The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1875, Page 4

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Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henstp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per mor moth. Fortunatevy France is ae the danger of another inundation of the Rhone. Tue Norru Canonma Exection is still a question of doubt, but it is always difficult | to get the full returns from that State in any | ordinary time. | | | follies by which the democratic party have = | men of Ohio none stands up and denounces | the negroes has been outgrown by many of | | continue to be a white man’s party is not a be again a candidate. Nothing would so alarm the conservative business classes | !as the prospect of a party of in-| NEW YORK HERALD, flow the Democrats are Playing Inte the Hands of Grant. The amazing succession of blunders and so often thrown away victory when it seemed within their grasp bids fair to be continued. In 1864 they nominated a war democrat on a peace platform, and forfeited all their chances on the day the canvass opened. In 1868 the Ohio repndiationists, unable to carry Pen- dleton through the Convention, forced the nomination of Seymour to head off Chase, and put him on a platform which he had re- pudiated in advance, the ticket whose then recent Brodhead letter was a menace to tear up the work of recon- | struction and remand the South to chaos, In 1872 they perpetrated the indescribable folly of putting at the head of their ticket the champion of protection in the | in contradiction to their free trade principles, and making the bitterest reviler of their party its nomi- | nal chief. We will not predict what | the next step will be in this career | of self-stultification, but their astounding | blunders in every Presidential election since 1856 would take off the edge of wonder if the traditionary hard-money party of the coun- try should again forfeit its prospects, as it did in 1868, by the influence of a Western faction, led by the Ohio democrats. Old Governor Allen, a noisy bullion man in former days, has gone over to the inflation- ists, and even Senator Thurman speaks with bated breath. Among the democratic states- foremost United States, the platform, and if the party carries the Ohio election there will be no limit to the aggressive boldness of its intlation wing, which will aspire to control the National Convention next year, and will have in- | fluence enough to muzzle or make Thur- mans of all the hard-money candidates. 'The inflation question, though the most dangerous, is not the only line of cleavage in the democratic party. The old antipathy to the most enlightened Southern leaders, but liberal sentiments have not yet permeated the masses. Whether the democracy shall | settled question, and the better views which are growing up among the more sagacious leaders introduce an element of division which did not exist so long as prejudice against the negro had free scope and full sway and the party were united on that | question. Here in New York, the citadel of | democratic strength, the party is split into | scandalous factions. The democratic Speaker | publicly assails the democratic Governor, who has been at loggerheads with the demo- crats of the Legislature and of the city on the | home rule question, and in the city itse If | Tilden’s friend Green and his counsellor, | Morris at war with Kelly, who se- cured his nomination. To add to the can- | fusion, Mayor Wickham, whom the Goyv- | ernor has snubbed and humiliated, sides with | Kelly against the friends and confidants of Tilden, and there is no end of strife and | backbiting among the inharmonious de- mocracy. But the minor lines of cleavage are of small py, are with an associate on | | ever to accept risks. stand firmly by the promise of resumption in 1879, into which they were scared last winter, and, conscious that the country dis- trusts them, they will be tempted to vindi- cate their sincerity by renominating Grant, who has earned a solid title to confidence on that question, They are not unlikely to ex- pect that the country will consider democratic inflation a greater evil than the third term. | If inflation should be the main issue the ad- vantage of renominating Grant would seem | to many republicans great enough to offset the weakening effect of running him a third impossible candidate; the views of Wash- burne are not known, and their avowal on the eve of the election would inspire no confidence; the tame and halting part acted by Wilson and Blaine when this question was so fiercely debated in Congress does not qualify either of them to be the leader in | such acanvass. But of Grant's stanch op- | position to inflation he has given such con- | spicuous proof that the country could not doubt him, reviving Grant's chances, which his own party had nearly extinguished. If the coun- try has to make its choice between inflation and a third term it will perhaps think it of greater urgency to escape an immediate danger than to avoid a bad precedent. The Henarp deprecates the presentation of such a choice of evils for the decision of the country, and will not cease to raise its voice of warning and remonstrance against the stu- pendous folly of the democratic inflationists. But if such a dire choice is foreed upon the country by democratic fatuity the Heraup will not relax its strenuous opposition to the third term as franght with the greater danger. Financial distress and the wreck of business cannot reasonably be put into the scale against the subversion of our popular insti- tutions. Even at the cost of being poor we must continue to be free. Inflation will eventually work its own cure by the finan- cial ruin it will entail; but for the loss of our free institutions there would be no remedy. | With an imperial authority established at Washington controlling the army and the Treasury the country would be in hopeless thraldom. The Musical and Dramatic Season. The dramatic and musical prospect for the coming season is by no means so bright as in many former years. From one cause or an- other the enterprise of managers has received acheck, and they are more unwilling than The public will learn with regret that this year there will be no Italian opera, owing to the losses sustained by Mr. Strakosch last year, and perhaps to the difficulty of persuading any of the leading prime donne to cross the ocean. Queens of song nowadays are more despotic than the wearers of the imperial purple, and will not willingly submit to any unnecessary inconvenience. Unfortunately Europe offers enough countries to conquer, and the song queens have no ambitions be- yond. We will, therefore, be compelled to content ourselves with listening to Mme. Tietjens, who will give a series of concerts through the States. ‘The advent of Von Biilow, account in comparison with the portentous | | schism threatened by the boldness, vigor and | activity of the inflationists, who.are as reck- | | less of consequences as a bull in achina | shop. They have, or at least think they | have, a strong popular support in the West | and Sonth, and this is what ‘makes them bold. But a blinder set of political idiots never existed. Though professing hostility to the third term they are doing a thousand- fold more than all Grant's sycophants to- gether to render a third term possible. They are creating, or doing their utmost to create, the public necessity to which the President | said in his letter he might be induced to yield his determination assumed not to | Exaursn Potrrics are reviewed by our Lon- fon correspondent to-day, with particular reference to Mr. Plimsoll and Mr. Disraeli. The quarrel of the latter with O'Connell is the subject t an interesting reminiscence. Tue ila or THE Hammons, a remark- | in his letter. sble family, four of whom lived to the age of | marvellous run of luck when his political | eighty years, is printed in our columns | to-day. The celebrity of Alexander Hamil- ton gives particular interest to the biographies | of his sons. Tae O'Conner. CENTENARY was peacefully | celebrated in London yesterday, the honots of the Church being paid to the memory of | the Liberator by Cardinal Manning. In Glasgow the celebration was disgraced by a riot between the Orangemen and the home | rulers, and in that city the precautions taken in Dublin seem to have been neglected, Temrenaxce.—The effort to suppress the sale of liquor on Sunday in East New York has been resumed by methods detailed in our report. Thus far little progress has been made by the gentlemen who wish to stop the traffic. The Germans are especially de- termined to have their beer and to keep their summer gardens open. | issne the public Axornen Strep 1 Crvmization.—It now | seems as if the much-debated project of | running a tunnel from Dover to Calais under the Straits, thus joining France and Eng- Jand by a continnons land connection, is to be really and seriously considered. The House of Commons has passed a tunnel bill, and it now awaits the decision of the Lords. | In the French Assembly a measure of the | same character has been introduced. There seems to be no scientific obstacles to building this tunnel. The soil under the Channel isa chalk formation, easily mined, and the dis- tance is not very long. A tunnel between England and France would add more to the civilization and comity of Kurope. Most of the troubles between European nations have srisen from the want of knowledye of one another. The closer the nations come to- gether the more they will learn to respect one another. Commerce and the of friendly intercourse have eradicated the old animosities between France and Eng land—animosities which at one time wrappe the world in flames. Apart from the ir mense comfort which the tunnel would bring to every Amesican traveller to the Continent, interchange its political value as an agency of peace can- | not be over-ostimated, | select the i flationists getting control of the government. | Even if the danger is chimerical, General | Grant will not be the inan to underrate it, since it would afford him the best exeuse he | is likely to have for retreating through the | | loophole which he was careful to leave open It seems a continuance of his | | opponents disturb and agitate the country by reviving the issue on which he appears to most advantage. His veto of the inflation | bill, the most important of all his civil acts, rescued the country from the selfsame | danger which is again threatened by the Ohio democrats, and if the inflation battle is to be fought over in a new field it will be claimed | by Grant's friends that he is the fittest leader. Nobody donbts that, on that issue, he can be | | sella d upon. He is committed to sound | views, not only by his settled convictions, | but by that part of his official record | which won him more confidence and applause than all the other acts of his ad- | thinistration. It is not in his character to | viate from that applauded veto when | policy, inborn stubbornness, as well | sense of the public interest and ex- | perience of public approbation, bind him to | steadiness and consistency. On that great feels it safe to trust him, and of all possible blunders his opponents could have committedonone so egregious as again into polities, If | the democrats had given him carte blanche to | ue he could not have hit upon | ing to them or so fnll of prom. to bring this issue one so dam: ise to him. first magnitude, question upon which he is strongly intrenched in the pub- lie confidence. Jt would seem as if his sur- prising good fortune is never to desert him, and that when his own party rules him out his enemies turn allies and come blindly to Besides being a question of the | it is the one his resene, It is true enough that the republicans as well as the democrats are divided on the eur- reney question. But there is this difference, that Grant can control his party, whereas there is no democratic leader strong enough to control and nnify the opposition. Since Grant's veto the republican inflationists in the West have succumbed, and although the of Morton, Logan and Ferry ain unchanged, they have too much dexterity der of Pe cially head in the democratic party, If the demo- | crats make this issue the republicans will personal views may re endlete ince inflation | ance of Rossi, | son is not very rich in promise, politicians to imitate the blun- | ng and Allen, espe- | reared its unabashed | the renowned pianist, and Mme. Arabella Goddard, who has won a prond place among female pianists, are important events in the musical world, and show clearly that | European artists begin to have more cor- rect notions of the extent of our musical cul- ture. The success which attended Rubin- stein’s visit has made other artists anxious to visit this country. In the field of the drama the principal events of the season will be the appear- the famous Italian tra- gedian. The great Irish tragedian, Barry | Sullivan, appears at Booth's, and the New York public will have the pleasure of wel- | coming back their favorite, Edwin Booth, during a short engagement at the Fifth Ave- nue Theatre. Mr. Wallack's programme involves the production of a new comedy by Dion Boucicault, and we are promised from the same fertile pen a new drama with the chief réle written specially for Mrs. Rousby. Daly has also a new play in preparation in which Miss Clara Morris makes her redrée on the Fifth Avenue stage. If we exclude a few revivals and the production at the Academy of the spectacular play based on Jules Verne’s won- der story, ‘Around the World in Eighty De it will be seen that the dramatic sen- Something may, of course, turn up unexpectedly, as hap- pened last year, to make the season notable, Ontside of New York little beyond the usual rontine is projected, as the country managers are waiting to see what card may prove the trump here. We give to-day a general review of the season’s engagements all over the Union, which cannot fail to be of interest. Modern Improvements in Religion, There is little doubt that if John Bunyan should return to this earth, which he had the impertinence to call a den, the kind of religion he would teach would be very un- popular. Nor should any one be surprised at this, All that redeems ‘The Pilgrim's Progress” from deserved oblivion is its story, which holds the reader spellbound by the force of genius. John Bunyan was naturally a great novelist, superior to either Dickens or Thackeray, or even the Prime Minister of England; but he was a coarse, vulgar man, who had very little re- gard for the feelings of refined people. Much of his celebrated allegory is an unjustifiable satire npon modern Christians, In such characters as Mr. Pliable, Mr. Silvershoes, Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Mr. Vain Glory and Mr. Blindman he exposes to ridicule and de- rision whole classes of our most respectable church members. The benevolent mind is pained by the crnel scorn which is poured out upon the liberal Christian, and the tear of regret trembles in cye of sensibility. Why shonld old, | Bunyan strive to make everybody uncom- fortable? According to his obsolete theory salvation is a very difficult matter, while, as everybody knows in New York, it is one of the simplest affairs possible, | The sinner who does not goto heaven in | these fortunate times neglects his opportun- ities. Religion is made casy for beginners, and the pleasures of a fashionable watering place are combined with the consolations of the Gospel. We may be converted by the seashore and take a holiday and a passport for Paruline at one and the seme time, ‘Lhig time. On that issue Morton would be an | The inflation democrats are | the | has been shown at Ocean Grove, N. J., and at Sea Cliff, L. L, as our correspondence from the latter popular place of religious resort conelusively shows. We can specu- late simultaneously in lots and theology, and if we fail in one we may succeed in the other, And in the city there is every inducement held out to the respectable and pious sinner, The list of the sermons which we print to-day proves the variety of mod- ern religion. It ranges from Univer- salism to Presbyterianism and the Catholic Chureh, and the only embarrass- ment is that of a choice between too many creeds. So, altogether, it is clear that Bun- yan’s stern and rigid doctrine is unsuited to modern religious “wants, and that the pil- grims of the ninetcenth century progress in a much more comfortable manner than that adopted by the impossible and antiquated Christian whom he describes, Telegraphing by Land and Sea. We have been recently honored by tho telegraph with several rumors in reference to the success of the Direct Cable Company, which has been laying a cable from England to America in opposition to the present ser- vice. These rumors have been of a mysteri- ous character. It ‘had broken.” It ‘*would not work.” There was ‘‘a fall in its shares,” There was “trouble in the management.” The other day we had a despatch from the London Times to the effect that the present postal service in England was ‘a mistake,” that the English government could not make it pay a decent revenue at the rate of a shil- ling a despatch of twenty words. The effect of these rumors is plain enough. If it were not that we regarded our telegraph service as aboye suspicion we should be in- clined to believe that there was some stock- jobbing purpose underlying them all. When we hear whispered, in every breath almost, stories about desperate and bold stock-job- bers laying their plans to capture the whole telegraphic service of the country, we can well understand why we should be instructed in this mysterious manner about the ‘ ‘failure of the postal telegraph system in England” and the misfortune of the Direct Cable Com- pany. So far as the Western Union is con- cerned, no one questions the admirable man- ner in which Mr. Orton, the President, has managed its affairs. We do not censure him nor inany way the directors. They have their property, and can of course do what they please with their own. Our advice to Mr. Orton isto strive, without ceasing, to prevent the efforts of speculators to seize the lines. It is this terror of just such a result that gives increasing strength to the movye- ment in favor of postal telegraphy. We in- voke the aid of the government, not because we believe that public officials can do the | mere work of the telegraph more efficiently than private parties, but because the govern- ment is our natural bulwark against such in- fluences as we deplore—influences that aim | to subject the whole telegraph system to the mercy of desperate gamblers in stocks. As to the Direct Cable Company we have no special opinion, but there is no reason why that line should not lay a cable just as well as the line which now holds this extraordinary monopoly between England and America. In fact, the tendency of communication between England and America is to multiply cable lines. Cheap telegraphy is as much a necessity of our English civilization as cheap postage ; it is a step toward that moral and commercial union between the English speaking nations to which Mr. Forster referred in the House of Commons the other day when he expressed the wish that there should be no custom houses on the soil of the English speaking nations, We unite in the wish of Mr. Fors- ter, because we believe in everything that will bring the Saxon races of the world into closer relations. If the Direct Cable Com- pany have had a misfortune they have the power to mend it just as the other lines did, The line has our best wishes for its success, and we deprecate the use that has been made of the telegraph to bring odium upon its owners, The story quoted with so much alacrity from the London Times, to the effect that the, postal telegraph is a failure as now managed in England, is of conrse a job. It is a part of that same system of jobbery which a year or two ago, when the postal telegraph was under discussion, induced the cable com- panies to telegraph, at their own expense, long letters and articles from writers in Lon- don intended to affect legislation in Con- gress. Now, we do not know to what extent the postal telegraph system in Great Britain is a pecuniary success, but it is certain that, as a matter of public convenience and utility, it has proved the greatest blessing that has been achieved since the abolition of the corn laws and the establishment of penny postage. Fora shilling an Englishman in the Hebrides can send a message to his friends at Queenstown or Bristol. In America a despatch over the same dis- tance would require probably five times as much money. We also are at the mercy of a corporation whose shares are footballs for desperate speculators. If the postal telegraph service in England is not an absolute reveniie it resemblos in this respect the postal service of the United States, Our Post Office never has paid. We in the East are taxed to pay for the delivery of letters to our friends in the West. It would be an ab- | surd argument to say, because the postal service of the United States is an expense, that therefore it should be abolished, We could have our postal system in New York | and New England and make it pay a profit, because here we have large populations and | short lines of communication. We in the | East are only too proud to do our share to- ward giving the West the advantage we pos- sess in the way of postal service. We are willing to do the same in the way of postal telegraph service. Postal telegraph is as much a necessity as cheap postage or a cheap press. ; Arten Visrtrxa Pants and exchanging cour- tesies with Victor Hugo, who will probably | put them in his next romance, the American riflemen have started for London on their journey home. Mr. Bercurn preached yesterday at the Twin Mountain House; and onr special correspondence gives a report of his prayer and sermon, the latter being an cloquent ex- position of the higher law of morality and o | persons refuse to believe that Morgan was | nlea tor peace. MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, Thurlow Weed Upon the Masonic Mor- gan Affatr, The letter which Mr. Thurlow Weed has addressed to the Hxnanp will be read with deep interest, as it is the first explanation which that distinguished poijtician has made of his knowledge of the mysterious disap- Pearance of William Morgan and his first re- ply to the notorions charge that when a dead body was found in Lake Ontario he declared it to be ‘a good enough Mor- gan until after the election.” Re- cently, when the Masonic Temple was dedicated in this city, and Masons from all parts of the world took part in the impres- sive ceremonies, we thought the occasion a proper one for Mr. Weed to reveal all he knew of the Morgan affair, and to our re- quest his letter is a frank, full, and, in most respects, a satisfactory answer. After nearly fifty years of silence Mr. Weed has given to the readers of the Hxnaup his explanation and vindication. As a vindication this letter is unnecessary, for long ago the public ceased to believe that Thurlow Weed had mutilated a dead body for the purpose of throwing upon the Masons the odium of murdering an apostate member of their organization. Mr. Weed himself has been too proud to attempt a ref- utation of the charge till now. We may, therefore, simply refer to those portions of the letter which include his personal exoner- ation, while we congratulate Mr. Weed upon speaking at ‘last with such candor upon a subject which has hardly lost any of its pro- found interest by the lapse of half a century. But though Mr. Weed’s personal character may not require defence in respect to this affair, the light he throws upon the Morgan mystery is of historical importance. Masonry is quite as much on trial as Mr. Weed. There is no doubt that Morgan wrote a book intended to betray the secrets of Masonry, and, according to Mr. Weed’s testimony, he was kidnapped and drowned in Lake Ontario. At all events, Morgan disappeared forever, and ‘the identification of a body as his, coupled with its subsequent identification as that of one Monroe, forms one of the most puzzling chapters of the story. But whether Morgan’s body was found or not Mr. Weed does not hesitate to express his belief that the man was murdered. He says that all the circumstances of the tragedy were narrated to him by John Whitney, whom we infer to have been one of the principal actors in the assassination. Disbelief in the murder of Morgan would naturally rest upon @ priori grounds. Why should he be murdered for revealing a secret when no secret existed to be revealed? It may be safely assumed that the Masons have no secret which is their especial possession and privilege. Mysteries of organization they possess undoubtedly, but the Alpha and Omega of their purposes are included in common human society, It is known that they have no secret by the fact that if they had it would have been long ago tbetrayed. Adequate motive for the murder of Morgan is, therefore, wanting in the constitution of the Order itself. The man had nothing to betray that would justify his murder. We cannot believe that men like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and many other patriots and philanthropists could countenance and support a society in which fidelity to an oath was to be insured by the penalty of death, to be privately and unlawfully enforced. This is incredible, and an Order which is believed to have been founded by Solomén could hardly depart so utterly from the teaching of his wisdom. ‘These are the reasons why many ever murdered at all, and why others, who believe he was killed, acquit the Masons of any responsibility for his death, The truth, probably, is that Morgan’s mur- der was a political crime. Masonry was not merely Masonry at that time, but it was the occasion of the bitterest political strife. It was a misfortune that a secret Order should have been forced into the arena of politics, and that American zens should have voted as Ma- sons or anti-Masons. But this was the case in New York in 1827, and if Morgan ever was murdered he died by the hands of his political foes, who thought him a traitor to their cause. Masonry, as an ancient and honorable Order, could not have authorized an act so terrible. We may learn from this event, and the bitter feelings it caused and which have been kept alive for genera- tions, how dreadful it will be for America if | ever the question of religion is introduced into our polities. The people who wish to put ‘God in the constitution” forget that, if He is omnipresent, He must be there now, and they merely scheme for a religious war. We think that the Morgan affair ought to convince every reasonable man that neither gecret societies nor religious denominations should have anything to do with political parties, and in evidence of this we refer the reader to the profoundly interesting letter with which Mr. Weed has replied to the accusations of half a century. The Arming of Irish Kings. The tremendous controversy between Boss John O'Morrissey, of the Short Hairs, and Boss John O'Kelly, of the Swallow Tails, which threatened to rival in its proportions the most celebrated events in our history— events as celebrated, let us say, as the con- troversies between Heenan and Sayers, Tom | Hyer and Yankee Snullivan—is interrupted for a moment by the appearance of Boss O'Creamer in the arena with his free lances. It will not be long before Boss O'Murphy will be in line, although we can hardly ex- pect active operations from the leader of the Beef-Eaters until President Grant returns to Washington. Boss O'Murphy'’s duties as courtier supersede his obligations os a leader. Toss O'Creamer with his party pro- | poses to reform the our renders know, city of New York. As | Boss O'Creamer is a de+ seendant of the O’Gradys, who came from Brian Boroihme, that great King of Limerick who now rests with God. The motto of his ancestors, which is still retained by the party, is ‘“Shannet-a-boo !" whieh means, ac- cording to ex-Assistant District Attorney Michael O'’Nolan, the best living authority on Celtic literature, “Take all you can get and answer no questions.” We are particular in thns explaining the royal ancestry of these Irish princes. As our Irish fellow citizens well know, nothing will tell better in the long rum than blood, Koss O'Morrissey has shown im a more emal~ nent magner than any living stateswan what blood can do, His muscular interviews with our reporters, like previous experiments of that nature, show that he knows the valu¢ of first blood, Here we have the descendant of Heremon, son of Milesius, in Bost O'Murphy. We have the representatives ol Brign Boroihme, through two branches, O'Kelly and O'Creamer. Tipton Slasher, the great monarch of Donnybrook, was the lineal ancestor of O’Morrissey. So there can be no doubt that the best blood of Ire+ land is to the front. Boss O’Creamer's array is gratifying in other respects. Here wa have the O’Roosevelt, descendant by a mater« nal branch from that great Irish prince Dondubhan, the “brown-haired chief,” wha flourished in Tipperary in the tenth century and who was killed by Brian Boroihme, and descended by his father from the original O'Roosevelt or “Garden of Roses,” who landed in New York with Stuyvesant and who culti- voted cabbages and smoked the consoling meerschaum to the end of his days. In O'Roosevelt wo have the best Irish and the best Dutch blood, which makes a powerful combination. Then we have those distin- guished statesmen, Gideon J. O’Tucker, Emanuel B, O’Hart and Rufus F. O'Andrewa and Harry O'Murray, who came into tha movement to give it “character,” and whose virtue has so long been the emulation and the glory of New York. According to these statesmen New York is to be thoroughly ree formed. The O’Roosevelt means it, while the O’Creamer insists upon ‘war to the knifa and from the knife to the hilt.” In the address we have a pathetic narrative of the woes of O’Fox and O’Morrissey, and an ap+ peal made to democrats, without distinction of party, to rally round the new movement and put an end to the domination of O'Kelly, In royal phrase, O’Morrissey has toed the mark, and O’Creamer and O’Roosevelt, with the brandy and the sponges, stand in his corner. The difficulty that we now see about this new movement is that there are more leaders than followers, But it has contagious quali- ties. Weare Saxon enough to like a fight If O’Roosevelt can bring all the descendants of the Hollanders, O’Creamer the followers of his ancestral princes and Rufe O'’Andrewa all the temperance people who now glory in his extraordinary reformation, and Benjamin O'Wood all his old friends who took sides with the South during the war, there is n¢ reason why the anti-Tammany movement may not succeed in reforming the city of New York and in giving these ambitious and hungry leaders a share of the public spoils. Our readers must remember that the great question in all these controversies is not what is best for the people, but what is most available for the politicians. By never for getting that all these local movements aré simply the scrambling of hungry and selfish professional politicians for power; that one crowd has about as much honesty as the other, the campaign for the fall will assume many amusing features. As we, the people, are sure to be plucked anyhow, and as noth. ing is certain in the government of New York except that the taxes will be increased, we must have as much fun out of these moves ments as we can while they last. We must keep on hoping for that good time, which seems to’ get further and further off, when New York will be ruled with economy and fidelity and when these descendants of the Irish kings will do what they have never done yet—earn an honest day's pay by @ hard, honest day's work, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Congressman P. M. B. Young, of Georgia, is registered at the Hotel Brunswick. Manuel M. Zamacona has been appointed Consul of Germany in Mexico city. Chief Engineer J. W. King, United States Navy, i¢ quartered at the Albemarle Hotel, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn was prevented by tlk ness from opening the Carmarthen Assizos, Mr. Patrick Walsh, editor of the Augusta (Ga.) Chroné cle and Sentinel, is staying at the Gilsey House, Brevet Brigadier General John P. Hatch, United States Army, is sojourning at the Sturtevant House, Secretary Bristow arrived in the city yesterday morn- inf? and took up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Count Marefosehi, who had been to America to carry the beretta to Cardinal McCloskey, was in Rome on the 28th of July. Fox was first pnt out by Morrissey; now Morrissey is put ont by Kollyg and who fs the man to put Kelly out in his turn? Is it Green? Mr. Matsell, the Superintendent of Police, 1s proud to be one of the editors of the Jolice Gazette—which Commissioner Smith calls “a school for thieves” and & “text book for villains.’? “It was the best text book for villains I ever saw,’ This is the opinion given by a Commissioner of Police upon a newspaper of which the Superintendent of Police is one of the proprietors, Miss Julia Mathews and the other members of the Henderson and Colville English opera company arrived from Liverpool in the steamship City of Chester yesters day and are at the St, Germain Hotel. Mr. H. J. Montagne, or, arrived at the Hoffmam House yesterds rancisco, and will sail for England on We in company with Mr. Dio Roucicault and Mr, John McCullough. : Judge Liantard, of the Tarascon Tribunal, in Franca has been relieved of his functions for “accepting bribes,” This was thonght so delicate a subject it that benighted country that the Court of Inquiry sal with cl doors, The Sultan of Zanzibar, who goes direct from Paris ta Marseilles, will embark there for Jaffa, whence he is ta goto Jerusalem, Ho will remain about a week in the Noly City, and on his arriving at Cairo he will be the guest of the Khedive some time, At the deathbed of M. Rémusat he said adieu to M. Thiers, and added, “We shall meet again shortly in a better world,” a reflection not agreeable to Thiers, who once on the other side of the door said, “Thig Rémnsat never had any tact.” The prospect of being conscripted for tho army or Joes not seem to be relished by the young men of Bra: The government appears more likely to obtain money for exemption than men to fight. Hundreds are entering the police force in the south, paying $300 merely to avoid service in the army. English Catholic journals say that the question ing’s precedence was indirectly set- tled at the Prince of Wales’ garden party, when Hor Majesty Queen Victoria was present, The Princo of Wales, we are told, advanced to meet the Cardinal on Wis arrival, cordially shook hands with him, and thea presented His Eminence to his royal mother, who re- ceived him most graciously, and conversed with hit tinal remained within the royal -t privilege accorded only to those cirele for some time of the highest rank. News of the preparations which aro being mado for the approaching visit of the Prince of Wales has ached England from all ports of India, Caleutta has 1 taken any steps, Bombay seems determined t iim a most magnificent reception, and Lucknow ane Lahore begin to talk of fireworks and processions, The Meharajah of en was #0 delighted at his recest meeting with Lord thbrook at Simla that he has de termined to spend a portion of the cold season in Cate outta, gnd fo take part inthe festivitios whieb will te held in honor of the royal yiwivor, |