The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1875, Page 4

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Persons qoing out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Urnaty mailed lo them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Srnect Yesrexpay.—Stocks were more active, and in some instances higher. | Gold receded to 113 5-8. Money was freely loaned on call at recent rates. Tur Tonks have been unfortunate in their fight with the Ierzegovinians. The insur- gents seem to have had the best of the fight | so far. The “sick man” has found very dan- gerous antagonists. Tue Boarp or ALDERMEN, as at present constituted, seems to be imbued with the idea that every subject of public interest bronght up before snch an angust body should be | laid aside. The proceedings of the Alder- men yesterday were disgraceful, even for a country vi Tue Inpraw Kine is exposed in its ugliest form in a communication which we publish to-day from Mr. William Welsh, of Philadel- phia, addressed to President Grant. It shows that the Department of the Interior is one unworthy of the great Republic now on the point of celebrating its centenary. Carrars Borrox, who crossed the stormy Straits between France and England in his rubber suit, has excited the ambition of a Mr. Webb. This swimmer started from Dover yesterday on his journey across the Channel, | gone out of the republican orguniz | have give | of and our despatch says that “the opinion is | that Mr. Webb will fail.” Tue Sanatooa Racrs yesterday were of the most brilliant character. Ozark and Milner | made a dead heat in the first race and Grin- | stead and Brigand were winners in the last two races. The races at Saratoga this sum- mer have proved to be the most remarkable | in the annals of the American turf. ams, now on trial before tho Police Commissioners, is making a desper- ate fight to retain his position. De argnes his own case like an accomplished 1 and brings up a host of witnesses in rel of the very damaging testimony arrayed against him. Police captains seem to be well provided with witnesses in their defence. Tne Moxry Qursrion, ‘We present to-day | two entirely different views on the national financial question, that of Mr. W. M. | Grosvenor, representing the hard money | platform, and General G. W. Morgan, the | champion of inflation. Both are evidently | earnest in their views, and certainly they | present in tho strongest light widely dif. fferent aspects of a very simple subject. ‘Tre Spaxtanps 1x Porto Rico are reported | to have committed another of those ontrages which have made the Spanish name hideous all over the world. and bloody sacrifices to cease? In the pres- ent instance there seems to have been no ex- | the North. ‘When aro these heedless | 7 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Dangers and Opportunities of the Republican Party, The Republican State Committee have called a State Convention, to assembie in Saratoga on Wednesday, September 8, ‘for the purpose of nominating candidates for State offices and for the transaction of other appropriate business.” This call is signed by the Hon, FE. D. Morgan. We are informed that at the meeting of the committee there was much harmony. The desire of republi can leaders, especially of men as far s a and cautious as Mr, Cornell, to bring back the seceding liberals and to give them a place of honor in the party, is a natural result of the democratic victory of last year. If the republican party in New York were as strong now as when General Grant was elected to the Presidency there would be, we fear, none of these expressions of sympathy and affec- tion for Governor Fenton, General Merritt, Mr. Depew and those who, like them, have tion and vo, sup na negative, if not an ac port to the democratic candidates, Wo do not | think the complaint of the liberal republicans, that they have been ‘selfishly treated” by the demoerats, is fair. The nomination of Mr. Dor mer to be Lientenant Governor, aloug with Governor Tilden, was certainly giving to the liberal republican party all that it de- served, The truth is there has never been a liberal republican party in New York worthy of serious consideration. The issue upon which the leaders of that organization re- tired from the republican partys was purely selfish. The first indication of, difference was when in the distribution of government , patronage the liberal republicans were over- looked by the President. So long as Presi- dent Grant was swayed by the counsels of one of the Senators from this State, and made appointments to satisfy his personal sense of party duty, there was no qnestion of liberal secession. As soon as the President changed his mind, and in doing so changed the personnel of several of the federal offices, we had the formation of what grew to be a noisy, am biti us, but never a very successful or- Therefore, if the democrats have given the liberal republicans but little, it is beeanse they deemed them of indifferent con- sequence, For the last two years the only value of the liberal party as an organization has been to dicker with the republicans and democrats for terms. There has not been a time since the defeat of Mr. Gre for the Presidency when the ‘ib- erals,” as they call themselves, might not have been shoved over bodily cither to the democratic or republican organ- | ization if any effort had been made to secure their support. Some of the experienced members, like Dorsheimer, have gone off on their own account and have profited by the change. But in the questions that are to be decided in the next campaign there will be no room for a liberal republican organization. Tt might as well be eliminated from our pol- itics. The Republican State Convention will as- semble under peculiar circumstances. It is the first Convention since the great defeat of last y Then the Convention assembled with every prospect of snecess, with a Presi- dent who had been elected by a tremendous majority, with a Governor who had served with singular acceptability and with an or- ganization which was more harmonious than it had been for long years. Its deliberations tended as much as anything else to the disas- trons result which followed. It was a timid, cowardly, distrnstful Convention. It nomi- nated Governor Dix in obedience to a public opinion it did not dare to oppose and allowed him to be driven from the canvass by only a partial support. It shrank from the consid- cration of the only question at that time be- fore the American people—the question the third term. It allowed the great party of a great State to sink into a condition of vassalage to the President. There were internal quarrels and dissensions, and disappointed ambition, and the apathy that always comes from prolonged power. These causes contributed to the defeat which, although largely owing to the distrust of the republican party by the country, was still strengthened and precipitated by the dissen- sions among the leaders. But the men who control the party now are wise enough to sce the mistakes they made last year and to cor- rect them. Senator Conkling especially, although not an apt pupil in matters of dis- cipline, has learned wisdom and patience, and Is as keenly, perhaps, as any leader in the State that no party can command the con- fidence of the people which falls at the feet of the President and becomes the abject slave of his will. He sees that there ‘are great questions that must be met by this Convention, and that if it means to represent a vital and aggressive party it must make its record clear and right, whether pleasing or displeasing to the administration. Mr, Con- kling himself must decide now whether he will be simply a vassal, following the chariot wheels of the successful President and drag- ging with him all the members of the party « to follow his course, or be a leader, who es | a leador of ideas and of men, resolute, brave, bold in the expression of opinions; that his duty is not to the President who honors him | with his friendship, but to the party who has ale him its le r. The republican party must have a clear record npon several points. It will speak with no uncertain sound, we are confident, upon the question of inflation or repudiation. On this issue, let us say with gratitude, the leading men of both parties in the grent State of New York area unit. The Tildens and tho Conklings, the Morgans and the Seymours, faith and credit, will never be unworthy of their imperial Commonwealth. Upon re: construction wo must have a decided ex- | We cannot allow the South to ran | pression, into ulceration. The President must be re- minded by his own followers that any policy | toward the Sonth but that of fraternity and | justice will be unwelcome to the freemen of Nor can the republican party of this State ignore the third term. These | political leaders are shrewd enongh to know thot nothing will stimulate the third term iden more State to assemble in the winter preceding the nomination of the Presidential candidates couse for the murder, and we shall see | and not have a decided voice as to which of whether the British flag is any protection to | its citizens should be life. Itistime Spain was taught her duty | under the law of nations, lifted to this high office. ‘The republican party of New York cither means to suvport General Grant or upon any question of national | than for a convention of a great | not. If it does not intend to support him, then it will naturally desire the honor for some one of its own citizens. We have in this State at least three conspicuous repub- lieans who are candidates for the Presi- dency —General Dix, Mr. Conkling and ex- Governor Morgan. It would be proper enough for the republicans to express their preference for either of these gentlemen, and there is probably not a member of the party of any consequence who does not feel in his own mind that it would be a pleasure for him to express by his vote in the Convention his desire that the party should name either Governor Dix, Mr. Conkling or Mr. Morgan as the preference of New York in the Na- tional Convention. Now, if the Convention at Saratoga dissolves without giving expres- sion to this preference it will he considered, and justly so, that the republicans of New York are too much afraid of President Grant and the ambition of his friends to ventnre a wish in behalf of one of their own illustrious and honored Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Massachusetts and other Eastern news- papers are full of complaints of robber- ies and outrages committed by vagabonds who wander through the. country, in sud- denly increased numbers, and not only beg for food, but, where they have opportunity, insult women, rob farmhonses, and commit other outrages. In some parts of Massachn- setts this evil has become so serious that the town and county authorities are forced to use extraordinary means for the protection of the people. For some weeks past the shores of the Hudson River have also been infested by tramps, and the country roads on both sides of the river, especially about Poughkeepsie, Hudson and Peekskill, are re- ported to abound with such vagabonds, most of them stout, able-bodied men, who pretend to beg, but are, ina majority of cases, ruf- fians, and often burglars, spying out favorable places for robbery and midnight entry. Abont Poughkeepsie, if we may believe the telegraphic reports, there exists a band of such creatures, who have begun brigandage asa business; and one of them, who calls letter to a citizen, demanding a contribution of five hundred dollars, threatening that if this sum were not laid—in a white paper pareel—in a certain place at a specified time a house would be robbed, ‘The Captain's” boast of previous successful levies on citizens we need not believe ; but it is a fact that rob- | beries have been uncommonly abundant near the Hudson River this year, and the citizens are remiss in their duty if they do not take measures to catch and promptly and severely punish the thieves, Such characters do not greatly fear the detective skill or energy of the usual rural police, but they stand in great terror of the united action of citizens. It is w good time on the Hudson for the formation of ‘protection societies,” composed of able-bodied citizens, who will form a night patrol and keep a lookout for suspicious characters. All that is needed to clear a country district of such vermin is to catch one or two and cause them to be promptly tried and sentenced to the Penitentiary for a long term, State prisons have great terrors for them, and a quick trial and a severe sen- tence to one or two acts as a serious discour- agement to the rest. Thero is no doubt that the body of tramps | and vagabonds in this and some of the East- ern States hasa kind of organization, sufficient to enable the members to dispose of stolen goods and to point out to them safe places for burglary and theft. The city burglar likes to take an exenrsion to tho country from time to time. Me counts upon picking up a quantity of valuables before the region he is robbing is thoroughly alarmed, and he means to get away in time to avoid capture. Sometimes these fellows make a miscalenla- tion and come to grief; but, unfortunately, justice in New York has long been so lax that capture does not necessarily bring certain and severe punishment, and the law has lost much of its terror. Where a country region is seriously troubled with tramps and robbers a savage dog and a shotgun are excellent things to have about the house at night; and a rural community does well to engage a vigilant city detective, confer upon him the powers of a constable and intrust to him the organization of a pro- tection police of citizens, supported by a general contribution. Where this is done the tramp does not linger on the road and the burglar secks new fields. Wherever citizens are careless and suffer depredations without at once taking measures to catch the robbers they may count upon their increase. Pough- keepsie will suffer from “the Captain” until he or one of his gang is either shot or canght and sent to State Pri son n for aterm of years. Gory Srexmno m tur Brack Hmra.— The prospects of gold finding in the Black Hills are not so great as to excite enthnsiasm in persons possessed of ordinary common What there is of the precious metal lies hidden away, and will require con- siderable outlay of labor and capital before it can be obtained in paying qnantities. From tho uneven distribution of the lodes it will, under the best management, be a very risky business, Shonld arrangements be made with the Sionx for the abandonment of their rights over the Black Hills poor | men will do well to give the district a wide berth, nmmless they go to till the soil, which, from all accounts, promises better for the agricultural than mining Inborer. Gold, | after all, is of less importance than food, and an industrious population, rearing cattle and producing grain, will confer more benefit on humanity than would the most successful gold seckers. sense. Grxenat Contina, the noted bandit of the Rio Grande border, has arrived in the | city of Mexico and has been incarcerated in | # prison, there to await his trial on the charge of disobedience of orders, This offence is not of s0 rare gecurrence in Mexico or usu- ally refarded as of so serions a character as to warrant very extreme | case, While the object of President Lerdo’s government doubtless is to remove him from the scene of his robberies and so avoid pos- sible complications with the United States | itis not probable any serions punishment will be meted ont to him in face of a public sentiment which always sympathizes | strongly with ony one accused of an offence against the “hated Gringo,” | | | himself ‘the Captain,” has even written.a | Is the President a Mere Figurehead? Of course Mr. Fernando Wood does not intend to smooth the way for a third term, but the views he expressed in the interview we printed yesterday are calculated to allay alarm on that subject. If it be trne, as Mr. Wood maintains, that the President of the United States has no real power, and that it is of little practical consequence who fills the office, the danger of perpetually re-elect- ing the same man is too chimerical to be worth regarding. We are astonished that a gentleman of Mr, Wood's sagacity and expe- rience should commit himself to so wild an opinion, ‘The truth is,” he 6 “the President has no power, and it is as immate- rial who may fill thet office as it is who may happen to be King or Queen of England.” “The President must in future bow to Con- gréss; not Congress to the President. Teneo any respectable, well-behaved gentleman may fill the Presidential chair without harm or benetit to the nation.” If it be of so little consequence who is President our free insti- tutions could not be put in jeopardy by the perpetual ro-clection of President Grant dur- ing his natural life, nor even by making the office hereditary. Bit Mr. Wood's paradox will not bear ex- amination, Why have we always made the Presidential clection the main pivot of our politics? It may have been a mistaken esti- inate of the power of the office, but the mis- take has been shared by all our public men. The constitution, as well as public opinion, makes the Presidency important. The man- agement of our foreign relations is committed to his discretion, and although the power to declare war is vested in Congress the President can at any time put things in such posture as to leave Congress no choice, as happened at the beginning of the war with Mex All our immense acquisitions of territory have been the direct consequence of Executive acts. When the country is in a state of war the supreme command of tho army makes the President a despot if he chooses to abuse his authority. It is true that tho Senate holds a check on his appoint- ments, but it is m mere negative, and when one nomination is rejected the President sends in the name of some other personal adherent, no better, perhaps, than the first. Moreover, both houses of Congress gener- ally belong to the same political party as the President, and the members are subservient to his wishes for the sake of strengthening themselves at home by the local patronage. Mr. Wood refers to tho history of the last twelve years to prove that the President has no influence. Andrew Johnson, indeed, had but little influence, because two-thirds of both houses were against him, which was an exceptional condition of things, But Presi- deht Grant has not been destitute of influ- ence. Through his exercise of the appointing power he changed the majority of the Su- preme Court and procured the reversal of its solemn decision on the legal tender question. The Prostdent can thus change judicial in- terpretations of the constitution and fix upon it any meaning that suits him. By his “veto of the inflation bill he gave a new direction to the financial policy of the government. He was the sole author of the calamitous Loutsiana policy, to which Congress gave its tacit sanction. Secretary Boutwell’s finan- cial measures were really the President's, and Congress gave them its steaty support until they resulted in the great explosion and panic of 1873. The paying out in the midst of that panic of the greater part of the forty- O. measures in his | four millions of retired greenbacks was an Executive act, unanthorized by law and franght with the gravest consequences, and yet Congress never called him to account nor expressed disapprobation, With these and similar instances of the President's power fresh in the public recollection it is amazing that a gentleman 86 intelligent as Mr. Wood can hazard the assertion that the Presidential office is of so little importance that it is im- material who holds it. General Grant will, no doubt, be duly grateful to him for so in- genious a method of proving that a third term or any number of terms would be per- feetly harmless. Tur Tammany Trovnies culminated yes- terday in the ratification by the General Com- mittee of the recent action of the Committee on Discipline and the Committee on Organ- ization. This was to be expecte consequence Boss John O'Kelly isin high feather. His victory was the signal for a speech full of the prospective glories of Tam- many, or rather the speech was the signal for victory. Any attempt at criticising the O’Kelly’s speech would be a work of superer- ogation. It was at once a warning to the weak anda lesson to tho recalcitrant. The only endeavor to break its force and lessen its valne was the address of Mr. Thomas Costigan, of the Fifteenth district, a statesman in every way, worthy of the name he bears. Like his fore- runner, the celebrated Captain Costigan, T. C. has opinions of his own, and he has a brogue sweet enough to make his speeches effective in Tammany Hall or ont of it. Mr. Costigan gavo the O'Kelly a piece of his mind, and he was not afraid to attack the Swallow Tails in the Wigwam, from which the Short Hairs are now excluded, All this was very interesting and very amusing, and wo are grateful to the General Committee of Tammany Hall for the best bits of burlesque acted during the sum- mer season, Noran, who has oceupied such an unenvia- ble position before the public for some time past in regard to the Comm gration, is getting into troubled water every day. The testimony in his case yesterday boro very heavily upon him. sah Screnmtenpent Forx, of the Brooklyn police, was removed from office yesterday, and his predecessor, Mr. Campbell, took the reins of office again in hand. The horrible seandal of Plymouth Church has not yet blinded the eyes of the Brooklyn people to an appreciation of the difference ‘’twixt right | and wrong.” Saaripox, one of the most frightful scourges that mankind can be subjected to, seems to be carelessly treated in this city, judging from the remarks of Dr. O'Sullivan at amediral meeting yesterday. He handled the subject withont gloves, and presented many Maring charges that should not be ignored by the powers that be, and which are serious | enough to call for grand jury action, The Death of Horace Binney. In the course of nature no event would be more natural than the death of a citizen in the ninety-sixth year of hisage. And yet the announcement of the death of Horace Binney will be heard throughout the country with profound regret. In the course of nature but a little time was left to him. In his death America loses one of its illustrious and honored sons, Sixty years ago Horace Bin- ney was a distinguished man. Nearly seventy years have elapsed since he was a member of tho’ Pennsylvania Legislature. Fifty years ago he was deemed fit by even as severe a critic as John Quincy Adams to be Minister to France, He began his political carcer under Jefferson; he practically closed it under Jackson, For a generation he has lived in complete retirement in Philadel- phia, preserving his remarkable faculties to the last and fading away in extreme old age. It is hard to realize in our hurrying world how many yeurs are embraced in the life of this one min, ‘He was eight years older than Byron, ten years older than Shelley. He, no doubt, sww Franklin and Washington, and was on terms of friendship with many of the great men of the Revolution, Lincoln belongs to the past. Horace Binney was old enough to have been the father of Lincoln | and the grandfather of General Grant, He was the contemporary of Dr. Samucl Johnson and Frederick the Gre: nd of that Ogle- thorpe who founded Georgia and who fought in the wars under Marlborongh and Prince Engine. (He was only eleven years younger than Napoleon, and was in fall manhood when Austerlitz was gained, Nearly a quar- ter of acentury ago Webster and Calhoun died, full of years and honor. We regard them as of a generation long past. orace Binney was older than either. When he was born this Republic was composed of thirteen colonies. Ie could well remember the ad- mission of every State into the Union, from Vermont, which came in in 1791, to the ad- mission of Nevada and Oregon, When he entered manhood the Union had little more than five millions of population, He could have voted for Jefferson and Adams in 1801 as he voted for Grant and Wilson in 1872. Te could remember the execution of Marie Antoinette and of Robert Emmet, the Reign of Terror, the career of Napoleon from Rivoli to Waterloo. When he was an active public officer the politics of America were under the control of Jefferson and Burr ; the politics of England under that of Pitt and Fox. He saw the rise and fall of empires, and that remarkable movement of thought which began with the fall of the Bastile and ended, so far as we can. see the end, with the aboli- tion of American slavery. Horace Binney’s career covered the whole life of the Republic, if we regard the forma- tion of the confederation as the beginning. Ho heard the bells which rang out the sur- render of Cornwallis, as well as those which joyfully told of the surrender of Lee. His life had become almost a sacred heritage to Philadelphia. Many and fervent have been the prayers that it would be spared till the centennial year—that one who had seen the foundation of the Republic might grace with his presence the celebration of the centenary of our independence. But this was not to be. All that remains of Horace Binney is the memory of a blameless, an honored and a useful life. He belonged to the fur past, rep- resenting its patriotism and its glory. It will be well for us in this sad time, with the degradation which has fallen upon so much of our social and political life, if we cherish well the lessons of such a career and imitate the virtues of the age in which he flourished and of the great men with whom he labored to strengthen the foundations of the Re- public. Mr. Morrissey—A Man with a Mission, Some men are moved by circumstances— they are tumbled out head foremost, perhaps. Some men move by their own energy and for their own purposes ; they tumble others out. But there is a third class of men who are moved by some vague in- fluence which they can neither comprehend nor resist, for whose movement one can per- ceive no sufficient reason in their cireum- stances, and who move toward purposes that | are evidently not their own. Men of this class are said to have a mission; they are sent, with express reference to the labor they take up. Exactly who sends them and why he does it are metaphysical mysteries— points upon which men will differ as they are born in one or another country. It is sufficient for a commonplace world to recognize these men and their missions, and the most remarkable of them in modern times have been Mr. Moddle and Mr. Mor- rissey. Mr. Moddle’s mission was a comparatively unimportant one, It was to recognize and point out the missionary character of nearly everybody else and specifically “to pipe his eye.” There is always some moral advantage toa community in the existence of a person whose recognized duty it is to be tearful. Just as the funny man, who can always per- ecive the point of the smallest joke, takes the lead in the chorus of laughter, and thus pre- vents people from looking rudely solemn on occasions meant to be mirthful, so the gen- tleman whose eyes have easy conduits pre- vents a world of impropriety on the part of a careless community that might, without him, suddenly burst into that langhter of the legs called a hornpipe, just at the moment when | it should be bowed down in lachrymose misery. At the present time this function is brilliantly filled in our part. of the world by Brother Shearman, of Brooklyn, and we thereforo ure not painfully affected by tho absence of Moddle. Such faglomen, whethor in tears or in laughter, or in the less positive points of personal demeanor, are of the great- est service to deaf people, to whom, as they lo not always get the drift of things, an ex- ample is of inestimable value at critical mo- ments. They save appearances that some- times become scandalous, as when an old lady opens her purse to pay for what it is quite impossible she could seriously wish to reward. Only think of tossing a copper To Tom or Jack, with a timber limb, Who looks a was singing a hymn, Instead of a song that's very improper. But Mr. Morrissey’s mission is altogether of a nobler sort. It is first to give the world a new evidence that “Honor and shame from no condition rise ;’ and second, to purify Tammany Uall, which is in lamentable need ’ of the process. Throughout the world om¢ would be troubled to find a more conspicu- ous evidence of the truth of Pope's line than is presented in the career of the Ajax of Sar-. atoga. Against all the facts of his past and present history there is some prejudice im the world at large; but these, prac tically, are no shame to him, and all the distinctions of Tammany politics have been no honor to him; for he was supe rior to one and dndifferent to tho other, and he stands to illustrate for the youth of the land the local and national opinion that by comparison with sturdy manhood and suc- cess all the prejudices of morality are rube bish. In the other part of his mission, the puri- fication of Tammany Hall, wo must all hope for his great success. And his success is, for that matter, not obviously difficult, for the case is such that, do what he may, he cannot make the old establishment worse than it is, But some of his notions of purification are not happy. He wants, evidently, to drive out the present occupants, and in that case we would like to know who is to purify the rest of the city, The river Rhine doth wash, "tis known, Tho filthy city of Cologne; But oh, ¥o nymphs, what power divine Shall henceforth wash tho river Rhine? With our Harlem flats and our greew peaches and the diphtheria and smallpox abroad what will be our condition if the ele ments of contamination that now hold Tam« many are let loose upon us? Aguinst this course, therefore, we protest, with all the modesty, however, due to the case of intere ference with a man who has a mission, A Srmtovs Corriston has occurred on one of the Kansas railways. As usual, it appears to have been caused by criminal carelessness in the management of the road. The collision in question presents on unusual phase in this, that the chief sufferers were railway officials. The damage was caused by a cattle train running into a special which was occu. pied by these officials. Fortunately no lives were lost, though several superintendenta and managers received severe injuries, Sydney Smith used to say “wait till they kill a bishop,” and so one good may result to tho public from this ade cident. These railway officials will have the necessity for greater care in the administra. tion of their lines deeply impressed upon their minds. There used to be akind of superstition that a train carrying the direc tors of a road was secure from danger; but this accident will bo likely to convince man- agers and directors alike that they are but mortal, and that unless they exercise con- stant vigilance they may come to gricf ag well as the mere public. . Axotuer Manger Was Suor at Creedmoot yesterday, through carelessness in firing bes fore the targets were ready. Casualties of this kind are becoming altogether too common, and something must -be done to prevent their recurrence in the future, The ruled must be more strictly enforced hereafter, and when an accident like that of yesterday oceurs it must be made tho subject of a jus dicial investigation. Carelessness is a crime that should be punished as well as othes offences, Tue Nontrenn Pacrric Rammoap, which came into notoriety through the failure of Jay Cooke and the ruin of thousands, wag sold yesterday at auction. A committee of the bondholders bought it in, and there wag a discussion on the street as to the possibla good or evil to be effected by this most un« enviable stock. ‘ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, cinasoesaeelmstuhglent? Congressman John A. Kasson, of Iowa, ts stayingat the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. Andrew G, Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Hannibal Day, United States Army, is quar tered at the Everett House, Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republica, has arrived at the Brevoort House. A recent religious riot in Toluca City, Mexico, hag been put down without loss of life. Mr. Henry ©. Kelsey, Secretary of Stato of New Jere sey, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. John Knapp, of the St. Louis Republican, has taken up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. J. HL Devereux, President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. * Mr. John W. Garrott, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, has apartments at the Brovoort House, In Great Britain there are $535,000,000 invested ts the production of alcohol, which some lunatics call potson. Brevet Brigadier General Georgo B. Dandy, United as taken up his quarters at the Metro- Fernando Wood says the Presidency 1s of no conse quence, If it's of no consequence of course Fernanda doesn't want it, Minister Orth, in Austria, reports that he fs pleased with tho people there; but the people have not bees heard from. Ts the Republican National Convention to be held ta Long Branch, and will it be held in Grant’s boots if he has a pair big enough? Tildon also says that the tssne of the day ts not money, but honesty, So it comes to Tilden’s level, and he is the “poor but honest”? candidate, The Springfield Republican reduces tho list of Pros dential candidates, with fiir prospects of success, ef three—Secrotary Bristow, Charles Francis Adams andé Governor Signor Peruzzl, the Mayor of Florence, who acceptod the invitation of the Lord Mayor of London, is the de- seendantof the bankers who lent Edward IIT. a large sum of money for war with Franée, which money was never repaid, and bankrupted the family, With interest it would be a fine snm now. Count Arnim's condition appears to be a subject of much doubt, He has been reported as at the vergo of dissolution; and now itis reported from Carlsbad that “the Swiss papers are mistaken in announcing that Count Arnim is at Lausanne and il The Count left Lausanne months ago, and the malady from which he anffors, diabetes, so far from being woree, has consider ably diminished, Ife walks daily on the public promes nades,”” Sir Robert Phillimore has decided tn the Englisty Conrt of Arches the caso that arose on tho right of a Methodist preacher to be called “reverend.”? His do cision 18, insnbstance, that there is no law as to thie title, It may be remembered that tho origin of the case was tho objection by an incumbent to the use of this title on a tombstone, and tho Conrt decides that In cumbonts have authority over tombstones generally, and that courts cannot interfore with incumbents as to point for which there is no law. One Kimbler, an English solicitor, recently addressed alettor to Mr, Gladstone, challenging him to meet him before a public meeting of his constituents and ta prove—first, that he acted rightly as the responsible adviser of the Crown in prosecuting the elatnant; see ond, that the man was not entitled to an acquittal; and third, that it would not be right and constitu- tonal to liberate him now; and calling upon him either to insist on the diveharge of the convict or resign hig reat, It isan indication of the extreme to which the respect for social ugage is carried in nd that Mir Gladstone answered this impertinent malasive, <<»