The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1875, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUPSCRIBERS.—On and efter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Youx Henarp will be sent free of postage. —— THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in te year, Foar cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches mast be addressed New Youx Mrnap Letters and peckages should be properly wealerl Rejected communications will not be re- tarneL LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALDNO. 46 FLERT STREET. PARIS OFFICE RUE SCRIBE. Bubseriptions and advertim ments will be received and forwarded om the same terms oe in New York _ vOLOME Xt = FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Sere, goes Brvedway.~ ERICA JUYEE- A TROUPE at 8 FM, closes at 1080 PM. Cada y Moron COLONEL INNS PARK THEATRE, Brookiys—VABIETY, at SPM. clown at 10.40'P. 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Money on call loans, 1) and 2 per cent Rescmrtion.—It will be seen by our Washington despatches that the government has in view some measures that contemplate preparation against the exigencies of the fixed day for resumption of specie payments, Jostice!—What an amiable and grand- motherly old person Justice is in this neigh- borhood may be seen by a pernsal of the testimony in the increase of crime investiga- tion, espedially where it is shown that a murderer went free because of the little in- formality that tie official prosecution failed to show that the murdered man was dead. Mrs. Mosner, the widow of the burglar | jo is their best man, for he is not; not be- | killed last winter at Bay Ridge, is very posie tive that Charley Ross is alive, and, as there is good reason to believe that she knows, this assurance will be received with great satisfaction by the hundreds of thousands of persons who have become interested in this terrible story of real life. Her utterances in en interview elsewhere given are of conse- quence at the present stage of this case, Tue Krxcspnince Roan.—The Committee on Roads of the Board of Aldermen had be- | fore it yesterday the various projects with | regard to this road, and heard the rival views of those who favor the different plans. No definite action was taken, but a meeting was appointed for Wednesday next, at which, it is hoped, there will be a full representation of property holders on the route, prepsred to decide either in favor of having the work done by the day or by contract. There seems little doubt but that the contract system is far the least wasteful and altogether the most | satisfactory, and that the project of the ap- | plication of the day's work system is only a acheme for plundering the property owners ; but these must come ont and protect them- selves. Tox Caszronsta Bann.--If there was any or Considerable feverish- | | to democratic rule NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, .1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. They Cannot “Stoop to Conquer.” A thoughtful man cannot just now ‘‘sur- vey the wondrous field” of democratic poli- ties without a feeling even stronger than dis- democratic leaders only a sort of fatuous and purblind misconduct, which forces one to think they have lost the art of governing. In the West, where polities are most lively, we see the democrats supporting inflation, which means repudiation, dishonor and gen- | eral ruin; and no man of them all with courage sufficient to enter a manly protest against the blunder‘of his party. But this is not all. It is not enough that they should deal with the financial question in Ohio, Kentucky and elsewhere as though they believed that the American people were a set of common swin- | dlers. We see them lending themselves in Ohio to an attack on the common schools, as | though it were not a fact that nothing is so dear to the mass of the American people, | nothing is guarded by them so jealously, as | their common school system. If we turn to the city of New York matters | are no better. There is no agreement among | the democratic leaders. Kelly is so care- | fully and vigorously turning his com- | peers out of Tammany that it now | Seems probable there will be no Tam- | many organization left by next August. The leading democrats are playing a | game of cutthroat with each other, and are so intent on slaying their rivals that they | give no thought to a policy. There is Mr. | Tilden, to he sure. He is New York's candi- date for the Presidency, but he has very nearly succeeded already in counting him- self out. He appears to be demoralized by the eminence he has reached. He challenges | the remarks of the respectable public by his | whispered conferences with the athlete of the democracy, and, as though that were not @nough, he has been hippodroming about | the State of late in a manner which has made even his friends smile. For what is the use of Governor Tilden telling us at | great length and in divers places what he | has accomplished in the way of. reform? | We all know that. He has done a good deal; not so much perhaps as he seems to think, _ for he has had very able helpers, and he had _ the whole press and the whole people to | back him. If he had opposed reform he | wonld have been swept away into worse than | obscurity. But we all know Mr. Tilden’s | good works in the past. What we are anx- jous to khow is what he proposes for the future. He wants to be President. Every- bedy knows that. Very well—What would he do if he were President? That is a ques- _ tion of real public interest and impor- tance, especially when his party every- where seems to be going to the dogs. If Mr. Tilden wants to speak let him tell us | what would be his financial policy; what he thinks of the blunders his party is making | everywhere on many important questions. | Let him show us that he isan honest and | sensible and @ourageous democrat—a true | leader and guide of his party, which is just | now straying about in the wilderness, with- | out, apparently, a ghost of an idea of the | true paths. If he should say that this would look like a bid for the Presidency, we ask | him what in the name of common sense his | Tecent progress through the State was but | just that? The demoralization and disorganization of the democratic party is a serious thing for the country, because it necessarily increases | the demoralization of the republican party also. If to-day the democrats presented a firm and united front, based on sound and statesmaniike principles, and offering an honest and truly American policy, the repub- lieans would be seriously embarrassed. They would hasten to reform their ranks; | they would drop out the bummers, who toa large extent possess the party machinery; | they would put their best men forward on a | sound platform. If the attitude ot the | democrats throughout the country to-day made their success next year probable Mr. Delano would leave the Cabinet overnight. If the democrats had persuaded the country that they would give it honest and wise govern- ment the republicans would already be selecting the very ablest man they could find for their candidgte next year, and the third | term would no longer be a possibility. But, | as it is, everybody sees that nothing is so | | probable to-day as the renomination of Gen- ‘ eral Grant by the republicans—not because | cause they are fond of him, for most of the leading republicans both-fear and hate him; j not even because they like his policy, for | only a very small part agree with him; but | simply because on the issues which the democrats foolishly bring up, and which, if they were wise, would not appear at all, for | they are dead issues— on these questions it is plain that General Grant can rally the coun- | try against the democrats. He has the party machinery in his hands and knows admirably how to use it; he has courage, inflexible will, | audacity, self-possession, and, so far as he | believes in anything, he is opposed to infla- | tion and to all the follies which the demo- erate are just now lending themselves to. The truth is that the democrats are fright. | ening the country back into the republican party. They are preparing the way for a third term; for if the next election is to be carried by « sort of panic revulsion against the democratic leaders then’ it is clear to everybody that General Grant will be the nominee. The country is certainly opposed to third term ; bat if the democrats go on os they are going i? will prefer a third term it will rash to Grant out of aversion to and suspicion of the demo- crate. That is the real danger in our polities fact that imagination might have fixed to.day; and the danger of a third term comes, upon as the only one that could have pot from the republicans, but from the heightened the clement of financial ro- democrats. mance in the story of this institution it must have been that it shonld resume; that the fragments of credit and wealth scattered by the great explosion should be gathered up and put together again; that the ‘company of nabobs whose names are famous "fn the connection should put themselves down for the necessary millions to bridge the awful gulf that yawned betwoen the assets and the liabilities, and thus set the great machine fairly on its feet again. Certainly this was a possibility calenlated to give to the story a splendor quite unlikely to be seen by human eyes; yet it will be noted by car despatch that this possibility is to be some a sober fact. Frontier Troubles. For « long while our relations with the Mexican authorities have been delicate be- canse of the depredations of Mexican ma- randers on the Texas frontier, and now they are likely to be farther complicated by the occurrence of similar outrages in a new place. Our San Franciseo despatch re- counted yesterday the adventures of a Mr. Castillo, who went from Tuscon, in Arizona, over the frontier into Sonora on a commercial journey, and who was only saved from sum- mary execntion by the timely arrival of a ransom of twenty thousand dollars. This , is a new feature in our frontier life, Advene | ‘ gust. Wherever he looks he will see in the | | tures of this kind occur to English travellers | in Spain, in Greece and in Italy, and they | may ocenr in any country infested with | brigands and whege there is not vigor enongh in the government to repress this sort of | murderons enterprise. They have not hith- | erto troubled our people. But the ease in | which this occurs is simplified for us by the | fact that the national frontier rans between | Mr. Castillo’s home and the place where his | friends were compelled to purchase his life. | Our authorities are not under obligation to | hunt down these brigands. They may leave | that to the Mexican authorities ; but they | can readily find in the City of Mexico those | whe are responsible to us for the offence, and | if the facts have been fairly stated there cannot fail to be a demand for indemnity. | Investigation will, of course, go first, for all this frontier ground is difficult and uncer- tain, Far less has been said by the press of the country about the troubles on the Rio Grande than would have been said if it were “outrage mill” in operation there also as well as in certain of the Southern States. Opinion has not declared itself very defi- nitely as to whether this ‘‘outrage mill” is worked in the interests of the government, which might not object to a little war in certain political contingencies, or whether it is in the interest of railroad schemers or mine schemers, who can see their advantage in the hostile collision of the two countries. In some degree a similar doubt may trouble the settlement of this case on the Northern frontier. There are some gigantic projects | for the annexation of Sonora to the United States, and it is in the interest of the projectors to make as much trouble as possible of the sort fitted to excite the indignation of our people, and this fact will dampen the ardor of all acquainted with these man@uvres until | inquiry shall demonstrate whether this out- rage is not a little job put up for the Ameri- can eagle. ° From Bear to Ball, The notion which some people seem to have that Mr. Jay Gould is just now a valu- able member of the comtmunity because he is supporting a stock market which, but for his interposition, would fall to a lower, and, perhaps, a much lower level is ridiculous. Mr. Gould was for along time a bear, en- gaged in tearing things down. It pleased him to be a bear because he wished to buy cheap, and he did not care particularly who was ruined when he broke the market. Of late he has changed, and has become a ‘‘bull” | because he wants to sell dear what he bought cheap, and, indeed, some things which prob- ably he did not buy very cheap. Now, as formerly, when he was a “bear,” he is solici- tous for his own interest alone. He is a tol- erably frank man, and it would make him | smile to, be accused of solicitude for the pub- lic interests, If of late, on anumber of oc- casions, he has bought heavily on the stock market, that was to prevent the market going down, and he wants the market to keep up because he cannot afford to have it go down. He is generally believed to be what the street calls ‘heavily loaded,” and he naturally wishes to “unload” at a high price. ‘The market, however, is shaky, and any at- tempt to unload would send stocks tumbling about his ears. Hence he has to buy when he would prefer to sell. It is nota pleasant | situation for Mr. Gould, but we do not see | that the public has any interest in support- | ing his attempts to bolster up the market by | artificial means. On the contrary, the clear interest of the public is that prices shall easily and surely find their natural level. Nobody wants a panic, but the way to pre- vent a panic is to leave events to bring their natural consequences. To tamper with a market, to bolster it up artificially, may put off the evil day for a little while, but only to make a crisis when it comes more fatal, more disastrous. Let the market alone, say some, and we shall have more failures. Very well. But only those wills fail who ought to. It is a natural process by which the weaklings are weeded out. But tamper with the market at a critical time like the present, and some day strong and weak may tumble together, with only one imperious and not very scrupulous specula- | tor to stand by and laugh at the general ruin, | as on a certain Black Friday. The stock market is just now in an unnatural condi- | tion—a black thunder cloud hovers threaten- ingly over it. We repeat our advice to sen- | sible people to stand from under. No one | ean tell what will happen next. The cloud | may not burst, but it may, and it is sure to burst at an unexpected moment. When it | has burst wo shall have a chance of fair | weather, but not before. The Lumber Yard Murder, The Coroner has finished with this case without any discovery having been made which can throw lighton the murderer. It might have been taken for granted, on gen- eral principles, that no discovery of the mur- derer would have been made, because no discovery of a murderer is ever made in this city where the case is obscure. From that point of view, therefore, the subject has no interest; but in some other respects it is one of the most remarkable of recent crimes. It is, in the first plage, the murder of a citizen of « kind of which apparently there are weveral thousands to spare. There was a stolen watch in the drama, Either the mur- dered man picked a pocket, or some asso- ciate who did piek a pocket passed the stolen wateh to him ina hurry in the street; but they were so clumsy in their operations that the owner of the watch was able to follow his property and pursue this victim, not to errest him and hand him over to the police. He evidently knew the futility of such a course, He might have known it, for just then the papers were filled with the reports of that legislative investigation which ex. posed the police operations. He did not denounce the robber, but shot him down in his treks and walked away safely in broad daylight, It is a strange story; but it has the one redeeming feature that it seems to exhibit to the thieves that there are honest men in than the thieves themselves under provoca- tion, if a so Mn. Detaxo’s retirement from the Cabinet is to take place in October, and he is to | | retire only to save the President from embar- rassment and not because he has betrayed any trast, “Let no guilty person escape.” not for a general suspicion that there is an | ‘The Third Avenue and Rapid Transit, The day is close at hand when the Rapid Transit Commissioners are required, by the jaw under whieh they were appointed, to report the route and plan of the proposed steam railway. For reasons which are doubt- less more satisfactory to themselves than to the com mynity they have kept their proceed- ings secret; but the people will have no lasting quarrel with them on that score if the upshet of their deliberations shall prove satisfactory. We have at present nothing to Say oF suggest relating to the plan of con- struction, because, in the multitude of projects pressed upon their notice, we can make allowance for the embarrassment which must attend a choice, and because we regard the plan, despite its great importance, as a minor question. Amid the multitude of proffered plans there are probably three or four which would work very well and fulfil the requisites of safety and economy. The fundamental question on which the success or failure of the enterprise is staked | is the selection of a route, and this is the easiest problem presented to the Commissioners for solution, provided they have the courage and honesty to act in the interest of the city, unswerved by the | protests and opposition of wealthy corpora- tions. We are confident that the Commis- sioners cannot be either seared, cajoled or | bribed to betray the city by selecting a route which would repel capital and obstruct pub- lic convenience, But the route they ought to select is so manifest that they could not disappoint popular expectation without ex- posing themselves to dishonoring imputa- tions. ? It is evident that the west side of the city is excluded from serions consideration by the fact that it has already a rapid transit road, which is running frequent trains and growing in usefulness by enlarged accommo- dations. The Greenwich Street Elevated Railway takes passengers from the Battery to Thirty-fourth street in less than twenty minutes, connecting at Thirtieth street with the local trains on the Hudson River Railroad. It is tolerably adequate to present wants on that side of the city. Broadway is excluded by law, and a rapid transit road cannot run through the Central Park. The Rapid Transit Commissioners could have decided without deliberation, on the day of their first meeting, that they had no choice but to select some route on the east side of the city. The law under which they act prohibits them from* laying out a road on Fourth avenue above Forty- second street, so that they are practically limited to some route between the Fourth avenue and the East River. It ought not to be too near the river, partly because the Harlem boats furnish tolerable accommoda- tion, but chiefly because it would be a great inconvenience to the city population to go so far out of their way to reach the cars. It is too obvious for argument that the Third ave- nue is the only route that would really ac- commodate the public. It can be said of that route what can be said of no other, that it is continuously built up, on both sides, all the way to Harlem Bridge and for several miles beyond. Moreover, its population is large in proportion to the number of houses. There are few which are not tenanted by several families, and the great stream of travel which overcrowds the surface road on that avenue is a conclusive proof that there is no other route on which a rapid transit road would receive so many passengers, or which would so certainly tempt capital into the enterprise by the cer- tainty that the road would pay dividends at once. If the Commissioners do not decide upon this route, of which the advantages are so clear and incomparable, their motives will be exposed to the gravest suspicions. What honest motive could they have for selecting aroute which would not accommodate the greatest number of people? How could they clear themselves from the charge of intend- ing to defeat rapid transit if they do not take the only route which can attract capital? This is a question of which the public is as competent to judge as the Commissioners, and if they do not decide it in accordance with common sense the only conceivable ex- planation will be that the Third Avenue Horse Car Company has reached them by ar- guments more potent than all those which are founded on the public convenience, " Railway Morals in Railway Building. Aside issue has been introduced into the | city who can be worse | controversy between Mr. Welsh, of Philadel- phia, and the Indian Department, which is not without some importance. Mr. Welsh, in a published letter, charged the Secretary of the Interior with having, in an official re- port, informed the people that the stock on the Northern Pacific Company had all been subscribed. Mr. Welsh contended that this conveyed to the people the idea that the stockholders had all paid in a certain sum of money, the trath being that no such sums had been paid, and that the only money applied to the construction of the road arose from the sale of the bonds. To this statement the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Cowan, responds that Secretary Delano, in making his report, simply quoted from the report of the President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The agent of that company now writes atother letter, admitting that the only money paid by the stockholders was for the purchase of bonds; that no money was paid for stock, j and that no one ‘not an inmate of an idiot | asylum” ever believed to the contrary. Now, if the Northern Pacific Railroad was built solely by the proceeds of the bonds, then the question arises, Who owned that franchise? If the stockholders paid nothing for their shares how did they obtain them? | What value was given for the use of this great property? How much money did these | stockholders pay for this vast land grant? Are we to suppose that Congress in voting | the land subsidy meant to give the property toa group of speculators who were not to | | pay acent for the privilege, but to borrow | | money upon this gift? And how was the in- | terest paid on the Northern Pacific Railroad | bonds during the time of their selling? Is | it possible that this came out of the proceeds | of other bonds? | All these are questions that might well be asked in looking over our disastrous railway enterprises for the last few years. We trast the first thing the democratic Congress will | investigate these different schemes, Let us find ont what became of the stock of the Northern Pacific Railroad, to whom it was awarded, who paid for it, and what were the inside operations of this gigantic, lamentable scheme, Trae Reform, We hear occasionally from the West and Canada stories of the organization of ‘‘social- istic” societies or movements ‘‘in favor of the Commune and internationalism.” We have no doubt there are many things in our modern life that should be remedied, Some- times we feel ourselves arriving at a conclu- sion, so frequently expressed, that this world is largely a world of shams and that it will only be purified by consuming fire. Society festers with frauds. We see pretension in high places. We have the bartenders of yes- terday ruling the money markets of to-day. Mutual admiration, deception, intrigue, take the place of honest and free criticism. We have in the pulpit a tendency to super- sede the worship of the meek and holy Jesus by the worship of gush and senti- ment and “true inwardness.” Our busi- ness is based upon a crumbling foundation. We have men, not without influence in their community, preaching repudiation. Good, honest gold is to be supplanted by rags and dust and clamshells. We have humbugs in our political life—mountebanks who caper from one station to another, gaining political advancement by deception and who use their public station to deceive the people and minister to their own advantage. An age which has seen the Crédit Mobilier, tho Tammany Ring, the Canal Ring, the land grabbing Congresses, the fall of Jay Cooke and William ©, Ralston, back pay, the salary grab and other strange and debasing phe- nomena, may look without surprise upon these internationalist communistic movements. The way to reform society is not to repeal the Ten Commandments. This is where the Communists blunder. It is not by going ahead into dangerous and forbidden pas- sages that we can purify the age. We cannot strengthen the marriage relation, for in- stance, by abolishing the seventh command- ment and fashioning new theories of free love and elective affinities and ‘true in- wardness” and ‘nest-hiding.” This only leads us into deep and appalling abysses. Whatever evil society may suffer from the temporary triumph of quacks and frauds, and the injustice that too often marks the administration of law, it is much better than to accept the wild theories of these re- formers, who, to recast society, would revive the worst phases of the Reign of Terror and the Commune. There is no reason for the Commune in America, If labor is illy re- quited a workingman can go to the great West, beyond the mountains. There are mill- ions of acres awaiting him. The man who finds life a burden in New York has only to found a home in Virginia or New Jersey. Cheap land is the remedy for suffering labor. As to the theories about society and religion, we think that the best way to improve our modern life is to go steadily back to the Ten Commandments. What was writ- ten on the tablets of stone is the best chart for our guidaneé after all. The further we drift from that Divine record the more we are troubled—the more debasing becomes our so- cial life. True reform is that which teaches the Gospel as written in the Scriptures. This is the best form of communism. Let us have a society, therefore, for enforcing the Ten Commandments, and its success will do more for all classes, rich and poor, than any possi- ble combination of communism and socialism, The Revolt of the Sclavs, Every new event having any relation to the revolt in the Turkish provinces renders less likely a peaceful solution of the diffi- culties. In the insurrectionary neighbor- hood the rising has stimulated the liberal parties to such a degree that the most ex- treme counsels prevail and tend to precipi- tate action on the wildest theories ; while in Constantinople the reports of the revolt have evidently stirred up the sleepy Moslem soul and provoked the reflection that there can never be peace till the infidels are ex- terminated ; and this has led to a reactionary change in the government which bodes the application to the insurgents of all the hor- rors of Moslem cruelty. Hence every hour moves further apart those between whom, with happier counsels, there might have been some compromise and the estab- lishment of peace on a reasonable basis. Meantime the governments that must be- come intermediaries, armed or unarmed, at the right moment, have assumed a diplo- matic reserve. They are reported to have informed the Porte that they will put no obstacles in the way of its repressive efforts. ‘This means that they do not at present regard the insurrection as having assumed such a | necessarily uncontrollable character as would justify interference. Even Russia and Aus- tria are not prepared to act in the affairs of other nations with such indecent haste as characterized the action of the British Minis- try against us in the beginning of the late war. It also means, however, that they have confidence in the ability of the insurgents | to sustain themselves. In short, they will wait, and by and by, when the insurrection- ary elements have fought two or three battles, and stirred up the sympathy and enthusiasm of the people of other countries, and when the Turks have caught some detachments in isolated places and butchered them, to the horror of mankind, then, apparently, the Northern Powers will step in and reconstruct the map of Turkey. Tue Pm Nvtsance,—Our readers will bo glad to learn that the obnoxions pie stand in the new Post Otflice is to be removed, Post- master James, having ascertained that the question lay within his province, has once more shown an earnest desire to follow pub- lic opiniou by announcing that on and after Saturday tho sale of refreshments will be prohibited in the new building. Mr. James thus affords another proof of his fit- ness for the responsible position he holds, and is to be commended for his promptness. The question of pies may seem # very trivial matter to some, but it is in little things that we find the seed of growing evils, and one pie stand would naturally lead to others. It is always best, as in this instance, that the nuisance be nipped in the bud. Mr. James having cleansed the inside of his building, | Unbearable, clear of all huckster stands by the Aldermen, or whoever has the power to provent such eyesores. Let us have at least one public building in New York free from disfigurement and wholly devoted to the purposes for which it was built. The Point of Honor in a Cabinet. A Western correspondent writes us that in his opinion the Hrnatn’s thecry about Cabi- net resignations is all wrong. “You would arrange matters so that a bad President would have a Cabinet as bad as himself,” he writes, ‘and you do not seem tosee that this would be bad for the country.” To this we reply, that on the contrary it would be good for the country. What the country needs is a consistent administration. Then the people would see clearly where re~ sponsibility for misgovernment or corruption lies, and they would go to the polls with clear ideas of the remedy. For instance, here is General Grant’s Cabinet. It contains Mr. Delano; it for a long time contained also Mr. Williams. These men would hava fatally disgraced the administration had not Messrs. Fish and Jewell and Bris« tow consented ‘to serve with them, Had they refused one of two things would have happened—either General Grant would have let them go, in which case he would have stood confessed before the public as na better than Delano and Williams ; or, as ia more probable, he would have preferred the society of Messrs. Fish, Bristow and Jewell, and would let Delano go. The refusal of re« spectable members of the Cabinet to remain with Delano would show the President~ whose chief vice is carelessness about publia business—just where he was going, and would probably induce him to dismiss Mr. Delano, Thus the best interests of the coun try require that Cabinet Ministers should ba rigorous on the point of honor. And it ig certain that when they are not so, but ara subservient to their chief in such a matter as this, they themselves lose the confidence of the country. While Mr. Delano remains in the Cabinet the other members, if they also remain, make themselves a party to his mal- administration and bolster up his misdeeds, That is not a pleasant thought to theis friends, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Prince Teck is a great adept in swimming in the Boyton suit, Rey. Dr, J. Ireland Tucker, of Troy, is staying at the Hoffman House. Capta'n Cook, of the steamship Russia, is quartered at the Brevoort Honse. Rey. Dr. William Rudder, of Philadelphia, is sojourn- ing at the Brevoort House. Rear Admiral Charles 8. Boggs, United Sates Navy, ia residing at the Everett House, General James S. Negley, of Pittsburg, yesterday are rived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, hag arrived at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. W. T. Wright, United States Consul at Santos, Brazil, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. J. W. Knowlton, Chief Clerk of the Post Office Department, is at the Hoffinan House. Congressman Samuel J. Randall, of Philadelphia, ats rived last evening at the Hoffman House, Assemblyman Stephen H. Hammond, of Geneva, N. ¥., is stopping at the Hotel Brunswick. < Governor Marcellus L. Stearns, of Florida, is among the late arrivals at the Grand Central Hotel. In Geneva they fancy the insurrection in Herzegovina is, in some way or another, @ little game of the Jesuits, The Marquis of Lorne is about to publish a narrative poem entitled “Guido and Lita; a fale of the Riviera? Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister, was in thia city yesterday, on the way from Saratoga to Washing- ton. Brevet Major General David Hunter and Lieutenant Colonel Barton 8. Alexander, United States Army, are registered at the Windsor Hotel. The men in England who travel much by rail are dis. posed to insist that “unprotected females” shall be compelled to go in carriages by themselves. Very Rev. J. O'Connor, D, D., missionary in the ‘Australias and Sandwich Islands, has arrived in thia city, and is at present the guest of Vicar General Quinn, Sir Edward Watkin and Sir Joseph Heron returned to this city yesterday from a tour of inspection over the Erie Railway, and took up their residence at the Breyoors House. The London Standard is excited about Herzegovina and wants to know what Austria is driving at. Isn’¢ his a frightfully American style for the old lady to age sume? Mr. Charles T. Gorham, for the past five years United States Minister at The Hague, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, with his family, on the way to his home in Michigan, : M. Thiers persists in his refusal to be a candidate for the new French Senate. This, therefore, indicates hia conviction that the Senate will be merely a museum of political antiquities. President Grant returned yesterday from Babylon to Long Branch, He met General Shaler at Creedmoor station, and exhibited much interest in the progress of the American Wimbledon. “Did you say,” asked one of Miller’s admirers, of Tennyson, “that Joaquin Miller was the greatest poet living?” “No,” replied the Laureate; “but I said ha would be if he worked as hard as I do,”—London Court Journal. ‘The President and his brother-in-law, Collector Casey, of Now Orleans, spent Tuesday night and yesterday at the residence of a friend on Long Island, and returned Jast evening to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Presidemt will leave the city this morning for Long Branch, “Nobody rides over the potatoes that way, my good woman.” This was what a French peasant near Sage setot said to a lady on horseback, who, to get out of the sun a little, rode across a field in the shadow of some trees, But he didn’t know it was the Empress of Ause ria. A statue has been erected at Cockermouth, England, to the memory of Lord Mayo, the late Viceroy of India, who died by the hand of an assassin, Lord Napier and Ettrick, who served under him, performed the cere- ling it, in the presence of a distinguished, ies and gentlemen, On the Paris Bourse a gentleman cut another acrosa the face with his cane, and the other pulled out a ro. volver and fired three shots at the man with the cane, who ran at sight of the pistol, Then a policeman, see ing © man ran, obviously thought of pickpockets, canght the fagitive and held him, and the man with the revolver came up and gave him the other twe barrels in the face, . They are improving in Paris, The cabmen in Paris during the recent rains became One curious case of incivility in the first place and assault in the second was brought into Court, During a heavy downpour a cabman who had forgotton his waterproof pulled up and attempted to seck sheltor inside his vehicle, His fare naturally objected to this arrangement, and a fight ensued, which ended in the fare being dragged out of the cab, The struggle wa being continued on the pavement, when a couplowt | policemen, gallantly quitting the shelter of a doorway, | do when they assemble will be to thoroughly | let us hope that tho sidewalks will be kept | loves his train,)—unch, arrived on the seene, and, having separated the com who looked as if they had been pulled out of the river, installed themselves in the cab and took dows the depositions of both parties, Polite Stranger (in abarry, thinking he bad grazed an old gentleman's ankle)—Beg pardon! Old Gentle man—Eh? Polite Stranger (louder)-—I beg your par. dont Old Gentleman (anconseious of any hurt)—Why ? Polite Strenger—I'm afraid I kicked you. Old Gentle. man—Eh? Polite Stranger (shouting)—I kicked you, Old Gentleman (surprised)-—Wha’ for ? Polite Stranger. It was quite by accident, Old Gentleman (not catching it}—Eh! Bog your pard——. Polite Stranger (roaring in his ear)—Accident! Old Gentleman (startitty)=Blesg my soul! You don't say so? Where? where? 1 hopa nobody's killed——, (Polite stranger rushes off aud