The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1875, Page 6

5 NEW YORK HERALD ’ BROADWAY AND ANN. STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘ ee eae E NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and ‘after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York 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 despatches must be addressed New York 'Herarp. 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 TO-NIGHT. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twen: hth street, near Broad EXICAN JUVEN- ILE S OPERN TROUPE, at 8 P. lvses as 10:30 P. M. ‘Soledad Unda y Moron. COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10-40 P.M CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 8 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteeuth street bug Comte Opera— BOULO’ , 665 P.M. Miss Julia Matthews, Mr. G. Hi. Macdermott. Re IN HALL, West Sixteenth stree lish Opeta—PRINCESS OF TREBIZONDE, at 8 P. THEATRE COMIQUE, | No. PS aa Broadway.—VARIETY, closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEUM, way. corner of Thirtieth street ZY KES THE sHow- aaeet 'P. M.; closes at 1045 P.M. Matinee ut 2 P.M GRAND OPERA HOUSE, — avenue, capri y-third street RICHARD i, P.M.; closes at 11 P. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, (Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. HOWE & CUSH ‘foot of Houston street, East Rit ances, crIrcevs, Afternoon and evening ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ‘Bos Place and Fourteenth _street-AROUND byt IN EIGHTY DAYS, at 8 2. M.; closes as 11 P. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, —- beef ore House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, ore ‘Twent MLN: BOOTH’S THEATRE -third street and Sixth avenue.—RICHARD III., at ‘Mr. Burry Sullivan. third pe pnt ts ghee art ontoN 4 REED’ hird street and Sixth avenue.—OO’ rs [RELS, ato P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. OLYMPIC TH ee me Yo $2 Brosdway.—VARIETY, at SP. M; closes at 10:45 ai GILMORE'S SUMMER GARDEN, ete Beroun's rome.—GRAND LAR - CERT, at 3 P.M; en uP. M. — haus TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—V. ARTETY, at 8 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1875, are that the weather to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, with occasional areas of rain, Warn Sreeer Yesrerpay.—Stocks were stronger and the street free from rumors. Gold advanced from 113} to 114}. Money easy. Bonds firm. A Tram or Cans, conveying a number of devout people from a camp meeting, near Goshen, on Wednesday night broke through ® rotten bridge, inflicting severe injuries on many of the passengers, who were evidently impressed with the idea that they had taken the train to glory, according to the hymn which is such a favorite at camp meetings, Tae Srvarse or « Burrisn InoreOxap in the Channel, in consequence of a collision with another war vessel, was happily unattended with loss of life. The terrible fate of the crew of the iron-clad Captain, in the Bay of Biscay, has long caused the tars of England to look with distrust upon those new-fangled turrets and armored ships and to sigh for the days of the walls of oak that guarded the sight little island. Cuartzr Ross.—There seems to be some thance that the missing boy Charley Ross may one day be found, from hints thrown out by Mrs. Mosher, the wife of the man who was suspected of being the abductor of the boy. Mrs. Mosher’s story points strongly to the possibility that the abducted child is still alive, but kept out of sight »y the con- federates of the dead burglars, ete Torpzpo Exprnments were made in New- port Harbor yesterday, in yiresence of the Secretary of the Navy and other officials, and were very suecessful in demonstrating the terrible force of those submarine engines of destruction. No more effective weapon for offence or defence could be conceived for a maritime Power, and it is well that our gov- ernment recognizes the importance of such experiments, Sooy, New Jensey's Deraviutmna Tneas- cneR, underwent a preliminary examination yesterday, at Trenton, before a Justice of the Peace. No defence was offered to the charges of the Attorney General of the State, and he was committed in default of seventy-five thousand dollars bail. The way of the trans- gressor is particularly hard in the neighbor- -ing State, and rogues find the climate any- thing but healthy. Tae Oataronnta Exxcrioy.—The sweeping democratic victory at the recent election on the Pacific slope, in which the republicans not @ single point, may be regarded a a signal rebuke of the present administra- tion at Washington and Long Branch. The ory of “‘No third term” was frequently heard at the and caused the defection of one large t hitherto"s éngly “republican from the ranks of the loyalists. The spectre of Cexsarism is like that of Banquo, inclined to present itself unexpectedly under tho most disagreeable circumstancels _ere now have NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Democratic “Happy Family.” _ Everything is working in favor of the in- harmonjous democracy, except the folly, in- | capacity and dissensions of their leaders and | the want of any policy on which the party | can agree. It is true that the party cherishes, | or at least professes, a beautiful unanimity | on several important subjects, but these hap- | pen to be subjects on which it has abjured its former views and succumbed to the policy of the republicans. It accepts, without dis- sent, the universal emancipation of the negroes, their equal civil rights, their right to vote, their eligibility to every State and | every federal office and all the great results | of the war. But the democratic unity on points once so fiercely contested will not be accepted asa title to public confidence. To fight important measures whilo they are in progress, to yield only when the country has irrevocably condemned the opposition, does not evince political foresight. It is the business of statesmen and public guides to lead opinion, not to be forced by it to renounce the views they strenuously maintained while the measures were under discussion. The fact that the democratic leaders have been compelled to retreat from their chief positions in the recent past creates such a presumption of bad judgment and want of forecast that they can recover confi- | dence only by striking out a new policy so | manifestly wise and sagacious that it might stand on its own reasonableness, Instead of this they have no policy at all which their fellow citizens can consider and discuss, Where shall we look for any body of prin- ciples, or even any single principle? where shall we look for any set of measures or any single measure which is accepted by the democratic party as a whole? Aside from the results of the war, which were republi- can, not democratic measures, there is nothing upon which the democratic party is | united besides its unanimous desire to get possession of all the federal and State offices. It will not do for them to appeal to their tra- ditionary hard money policy when a large por- tion of the party is in open rebellion against it. Itis preposterous for them to appeal to their old record at all as evidence of their present views when the only thing upon which they are agreed is a renunciation of all they most stubbornly contended for from the beginning of the anti-slavery cycle to its close. It is the traditionary policy of the party that slavery should not be interfered with by the federal government ; that ‘this is a white man’s government ;” that negroes should not be permitted to vote or hold office, and, in pursuance of this traditionary policy, the democratic party in all sections of the country made a determined opposition to all the new amendments as they wero successively proposed. It is ridiculous for a party that has made so many glaring re- nunciations to point to its old record for in- formation respecting its present views. Governor Allen, the only democrat in public life who has come down to us from the hard-money generation, is a living exemplar of the decay of democratic traditions, We must search for the democratic policy among its present leaders. We might wan- der through the country with the lantern of Diogenes and not find a democratic chief whose yiew on any one public question not # dead issue is adopted by the party at large. The democracy are the lineal descendants and heirs-at-law of the builders of the tower of Babel. Their confusion of tongues will arrest the progress of their ambitious structure. When one builder asks for a trowel another hands him a hammer, and the work cannot go on be- cause there is no possibility of concert, In “the high and palmy days” of the demo- cratic party, when it ruled the country with matchless popularity and power, there was no division of counsels among its leaders, or at least none which were flaunted in the face of the country to distract and enervate the party. Instead of every prominent leader mounting a separate hobby of his own they consulted with one another in private, com- promised their differences, agreed on a pol- icy, presented a united front to the enemy and brought the rank and file into perfect harmony by the conjoint influence of party discipline and the moral authority of a united leadership. If the example of brighter days were followed Messrs. Allen, Tilden, Thurman, Bayard, Church, Pen- dleton, Gordon, Seymour, Kernan and others of similar standing would long come to a cordial understanding among themselves, each contributing his best ideas and yielding something for the sake of harmony, and then, by their combined intellectual force, they would mould the partyginto a solid phalanx. But what do we behold? A party which has been compelled to eat all its own words on the great questions of the recent past, making itself contemptible by having no policy at all and marching against the enemy like an army in which the commander of every brigade has a separate plan of cam- paign and ‘fights on his own hook.” The most important question before tho | country is that of the currency, and the democratic chiefs are hopelessly at logger- heads with one another on this great subject, their journals fight each other “like Kil- kenny cats,” and the aggressive boldness of the inflationists has subdued the hard-money leaders into tameness or silence. Governor | Hendricks is going to Ohio to speak for the | | party, and it is promised that he will give a | mild support to the inflationista. Governor Tilden, who plumes himself on his bold- | ness, has fallen dumb on the infla | tion question. Senator Thurman marches | with a limping step in the party ranks, Just hints a fault and hesitates dislike, and resembles the discriminating inebriate | who approved of the Maine law but was op- | posed to its enforcement, To thicken tho | muddle two eminent Ohio democrats, Mr. | Groesbeck and Judge Ranney, peremptorily | refused to speak in the canvass, while distin- guished hard-money democrats from other States go in to help the Allen-Pendleton in- flationists. Governor Tilden is a cunning old fox, and his position on this great question is pecu- liar, His long dissertation on the currency, which filled more space in his annual Mes- sage than any other topic, attracted little at- tention at the time, because the absorbing | Lonisiana exeMement was in full blaze, and | it was not foreseen that the Pendleton fire- | brand would again be flung inte the demo- cratic camp. When we go back to that elab- orate disquisition it is impossible to with- hold admiration from the finessing dexterity with which Governor Tilden ‘threw an an- | chor to the windward,” and the shrewd fore- | sight with which he provided for emergen- | cies. His business connections as counsel of several Western railroads gave him oppor- tunities for gauging the publie sentiment of the West, which had not ehanged but only settled into quietude since President Grant's veto of the inflation bill, and he adroitly trimmed his sails to catch any wind that might blow. It was Jacob's voice with the hands of Esau. Governor Tilden main- tained in that able but. crafty dissertation that the contraction or expansion of the paper currency is @ question of very slight importance, and presented two labored arguments in support of that position. His first argument was founded on the small part which actual money plays in commer- cial transactions. He maintained that paper money only performs the same office as bank checks, bills of exchange, notes of hand and book accounts, and that, being a mere drop in the bucket, it makes little difference whether that drop be large or small. He even went so far as to ridicule anxiety to re- strain the issue of paper money. ‘It is idle,” Governor Tilden said, ‘*to pronounce the machinery of credit a maniac, dangerous to the community, and then to put only its little finger in a strait- jacket.” The derision implied in this figure is easily understood. ‘The little ‘finger” is the paper currency, and the body of which it forms so insignificant a part consists of the other appliances of credit, such as bank checks and bills of exchange. He expends his ridicule on the folly of putting a maniac’s little finger in a straitjacket, meaning that zeal to curb the issues of paper money is stupidly misdirected. Governor Tilden’s other argument in sup- port of this position was founded on the de- cline of prices in spite of expansions of the currency. He undertook to refute “the fallacy that lurks in many minds” that new issues of paper money would raise prices, asserting that the amount of currency then in the hands of the people was “larger than at any former period,” although the price of gold had sunk from 185 to 112, and the prices of other commodities had been steadily declin- ing. He maintained that inflation could no longer inflate, and that if more currency were issued it would lio unemployed in the banks, having no effect on business and doing little harm but no good. He also maintained that the government, having as- sumed to supply the currency, is bound to furnish as much as the country needs, “If it should not furnish enough,” he said, much in the style of Mr. Pendleton, ‘the derange- ment of business and the distress of pro- ducers and consumers would be intoldrable.” As to ultimate resumption he had no specific plan, He said that the time and preparations for resumption ‘‘are mere matters of detail to be studied on the facts and figures,” and he did not think the process should be hurried. If it be true that further inflation can do no harm and bring no danger the Ohio demo- erats are diverting themselves with a very innocent amusement, and Governor Tilden may smile with serene contempt at the efforts of their republican and democratic op- ponents to ‘‘puta straitjacket on the little finger.” Politics and Pies. Paragraphers have been blazing away for two or three days at a pie peddler, and be- hold they have brought down a Congress- man. In the person of the presumably humble individual who in the new Post Office was dispensing pie to a depraved public appetite we aro startled to find a representative of t!= sovereign people of Nebraska. What is ..0 story of Baucis and Philemon compared to this? People who have “entertained angels unawares” had no such reason to be startled as the public and the paragraphers and the Postmester have over this discovery of a political potentate, for they have generally performed good offices for their guests, as did the simple old Greektouple, and so had their reward; but the public that has tumbled the pie man out of a sure fortune, and the Postmaster who has co-operated, have to consider the pos- sibilities of Congressional wrath. Is it not possible there is some doubt in this story? Could a Nebraska Congressman ever get his soul down to pies and penny profits? Are there no more silver mines in the Western country, with chances for aspiring spirits? Wonld it not have been easier to go to Nevada fora million than to come all the way to the new Post Office to sell eighty dollars’ worth of pie per day? There is one mystery in this case that we hope the future will solve. Did this man have his eyes on the pie stand and get himself elected to Con- gress, in order that he might have the in- fluence necessary to secure this dyspeptic placer? or did he come to Congress as the rest do, vaguely on the make, and was the pie stand the best thing that a corrupt ad- ministration had to offer? Henzecovina.—The news from Herzego- vina is far from reassuring, although the ac- tivity of the insurgents seems to have de- creased. Austria evidently wants peace main- tained, and has conveyed in very strong lan- | guage to Servia her desire that that little | Power should keep out of the struggle now going on between Herzegovina and the Porte, This note would no doubt settle the question if it were not for the unfriendly at- titude assumed by Russia toward the Turkish government, In reply to Austria's note Russia will probably make known her inten- tion to supervise the action of Austria, This attitude of Russia will prolong, without doubt, the struggle between the Herzegovinians and the Turks, and encourage doubtful princes to give their sympathy and support to the pres- ent rebellion. The danger of a general Euro- pean war growing out of this trouble in the Turkish Yominion daily increases, and the action of Russia would seem to point to ac- tive war measures on the part of the great Northern Powers at no distant day, Rar ‘Taanstr may be regarded as an ignis Sabuus ff our precious Aldermen are to decide upon it. The Commissioners of Rapid Transit had a series of resolutions before that august body yesterday, which failed to receive the consent of the City Fathers, Individual interests are evidently too powerful in the _ Board for public interests to obtain a hearing. Seeretary Delano, The apparently authentic statement which we published yesterday that Mr. Delano will leave the Cabinet on the 1st of October must be a great relief to his colleagues. *It is no more consistent with their honor to sit with such a man at the Exeeutive council board than it would be with the honor of ladies to associate with a woman who had committed what her sex regards as the most inexpiablo offence, Individual members of an adminis- tration sometimes find it consistent with their sense of character to hold their posi- tions when their opinions are overruled on points of public policy; for it is not to be ex- pected that a body of able men will always agrea. But there is a limit to acquiescence even when it relates only to Executive measures, and high-toned members of a Cabi- net usually resign when they dif- fer from the administration on a fanda- mental question, Mr, Cass resigned from President Buchanan’s Cabinet because he was unwilling to share the responsi- bility of his policy toward the secessionists, and the country applauded his course. Mr. Stanton, indeed, “stuck” in President John- son's Cabinet, though detesting his policy ; but that was not acquiescence, but defiance. His purpose in staying was not to counte- nance the President, but to thwart him. He would sooner have cut off his right hand and have plucked out his right eye than have re- mained in Andrew Johnson's Cabinet to sup- port his policy by even a tacit consent. But to stay in a Cabinet to countenance an exposed thief and official knave is not to be expected of any man of strict honor or pure morals, President Jackson's first Cabinet was broken up because the wives of the other members declined to meet Mrs. Eaton, | the wife of the Secretary of War, _in society, their husbands refusing to interfere. If Mr. Eaton had been held as unfit for association with gentlemen, as the ladies of Washington considered Mrs, Eaton to be for association with their own sex, ‘the reasons would have been much stronger for the dissolution of that Cabinet. It is difficult to imagine how self-respecting gentlemen like Mr. Fish, Mr. Pierrepont, Mr. Bristow and Mr. Jewell can consent to indorse a man who has failed to clear himself from such damning charges, supported by such overwhelming proofs, as have been brought against Secretary Delano, If the President should fail to carry out his purpose to get rid of this official knave the honorable members of the Cabinet would owe it to themselves and to official, nay, to private morals, to resign in a body and let the President give Mr. Delano col- leagues who would not be degraded by the unclean association, if he must keep such a man in his administration. It is not con- sistent with the honor of these gentlemen to remain unless this rotten member is lopped off, Under Which King, Bezonian? Mr. Walsh, the County Clerk, steps out of the Tammany committee with the‘chivalry with which the champion in the roped arena takes a final shake at the hand of his ad- versary before the battle begins, It is an observance that involves an expression of good will and fair play. He gives them notice that he is against them, and scorns to remain where he might obtain an unfair ad- vantage through knowledge of their plans. He assumes honestly and fairly the attitude of an enemy, who gives notice of his true character. He is a warrior, notaspy. This conduct fully sustains a notion that must have occurred to many persons in this con- nection—that there is no more chivalry any- where in the world now except in city politics. Mr. Walsh’s example must neces- sarily spread; for in the fierce struggle that is soon to decur for supremacy between the democratic factions it will be important to know who is for Morrissey and who for Kelly. There are some craven souls that will not declare themselves till they know who is likely to win, and so will make their adhesion depénd, not on a heroic and chivalrous devotion to their chiefs, but on the chances of holding their fat offices. They will not declare for Morrissey, because if he should ultimately lose they will then get no more plunder ; and, out of a similar apprehension that he may fail at last, they will not toss up their hats for King Kelly. But these are the mere sutlers of life, not the heroes, Men of heroic mettle will not long leave it in doubt on which side will be their efforts, and so we expect toseoa very lively mustering of the forces, There has been agreat deal of discussion in the learned world as to the significance of the word Be- zonian as used by Shakespeare in the pas- sage from which we have borrowed the head of this article. ‘‘Bezonian” was the style and title of a class of men who throve in Shake- speare’s time. It was as much as to say “bummer.” That word, which in modern French is spelled “besoin,” and signifies need, was in the French that came to Eng- land with the Norman kings much nearer to its Italian original, “‘bisognia,” and used with ® personal termination it gave Bisognian, which the bad spellers of those times twisted into Bezonian. It therefore means, my ‘needy one,” my “bully beggar,” or, in the spirit of modern times, “my beggarly bum- mer.” Our readers will, therefore, seo tho appropriateness with which we have applied the word of the great poet to the hero chiefs of Tammany Hall. Tae Misstssiprr Riven,—The obstructions at the mouth of the great river of the West have long engaged the attention of the best engineers of the country with o view toward their removal. A meeting for this object took place at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yester- day, at which President Grant was present, and His Excellency expressed the liveliest interest in the work. The successful ter- mination of it would certainly be a bright episode in the history of the present admin- istration, ‘Tue Accrpent iN THE Sonunt.—Somo facts not hitherto given in connection with the accident by which the royal yacht, with Queen Victoria on board, cut down a private yacht, near the Isle of Wight, are printed elsewhere, Investigation, and, indeed, the instinct of the general intelligence of tho English people, has already laid hold of the real origin of this accident—which was the disposition attributed to excessive loyalty to Exactly the same impulse that impels the crowd to cluster at the station when Her Ma- jesty comes to town, or to encumber the roadways when she drives out, urges all peo- ple in boats to get as near as possibleto the royal yacht under steam—but here there is no army of policemen to keep them out of the way, and the steersman may sometimes rely a little too much on their ability to help themselves, A Suggestion for the Operas. The coming of the full and winter brings with it suggestions of amusement and in- struction. The theatres promise unusual attractions, Capulet plays Hamlet at one house and Montagne at another. But we have no fear of the Montagues and Capulets having other than theatrical strifes in this city of common sense and fair play. Mr. Booth will soon return to the scene of his triumphs and misfortunes—of misfortunes that, we trust, will be triumphsagain. We shall have comedy and tragedy in every form, and the result, we trust, will gratify in the highest degree the anticipations of the managers. As to the musical attractions less is known. Our impresarios are late in their announce- ments. Von Bulow will come and opena new ball, If he is worthy of his European fame his coming will be an event. Tietjens promises a series of concerts. Patti's visit is still further postponed, and Nilsson will, no doubt, continue her London devotions to the German shrine of Wagner. Our opera people have not been very successful recently. Opera is an exotio in all countries and must benursed. The foreign governments endow the opera largely. The managers find their balances in the oe re when aseason is bad they have on back upon the Homo onies for nn How } can we expect a plant that must be nursed in the congenial climate of Munich, Paris and St. Petersburg to grow in the raw atmos- phere of New York? We cannot subsidize opera here, but at the same time we can encourage it. The way to do so is not merely to patronize artists when they do come, but to remove a tax from the manage- ment which is never more of a burden than in successful seasons. We mean the tax in- volved in the ownership of boxes at the Academy. Why should not the stockholders who are owners of boxes do their part toward |- the opera? They more than any other class are concerned in its success, and more oppressed with its failure. They couk do for opera something like what the foreign governments do in Europe. Instead of reserving their proprietary rights they should regard tho investment in an opera box as they do in the shares of a railway or a mine, The share-owner pays when he rides inacar, and when he takes gold from the mine. His profit is in his divi- dends, An investment in the Acad- emy of Music should resemble this in its character. When a manager brings a great attraction to the Academy he must con- sider that he is deprived of thé revenue that would naturally accrue from the best part of the boxes. This burden is ever present to him. The effect is that instead of encour- aging opera managers we repress them. In- stead of endowments and special privileges like what are given by thé foreign govern- ments we impose a tariff The fear is that in time there will bean end of special musical attractions. Our stockholders should do their part toward aiding the managers. We can hardly expect stockholders to waive all their box rights because they have paid for them. Butthey might meet the managers half-way. They might consent to a tax upon their seats, to some system of part payment. This would be an inducement to managers, It would be in @ certain sense an endow- ment, The result would be a special advan- tage not only to the people but to the stock- holders themselves. For what they want is aseason of opera. And of what value are boxes in an empty Academy or during a sea- son when the music and the artists are not up to the highest standards of art? Caste Garnpen.—According to the state- ment of the Secretary of the Commissicners of Emigration the immigration at this port for the present year falls nearly one-third in number below that of previous years, Italians and Scandinavians seem to have ceased com- ing to this country, but in their place are well-to-do, industrious settlers from Russia, all eager and ready to engage in agricultural pursuits. Unfavorable accounts sent abroad as to the condition of laborers in this coun- try deter many of the humbler classes from trying their fortunes in the West. Letters to the old country are anything but en- couraging during this period of stagnation in business, Grenman Poonms,—France is evidently resolved to afford Germany no cause of quarrel or reclamation. Even the German pilgrims have found out that they will not be permitted to insult on French soil the government of Berlin. They have been told in the clearest manner that their religious fervor is highly inconvenient and un- desirable. Not even in worship will the French join with the Germans. The at- tempt to demonstrate in the streets of France in favor of the ultramon- tane programme in Germany has been wisely suppressed, and so one cause of bitter feeling between the two great nations has been diminished if not wholly removed. Orrictan Brurausry.—If only half the stories told by persons who have experienced as prisoners harsh treatment at the hands of | our prison officials be true, the keepers in penitentiaries must be as hard and cruel a set of men as could be picked out of a nation of savages. We hope the investigation to which Michael Connolly's death has given rise will not be allowed to drop until the whole system of prison discipline has been carefully revised. Officials must be taught that their position gives no immunity to bru- tality, and that it is as great an outrage to strike a prisoner or to treat him with brutality as it would be to do any act of violence against a free citizen, Fat, Fastions,—Notwithstanding the re- luctance of summer to leave the city on the 1st of September, as it should do, according to all meteorological laws, the purveyors of fashion, and they are numereus, ingenious and expensive, issue their proclamations to the feminine world at Yarge and announce and his pocketbook. The latest fall fashions, comprising all the onter paraphernalia of silks, feathers and “notions” that go to wards beautifying the female form divine, will be found in another column, There is much to be admired in the fashions of the present day, as entire scope is allowed for individual taste, and the chameleon deity o the toilet has relaxed much of her pristine despotism, American ladies have at last learned to consult their own judgment on the subject of dress, instead of waiting in fear and trembling for.a fashion ukase from Paris, The North Carolina Convention, Our despatch from Raleigh sheds light on the politics of ‘the Old North State,” and shows that the tidal wave of last year has re- ceded and sunk to low ebb. It is doubtful which party’ will control the Convention, especially since Judge Settle has decided, in the case of two republican contestants, that he has no jurisdiction, This remands the decision of their claim to seats to the Con- vention itself, and will probably enable the democrats to exclude them and establish a slender majority. Judge Settle, who is a re- publican, did not intend this result, but he is an honest magistrate and the law left him no choice, The significant part of our cor- respondent's despatch is his statement that the aggregate vote for the republican candi- dates exceeds that cast for the democratic candidates by 14,036. This indicates that the work of the Convention will be rejected by the people of the State. The republicans were opposed to the calling of a Convention, being satisfied with the constitution as it is. It Mod their purpose, had they elected a ma- foe [Sosy Of the delegates, to adjourn the Con- vention sine die as soon as it was organized. They will accomplish the same object in a more roundabout way by voting down the new constitution when it is submitted to the people, which they can easily do if they re- tain their present strength, as the whole people will vote upon it in mass and not in separate districts, as they did in the choice of delegates. The falling off in the democratic vote of North Carolina since last year is remarkable, Last year the democrats elected their State ticket by a majority of 11,780 ; this year they are in a popular minority of 14,036, making a change of 25,816 in favor of the republicans inone year. If this should prove to be a specimen of the ebb of “the tidal wave” throughout the country the democratic ‘Jor- dan will be a hard road to travel” in the ap- proaching elections. The vote of North Caro- lina is not an unimportant factor in our politics. In 1872 the unexpected republican victory in August was the first decisive symptom of Mr, Greeley's signal defeat. Up to that time his supporters were sanguine and exultant, but the North Carolina election was a dripping wet blanket, and his pros pects rapidly declined after that disappoint ment. It was followed by a defeat in Maine, and the Greeley canvass never held up ita head afterward. Whether the result in North Carolina this year is equally ominous cannot yet be determined. A loss of 25,000 in that State is not favorable to democratia hopes. Constitatto.a? Picron Snoorma.—A very exciting contest took place at the grounds of the Narragan- sett Gun Club, near Newport, yesterday, be tween eighteen amateur marksmen, for the possession of the Bennett Cup, which was carried off by Mr. Frederick P. Sands. The shooting was remarkably fine and the birda were knocked over in large numbers, the winner having no easy task to overcome his competitors, Rarw Transrtr.—The Commissioners of Rapid Transit, to whose present delibera- tions every one in this city looks with anx- iety and interest, hoping that the vexed problem will be satisfactorily solved, are in active consultation every day, and the indi- cations are that a route will be selected this week, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Indge Israel $, Spencer, of Syracuse, 1s sojourning at thé Fifth Avenue Hotel.. Mr. Dewitt ©, Littlejohn, of Oswego, N. Y., Is staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Lucius Robinson, of Elmira, 1s among the late arrivals at the St. James Hotel. Colonel John 8. Simonson, United States Army, is quartered at the Hoffman House, General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, arrived tn this city yesterday and is at Barnum’s Hotel. Inspector General Nelson H. Davis, United States Army, is registered at the St. James Hotel. M. de la Bouliniere, of the French Legation at Wash- ington, has arrived at the Brevoort House. Brevet Major General Frank Wheaton, United States Army, has taken up his residence at the Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of the Atlantic an Great Western Railway Company, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Stephen V. Benét, of the Ordnance Depart- ment, United States Army, arrived last evening at the Grand Hotel, Chief Justice William B. Richards, of the Court of Queen's Bench of Canada, is residing with bis family at the Westmoreland Hotel Colonel H. B. Reed, of the Egyptian Army, has arrived in this country on sick leave, He commanded the military forces of the expedition to conquer Darfour. Prior to leaving he was decorated by the Khedive with the order of the ‘‘Megidie”’ for distinguished services. Mr. W. HL. Vanderbilt and party arrived at Nashville last evening, making the run from Louisville, 186 miles, over the Louisville and Nashville railroad, in four hours and fifty-three minutes. Mr, Vanderbiltand friends will visit the Vanderbilt University and other noted points to-day and return to Louisville in the afternoon, thence to St. Louis and West, Mr. Morton said in the Senate, “Thero is a sort ot fanaticism about a return to specie payments, I had it pretty bad once myself.” This was when he was on the inflation side of the fence. Now he is like the man that once bad snakes in his boots. He has ‘got 'em agin.” Mme, Michelet, wife of the historian, has gained her case before the Paris courts, and the clause in Michelet's will, that he wishes to be buried “in the nearest ceme- tory,” is understood as written at his house in Paris. She wishes to bury him in Pero la Chaise, but “the nearest cemetery” is that of Montparnasse, In regard to Ralston’s suicide Mr. Cilley, of Chicago, said to a reporter of the Jnter-Ocean, “I remember having a conversation with Mr. Ralston on the sutyect of suicide, [t was ata trial, in 1873, I think, when @ heavy rise in mining stocks took place, Among those who gained by tho rise was a Frenchman named Ploche, who, in a single day, made some $3,000,000 In stovks, and the next morning, at an early hour, shot himself fatally. About the same time # man named R. B. Swain, connected with the San Francisco Mer- cantile Library Association, who had dabbled in stocks and lost, committed suicide by taking lagdauum. I remember well talking with Mr. Ralston on the snb. Ject of these occurrences, and hig remarking that a man ouglit to care more fur his life under any ctrcam- stancos than to do away with it, In this conversation Mr. Ralston deprecated with especial force tho idea ob ko on all ooqasians too near fo the sovercign. | dixe things agpinat ik ~ roage of naterfamjdias_| suicide.”