The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. chtenehcantipeimaneeint 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 Yorx Henatp will be sent free of postage. —_—-——— THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic flespatches must be addressed New York Hxnacp, Letters and packages should be properly | sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK > HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. =—-. VOLUME XL-.-.-+-++ AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Tevis place and Fourteenth street.—AROUND THE WORLD’ IN BIGHTY DAYS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, Seprersthind street and Sixth avenue,—COTTON & REED'S aes. aR M, OLYMPIC THEATRE, . No. 624 Brondway.—VARIETY, ut 6 P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. late wt Hipnaitone GEAND POPULAR CON num’: wudrom N r 5 Ger wo, Ms Clowes at li PM Matinee at 2 FM TRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘treet, near Broadway.—BIG BONANZA, at 1,10;0 P.M. Miss Sara Jewett, Ringgold. PARK THEATRE, M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. CENTRAL PARK RDEN. fHEODORE THOMAS) CONCE. at 8 P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, and Thirteenth street.—English Comic Opera— 1) ) at 8 POM. Miss Julia Matthews, Mr. G. H. Macdermott. Matinee at 1:30 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth street.—Unglish Opera—PRINCESS OF tv INDE, at 8 P.M. Mati ataP. M. THEATRE org op Pre*4 Broadway.—VARIETY, ot 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 M. Matinee at 2 P. M. B Me Thiniedh atreet-ST SLOCUM, at 8 ay, corner of Thittieth street. ; PiU; eldees at 10:49 P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth avenne, corner Twenty-thied streetAROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, at 5 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. N THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Mat- inee at 2 P. M. HOWE & CUSHING'S CIRCUS, foot of Houston street, East River.—Afternoon and evening performances. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—LADY OF LYONS, at 8. M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK. SATURDAY, AUGUST 28. 1875, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, To NEwspEALERS AND THE PuBLic:— The New Yorx Heravp runs a special train every Sunday during the season between New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and Richfield Springs, leav- ing New York at half-past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at a quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Heranp. Newsdealers and others are noti- fied to send in their orders to the Hrnarp office as early as possible. For further par- ticulars see time table. From our reporta this morning the probabilities we that the weather to-day will be warmer and clear. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Heraip mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Watt Street Yesterpax.—The market was attended with considerable’ excitement. Stocks declined and gold temporarily ad- vanced. Money on call closed at recent rates, Foreign exchange was steady. Ovr Srxctat Despatcn informs us that the rumored complications between England and China have been greatly exaggerated. There has been some misunderstanding, but it is hoped it will be settled without much difficulty. Tarvout.—There will be no necessity to use force in exacting satisfaction for the in- | salt offered to our Consul by the Tripolitan rabble. The appearance of our war ships brought the Pacha to a lively comprehension of his international duties, and he has promised that in future our Consul shall be properly protected from insult. The rioters | who insulted the Consul will be punished. These concessions remove all danger of further complications. Ratston’s Svicrnz.—President Ralston, the guiding and controlling spirit of the | California Bank, yesterday committed sui- | tide. He would not wait to meet the anger of the people ruined by the collapse of the institution in which he was a leading light. Self-murder in such cases is had recourse to a8 an escape from shame and the reproaches | of the dupes whose fortunes have been gam- bled away. It would, however, be much better for the community if speculators would recognize that the dishonor consists | in the gambling quite as much as in the dis- | covery. bia Tux Stovx.—We publish an interesting let- ter from our correspondent with the Sioux. It will be seen that the noble red man takes a very practical view of his relations to the Great Father and that a strong feeling exists against the invasion of the Black Hill coun- try. Itis, perhaps, surprising that the sav- ages bore so patiently the unauthorized pres- snee of the miners, and it argues the possi- bility of establishing permanently peaceful relations with the Indians by the adoption of an honest system of dealing with them, M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee at | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. The Great California Failure. The sudden collapse of the Bank of Cali- fornia is an event of whose magnitude ao partial idea may be formed by the fact that the simultaneous failure of the great sugar house of Ahrens & -Co., of Baltimore, is so dwarfed and. eclipsed that it was hardly _ talked abont yesterday, although, had it oc- curred alone, it would haye been the leading topic in business circles. The other San Franciseo suspensions which followed in the train of the great bank of the Pacific slope are also dwarfed into insignificance by the catastrophe which shakes and conyulses every commercial and mining interest west of the Rocky Mountains. The Bank of California has been for several years the grand pivot on which the rising business of that important region has re- | volved. The local shock is like that which | | would attend the failure of the Bank of Eng- | land in the British islands, the blind con- fidence of our Pacific States in the Bank of | | California resembling the enlightened con- | fidence of the British public in the sound- | ness and solidity of its central institution. | It is easy to show after the event how egregi- ously this confidence was misplaced, but no | wisdom is so worthless as that of people who | are ‘twise behind time.” | It is perhaps idle to trace the moral which | | results from this stupendons failure, because its chief lesson is one which those most in- | terested may be trusted to draw for them- selves, It concerns, first of all, the banking | | interest of the country—an interest which is | too intelligent to need any assistance in de- | ducing the proper moral. This great failure, | like a recent failure nearer home, is an impres- | sive warning against the folly and danger of | speculations by a banking house outside its | legitimate business. The Bank of California, which would have been a strong institution | within its appropriate sphere, plunged up to | its neck in all sorts of mining and other local | speculations, and the engulfing tide has swept over its head. Its greatest misfortune was to have an able, scheming man, like Mr. Ral- _ ston, with talent enough to make himself the banking antocrat of the Pacific slope, in its management. The other directors fancied | that everything he touched would turn into | gold, and their intoxicated admiration of his | abilities enabled him to rain an institu- | tion of great wealth and resources. There is | no kind of speculation in which Mr. Ralston did not dabble. He involved himself and his bank in the waterworks of San Fran- cisco, in the affairs of the Central Pacific Railroad, in the big bonanzas of mining speculations, in the politics of California, which he attempted to control in the in- terest of his financial schemes, and in the journalism of the State, which he tried to control in furtherance of his political and financial projects. Social extravagance, tak- ing the form of a lavish, ostentatious hospi- tality, which every Eastern visitor to San Francisco of any note has shared, was one of his favorite instruments for diffusing an idea of boundless wealth and maintaining a facti- tious credit. By such appliances he dis- tended the gorgeous bubble until it has suddenly burst. His downfall has been hastened by a dictatorial arrogance which provoked resentment and created a vigorous opposition to his autocratie control. The ‘‘bank crowd,” as it was called, consist- ing of Mr. Ralston, Senator Sharon and their associates and agents in California and Nevada, have been foiled in their operations for more than a year past by the new “crowd” of Flood, O’Brien & Co., a set of mushroom financiers who were keepers of drinking saloons seven years ago and by lucky speculations in mining stocks acquired | the means of coming into the field against the ‘bank crowd,” and have become finan- cially, and therefore politically, potent in | California. The strategy and intrigues of the | new “crowd” proved strong enough to crip- ple the Ralston ‘bank crowd” at every step, which was not a difficult task when the latter were staggering under a load of ill-judged speculations in a period of declining values throughont the world. An unlucky turn in polities, the fierce attacks of the independent press and the necessity of propping up _ sinking speculations, hastened and com- pleted the ruin of Ralston and his misman- aged Bank of California. For more thana year they have been ‘‘riding a dead horse.” | It is superfluous to warn other banks | against such fatal outside operations, but a | confiding and deluded community cannot | take the lesson of this failure too seriously to heart. Such speculating schemes and such | spendthrift extravagance of living are carried ‘on at the expense of depositors, who are gulled by a deceitful outside show of pros- perity to trust their money with rotten in- stitutions. There will be reckless bankers so long as there is a gullible public. The customers of a bank should unhesitatingly withdraw their deposits as soon as there |is evidence that it or any _per- | son connected with its management is engaged in any sort of speculation, whether in commodities, the shares of com- panies, real estate, corporate bonds, or any- thing else. All such banks are on the high- way to ruin, and however moderately they may begin at first they deserve no confi- | dence from the moment they step outside | the sphere of legitimate banking. Profuse | social display and ostentation by bankers is always a suspicious circumstance, since it | | may be a trick for advertising wealth which | does not exist and a false bid for credit and confidence. A really solid bank stands in no need of such props to support its credit, The law should compel all bankers to make frequent publication of their exact condition, including the form in which all their funds are invested, and when they ex- tend their business beyond discounting com- | mercial paper their customers should have the means of knowing the precise nature of their other transactions, their deposits, But if a bank locks up | its resources in venturesome speculations the safety of the depositors depends on the success of those speculations, and they are impelled to make a run on the bank and unsettle general confidence at the rising of every adverse wind. Depositors are entitled to know what use banks make of their funds, and they should resolutely shun not only all institutions that are known to engage in out- side speculations, but all banks that do not | make frequent public statements of their actual condition. We trust that the recent warnings will not be lost on the business public. The State should so far take super- vision of all banks as to compel them to work like bees in a glass hive, and if the community are then fools enough to make deposits with institutions that go outside the sphere of legitimate banking they can only blame themselves for their losses. It is too early to estimate the consequences of this great failure, but there is no reason to sappose it will. have any considerable effect on the general business of the country. So far as the Atlantic States and the States in the Mississippi Valley are concerned it is like a failure in a foreign country, which touches only the few creditors of the col- lapsed institution. The large and sudden transfer of gold to the Pacific coast will cause only a transient ripple in the gold market, because it will speedily come back as soon as the stress of the local panic is over. If the other California banks are as sound as they are represented to be local confidence in them will be presently restored, and the in- crease of their business by the extinction of their formidable rival will make them | more prosperous than ever. The big bo- nanza speculations which the Bank of California has been mainly supporting will, of course, fall very flat; but that is rather a topic of congratulation than regret. It is indispensable to a new and healthy start that everything finds its true level, and that the misapplied capital employed in bolstering up bad speculations be withdrawn for legiti- mate uses. This failure will contribute to the general shrinkage of values, which has been going on for some time, and when the lowest point of the ebb is reached the coun- try will be ina favorable condition for a courageous resumption of the specie basis. It can never be done with so little distur- bance as when prices have sunk by other causes to very nearly the specie standard, and the next Congress will be blind to the signs of the times if it does not make the most of the opportunity. “Farming Lands.” We are furnished a proclamation from the Land Commissioner of Jay Gould's Pacific Railroad asking us to tell the people about the rich farming lands located ‘‘in the great belt of population, commerce and wealth and adjoining the world’s highway from ocean to ocean.” We are informed that there are twelve million acres of these lands and that three millions are now forsale. The terms under which they are to be sold are ten years’ credit at six per cent interest and at the rate of five dollars anacre. ‘The country is equally adapted to corn and wheat, and there is no fever and no ague, little snow in the winter time, and with tim- ber and coal.” Nothing is said about bananas or oranges or tropical fruits, as was the custom when Jay Cooke was proposing his Northern Pacific Railway. Altogether we learn that on these three million acres in the Platte Valley there may be found every requisite of civilization. We trust that these flaming advertisements asking people to go out and live in the West- ern country, away beyond the reach of civ- ilization, will be read a second time before they are accepted by our people. The advice | to “go West” is good to a certain extent. The fault with much of the emigration to the Western country is that we spread out and do not attain results that would come if we were to concentrate upon certain advan- tageous points. In other words, as an Eng- lish critic recently expressed it, America swells but does not grow. We have certain points in the West that are strong in agricul- ture and in commerce, with every feature of civilization. But around these points—Chi- cago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Denver, Topeka— there is a vast, unimproved country. In go- ing into a country like this Platte Valley, which Jay Gould's railroad agents are so anxious to “develop,” the emigrant begins with nothing. The price of the land, five dollars an acre, added to the cost of transportation and the necessary” sub- sistence until the farm is made to pay, will make it cost a great deal more than better land nearer home. The land secured by the Union Pacific is about as bad as any land we have in the Territories. It is not a land of timber. It has only recently recovered from the grasshopper plague. Its resources are limited, We do not know any section of the United States, except, perhaps, the ex- treme southern part of New Mexico or Alaska, that we would not prefer to see occupied by emigrants than these acres which Jay Gould now offers for sale. We think, also, that our settlements should be made nearer home. Here we have Virginia, large sections of Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey and New York land still virgin, to be purchased fora small sum, adequate for a population of ten millions of people. Why not, if our people want to “go West,” go into the northern connties of Pennsylvania or into Southern New Jersey or into that beauti- ful country that lies beyond the Blue Ridge? They can find better land here than in Ne- braska, at a cheaper rate, near the seaboard, near their friends, within the shadow of the older civilization. Before we encouraye these stock-gambling enterprises to carry hard- | working, intelligent people out into the wil- derness to pay for land a great deal more than it is worth, simply to strengthen the stock of a badly handled railroad, let us see Legitimate banking is the safest business in the world, and the capital of well managed banks is a seenrity to depositors which hardly ever needs to be called into active use. Credits given on legitimate commercial paper can never involve «a cantious bane in loss, nor can notes of short date with two respon- sible signatures. The theory of sound bank- ing implies that, within periods of sixty or ninety days, a bank can call in all its loans and meet all its obligations, and when this is really the case, and depositors can be a@sured that it is the case, there is no | temptation for a sudden withdrawal of that we have thoroughly explored and devel- | oped the great country within five hundred | miles of New York. Venice again shows signs of life, and her energies begin to be displayed in works of art and utility. It may be that these Italian cities are yet destined to attain to something | of their ancient commercial importance, | Before them lie Africa and the East, and merchandise of two continents can most quickly and readily be dispersed over a great portion of Europe, | is The War in South America, In the Spanish American Republic of the United States of Colombia they are enjoying. themselves over a charming little war, organ- ized around the problem, Who shall be next President? This is a problem that some- times troubles graver people, and was once the immediate cause of a war in this happy | land of freedom ; so that we have no occasion | to point a moral over the wretched political condition of our neighbors. But, of course, | the choice of Mr. Lincoln rather than Mr. | Douglas or some other man who might have been accepted as satisfactory by the Southern extremists could not have thrown this country into war unless this event had found the nation in an excited and inflammable condition consequent upon other causes; and this also is, in a great degree, true of the Spanish Ameri- "can Republic. But in Colombia the national mind is brought to the point of combustion more easily than it is here, and it does not require the deep differences be- tween slavery and freedom and thirty years of agitation to produce a condition that lights up to a fierce blaze over a quarrel as to Presidential candidates. On the contrary, sectional rivalries seem sufficient for the pur- pose, and the tendency of the Republic to | split into a federation of coast States and a federation of interior States, with interests in some degree inimical and each regarding the other as a burden on its prosperity, is, perhaps, the real basis of difference. It was once believed in South Carolina that that State paid all the taxes, and that if it should resolutely button up its pockets the whole North would come to it on its knees; and if this could happen in a country of com aratively rational creatures it coteeyable that sectional jealous- ies may make credible in Spanish America any political romance put before the people. With this state of mind assumed it is only necessary to spread in the coast States that the government will seruple at nothing to secure the election of an interior candidate, and that the coup d'état will be its common resource. This makes necessary the appeal to ‘‘the sacred right of resistance,” and the State assumes at once a hostile attitude, and the federal forces are sent forward to put down resistance. This is the condition between the general govern- ment of the Republic and the States of Panama, Bolivia, Magdalena and Cauca. Three thousand federal troops are on the Magdalena, or perhaps already in Panama. Our own government has properly taken steps to protect the property of our citizens, who would otherwise probably be the main sufferers ; for wars like this are not bloody in that neighborhood, and the compromises of peace early smile on the division of what plunder the country affords. Mr. Wendell Phillips as a “Bloated Aristocrat.” We print elsewhere a letter of Mr. Wendell Phillips to the Legal Tender Society of New York, which is, as one might expect from so ready and practised a thinker as he is, one of the most brilliant and readable contributions which has been made in a long time to either side of the financial discussion. It is very plain that Mr. Phillips has taken the trouble to read, and had of course the ability to understand, the best writers on finance. The skill with which he evades the generally accepted conclusions of these writers is some- thing as amusing as it is wonderful, and the ability with which he touches the weak and blundering parts of our present financial system shows that the advocates of a sound currency have in him an antagonist who will force them to do, what very many of them have not yet done, understand thoroughly their own side of the question. But while Mr. Phillips is strong in attack- ing the weak places of his opponents, and in ridiculing—what deserves ridicule more than any one thing in which the public is just now interested--our present preposter- ous financial system, he no sooner develops a policy of his own than he comes out in strange colors; for who would have thought that Mr. Phillips, the Tribune of the people, was, after all, only a bloated aristocrat in dis- guise? Here is Mr. Phillips’ plan:—‘Let the government stand ready to issue all the currency any business man wishes and can give good security for at low interest and con- yertible into long bonds.” How a friend of the people ean advocate a scheme which would make the taxpayer a mere wretched beast of burden to a favored class we cannot see, Suppose Mr. Phillips’ plan were now in operation, what would re- sult? Here are many millions of dollars lying idle just now in the banks, drawing no interest, or as good as none ; but under the financial scheme of Mr. Phillips the owners of these millions would at once cart them to Washington and require Mr, Bristow, who is the agent of the people of the United States, to pay them interest on all this money. He would say, “I do not need it;” but they would reply, “You must take it; you must keep it safely for us in the gov- ernment vaults, and you must pay us interest for it. We cannot get anybody else to pay us interest.” And in Mr. Bristow’s next report we should find a heavy item figuring as ‘‘interest for money which the Treasury did not need; but which Mr. Phillips made it borrow.” How would this preposterous favoritism benefit the poor, whose friend Mr. Phillips is? Or, on the other hand, suppose a laborer, a mechanic, a small farmer, wants money, as so many now do. He goes to the Treasury and states his needs. Does he get money under Mr. Phillips’ plan? Not at.all. The Secretary replies, ‘‘We lend money, but only on good security.” That is to say, Mr. Phillips would have the government lend only to the rich. We do not doubt he means well; Dut he has blundered, and we confess he does not cut a nice figure as a “bloated aristocrat.” We Pvprisn in another column an inter- esting letter on the condition of the French press. The great nation has not yet acquired | the knowledge of the value which a truly | free and independent press renders alike to governors and the governed. yesterday at the Evangelical Convention, very nearly caused a ministerial row. Some of the temperance advocates showed them- selves, in their speech, intemperate, Mr. Kergh in a New Roles We should be truly sorry to see this sym- pathetic friend of the dumb creation aban- don his noble mission, and we must, there- fore, resist the temptation to invite him toa place on the Heratp staff as our arbiter ele- gantiarum and final judge on points of taste. But we tender our respectful acknowledg- ments for the advice he deigns to give us in the letter herewith published as to the proper management of a newspaper, and are quite willing that all our contemporaries should adopt it, although we fear it will be lost upon the Heraxp, which will continue to Shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise— a figure which that polished barbarian, Pope, having died too early to have his taste refined by Mr. Bergh, drew from the naughty prac- tice of shooting hirds. As our humanitarian friend has time to lesture the press on the duty “of creating and sustaining an intel- lectual, tasteful and moral tone of public thought,” we beg his pardon for suggesting that he direct his labors to the plastic minds of the young, and print ex- purgated editions of the ancient classics upon which their taste is formed in their early studies. There are captivating descrip- tions of pigeon shooting in the “Iliad” and the ‘ineid,” and as Homer and Virgil are likely to remain the basis of classical educa- tion long after Mr. Bergh’s praiseworthy labors shall have ended he had better procure the publication of editions that omit all those lively descriptions of popular games and amusements which bear so close a resem- blance to what he reprobates in the Hrranp. It might be objected that the pictures of ancient society would be mutilated by they excision, but not more than the pictures of our contemporary life would be by the sup- pression which Mr. Bergh advises in the modern press, The Hxraxp is a photograph of modern life in all its varied and ever- shifting phases, and Mr. Bergh’s censure falls with the same weight upon the most admired models of literature that it does upon us. Can he have forgotten that animated description of a stag hunt in the opening canto of Scott’s ‘Lady of the Lake?” In his ; Tue Question of temperance, brought up | they are once more the ports by which the | next letter we beg him to de- nounce the violations of taste, morals and humanity in that beautiful poem, in which the noble stag, after thrice swimming the lake from shore to shore, sobs with fright and exhaustion. All the steeds but one give over, and that one, reeking with foam in the pursuit, falls dead in his tracks. What a sinner against taste and humanity was Sir Walter Scott, who ‘‘prostituted” his great gifts of description on such scenes Mr. Bergh will see that he has a great deal to reform besides the Heratn's lively reports of current events. He must lay his reforming, some might say his Vandal hand, on the choicest specimens of elegant literature. When he tries his hand again as a literary censor let him favor us with a dissertation on the pigeon shooting scenes in the two great epic poets, and demonstrate, against the universal opinion of scholars, their immoral tendency and want of taste. We do not suppose that the truly good Mr. Bergh quite aspires to “turn the crank of the universe,” but should he ever rise to so sub- lime a function we trust he will rectify the original inhumanity of creating beasts and birds of prey and venomous serpents, which live by “‘cruelty to animals.” Do the harm- less birds suffer more by being shot than if torn by hawks and vultures? They really endure less pain than domestic animals slaughtered for food. What has Mr. Bergh to say to the grouse shooting, which, at this season of the year, is the favorite amusement of half the cultivated gentlemen of England ? They wound a far larger proportion of birds that escape and suffer than happens in prize shooting. What the multitude admire in such sports is the skill of the marksmen, and the sureness of aim which is thus encouraged and cultivated brings instant death to the birds. ‘An Irish Vision, Those who have studied the history of the glorious monarchs of the past, when Brian Boroihme and his brother kings, who now rest with God, were the rulers of green Ireland, will remember that it was only when they began quarrelling with each other, and in- vited the Saxon and Dane to take part against their own brethren, that the end came. Terrible was their fate. The old kingdoms were destroyed. The lands were occupied by the alien. The royal children of the O'Morrissey and the O’Donohue, the O’Connolly and the O’Brien were driven to other lands to seek the fame and honor denied them at home. They wandered all over the world. The struggle between the O'Morrissey and the O'Kelly will in like manner bring upon us the hordes of Yankee adventurers who are hungering for the pos- session of New York. Those who know the history of this island know that for two cen- turies these shrewd, unscrupulous, money- loving, wooden-nutmeg-carving and cedar- ham-manufacturing Yankees have been coy- eting this great metropolis, They would hold our rich places. Already they have made insidious advances. If their progress is not checked what will be the fate of those noble men who for the last generation have ruled New York? Well may the bards who sing the woes of the downfall of the Irish kings record their misfortunes. Think of that fine procession of statesmen, sons of Mullingar and ‘Tipperary, no longer in the enjoyment of rich and high office, slowly tramping every morning up to the Fourth avenue improvement to work in the rocks at one dollar and sixty centsa day ! We see at the head of this solemn group the Hon. Dennis O’Quinn, candidate for the Chief Jus- ticeship of the Court of Appeals, a discerning man, who first “viewed with alarm the growth of the German population in ‘this country of ours.” We see Denny O'Burns, of Sligo, slowly panting after, his quiet dinner snugly ensconced in a tin can. We see the handsome O'Creamer, a pick upon his shoul- der, those cyes that have looked eloquence to wondering Senates hungry, dull and cold. Wesee ex-Senator O'Brien, the great reformer, with his wheelbarrow, ready to earn a dollar by # hard day’s work, We see the O'Kelly, once chiefof Tammany Hall, who, having been | 2 mechanic, as he informed us, will find no difficulty in carrying bricks and mortar up the long and weary ladder. We seo the mas- sive brain of ex-Judge O’Dowling panting with honest industry over the burdensome blocks of granite and sadly driving them into place. We see O’Waterbury and the O'Roosevelt, the O’Brennan and the ODono- hue sitting side by side in the brief hour that follows the hot noon, eating their homely dinners out of their cans and wiping the honest sweat from their brows. We see Colonel Tom O’Dunlap and the aromatic Brigadier General Douglas O’Taylor, the twa great fighting men, diligently mixing the lime and the sand. Over them we see some long- legged, pale-eyed, leather-skinned, sharp- toothed, cadaverous New England Yankee, with a rod of iron, docking those who aré late, censuring those who go home early—in his person a type of the triumph of the for. eigners over the rulers of the soil. A This is only one of the sorrows that wil) come unless our rulers will make peace, Just as surely as the Danes and Saxons pos- sessed the lands of Brian Boroihme and hia brother kings, those illustrious monarchs of the past, who now rest with God, just so surely will the Yankee be the conqueror of New York. A Bliss and a Cornell, a Daven- port and a Phelps will sit on the thrones of the O’Creamer, the O’Morrissey and the O'Kelly. We shall no longer be scourged with whips but with scorpions. Spary.—The fall of Seo de Urgel wilh be likely to damage seriously the cause of Car- lism in Spain. The forces of the Pretender are disheartened by frequent reverses, and the government at Madrid seems determined to make a supreme effort to put down the insurrection in the North. If proper energy were displayed in the prosecution of the war Spain would be saved thousands of valuable lives and much treasure. People who thought Don Carlos was about to occupy Madrid can now see their error. The Spanish nation does not look with favor on the theories of socialistic republicans, but the tendency of public thought in’ the Pe- ninsula is strongly toward liberalism, The day when a reactionary, divine-right king was possible in Spain has long since passed— never, we hope, to return, Monmovurn Park.—There was yesterday. brilliant assemblage at Monmouth Park, and great interest was manifested in the pro- ceedings. Some unpleasant feeling was caused by the alleged “pulling” of Donny- brook by her rider on the first day, and the consequent swindling of persons who had been induced to bet on the ‘gray mare,” This is a very serious charge, and should be at once inquired into. If such acts be toler- ated horse racing must soon lose its interest for the public. The blackleg element should be carefully eliminated from the sporting fraternity. Parne on Bocanpus.—Ira Paine evidently does not agree with Captain Bogardus’ opinion of his own exploits while in Eng- land. He is opposed to the abolition of the “boundaries” in pigeon shooting because it might lead to the practice of fraud. Accord ing to his views Captain Bogardus did not meet the best English shots, and therefore his championship cannot be accepted se- riously. Tux Nor Mvurver.—Yesterday a Coroner's jury was empanelled in the case of Mr. Noe, the unfortunate gentleman who met his death in astruggle with a burglar in Greenwich street. In order to allow the police time ta seéure the murderer, to whom they seem ta possess no clew, no evidence was taken. Crrepmoor.—The members of the Ameri+ can rifle team will make their first appear- ance since their return to America before the targets to-day at Creedmoor. The occa- sion of the meeting is the competition for the Remington Diamond Badge. Without doubt there will be a notable assemblage of rifles men to welcome the victors to their old battle Boo psi hee op . Tre Question of who will succeed to the Papacy is fully discussed in our Roman let- ter. It is a subject that must interest all Christians, without distinction of sect. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Postmaster General Jewell returned to Washington yesterday morning. Baron R, Osten Sacken, of Russia, is sojourning at the Hoffnan House, All they want now in the front of the new Post Olfice is a clock. Poor fellows up in that balloon! bottles they had with them! State Senator Daniel H. Cole, of Albion, N. ¥., is stay- ing at the Metropolitan Hotel, r Rear Admiral Recd Werden, United States Navy, it quartered at the Everett House. Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is onoe more registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Jef Davis has fallen into Redpath’s hands, and seems likely to acquire a national reputation, Mr. George Jerome, Collector of the Port of Detroit, arrived last evening at the St. Nicholas Hotel. “Cheap edition of Ben Butler with the brains left out’ is the latest diagnosis of the Ohio Carey. At Marblehead they fish with nitro-glycerine, and the beach is covered with dead fish after every explosion. Morgan has been seen in Asia Minor with the masons close behind him. He was inquiring for Prester John. Sofior Don M. J. Yrarrazaval, a member of the Chilian Congress, is residing with his family at the Clarendon Hotel. . General J. K. Moorhead, of Pittsburg, and Mr, J. D. Cameron, of Harrisburg, have apartments at the Bi voort House, Mr, William D, Bishop, President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, is at the Everett House, Grant holds fast to Delano from the want of a man to put in his place, Yet Tilden pardoned five or six good candidates the other day, O'Connor Power, M. P., who has announced his ine tention to visit the United States, was to have sailed on the Brittania, which left Liverpool yesterday, Thore was a man found dead in Rhode Island with three pairs of trousers on, It was thought that if he had only had two pairs on he could have got in alive, To Morrissey Ohio looks as if the people were going one way, with Bill Allen and the platform another, while Tharman “straddles the blind.”"—New Orleans Republican. Mr, Morton's reason for not talking about the next Prosidential campaign is that “he don’t know anything about it!? But that never keeps him from talking about finance. Said a sable gom’man to his better half:—“Nebber seed sich times since T been born, Work all day an¢ steal all night, and blest if I can hardly mike a livin’, Rome (Ga.) Commercial. The Louisville Courier Journal says:—“Lamar goes to New England and ts treated like a dog.” We saw Lamar gnawing at a bone at a hotel and he seemed to be enjoying himself, —Boston Herald. President Grant made aspece) | Rhode Island, He was introdaced to “a gentleman from Woonsocket, sixteen miles up the Blackstone,” ‘Sixteen miles in Rhode Island?” said the President. “Incredible!” Josse Pomeroy owes his life thus far to a The Governor urges commutation, but the But how many fuses to commute, and the Governor refuses to sign the death warrant. So Jesse can neither be hanged nor te ; Off till they get @ now administration.