The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD! _ | The delegates are giving themselves a } 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 York Henaup will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | pear whether his bold amd boastful attempts | 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 pealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PURE ne ee 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. ~~ AMUSEMENTS mat ON HAT Mest, Sixteenth str TREBIZONDE, at 8 P. Te 0,514 Brosdway.—VARI UE, M.; closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Brosdwey,, corner of Thirtieth stree N AND SORROW, gt 2 FM FACE 70 FACE, wt 8 FP. M.; closes as 10> GRAND OPERA HOUSE, avenne, corner F seat third street—HAMLET, at } closes ‘at 11 P. M. Bare METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadw: RIETY, at SP. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth — street.—French Opera LARCHIDUG, at 8 P. 8 CIRCUS, HOWE & CUSH foot of Houston street, East River.—Afternucd and evening | performances. + Bouffe—MADAME ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place and Fourteenth street WORLD'IN EIGHTY DAYS. at SPM. ROUND THE closes at 11 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTR Pag House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, ats AMERICAN INSTITUTE, ‘Third avenue.—Day and evenine. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—HAMLET, at 8 ¥.M. Mr. Barry Sullivan. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, Jrrenty: third street and Sixth avenue COTTON 4 REED'S MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bo, Pinta Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M’; closes at 10:45 GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnum’s Hippodrome. —GRAND POPULAR CON- | CERT, ats P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, be ed West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10.4. M. toS TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenne.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street. near Broadway —MEXICAN JUYEN- ILE OPERA TROUPE, at 8 P. M.; closes as 10:30 P.M. Soledad Unda y Moron, PARK THEATER, Broad iy and a twenty: d street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- Mr. irs. Florence. COLONEL 81° ns eer THEATRE, 5 amapeinans at SP. M.; closes at 1046 P. M, L PARK GARDEN, THEODORE moma CONCERT, at 5 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Euglich Comic Opera— GRAND DUCHESS, at 8 P.M. Miss Julia Matthews, Mr. i Macdermott TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7%. 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and clear or parlly cloudy. Watt, Srreert Yesrerpay.—Stocks were dull, the market quiet and changes inconse- | so happens that the democratic party has a | quential. Gold advanced to 115. Money easy at 1 1-2 and 2 per cent. Servi anp Turkey.—The report is con- firmed in our despatches ‘from Belgrade of | the determination of Servia to prevent armed | bands of her citizens from joining in tho | Herzegovinian insurrection. Turkey and | the great Powers have been offjcially notified of this action. Atapama has resolved to reform her con- stitution, and the Convention for that pur- pose met at Montgomery yesterday. We | give the excellent address of General S. P. Walker in full, and trust that his presidency will have equally fortunate results: as that of his distinguished father in 1819, when he | helped to frame the constitution under which the State was admitted into the Union. Russra has found a new enemy in Yakoob | Khan, whom she accuses of having insti- gated the rebellion in Khokand. ‘The Asiatic tributaries of the Czar have reason to know that he has a long arm, and that he never ceases to strike till he has compelled his ene- mies to submit. Preron Snootixe.—The Narragansett Gun Club has obtained a national reputation for | skill, and interest everywhere. Yesterday the club | shot a handicap match for a subscription cup, which was won by Mr. Livingston after a sharp struggle with Mr. ‘Davis. The shooting was unusually brilliant, as will be seen by our report elswhere. Tue Norra Canotrya Convention.—A full account of the first day's proceedings in the North Carolina Constitutional Convention is given in our telegrams from Raleigh. The Convention is so evenly divided between the two parties that one independent delegate | holds the balance of power. This gentle- -man, Mr. Edward Ransom, was nominated by the democrats for President of the Con- vention, and one ballot was taken, without result, ‘Tue Newport Sreerircnasrs were splen- didly attended yesterday, and the weather favored the public and the contestants. Our Newport letter picturesquely narrates the events of both races. In the handicap only two horses were started, Deadhead winning over Woodfield by half a length. In the New- port Cup, for gentlemen riders, the Shaugh- raun won by a length. The accident to Mr. Clason was fortunately not serious, and the success of the first steeplechase races at Newport will undoubtedly cause them to be renewed next year upon a still larger scale, its contests are watched with | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Saratoga Convention. great deal of trouble about a matter which should not trouble them at all. They are anxious and puzzled as to how they shall | shape their platform so as to support reform | withont strengthening Governor Tilden. This is a foolish solicitude. year, and Mr, ‘Tilden, who has been only eight months in office, is still on his trial be- | fore the people, ! whether he is a success. It does not yet ap- | ave to be crowned with commensurate results. | The trite Latin proverb, Finis coronat opus, which has its equivalent in our less elegant “Don't halloo till you are out of the woods,” and in the inspired “Let not him that gird- | eth on the harness boast himself as he that | putteth it off,” conveys a maxim of prudence | supported by the experience of all times, and never more happily expressed than when Webster told Hayne that it was ‘not tho first time in human affairs when the vigor of the war did not come up to the sounding phrases of the manifesto.” It is not the part of wisdom for tho republicans at Saratoga either to commend Governor Tilden orto condemn him, Let them wait until next year, when a new Governor is to be | el a, before publishing an estimate of his services, the State officers whose successors are to be chosen at this election. The most important of these are the sey- eral officers who are ex officio members of the | tains, the management of the canals is so corrupt and rotten as to dwarf all other issues, it must be the fault of the Canal Board, | which is responsible for that branch of ad- ministration. The Canal Board consists of | nine members, and six of the nine were elected by the democratic party. The Gov- | ernor of the State is not a member of the | Board ; he has no constitutional or legal au- | thority to control or interfere with its pro- ceedings. He has not even power tolockthe | stable door after the steed is stolen, but only | | to pursue the thief and recover the horse if | + he can, It is the Canal Board, not the Gov- | | ernor, that decides all important ques- tions relating to the administration | of the canals, and this will continue to rest upon them until the State constitution is further amended. | Whether it would be wise to so amend it as | to make the Governor responsible for the whole State administration, as the President | | is for the federal administration, is a ques- | tion on which much might be said, but it would haye no relation to the approaching election. The Governor cannot make the other executive officers of the State his sub- ordinates in any such sense as tho | heeds of departments at Washington are sub- | ordinates of the President. They are elected by and directly responsible to the people, like the Governor himself; and he would as- | sume an authority which the constitution does not give him if he should undertake to control their official action. The administration of the canals belong- ing exclusively to the Canal Board, without | the Governor to interfere with its proceed- that the people, when called to elect new | members of the Canal Board, do not thereby | the mistress of a house finds it necessary | to employ a new cook she is not obliged to = | say at the same time whether she is satisfied | | with the chambermaid. It being the chief | | business of the Saratoga Convention to select candidates who will be members of the | Canal Board if elected, it is a suitable occa- | | shortcomings of the present Board. Now it majority of two to one in the Canal Board, and may be justly held responsible for its action. If the action of the Board has been | corrupt the republicans can make party capital by denouncing it, but the conduct of | the Governor is not in question in this elec- tion. The people will not be called to pass | upon it until next year, when they will | possess ampler materials for a correct judg- | ment. Let the republican delegates at Sara- | toga arraign the present democratic Canal | Board with as much severity as the facts will warrant, and let it nominate honest suc- | cessors for such of them as go out. But why should they concern themselves with the | Governor? The constitution does not per- | have any share in their administration. He | is the only important State officer who is not a member of the Canal Board. He has | not even a veto on its decisions as he has on the acts of the Legislature. The people have | confined the authority of the Governor | within narrow limits, The heads of the ex- | ecutive departments are as independent of | him as they are of one another in the admin- | istration of their separate departments, and | they are equally independent of him in their | collective action as members of several ex- | ecutive boards. Purity in the administra- | tion of the canals does not depend on the Governor, but on the officers under whose | control the canals are placed by the constitu- | tion, The Saratoga Convention may Weclare | its sense of the conduct of the canal officers without in any way accusing or excusing Governor Tilden, The exertion he is mak- ing to expose and punish the frauds com- mitted under past administrations are quite | distinct from the duty of the people to dis- | place the present canal officers and elect bet- ter ones, The idea of making Governor Ti | den the central figure in this election preposterous. The Legislature gave him all is | the powers he asked for detecting and pun- | | ishing past abuses, and the constitution excludes him from any participation in the administration of the canals. If the Saratoga Convention is wise it will act on the theory of our State government as established by the constitution, which divides executive responsibility, giving the smallest share to | the Governor and putting the administrative departments beyond his control. t sible to the people, and the che themselves and their predecessors are proper topics of inquiry in this election, but not the conduct of the Governor, whose term does not expire, and whose ofjcial province is In the first place a Governor is not to be chosen this It is too early to judge | It would be more pertinent and | business-like to confine their review now to | Canal Board. If, as Governor Tilden main- | responsibility | | any constitutional authority on the part of | | ings or influence its decisions, it is evident | | express their opinion of the Governor. When | | sion for declaring their sense of the merits or | mit him to administer the canals, nor to | The State | oflicers to be chosen this fall will be respon- | | separated from theirs phy an impassable bar- | | rier erected by the constitution, If the present Canal Board is corrupt the | republicans are entitled to make the most of | that fact, since the Board is democratic by o majority of two to one. But if the present Canal Board is not corrupt the public will find it difficult to account for Goyernor Til- den’s loud ery for reform. The Saratoga Conyention ought not to be swayed by Gov- ernor Tilden's vehement denunciations ono way or the other. They should be intelligent enough to know whether the present manage- ment of the canals is corrupt, and it it is, | that fact will ‘be a republican and not a democratic weapon in the approaching ean- yass, ‘The democratic party cannot maintain without treating Governor Tilden as the prince of libellers, and the Saratoga Conven- | tion may safely leave the democrats to take which horn of the dilemma they please. If the Governor tells the truth about the demo- cratic State officers the people will be apt to | think it an odd argument for electing demo- cratic successors, At any rate, it is safe for | the Saratoga Convention to let the Governor alone, to denounce the Canal Board on their own knowledge and select a State ticket of such conspicuous integrity as to preclude all doubt that we shall have an honest Canal Board after the 1st of January if the republi- | can ticket is elected. Itis absurd to make | the canvass revolve around the Governor as its grand pivot when he has no authority | over the officers to be chosen, and would be liable to impeachment if he should intrude within their province, “I am the State” is | an assumption which would be quite ridicu- lous ina New York Governor stripped by the constitution of all control of the execu- | tive departments. L’état c'est moi seemed | the height of arrogance even in the mouth of a French despot. The third term question will, we are in- formed, come up in the Saratoga Convention, although many members would willingly avoidit. But any member is entitled to offer aresolution, and one determined member can prevent its being strangled in a committee; for when the Committee on Resolutions re- ports, it will be in order to offer an amend- ment and bring it toa vote. Ifa resolution against a third term is voted down the Con- vention will stand before the country as in- | dorsing General Grant’s aspirations. This would be suicide, We accordingly expect an anti-third term resolution, and to avoid a scene in the Convention the Committee on Resolutions will prefer to prepare it them- selves and emasculate its phraseology. If this course should be pursued we trust some sturdy republican will move a vigorous substitute and insist that it be votedon. If the republican party expects to survive the next Presidential election it must give this alarming question its quietus now. H New York will add its voice to the States which have already spoken, and declare its oppo- sition with strong emphasis, the republican party may even yet be saved. The Parade Nuisance, The Police Commissioners were guilty of a blunder almost amounting to a crime in per- mitting the procession from New Jersey yes- terday to seize upon the leading streets and | avenues of the metropolis to the detriment of legitimate trafic and the annoyance of everybody. We never knew a more unwar- rantable proceeding to happen in this city. There was neither reason nor excuse for the parade. No sentiment, religious or other- wise, was to be subserved. A number of so- cieties in the contiguous towns across the river determined to invade New York, and they chose the busiest season and selected | the most crowded thoroughfares for their purposes. The Police Department, forget- ting the opposition of our people to pa- |rades of all kinds, carelessly accorded | the invaders everything they asked, and | the procession was escorted all over the town | by the municipal police, delaying traffic for hours in the busy part of the day, and pre- senting a saddening spectacle to gods and men, A more uncouth line was never seen in our thoroughfares. Butcher carts, soap wagons, trucks and like vehicles, decorated with undergrowth from Jersey swamps and thickets, went lumbering through the strects, and the whole metropolis was compelled to wait until the procession passed. The mis- take is one which must not be allowed to occur again. No procession, whether foreign or native, should be permitted to interfere with the travel and traffic of the metropolis, and we hope the Police Commissioners will be more discriminating in’ the future when applications are made to them for the right to use the streets and avenues of the city, Tue Pennsynvanta Duemocrats.—Demo- eratic conventions a few years ago in Penn- sylvania were not very attractive to poli- ticians, They were simply the makers of tickets for the republican party to over- throw. Now they present more fascinations, The democracy have the chance to win, and more-than the chance, perhaps. The Con- vention at Erie will, it is believed, confer | more than barren honors upon the gentleman | it nominates for the Governorship, and there is naturally along list of aspirants. Ourcor- | respondent at Erie has reviewed the situation before the meeting, of the Convention, and presents a list of the candidates for nomina- tion. There are so many gentlemen who want the offices of Governor and State Treas- urer that we fear the Convention will deserve the same reproach which was addressed to ‘Tom Hood's Fair Inez :— ‘The smile that blest Has broken many lover's heart | Tne Recovery or tue Losr Capnz.—The | success of the Direct United States Cable | Company is a matter of great importance to the public. The announcement that the two ends of the cable have been taken up by the Faraday, and that the line will soon be opened for general use, will give universal satisfaction, Tho company has worked steadily and energetically to recover the cable. It has seen its stocks fall in the mar- ketand has suffered from widespread dis- trust of its ability to reunite the broken | wires. It will now reap the reward of its faith and resolution. From Maprip we have a report of the sub- er of | mission of Carlists in Catalonia, Navarre and Bisca f 3 but still the war seems to go on, | One decisive victory for King Alfonso would be more convincing than scores of such re- potts, | that the democratic Canal Board is honest | | tribute upon the wretched remainder, The Rapid Transit moutes. The Rapid ‘fransit Commissioners have completed the first and most important part of their task in such a manner as will com- mand the approbation of their fellow citi- zens, They have indeed marked out the course of four contemplated roads, two on the west side and two on the east side of the city, although one new road on the east side and the extension of that already in opera- tion on the west side are all that will exist, except on paper, within the next ten years. The Board of Aldermen have given their consent to all these routes, so that there is no insurmountable obstacle to the building of any of them in which capitalists may be willing to embark their money. The Green- wich street railway will be extended, and we shall have a road running through the Bow- ery and Third avenue to the Harlem River and thence through the densely populated region to Kingsbridge. Public interest will be concentrated on the lastnamed route, and the main battle for rapid transit is yet to be fought in ‘securing that line. A rich and remorseless corporation will oppose the public interest at every step, and there is a call for resolute unanimity and the whole force of public opinion to foil the op- position. The people must rise up in their might and vindicate their right to use the streets of the city for their convenience. If the Third Avenue Horse Car Company had not a selfish interest there can be no doubt that a rapid transit road would be built on that route. But do they own the Third avenue? No; it belongs to the people. The impudent and arrogant attempt to prevent a public street from being used for the public con- venience must be resisted and crushed, and for our part we refuse to dally with the other projected routes when it is so evident that nothing but the obstructive selfishness of a soulless corporation blocks the construction of a rapid transit road on the one line where the certainty of success would promptly at- tract capital, and the amount of business would be consistent with low rates of fare. The strenuous opposition and insolent | threats of the Third Avenue Company prove thet a road on that route would be profitable and bespeedily built. It is because they know that the capital would be forthcoming that they are so enraged.” If they had no fears they would look on with quiet indifference, They see, what everybody sees, that a rapid transit road on the Third avenue would be a magnificent success. It is for this reason alone that they fightit. On any other route the business would be less, and to maintain the road the fares would have to be proportionately high. It is not merely rapid transit that the city wants, but cheap rapid transit. Travel on the steam road must be within the means of the laboring classes, and we hope the whole press of the city will contend for their rights. The Third Avenue Company threatens to buy up enough property to prevent the con- send of the requisite one-half of the owners. This is a vain threat, because it is entirely beyond the means of the company. They are more likely to bribe owners along the route to withhold their consent. It is quite possible they may succeed in this, but we forewarn them that they will waste their money. Ifthe owners of half the property do not consent the General Term of the Su- preme Court will appoint commissioners whom the law authorizes to decide whether the proposed road is a public necessity, and if they decide in the affirmative the refusal of property owners goes for nothing. Good care will be taken, the Third Avenue Com- pany may be assured, that the bribery of owners or attempts to bribe judges and com- missioners will be ferreted out and exposed. That game will not work. Instead of impair- ing the value of property on Third ave- nue the rapid transit road would increase it, ‘Trade is best in the streets which are most travelled, and rents are in proportion’ to trade. The value of stores on Third avenue would increase every year after the building of the road. ‘The people will not listen with patience to talk about any other route until after the completion of a rapid transit road on Third avenue. The “Harmonious Democracy.” Scarcely has the valorous Kelly restored quiet to Tammany Hall by a vigorous expul- sion of one-half of its members—so as to reduce the party to some practical dimensions, we suppose—before we hear the howl of anew democratic combatin Pennsylvania, Senator Wallace and Mr. Randall are the leaders of this latest faction fight, and the Governorship of the State is the bone of contention. Mr. Randall would like to nominate ex-Governor Bigler; Senator Wallace prefers Judge Ross, Mr. Randall's friends assert that Senator Wallace is in secret alliance with the Cam- eronian republican ring; Senator Wallace's friends assert that Mr. Randall took his back pay, and is in general no better than he ought to be. We hope the fight will go on. It is just now the dull season of the year, and wo hail with delight anything which is of an amusing nature. Certainly nothing can be more amusing to lookers on’ than these squabbles among the leaders of a party which is going into an election next year with one half of its chiefs looking the other half in the face and calling them naughty names. We should like to see Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Kelly run over to Erie to arrange matters for these Pennsylvanians. If Allen and Carey, Pendleton and Thurman, Hendricks and Tilden would also go over, they might all have their fight out there, Erie is a kind of neutral ground, where the police would hardly interfere, Ax Opportunity ror Joun Morrisszy.— Here is a thing which Mr. Morrissey ought to look after. The victorious Kelly, having pitched the Achilles of the party out of the Tammany doors, is now engaged in levying This is surely too much for human endurance, Mr. Morrissey, though lost to sight, is still to memory dear in those halls which but lately echoed his majestic voice. There must be in this raid of Mr. Kelly an oppor- tunity for his great opponent to re-establish himself. Adullam for the disaffected? In these hard times it is surely too much to have Mr. Kelly going about demanding toll from the faithful. the rescue? He might at least offer to take ‘less toll, If the chieftainshiv of Tammany Can he not provide a Cave of | | Mr. Sullivan is altogether artificial. were put up a auction we do not believe Kelly would get it, We adjure Mr. Mor- rissey not to lose his opportunity. “Strike for your altars and your fires,” or words to that effect. Stage Art and Stage Rivalry. Our autumn dramatic season opens with a burst of success, It isa singular fact that we should have theatres packed from pit to dome in these warm nights to hear the old, old story of Hamlet, Richelieu and Richard Ill Mr. Davenport is playing an engage- ment at the Grand Opera House, Mr. Sulli- yan at Booth's Theatre. A part of the sue- cess is owing to the fact that the managers in Mr. Davenport's interest were foolish enough to present him, not as a tragedian, but as an “American.” They challenged support to his performance because his opponent was an Irishman. The result is that although Mr. Davenport plays for cheaper rates than Mr. Sullivan, in a house that is quite as at- tractive as Booth’s Theatre, he has not suc- ceeded, while his rival has drawn as large houses as are known in the history of the New York stage. Mr. Davenport, during his first week, was also absurd enough to play the same parts as Mr. Sullivan, and thus challenge direct comparison. He has thought better of this, and now offers us a series of new performances. Mr. Sullivan will play Hamlet, Richelieu and Richard TIL. Mr. Davenport will play, Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard IfL., Othello, Shylock and Bill Sikes. In other words, the American trage- dian comes before us upon his own merits, and as such he will be considered. But neither of these performances repre- sents to our mind the best style of art, Mr. Sullivan’s success is a burst largely attribu- table to the folly of a rival house and to the ingenuity of its managers, who, as showmen, are men of resources, and would make a suc- cess for a five-legged cow or a three-eared calf. People do not see either in the per- formances of Davenport or Sullivan that high style of dramatic art which we have been led to expect from our managers. Mr. Davenport isa makeshift. He is badly sup- ported ; the scenery is tumbled on the stage atthe fancy of the stage carpenter. Mr. Sullivan has also weak support. With the exception of Mr, Cathcart and Mr. Warde, there are no actors in the cast worthy of serious consideration. The scenery is the remains of the old stage furniture of Mr. Booth in the days of his glory. The managers have shown us what they can do in scenery and support with ‘Henry V.” So faras Mr. Sul- livan is concerned they run the season simply and only upon his name, Now the fact is that actors who act as *vell as Mr. Sul- livan and Mr. Davenport should have an opportunity not only of showing their genius as artists, but of showing what can be done to make the stage worthy of true art. We believe that if any manager in New York will cast Shakespeare or the standard dramas with a good company, such a com- pany as is promised for ‘Julius Cesar,” and so run their plays during the whole season as operas are run by standard companies, they will make a great success. Tho triumph of Wallack as a manager is that he performed his comedies in a masterly manner. Wallack’s name is a tower of strength and worldwide in its influence and respect. Why should not the same be done for the standard trage- dies? It has not’ been done thus far with | Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Davenport. How it will be when Mr. Booth comes we cannot say. The excitement which has attended Itis not atallatribute to his genius, and will last only a few days—long enough to swing through his New York engagement and give | him impulse in the other cities. It is not, however, the beginning of that dramatic season which was hoped from our leading theatres, It is only an advertising expe- dient, successful for a time, but in the end injurious to the true cause of art. Mr. Blaine Takes the Field. Mr. Blaine is sufficiently recovered from his railroad accident to take the stump in | Maine, and will deliver several speeches this week, He is one of the ablest of the repub- lican leaders, and he has an excellent oppor- tunity, addressing a people who have un- wavering confidence in him, to speak his mind freely on the questions of the day. It is very justly said that the Presidential cam- paign is fought this year in the State elec- tions. The people everywhere are anxious about the condition of the country, and are less attentive to local than to federal ques- tions. We hope Mr. Blaine will not miss the present occasion to give the country at large the benefit of his views on the financial and the Southern difficulties. He is a man of thorough information and of pronounced views, which he is a little shy of expressing; but the time has now cgme when silence is a blunder for one in his position, and when he must speak out his sentiments and beliefs clearly, or fall from the high rank he has long occupied as a leading statesman and take a second or third rate plage. It has become a fixed habit with too many of our public men to play bo-peep with the people; just now this is out of place. The use of political leaders is to educate the people in their public addresses, to instruct them in the leading questions of the day, and not to play ‘heads [ win, tails you lose,” with the politics of the country. Everybody vants to know what a republican like Mr. Blaine | thinks of specie resumption and of inflation; what he thinks of the Southern policy which has done so much to ruin his party; what he thinks of “the best civil service on this planet,” Mr. Delano and the Indian Bureau included. About all these questions a man like Mr. Blaine can speak without ifs or buts if he will, and*he will be surprised to find | how good he feels when he has once fully and freely unburdened his mind. Tae San Franctsco Farnune.—It isa singu- lar fact that the people of San Francisco, though they have suffered from the failure of the Bank of California, are enthusiastic over the memory of its President. The citizens declare their intention to build a monument to Mr. Ralston, the first time in our recollec- tion thata bankrupt has received such honor. | Generally the man who fails as Ralston did, Will not Mr. Morrissey come in to | and dies as he did, becomes the object of hatred and execration, but he seems to have wou the love of the community he harmed, SRO St SASHES TC TI I TSA eg Mo a ae Seem oo IT Another Bloodless Duel. Half a century ago, when two men fought a duel, it was at least highly probable that one of the two would be wounded, if not killed. In those days it was respectable to fight a duel, The custom is wrong, bar- barous, illogical, absurd, under any circume stances; but when men met each other in earnest, and it was really probable that on¢ or the other, or perhaps both, would be killed, the tragic character of the contest did something to hide its absurdity. But one of these journalistic duels, of which news comes up from the Southwest every few months, has no redeeming feature. It is a pure farce, Generally the two enraged com- batants, who have been writing each other liars and scoundrels for a month beforehand, do not even fire a shot. A convenient police officer arrests them or warns them from the ground, and if, after preliminaries which cover quires of paper, they do at last meet and are actually placed face to face, with pis- tols in their hands, and stand there long enough to fire, nobody is hurt. Thus two St. Louis journalists “exchanged shots at twenty paces” on Saturday, and ‘fired too high,” says the report of this silly business. And then, as they could not agree upon another shot, they and their seconds went off, and, we trust, were heartily ashamed. Certainly they gained no eredit or glory among their respectable friends, or with society at large, by their folly. Sensible people, even in the South, no longer admire the duel or regard it as a legitimate method of deciding a dispute. If these two had killed each other they would have been thought a pair of foolish hotheads, As they did not even hurt each other they have simply made themselves ridiculous, Those Poor English. In one respect the English are the most unfortunate people in the world. With the utmost desire to live at home at ease and to keep their fingers out of everybody else's business, they are constantly compelled to interfere on different parts of our planet, to keep or set things straight; and to add to their troubles, this interference every few years necessitates the annexation of a new piece of territory to the “British Crown.” There are people wicked enough to say that John Bull island hungry, and we re- membera ridiculous tale of a gallant British Admiral, who, when the volcanic island of Stromboli arose out of the Mediterranean in his sight, sent a boat’s crew alongside of it to hoist the British flag over it ‘as soon as it should cool.” But we do not encourage such stories about our cousins, They are prob« ably invented by Bismarck, who is known ag a reckless joker. For our own part we offer our sympathie with the English, who, it seems, find it abso- lutely necessary just now to annex Burmah. They have given up with such a good grace of late, first the island of San Juan, on our northwestern coast, and later Delagoa Bay, on the eastern coast of Africa, that it seems pitiful to find them already under the un- welcome necessity of annexing about fifty times as much as they have lately got rid of. It seems that an Englishman has been mur+ dered in Burmah; it is suspected that the Chinese government instigated the murder. Chinese emissaries are said to be controlling or influencing that singular potentate the King of Burmah, whose thin var- nish of civilization has for some years made him an oddity among mon- archs. The Chinese, we read, appear to hava a foreign policy ; and anew war with China is suddenly threatened, with a necessary capture of Burmah asa base of operations, Well, let them fight. It does not concern us. On this side of the Atlantic we love the arts of peace; and we advise every English- man who really wants to ‘live at home at ease” to come over here, where good beef is cheap, and where, after the next Presidential election, we shall have no one to molest ua or make us afraid. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Paris cats in a year six milliards of potatoes, Leverrier has discovered another planet, which is his sixth, Miss Lotta, the actress, is among the recent arrivals at the Gilsey House. Baron A. de Vauxonne, of Lyons, France, is stopping at the Windsor Hotel, Collector James F, Casey, of New Orleans, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Congressman P, M. B. Young, of Georgia, hag ar rived at the Hotel Brunswick. Rey. Dr. Brainard, of Auburn, N. Y., is residing tem. porarily at the Windsor Hotel. Aristarchi Bey, Turkish Minister at Washington, hag apartments at the Albemarle Hotel. State Senator Roswell A, Parmenter, sojourning at the Westminster Hotel, Mr. J. W. Knowlton, Chief Clerk of the Post Office Department, is at the Hoffman House. Paymaster Henry B, Reese, United States Army, hat taken up his quarters at the Grand Hotel, Mr. Jefferson Davis left Memphis at noon yesterday to attend the agricultural fair at De Soto, Mo, aptain Henry Tibbits, of the steamship City ot Brussels, is quartered at the Everett House, Mrs, Belknap, wife of the Secretary of War, arrived at the St. James Hotel last evening from Newport, Secretary Bristow and Attorney General Pierrepont returned to the national capital yesterday afternoon, Mr. Moncure D, Conway arrived from Liverpool is the steamship Britannic, and is at the New York Hotel. Rear Admiral Goldsborough was somewhat better yesterday, though still regarded in a dangerous condl+ tion, Assistant Quartermaster Gencral Stewart Van Vliet United States Army, is registered at the Fifth Avenut Hotel. Governor William Pitt Kellogg, of Louisiana, arrived in this city last evening from Saratoga, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Rev. Newland Maynard, rector of St. Paul church, Brooklyn, has returned from Europe, where he passed the summer. The Pall Mali Gazette sketches a prospectus tor a joint stock company for a bridgo across the Atlantic, “There's millions in it.” Colonel Clam, Chief Clerk of the Indian Bureau, is in Now York attending to the shipment of medicines, &a,, for the Indian service, Captain William Gore ‘Jones, Naval Attaché of the British Legation, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel last evening from Washington, Mr. W. W. Corcoran and family, of Washington, are rived in this city yesterday from Saratoga and took up their residence at the New York Hotel, It will cost Cousin Bull about $26,000—frst, to put the Serapis in order to take the Prince of Wales to India; next, to restore her to her former condition, Charivari is of opinion that the diplomacy which it wasted in Paris getting small loans would be sufficient properly directed, to re-establish the balance of power of Troy, ia | in Kuropo, More contraction! The American, of Nashville, Tenay is the result of the consolidation of the Republican Ban ner and the Union and American, They ‘thought jour. ualism Was spread out too thin there, and they doubled wa