pur- sued in the streets by their infuriated foes and slain by the sword. It was certainly not religion that inspired this massacre, but the evil passions that the contest tor po- litical power and the control of revenue is almost certain to provoke. The ignorant Mexican Catholics fought for their Church | far more than they did for their God ; it was menaced by a Protestant chapel, and they re- pelled the intruding faith by the bloody weapons that are always the favorite argu- ments of the bigot. It is a signal example of heathenish Christians Fighting like devils for conciliation And bating each other for the love of God, As American citizens were among the vice | tims of the Acapulco massacre we think that it is the duty of the United States government proper redress from Mexico. Americans are | not safe ont of their own country. It is a pity that this should have to be suid, buithere has been lately too much evidence of its truth. When Paul was seized by his enemies one of them, wiser than the rest, said, ‘Take heed what thou doest, for this man isa Roman.”’ American honor should be guarded with equal zeal. When an American is in danger abroad the ‘chief captain” of this nation should speak as bravely as did the soldier in Judea when he said, ‘‘This man was taken of | the Jews and should have been killed of them : | then came I with an army and rescued him, having TDG Eat d that he was a Roman.” John Mitchel. the exception of Daniel O'Connell, was better known to the world than John Mitchel. traordinary intellectual ability. He was an able but not a great writer; an earnest speaker, but a poor orator; an ardent revo- lutionist, but not a successful leader. Other Irishmen of his time displayed greater powors in literature, in eloquence and in political management ; yet he surpassed them all in imation of = countrymen .by the un- for more then ahlety years he ¢ Irish frecloni. Rome more than English government. treme representative of the most intense hos- tihty. It was not concession that he de- manded, rights under the Crown, nor the res- | toration of the Irish Parliament ; he insisted | upon the absolute independence of Ireland, | and ready to secure it by armed | revolution. treason in England, and was, therefore, pat- riotism in Ireland. To free his country be- came the dream of his life, and it was because | he nevér abandoned the straggle to make it a _ reality, because neither suffering, banishment | nor failure ever shook his unrelenting pur- pose, that he commanded above all others the admiration of his nation, and was looked upon in our day as the representative of its wrongs and its aspirations. While deeply mourned by his countrymen their re- grets will be lessened, perhaps, by the knowl- edge that his work was done. If Irish inde- , pendence is ever achieved he could not have | hoped to see it. He was old and feeble, and his usefulness to his cause was embodied more in the records of his past than in the hopes of the future, His death crowned his last’ protest against British rule. Elected to the British Parliament from Tipperary and declared disqualified as a felon, he had the satisfaction of being again returned by his countrymen as a defiance of | the government. have wished, for even had the Disraeli Cabi- ‘net had the wisdom and magnanimity to con- xampioned the Hannibal did not Mitchel hated the use of was | cede the legality of his election, he could not | have entered Parliament, for he would have never taken an oath of allegiance to the asked, do not the Catholics drop their paro- | nature of man to hate his fellow man for a | | the influence of their Church that they saw | to investigate the outrage and to insist upon | Probably no Irishman of this century, with | His | celebrity was not due to the possession of ex- | ‘gy with which | and he became the ex- | ‘The policy he pursued was called | the death of John Mitchel will be | This was ali that he could | Crown. Ireland has loid ier dead son at the foot of the throne as her silent protest against centuries of wrong. Mitchel died in the hour of the only triumph that remained for him to win. As a revolutionist his work, whether good or evil, was approved by hit own countrymen, and he returned from long and unhappy exile to be buried in his uative | land. The Canal Ring. The lively controversy which has been pre cipitated by Governor Tilden’s Message on the canals bids fair to be the most engrossing topic of State politics for some time to come. We senta reporter yesterday to interview Senator Lord, who is reputed to be a promi: nent member of the Canal Ring, and whe evinced a more outspoken hostility to the Message than any other member of the Legie- | lature when it was sent in and read on Friday. The circumstances recited by our reporter are significant. It was his purpose to interview Senator Lord at his hotel, but on inquiry there the reporter was told that he had gone to the Mayor's office. Our alert representative followed him to that place, and found him engaged, with a knot of other poli- | ticians, including Speaker McGuire, in confer ‘ences with Mayor Wickham. It is a curi- ous and suggestive circumstance that the democrats of the Legislature who are hostile to Governor Tilden rush down to the city on Saturdays to confer with Mayor Wicknam. It looks as if the democracy were divided inte militant camps—a Tilden camp and a Wick ham camp—and as if the anti-Tilden demo crats of the Legislature, after having fought the Governor during the week,’ came to the opposition headquarters in this city to arrange their strategy for the week following. Senator Lord made some very wild state ments in his interview, which disclose av uncomfortable state of excitement and ani- mosity. He charges Governor Tilden with having declared that he had bought up the press of the city—a charge which those whe know the habitual wariness of the Governor will be slow to believe, and which everybody who knows anything of the city press will laugh at. He also accuses the Governor ot , having been an ally of Tweed in the days SI his power, which shows how hard pushed he is for weapons against the Governor. He says that Governor ‘Tilden has “Presidency on the brain,” which, for aught we know, may be true enough; but we know of no more legitimate way of commending one’s self for the Presidency than by a vigor. ous hostility to rings and corruption. All ve can make of Senator Lord's heated declara. tions in his interview is that he is furiously incensed against the Governor, and that the reputed members of the Canal Ring will nof hesitate to fight him in the Legislature. There is evidently to be a sharp and exciting contest on the canal question, and if the Governor has strained any points against the Canal Ring they are pretty certain to detect and point out the flaws in his reasoning and unfatr- ‘ness in his damaging statistics. When the Albany opponents of Governor Tilden cluster | around Meyor Wickham for counsel the prose | pect of democratic harmony in this State is | rather sleuder. The Universities’ Boat Race. There is no boating event in America or | Europe that commands so much attention at the annual race on the Thames between the | boat clubs of Oxford and Cambridge univers ities. The rivalry vetween these institutions has. been handed down from yeas to year for nearly two generations, tili it has now become more exciting than many struggles really of more importauce, Novelists and poets have made the universi« tics’ boat races a favorite theme, and the suc- cesstul men become heroes for life. It is striking evidence of the hold that athletic sports have upon society that a hard, quick, determined pull of twenty | mmutes on an English river should cause so | many hopes and fears, so much rejoic- ing and regret, on both sides of the Atlantic. The race yesterday, though not so close as others have been, | was a fine one, and especially interesting | as it resulted in a victory for Oxford for the first time in six years. Cambridge has won every race smce 1869 until this year ; but in | no case did she defeat her opponents so badly as she was herself beaten yesterday. That the | Oxford erew should win by ten lengths wat more than its warmest admirers expected. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sect pat lees Mrs. Scott-Siddons arrived last evening at the Clarencon Hotel, Key. Dr. Heury G, Batterson, of Philadeiphia, ta registered at the Coleman Honse, | Colonel Dickenson Wootruff, Onited States Army, is staying at the Fveret? House, Chambord will explode one of the vials of bis wrath in a letter against the Repubite, Speaker Jeremiah McGuire, of Elmtra, 1s resid ing temporarily at the Metropolitan Hotel. Lieutant Governor H.G. Knight, of Massacna setts, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, wite o: the Utoh Prophet, is among the late arrivals at the Grand Centra’ Hotel. Captain George W. Collier, of the United State: Marine Corps, has taken up his quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor J. 1. Wilson, of South Carolina, whe has just returned from @ tour in South América, uw | al the Everett House, Baron de Sehreimer has been appointed to the Jong vacant posi at Rio Janeire of representative o! his Austro-Hungarian Majesty. Captain William Gore-Jones, naval attaché of the British Legation, returned to this city irom New: port yesterday and 1s at the Clarencon Hotel, The Emperor of Ausiria has directed his Minis ter at Rome to ask the King of Italy to name tie Most conventent place lor a mecting at the time of the Emperor's visit to Dalmatia, Mr. Whitelaw Reid was re-electel Presisent oj the Lows Club last evening, with Mr Join Brougham, the genial and talente! Jonn, and Mr, ‘Vhomas W, Knox, as Vice Presid Count and Countess B. Tyszkiewt who bave been on @ bridal trip to Fiorida, arrived in tht y yo their residence at the Windsor L A seal Was shot on @ piece of Ico ia the Rhine, in the neighborhood of Mayence. It is supposed that tbe animal had escaped trom the Zoological Garden of Fianktort or trom some traveling me nagerie. Miss Anna Dickinson repeats her lecture, “What @ Woman Knows About It,” at Steinway Hail, this evening. It is a secular jecture, but she alleges that she could secure the hail only tor Sunday evening. M. Pipet has recovered from the city of Mar Seiiles 18,000 francs, the price of nis wite, Kiled om her way to market by a shot in the streets curing we revolutionary times of w7l. It is thought that a great many mea in that city will send their | wives to market a@:sidaousiy durin | revels, 7 ig the moze wf Russia, avana aad tay aud took up tel.